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Rockhurst is team no one wants to play

Liberty had trouble stopping Rockhurst’s Noah Pearl, who ran for two touchdowns in Friday night’s game.

The most dangerous team in the state began this season with new faces in glamour positions while its best player — a pint-sized tough guy — walked around the practice field in street clothes. At that time, its head coach laughed at the thought that he might be a sadist for enjoying being around these guys so much. Then two games in, this team goes to Hutchinson and gets the blue and white kicked out of it.

Those qualifications don’t exactly strike fear in opponents. And certainly not the beginning you would have expected from tradition-rich Rockhurst. But flash ahead to Friday night — the Hawklets look nothing like the team they were a couple of months ago. While blowing out Liberty 35-14 in a Class 6 sectional playoff game and setting up a classic Rockhurst-Blue Springs grudge match, the Hawklets looked like the team they grew to be: the most dangerous team in the state.

By the week-10 state rankings, voted by a group of sportswriters, Rockhurst reigned atop Class 6. So the Hawklets are known as the best team in the state, but let’s go a bit deeper. This is the team, above everyone else, that should be avoided at all costs. Think about it. No other team in the state has a resume like the 9-2 Hawklets. No one has played a schedule like theirs. And no one has enjoyed this caterpillar-to-butterfly transformation like them.

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