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Left Centerpoint's Caleb Dunn runs around Bismarck's Jackson Helm durning a 3A 5 Conference game between Centerpoint and Bismarck Thursday night at Centerpoint's Rosboro Stadium

The Centerpoint Knights would host three nights of football games at Centerpoint’s Rosboro Stadium. First on Monday night would be against Bismarck in a JV game where the Lions would bring their entire Senior High squad. The first quarter of play the Lions would place the only score. With 7:47 remaining in the second quarter the Knights would tie the game up at eight points each. The Lions would answer back with 5:09 in the second quarter with another touch-down of their own. At the end of the first half the score was Lions-14 to Knights-8. In the second half the Knights would only be able to score once and take the lead in the third quarter with 5:55 remaining. The Lions would be able to capitalize on two Knights mistakes to end the game by Lions 26 to Knights-15.

Thursday evening the 3A 5 Conference games would begin the both the Seventh grade and Junior High teams. Both the Knights Seventh Grade and Junior High teams would enter the game with a 1 and 1 record. The Knights Seventh Grade team would start off the first half with a commanding lead of 22-0. In the second half of play with a change up in the quarterback position from Keenan Owens to Lance Chambers. With only 9:58 remaining in the game Keenan playing in the backfield would receive a pass and take in for a touch down and then Jarrod Graves would follow up with a run around the end for the two extra point to end the scoring for the game. Final score Bismarck 7th grade-0 to Centerpoint-36.

The Junior High game between the Bismarck Lions and Centerpoint Knights would have the Knights taking a first half lead be a score of 22-0. In the second half the Knights would play the clock to end the nights with their second victory of the season and start of their 3A 5 Conference schedule with a victory. Final score Bismarck Lions-6 to Centerpoint Knights-22.

Friday night the Senior Knights would play host to the Murfreesboro Rattlers as they would play out the third game in the schools schedule. The Knights record coming into the nights game was 0-2. The game is between the only two Pike County Football school and with the knowledge that the Knights 7th grade and Junior High teams had posted win’s at Murfreesboro the previous week the pressure was on both teams for the win. Plagued with large penalty’s in the first half of play the Knights end the first half of play with score of 7 to 0 in favor of the Knights. The Knights would score once more in the third quarter, before the Rattlers would start to drive the ball up and down the field, with mistakes by the Knights assisting in the Rattlers scoring drives. With ll:29 minutes remaining the score would be Knights 14 to Rattlers-19. With a long yardage kick-off return by Knights Dillon Shaw to fire up the Knights, with having to turn the ball over to the Rattlers in the end. The Knights defense would fight back and would place the ball back into the Knights offense again. With short yardage the Knights quarterback would fake a hand off to Jantzen Bradford with two blocker in front of him only to find the quarterback still had the ball going around the other size in for a touch down. For the extra point the Knights would call for a quarterback keeper around the right side once more for two points. The Knights defense would slow down the game and with 1:37 remaining the Knights would gain ball control again and play the clock down as the Rattlers would use up all their time outs to end this night contest Murfreesboro Rattlers-19 to Centerpoint Knights-22