COLMAN – Colman-Egan beat Arlington/Lake Preston 52-6 Friday night to clinch the Dakota Valley Conference football title outright.

Bodee Groos ran for 129 yards and a touchdown while throwing for 95 yards with a TD for the Hawks.

Keith Crisp picked up 77 yards on the ground and scored three times.

The Badgers’ Devon Heuer scored his 25th rushing touchdown of the season on a 10-yard run to stake the visitors to an early 6-0 lead.

Groos hit Dalton Voelker for a 51-yard TD toss later in the first to tie things up.

Crisp had scoring scampers of 6 and 3 yards in the second quarter, as Groos found Chase Hemmer for the two-point conversion both times to make it 22-6 at halftime.

Groos sprinted 42 yards to paydirt and added the two-pointer in the third.

Touchdown runs of 7 yards by Kade Groos (Trey McKnight two-pointer) and 6 yards by Crisp (Crisp two-pointer) pushed the margin to 46-6 heading to the fourth.

Eli Bowen’s 6-yard TD run closed out the scoring.

Cade Groos rushed for 44 yards and also had a 44-yard reception.

Voelker paced the Colman-Egan defense with nine tackles, including a sack. Chandler Gullickson made six tackles, and Crisp and Hemmer five apiece. Bodee Gross had three stops and also intercepted a pass.

For ALP, Heuer threw for 80 yards and ran for 44.

Will Parry had a 29-yard catch and Byron Bumann added a pair of receptions covering 24 yards. Gavin Holland picked up 15 yards on the ground.

Colman-Egan improved to 8-0. The Hawks, who are now in Region 2 of Class 9B, won the 9A title a year ago. Three other teams in Class 9B finished the season with an 8-0 record: Sully Buttes in Region 1 and Wall and Harding County, both in Region 4.

Postseason play kicks off Thursday when the Hawks host Northwestern who come in as the number 4 seed with a 3-5 record. Game time is 7 p.m.