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Voss, JCC cruise by MVL

NEW ULM — Jackson County Central sophomore quarterback Roman Voss passed for three touchdowns and ran for two more to lead the fifth-rated Class AA Huskies to a 47-6 win over Minnesota Valley Lutheran Friday night in a non-district football game at Johnson Field.

Voss scored on runs of 5 and 6 yards while throwing scoring passes of 85, 45 and 15 yards.

Ben Price scored the lone MVL touchdown on a 4-yard run in the third quarter.

“That is a good football team for sure,” Chargers head coach Jim Buboltz said. “That is a team that is going to play a long time this season. They have some athletes, but I am proud of my guys — they did not give up — I thought that we really played a nice second half. We did hit some big plays, so if we can keep that mentality, keep our head up and keep pushing, we will be fine.”

But for the Chargers, it was too much of Voss.

“Voss is the number-two rated sophomore football player in the state of Minnesota right now,” Buboltz said. “But in my eyes, he is number one. He is pretty dangerous quarterback and he showed it tonight.”

The 6-foot-4, 195-pound sophomore, who is in his third year as a starter, got the Huskies going when he engineered a 10-play, 70-yard drive that ended when he bowled his way in from 5 yards out on Jackson County’s first possession.

Voss did it with his arm on the Huskies next offensive series when he hooked up with Bryson Powers for an 84-yard touchdown pass for a 14-0 lead at the end of the first quarter.

A six-play, 54-yard drive capped by a Tavion Diggs 1-yard run upped the lead to 21-0 less than a minute into the second quarter.

Jackson County’s next offensive series saw Voss end a seven-play, 58-yard drive with a 6-yard run before Voss went to the air to toss scoring strikes of 45 and 15 yards to Sam Brinkman and Ben Dahlin, respectively, to give the Huskies a 41-0 lead at halftime.

“They are a dominating team and that is what they do,” Buboltz said as the Huskies ran 39 offensive plays in the first half compare to 22 for MVL. “We can tell our guys as much as we want with that but the truth of the matter is is that until you see it up close you don’t realize it.”

MVL took the opening kickoff of the second half and put together a six-play, 80-yard scoring drive thanks to two big pass plays from Kaiden Peterson to Kyler Flunker.

One was a 48-yard completion and the other was a 16-yard pass-and-catch that set up a Ben Price 4-yard run.

JCC capped their scoring for the evening on a Seth Stai 1-yard run.

The Chargers, how 3-3, are at Redwood Valley next Friday.

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