Haxtun Bulldogs shut out Wildcats in Saturday afternoon contest

For the first time in nearly two decades, Haxtun met the neighboring Fleming Wildcats for a gridiron contest. The two teams played an eight-man game on Fleming's six-man field for the Wildcats' annual homecoming contest on the same day as the community's Fall Festival celebration.

Originally, Haxtun was slated to face Wiley at home Friday evening but a tragic accident Wednesday evening claimed the lives of four Wiley students and left a fifth critically injured in a Colorado Springs hospital.

Fleming was scheduled to take on Flagler Saturday afternoon for homecoming but the Panthers were force...