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GLADSTONE -- With 14 points in the second and third quarters, the Calumet Copper Kings won their sixth game of the season with a 44-28 win over the Gladstone Braves on the road Friday.
Calumet racked up 350 of total offense, all of it on the ground, compared to 176 by Gladstone.
The scoring began in the first quarter with Trent Anderson putting the Copper Kings on the board first with a 15-yard run for a touchdown. After a two-point conversion, Calumet led 8-0.
Gladstone answered before the quarter ended thanks to a Wyatt Forvilly touchdown from nine yards out.
The Braves took their one and only lead of the game to start the second quarter. Nick Proehl scored on a five-yard run, and Gladstone led at that point, 14-8.
Keith Koivisto answered for Calumet with a 21-yard run for a touchdown. The two-point conversion failed, and the team were knotted at 14-14.
Anderson then put Calumet back on top with a one-yard run into the end zone before the quarter came to an end. The Copper Kings took a 22-14 into the break.
Koivisto was back at it to start the third quarter, and he scored from 60 yards out to put Calumet up by multiple scores, 30-14.
After Landon Pepin scored to pull Gladstone back within 10 from 14 yards away, Oskar Loukus broke loose for a 56-yard for a touchdown, putting the Copper Kings back up by 16, 36-20.
Loukus struck again in the fourth, this time from 20 yards out. Calumet led at that point 44-20.
Gladstone tacked on one more touchdown late, but could not manage another after that before the final buzzer sounded.
Loukus led all rushers with 14 carries for 135 yards and two touchdowns. Koivisto was also good, rushing seven times for 113 yards and two touchdowns. Anderson finished with 14 carries for 83 yards, and two touchdowns.