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Kelly Donohoe, the father, was walking down the sidelines following a 20-3 Suburban Big Seven and cross-town rivalry victory over Blue Springs South Friday night, looking for his son, Chase, who also happens to be the quarterback for the team.

“Have you seen Chase?” asked the coach, after Chase had two touchdown passes and ran for another in the marquee matchup of the week. “I just want to congratulate him.”

He spotted Chase, with a group of 2016 Blue Springs graduates. That’s when a father and son had a special moment.

Chase and his Wildcats overcame a penalty-filled contest in which the Wildcats were flagged nine times for 85 yards and the Jaguars 13 times for a whopping 146 yards.

“A lot of penalty flags tonight,” South coach Jon Oyler said, after his team fell to 3-5 and 2-3. “Let’s leave it at that.”

Kelly Donohoe took the same path, as his Wildcats (6-2, 4-1 Suburban Big Seven) were called for five personal fouls.

“A lot of penalties on both sides of the ball, which makes it so difficult to have any consistency out there offensively or defensively,” he said. “We need to take a look at the film, talk to our guys, and clean that up because we can’t have games like this where all anyone is talking about is the officiating.”

When they had the chance to play, the Wildcats scored just enough points to claim the big win and the defense held the Jaguars – who had scored 148 total points in their last three wins – to a total of 118 yards.

“I’m so proud of what our defense accomplished tonight,” Kelly Donohoe said, “and I’m proud of Chase. That first touchdown run was big, and he had the two touchdown passes. This is a big game – we’ve been on the winning end of some and the losing end of some – and it makes for a lot better weekend when you get that win against the crosstown rival.”

Chase Donohoe finished the night completing 6 of 14 passes for 82 yards – including touchdown passes of 9 and 41 yards to Matt Marzolf.

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