The Crookston Pirate Football team hosts the Cass Lake-Bena Panthers tonight on Crookston’s homecoming at KROX Radio Stadium in Crookston. KROX Radio and KROX TV will have the game at 6:00 p.m. with the RiverView Health pre-game show at 5:20 p.m.
Crookston is 0-3 on the year after a 40-0 loss to Polk County West last week in Climax. Crookston has lost 22 straight games and has been outscored 1,039 to 158 in those games. The most points they have scored in that span are 20 when they lost 50-20 to Warroad on October 4, 2024. Crookston hasn’t won a game since October 29, 2022 when they beat Pelican Rapids in the Section 8AA semi-finals. The 22-game losing streak started with a 56-3 loss to Barnesville in the Section 8AA championship on November 4, 2022 at the Fargodome.
Cass Lake-Bena is 1-2 on the year with a season-opening victory over Red Lake and then losses to Bagley and Nevis where they were outscored 105-8. Cass Lake-Bena is 4-43 over the last five-plus seasons and hasn’t won two games in a season since 2018 when they beat Red Lake and had a forfeit win over Pine River-Backus. Some streaks are going to end tonight in Crookston.
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| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final | |
| Cass Lake-Bena | |||||
| Crookston |
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| TEAM STATS | Crookston | Cass Lake-Bena |
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INDIVIDUAL STATS
| Crookston | Cass Lake-Bena |
| Rushing | Rushing |
| Tate Hamre – | |
| Jose Arriaga – | |
| Jaron Knutson – | |
| Passing | Passing |
| Tate Hamre – | |
| Receiving | Receiving |
| Dexter Janek – | |