Haskell Indian Nations University football coach Eric Brock said he wasn’t blown away by Bacone College’s 40 points, but he was miffed the Warriors whipped the Fightin’ Indians without much of a fight.

“I’m really surprised that we didn’t have more energy,” the HINU coach said of the Indians’ 40-12 homecoming loss to Bacone on Saturday afternoon at Haskell Stadium. “You would think after we specifically addressed that issue last weekend that things would have went much better.”

Especially for HINU’s defense, which coming into Saturday led the Central States Football League in yards allowed with an average of only 136.5 yards per game.

Bacone running back Noah Swims nearly tallied that total by himself, rushing for 117 yards on 18 carries and scoring the game’s first touchdown on a 22-yard burst with five seconds left in the first quarter.

Bacone quarterback Clay Waggle, who was 17-of-31 for 184 yards and three touchdowns, quickly put the contest out of reach with consecutive scoring strikes to Angel Pizana and Brandon Banks.

Banks, whose two touchdowns gave him eight this season, hindered Haskell’s defense all afternoon as he grabbed seven balls for 101 yards.

But the Warriors’ defense almost was equally as impressive; Bacone (3-1) limited Haskell (2-3) to minus-39 rushing yards on 29 carries.

“That’s the really impressive stat … we limited a team that ran for nearly 300 yards on us last season to negative yardage like that,” Bacone coach David Ross said.

Haskell finally found the end zone on a four-yard dive by Mark Bullard with a little more than a minute left in the first half.

Haskell Indian Nations University's Cody Wilson is stopped by Bacone's Greg Meadows during the first half. Wilson scored a touchdown in the Fightin' Indians' 40-12 homecoming loss Saturday at Haskell Stadium.

But as soon as the second half began, Bacone’s defense and special teams scored 10 quick points to stifle any rally.

Brock said his team still might be placing too much stock in its 18-0 win over 19th-ranked McPherson two weeks ago.

“I think that after that, some of the guys thought that I had a magic wand, and anytime I call a play it’s going to go for so many yards or on defense it’s going to be a stop,” said Brock, whose squad fell, 30-10, last weekend at Southern Nazarene. “They have to realize that was a great win, but we still have to keep working hard every day.

“We had a pretty good week of practice, but the guys have to know that the work you put in on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday is just as important to the game as on Saturday.”

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