Hawks’ drive that had reached ….

Hawks’ drive that had reached Unity’s 26-yard line.

Yanko gave the Hawks a glimmer of hope by recovering an Allen fumble at Unity’s 40 with 10:25 to go, but a stripsack by Unity was recovered by Erickson and returned 12 yards to the Hawks’ 32. Nelson capped that drive with a 5-yard touchdown run with 6:02 left.

“A big thing was we were running our main play consistently,” Campbell said. “I think we ran it for positive yards all but one time. One time we got stuffed, but other than that it was always positive. Sammy had 20 of his 24 carries on pretty much the same play. It was just that play left and right and we had a few tosses mixed in. He averaged just about 6 yards a carry and most of those were off the iso dive. We were more consistent up front, which was good.”

Defensively, the Hawks didn’t feel this was their strongest outing as the Hawks were unable to create enough disruption at the line of scrimmage and got Unity behind the chains.

“With counter action like they showed, we just haven’t been able to close down on the pullers and be able to wreck the pulls, so we end up catching blocks and they get better angles on us or kick our edge guys out to give themselves a hole,” Campbell said. “We’ve talked about our linebackers getting caught in the wash. They’re making the right read, but sometimes they got caught in somebody else’s block so they have to move around piles instead of trigger through the hole.”

Yanko led Rib Lake-Prentice with 12 total tackles, including six solos, and Gumz had 10 and a late second-quarter interception. Klemann was involved in seven tackles with three solo stops.

Those kinds of things certainly are a focus this week as Rib Lake-Prentice prepares to face arguably the best rushing attack they’ll see this regular season when undefeated Hurley visits Prentice Friday night for homecoming.