The South Central Timberwolves now have a Kansas high school state football championship to call their own.
South Central High School, formed by the consolidation of Protection and Coldwater schools in 1999, captured the Kansas Eight-Man I football state championship game with a 34-8 victory in front of a packed house Saturday at Greensburg-Kiowa County High School Stadium.
South Central won its first Eight-Man I state championship as a consolidated school. Coldwater (three) and Protection (two) combined for five Eight-Man I and Eight-Man II state titles.
South Central finished the season with a 12-0 record. Lincoln, playing in its first state title game ever, posted a 12-1 record in 2025.
South Central took an 8-0 lead over Lincoln on a short touchdown run by Easton Huck at the 6:59 mark of the first quarter.
After a Lincoln turnover, South Central’s Coda Lindsay scored on a 4-yard TD run wot 8 seconds left in the first quarter to make the score 14-0.
Jeremiah Miller put the Lincoln Leopards on the board on a 14-yard TD run with 8:25 left in the second quarter to cut South Central’s lead to 14-8.
The Leopards stopped the Timberwolves at the 1-yard line on a fourth-down-and-goal situation with 1:15 left in the first half.
South Central’s Lindsay blocked a Lincoln punt and Colt Yoder recovered in the end zone for a touchdown with 54 seconds left in the first half. Lindsay added the 2-point conversion. The Timberwolves led 22-8 at halftime.
Lindsay added his second TD of the game on a 46-yard run with 1:53 left in the third quarter to make the score 28-8 in favor of the Timberwolves.
Lindsay’s added a 9-yard TD run with 4:22 left in the game put the Timberwolves ahead 34-8.
Kiowa County-Greensburg High School is the smallest school in Kansas with an artificial turf field. It is the only turf field stadium designed specifically for Eight-Man football.
The previous football stadium in Greensburg (before consolidation) was destroyed in the May 4, 2007, tornado.
South Central 14 8 6 6 — 34
Lincoln 0 8 0 0 — 8
SC — Easton Huck 2 run (run good), 6:59 1Q
SC — Coda Lindsay 4 run (run failed), 0:08 1Q
L — Jeremiah Miller 14 run (Benjamin Bell pass from Miller), 8:25 2Q
SC — Colt Yoder recovers blocked punt in end zone (Lindsy pass from Huck), 0:54 2Q
SC — Lindsay 46 run (run failed), 1:53 3Q
SC — Lindsay 9 run (run failed), 4:22 4Q
