BRODHEAD — The Brodhead-Juda Cardinals are still searching for their first win while the Richard Center Hornets are making a push to make the playoffs. The result in the Oct. 10 Week 8 Southwest Wisconsin Conference game was the Hornets beating the Cardinals 51-18.

Richland Center scored on the first possession of the game, going 74 yards in nine plays. Brady Dosch ran five yards for a touchdown and Liam Fingerson’s extra point made it 7-0 with 6:46 left in the first quarter.

The Cardinals answered with an 83-yard drive in 14 plays as Jayden Brown scored on a one-yard run on the first play of the second quarter. The try for two failed. 

After that, the Hornets scored touchdowns on four of their next five possessions to take a 34-6 lead into halftime.

Richland Center QB Jayden Schoepp scored on a 34-yard run in the third quarter to make it 42-6, and starting the running clock. For the Cardinals, Brown scored on a 40-yard touchdown run to make it 42-12. In the fourth quarter, Grayson Arn made it 42-18 with a five-yard TD run with 11:08 to go. Richland Center got a 54-yard scoring rush by Dosch and a 45-yard field goal by Fingerson to make it a 51-18 final.

Brown had 125 yards rushing and two touchdowns to lead the Cardinals. 

Brodhead-Juda coach Tim Cerjak said his team will work hard in practice to try to get better results. 

“We have to come back on Monday with a new type of discipline and new focus because that’s what you have to have. You only get nine weeks for a reason and you’ve got to make the most out of all of them,” said Cerjak.

Brodhead-Juda (0-8, 0-6) will close the season hosting Platteville in SWC football on Friday Oct. 17.