The Mountain Home High School football team is one win away from their first state championship game appearance in 18 years. The Bombers went to War Memorial Stadium on Friday and defeated Little Rock Catholic 42-14 in the quarterfinals of the Class 6A State Playoffs.
Mountain Home punted to the Rockets on their first possession of the game, but the return was fumbled, and the Bombers recovered the ball inside the Catholic 10-yard line. A few plays later, Jacob Chenoweth put Mountain Home on the board with a six-yard run. The Bombers extended their lead further more than three minutes later on a 35-yard touchdown pass from Brantlee Phillips to Tate Cudworth. The Rockets got on the board with three minutes left in the opening quarter when they picked off a Phillips pass and returned it 31 yards for the score. Mountain Home went back up by two scores 3 1/2 minutes into the second period on a four-yard run by Chenoweth. The Bombers tried to get some more points on the board on the last play of the half, but Isaac Ballard’s 39-yard field goal attempt came up short.
Catholic made it a one possession game with five minutes left in the third quarter on a 22-yard pass play, but that would be the last score they would get. The ensuing kickoff was fielded by Connor Schulz, and he returned it 92 yards to extend Mountain Home’s lead back to 14. Dawson Dunlap added a five-yard touchdown run with less than six minutes left. Schulz put the icing on the cake with about two minutes left on a 27-yard scoring run.
The Bombers gained a total of 395 yards with 282 on the ground. Phillips was 11 of 19 through the air for 113 yards, one touchdown and one interception.
The Rockets’ season comes to an end at 9-2 on the season. Mountain Home improves to 10-2, and they’ll return to Greenwood on Black Friday to compete in the semifinals.
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