Fertile-Beltrami caps off undefeated season with 20-8 win in Nine-Player championship [Video]

A scoreless first half is a rarity in the Minnesota State High School League’s Class Nine-Player Prep Bowl Championship Game. But that was the setting on Saturday, Nov. 23 when Fertile-Beltrami and Hills-Beaver Creek met at U.S. Bank Stadium in downtown Minneapolis with a title at stake.

During the halftime break, football historians combed through the archives to find the lowest scoring Class Nine-Player Prep Bowl title game. It happened in 1991 when Chokio-Alberta edged Grygla/Goodridge, 7-6 at the Metrodome, the former indoor stadium that sits on the same site as U.S. Bank Stadium. Would this season’s Class Nine-Player title game rival that?

Nope, that record is safe. 

Fertile-Beltrami (13-0) found another gear in its offensive attack in the second half and scored on three consecutive possessions that paved the way to a 20-8 victory over Hills-Beaver Creek (12-1) for the first football championship in program history. Fertile-Beltrami is the first Class Nine-Player state champion …