The #4 (1A) South Hardin football team will travel to Manly this week to face the Central Springs Panthers in their final district game of the regular season. The two teams last met in 2022, when the Tigers won 46-21.
South Hardin enters the matchup with a 3-1 district record, while Central Springs sits at 2-2. Both teams have already secured postseason berths, but Friday’s contest will help determine second place in the Class 1A District 3 standings.
The Tigers won last week against Clarion-Goldfield-Dows (CGD), but Head Coach Eller says they need to get back to playing mistake-free football.
“We need to have a game where we look clean and crisp and play the way you expect to, the way you want to — clean up the turnovers, clean up the mistakes, keep playing the way we are on defense right now,” Eller said. “And then same thing on special teams, really just clean up the little things we’ve got going on there that need cleaned up.”
The Tigers turned the ball over six times against CGD creating offensive inconsistency — an area Eller says must improve against Central Springs.
“Gotta win the turnover battle,” Eller said. “We didn’t do that tonight. Some of that’s a hats off to Clarion — they did a really good job. We’ve got to clean up that and then just play our football. Tonight, we were just all over the place.”
Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.
Full interview with Coach Eller;
