With the game on the line, the crowd is silent to see what happens. Three players are laser-focused on what they’ve practiced all season. Friday night, Oct. 13, junior football players Nate Christian and Oliver Kubousek and senior Myles Bieber helped seal the deal for the Bulldogs in overtime. Kubousek snaps the ball to Christian, then holds it down as Bieber strikes it through the uprights.

“It feels really great to step up on senior night,” Kuboushek said. “All the preparation we do during practice It pays off.”

The end score of the Trenton game was 17-14, with nine of the points coming from field goals.

“I was so ready to go out there and make some plays,” said Christian. Since he is the backup quarterback, he doesn’t see the field much. But with senior Max Herter going out early in the second half, Christian’s number was called to step up.

“I’m proud to see him do good out there,” Herter said. “It’s nice knowing that you’ve taught someone all season, and to watch him go out there and actually do it when it matters makes me happy as a teammate.”

“I’m proud of both of them,” Bieber said. “Considering it was very rainy and wet at the end of the game, and them being able to do a good job, it makes me trust them a lot more.” Bieber understands the pressure that those types of plays put on people when it’s crunch time.

“Special teams are a lot different than playing defense,” Bieber said. “One little mistake can mess up the whole play when you’re kicking, so it adds a lot more pressure to be perfect and do the right thing.”

With the end of the regular season coming to a close and the postseason heating up, These Bulldogs expect to be sound on special teams every time they make game-changing plays like they’ve done against Trenton.