RED LODGE — Stockton Oxarart accounted for a pair of touchdowns Friday, helping Malta knock off No. 4-ranked Red Lodge on the road, 21-18.
Oxarart threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Blaine Downing early in the first quarter as the Mustangs took a 7-0 lead. His second TD, though, was the difference-maker.
With 6:28 left in the third quarter, Oxarart scored on a 2-yard run to put Malta ahead 21-12. That proved to be all the Mustangs would need, as 34-yard scoring pass from Pierce Caton to Kougar Kappel with 6:20 remaining in the game could only pull Red Lodge within three points.
Treyton Wilke had a 6-yard touchdown run for Malta in the second quarter to add to the Mustangs’ scoring production.
Kappel finished with a pair of TDs for Red Lodge. His other score was an 11-yard rushing touchdown in the second quarter that gave the Rams a 12-7 lead.
Chase Cook had a 1-yard TD run for the Rams in the second quarter also, which capped a drive that lasted nearly nine minutes. But Red Lodge failed to convert two point-after kicks and also failed on a two-point conversion play.
Elsewhere in Class B …
No. 1 Jefferson 39, Cut Bank 21
No. 3 Eureka 39, Whitefish 32
No. 5 Florence 31, Townsend 14
Baker 28, Wolf Point 14
Big Timber 39, Roundup 15
Columbus 22, Colstrip 0
Conrad 34, Anaconda 20
Fairfield 37, Whitehall 14
Glasgow 43, Huntley Project 12
Joliet 23, Thompson Falls 14
