On the final Friday night in September, the Mid-Prairie Golden Hawk football team was eliminated from post season contention.

Instead of folding, the Hawks have rallied to win back to back games and tonight travel to Mediapolis trying to finish 2016 with a winning record. Mid-Prairie enters tonight at 4-4 on the year, blasting Anamosa last week 49-7. The Hawks rolled up 453 yards rushing en route to the win. Mid-Prairie is led on the year by Karson Gingerich through the air, the Junior is 44 of 93 for 594 yards, seven touchdowns and three interceptions. Terrhyn Jacoby has seven catches for 155 yards and a pair of touchdowns to lead the receivers. Ricky Vargas reached the 1,000 yard mark for the year last week and stands at 1,039 and 17 touchdowns on the year to lead the ground game.

Mediapolis comes into tonight with an overall record of 2-6. Last week the Bulldogs won at Camanche 36-8. The Bulldogs changed signal callers halfway through the season and Brock Hilton has had a nice couple of weeks going 49 of 79 for 679 yards five touchdowns and six interceptions. His favorite target is Tristan Timmerman with 30 catches for 248 yards and a pair of scores. On the ground Levi Eberhardt has 115 carries for 548 yards and two touchdowns.

This will be the ninth straight year that these two have met with Mid-Prairie winning last season’s game 20-7 in Wellman. You can hear all of the action live on AM 1380, FM 102.5 and KCIIradio.com beginning with the Washington HyVee pregame show at 7 and kickoff at 7:30.