WESTON — River Falls’ dream season featured 11 wins and a trip to the State Semi-Finals, statistics that put some of the Wildcats up against school history and a team full of students who …
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WESTON — River Falls’ dream season featured 11 wins and a trip to the State Semi-Finals, statistics that put some of the Wildcats up against school history and a team full of students who worked to make 2025 a year to remember. That season came to an end in the State Semi-Final at D.C. Everest on Friday, losing 42-6 to Notre Dame.
Notre Dame junior Kingston Allen, who now has 3,205 rushing yards, 55 rushing touchdowns and five Division 1 offers to play safety, showed why Notre Dame is 13-0, taking 32 carries for 238 yards and all six Triton touchdowns in the win.
The lone River Falls score came on an end around handoff to senior wide receiver Mason Novak.
This team was the second ever River Falls football team to make the State Semi-finals, matching the 1988 team that fell 10-7 to eventual State champion Kettle Moraine. The team also has a State title from back in 1925 before the days of State Semi-finals.
“They did some historic things, things that haven’t ever been done here,” Head Coach Ryan Scherz said. “It’s just, I think, a function of continuing to try to ratchet it forward.”
Scherz said when he first got to River Falls as an assistant under now Athletic Director David Crail, they were fighting for playoff appearances. The program eventually took steps to Level Two of the playoffs, then Level Three a few years later and now Level Four. Scherz said many hands have gone into making River Falls a strong program. This senior class was one that will be hard to replace for the Wildcats.
“It’s obviously just a great group of seniors. One that worked really hard and had a vision of what they wanted it to look like, and executed the vision,” Scherz said. “That’s pretty special when a team makes that decision that they want something special and then executes on it.”
Scherz said if underclassmen can take one thing from the year, it’s how much work goes into making a team a winning one.
“Just the example of the amount of work and dedication you have to bring to make these things happen,” Scherz said. “It doesn’t happen by accident. Great programs aren’t just built on kids with talent, it’s the work that goes into it and the commitment to doing things the right way that leads to good results.”
