CHESTER — In Week 2 of the high school football season, Chester-Joplin-Inverness hosted Denton-Geyser-Stanford-Geraldine in what was expected to be a heavyweight early season 6-Man clash.

But D-G-S-G ended up winning 86-36.

Fast forward to Nov. 8 and the two met again in Chester, but this game was exponentially different as the Hawks defeated the Bearcats 48-22.

"We just remembered that loss and it fueled us to beat them the way that they beat us Week 2," senior Ryland St. John said following Saturday's quarterfinal win.

"Not many times do you get a chance to beat the people that (beat you) by 50, and we embraced it," senior Cooper Streit said. "We knew that they'd come to bring it, but we knew we wanted it more."

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