The Atlantic Trojans came up on the short end of a 34-20 score at Clarinda on Friday night. The Trojans suffered through a mistake prone first half but only found themselves down 14-7 at the break. A 50 yard touchdown pass from Garrett McLaren to Nile Petersen was one of the few offensive highlights in the first half for Atlantic, but gave them something to build on at half.

Clarinda came out and scored on their opening possession of the second half to push it back to a two score game. The Cardinals got the next score of the half as well to lead 27-7. Atlantic fought back though with the next two touchdowns coming from Tyler Moen. Moen scored with 1:00 left in the 3rd quarter on a 4 yard run. Then McLaren hit Moen down the left sideline for an 89 yard touchdown strike to get the Trojans within 27-20 with 7:43 left in the game.

Clarinda then mounted a 13 play drive that took 6:32 off the clock and finished it with a 5 yard touchdown run by Michael Shull to seal the win for the Cardinals. That clinching drive featured a 4th and 2 conversion for the Cardinals from their own 43 yard line. Cole Ridnour was hit short of the line to gain but spun forward to get the extra yard needed to move the chains.

Clarinda finished with 287 yards rushing on the night, led by the quarterback Shull with 150 yards and 3 touchdowns. Connor Brown had a big night as well at the running back spot with 131 yards and 2 scores. The Cardinals improve to 3-0 and will travel to Southwest Valley next week.

Atlantic was led by 91 yards rushing from Tyler Moen with 1 score, he also had two catches for 95 yards and 1 score. The Trojans fall to 1-2 and will host Harlan next week at the Trojan Bowl.