Barnesville shuts out PR-B

PINE RIVER - Barnesville lived up to its Class 1A fourth-place ranking as the Trojans dominated Pine River-Backus 55-0 in a Northern Plains Conference regular-season ending game Wednesday night.

Barnesville's Adam Rice returned the opening kickoff 78 yards for a touchdown and the undefeated Trojans limited the Tigers to just 24 yards total offense while racking up 470 yards of their own.

Barnesville 21 20 7 7 - 55

Pine River-Backus 0 0 0 0 - 0

First quarter

B-Adam Rice 78 return open kickoff (John Hagen kick)

B-Jacob Grosz 24 pass from Spencer Cook (Hagen kick) 5:03

B-Jacob Bashor 10 run (Hagen kick 1:41

Second quarter

B-Zach Hochhalter 6 run (kick fail) 10:14

B-Leland Volrath 51 pass from Cook (Zach Buth pass from Robbie Strand) 4:11

B-Rice 20 run (kick fail) 1:44

Third quarter

B-Hochhalter 45 run 8:31 (Hagen kick)

Fourth quarter

B-Austin Martz 1 run (Hagen kick) 10:06

Team statistics

Rushes-yards: B 43-338, PRB 31-24

Pass comp-att-int-yards: B 5-9-0-132, PRB 2-7-1-0

Total offense: B 470, PRB 24

Individual statistics

Rushing: PRB Derek Sonnenstahl 16-28

Passing: PRB Nathan Holm 2-7-1-0

Conference: PRB 3-4. Overall: PRB 3-5. Next: Pine River-Backus in Section 6-1A quarterfinals at Lake Park 7 p.m. Tuesday.