Loomis beats Hemingford 68-42, reaches Class D2 final

No. 4 Loomis beat No. 8 Hemingford 68-42 on Friday at Loomis in a Class D2 semifinal. Loomis entered 11-0 and is 12-0 after the win. Hemingford entered 9-2 and finished 9-3. Loomis reaches its second state championship game in program history and its first since 1998, when it fell to Butte in the D-2 final. Loomis had survived No. 13 Neligh-Oakdale 62-60 in the first round and then beaten Lourdes Central Catholic 76-34. Hemingford had beaten No. 9 Aquinas 58-35 and won 50-44 at top-seeded Shelby-Rising City. No trusted play-by-play with quarter, clock, scorer, and score-after was posted for most of the game. The scoreboard checkpoints and the two scoring plays that were reported still frame the result.

Loomis led 8-6 with 6:30 left in the first quarter and 16-6 at the end of the first. Zaine Feist scored a touchdown with 3:50 left in the second quarter, and Lucas Sulzbach added the two-point conversion, making it Loomis 24, Hemingford 20. How the game went from 24-20 to the next reported score was not reported in the trusted notes.

Loomis scored a touchdown with 9:04 left in the third quarter, with no scorer named, making it 36-26. Hemingford cut it to 36-34 with 4:10 left in the third. Loomis later led 42-34, then 52-34 at the end of the third quarter. No trusted scoring plays were posted for the late scores that took the game from 52-34 to the 68-42 final. The 68-42 score stood as the final.

Graham Trompke entered having completed 100 of 149 passes for 1,732 yards and 24 touchdowns, and he had rushed for 736 yards and 13 touchdowns. Jace Schukar had 1,338 rushing yards and 38 touchdowns, plus 16 catches for 352 yards. Hoyt Thorell had 54 catches for 984 yards and 15 touchdowns. Clete Booe led the defense with 140 tackles, and Jaron Schukar had 68. Zaine Feist entered with 1,498 rushing yards and 21 touchdowns and led Hemingford's defense with 82 tackles. Jayce Haas had added 636 rushing yards, and Carson Haas had 520. Anthony Haas had 77 tackles.

The teams shared three regular-season opponents. Against Perkins County, Hemingford won 54-6 and Loomis won 76-6. Against Maywood/Hayes Center, Hemingford won 52-12 and Loomis won 66-12. Against South Loup, Hemingford lost 34-30 and Loomis won 66-30. Hemingford's other loss this season was 68-20 at North Platte St. Patrick's on Sept. 25.

Loomis will face North Platte St. Patrick's in the Class D2 final on Monday, Nov. 23, at 10:15 a.m. at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. St. Patrick's beat Laurel-Concord-Coleridge 70-20 in the other semifinal.

Scoring summary

Published scoring is partial. Only one play was reported with a quarter, a clock, a named scorer, and the score after. Other scores are listed as checkpoints.

Q1 6:30: Loomis 8, Hemingford 6

End of first quarter: Loomis 16, Hemingford 6

Q3 4:10: Loomis 36, Hemingford 34

Loomis 42, Hemingford 34

End of third quarter: Loomis 52, Hemingford 34

Final: Loomis 68, Hemingford 42

Sources

Updates from trusted accounts. Season stats from MaxPreps. Seeds, records and prior playoff results from the NSAA bracket.

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