The Soldotna Stars football program continues to roll recording the SoHi program’s 16th-straight Northern Lights Conference football championship, an eighth-straight regular season victory for 2022, and a home Division II playoff game next Friday at Soldotna High School.
The Stars, #1 NLC, will host North Pole, #2 Railbelt, in the first-round of the ASAA Division II football playoffs on Friday, October 7th at 4 p.m. at Justin Maile Field.
( SoHi defeated North Pole 60-6 in week one of the regular season in Fairbanks)
SoHi 49 – Eagle River 13
The Stars claimed the 2022 NLC football championship and locked-in North Pole as SoHi’s opponent in the first-round of the state playoffs with a 49-13 dismantling of the Wolves on Saturday at Soldotna High School.
SoHi opened with a scoring drive of 69 yards capped by a 15-yard touchdown run for quarterback Zac Buckbee. Eagle River, on its first drive, pushed the ball to the SoHi 1-yard line and were turned-away on 4th and 1 by the SoHi defense. The Stars offense instantly responded with a 95-yard touchdown run by fullback Gehret Medcoff and the Stars controlled play for the remainder of the game.
SoHi built a 42-7 lead at the half; neither team scored in the third quarter and both teams added touchdowns in the final quarter. The SoHi starting defense allowed one touchdown in the first half with a deflected, nearly intercepted, 4th-down pass fell in the hands of Wolves receiver Kaleb Sherman.
Scoring Summary
1st Quarter
10:20 SoHi Zac Buckbee 15-yard touchdown run SoHi 7 – Eagle River 0
4:26 SoHi Gehret Medcoff 95-yard touchdown run SoHi 14 – Eagle River 0
1:22 SoHI Zac Buckbee 51-yard pass to Aiden Gavalis SoHi 21 – Eagle River 0
2nd Quarter
10:27 SoHI Gehret Medcoff 9-yard touchdown run SoHi 28 – Eagle River 0
5:50 Eagle River 33-yard touchdown pass from Dawson Myers to Kaleb Sherman
3:40 SoHi Gehret Medcoff 9-yard touchdown run SoHi 35 – Eagle River 7
0:10.5 SoHi Zac Buckbee 10-yard pass to Luke Miler SoHi 42 – Eagle River 7
3rd Quarter
No Scoring
4th Quarter
9:42 SoHi Zac Buckbee 1-yard touchdown run SoHi 49 – Eagle River 7
7:28 Eagle River Josh Collins 16-yard run SoHi 49 – Eagle River 13
( SoHi’s Zac Buckbee recorded seven PAT attempts)
Soldotna finishes the regular season with an 8-0 record averaging over 50 points per game and out-scoring opponents 282-26 in the first half of games (four touchdowns in eight games).
