A week of homecoming activities and a two-hour pep assembly – outdoors in the heat – made for a bit of a rough start for the Fort Osage Indians Friday night. 

They quickly discovered that the Van Horn Falcons came to play. 

David Lewis scored on a 2-yard touchdown run and D'Anthony Jones caught a two-point conversion pass from Da'Marcus Penson to pull Van Horn within 21-14 with less than two minutes remaining in the first half. 

But the Indians got the ball and drove to the 11 as Xander Shepherd kicked a 33-yard field goal with no time showing on the clock to make it 24-14 going into halftime. 

"I was not happy with the first half, and I let the guys know it," said Bult, who saw his team score 27 third-quarter points on the way to a 58-20 win over the Falcons. 

"Look, it's homecoming, we had an outdoor assembly and the first half we didn't do much of anything. So I challenged my guys, and they responded, just like I hoped they would. I told them we had a lot of distractions this week, and that we needed to go out and play Fort Osage football, and that's what you saw in the second half." 

All-state linebacker David Jacquez blocked his second punt of the game and Millieon Woods picked it up for a touchdown. 

"Jacquez blocks two," said Bult, "and I thought it was nice of him to back off and let (Larenzo) Fenner catch one so he could return it for a score."

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