Second-ranked Class 3A Madison Academy closed out an undefeated regular season with a dominating 47-7 win at Westminster Christian on Friday night.

The Mustangs held the high-powered Westminster offense to 144 total yards and 43.1 points below its season average.

Senior running back Ken Cherry ran for 220 yards and four touchdowns for Madison Academy, pushing his season total to 1,870 yards and 30 TDs on the ground.

Cherry took the first snap of the game 68 yards to give the Mustangs a quick 7-0 lead.

Class 4A Westminster (8-2) took advantage of a Cherry fumble at the 20-yard-line and quickly converted with a trick-play touchdown. Quarterback Brandon Musch rolled to the right, handed the ball to Houston Scott on a reverse and Scott hit TJ Carter in the end zone to tie the game with 1:28 left in the first quarter.

That’s as close as Westminster would get as the Mustangs scored three times in the second quarter – on a 29-yard run from Cherry, a 1-yard run by Joshua Williams and a 32-yard pass from Jake Poldiak to Selano Thomas with 12 seconds left in the half to increase the lead to 27-7.

Westminster’s best chance to get another score came in the third quarter as the Wildcats put together a 12-play, 66-yard drive, but failed to convert a fourth-and-1 at the 9-yard-line.

Madison Academy added three more scores on a pair of touchdowns from Cherry from 63 yards and 3 yards and Williams added a 15-yard TD in the fourth quarter.

Star of the game: Cherry, for his 220 yards rushing and four touchdowns. He also caught three passes for 29 yards.

Stat sheet: Madison Academy – 494 total yards on the night. Poldiak was 9-for-12 for 178 yards and a touchdown. Williams added 110 yards on 19 carries and two touchdowns and caught one pass for 45 yards. Jaiden Etienne caught 2 passes for 57 yards. Westminster – 144 total yards with Musch completing 8-of-14 throws for 50 yards. He gained 47 yards on 10 carries. TJ Carter caught 5 passes for 44 yards and a touchdown.

By the numbers: 1 – The Mustang defense held Westminster to only of 1-of-10 on third down conversion tries.

Coachspeak: “We had some adversity there early in the game, but I’m proud of how our guys handled it. You know, any time you win 10 games that’s really special, but now everybody is 0-0 and so we will enjoy this win through the weekend. I’m just so proud of this senior group that has led us.” – Madison Academy head coach Bob Godsey

“You know a lot of teams are upset tonight because they are not going to the playoffs and their season is over. We’re not happy with this loss, but we’ve got another game and I just talked to these guys about how we lost the first game of the season to a good Lee team and then rattled off eight straight so all I’m asking them to do after this game is let’s just try and get five straight and we are going to do that one at a time.” – Louis LeBlanc Westminster head coach

What’s next: Madison Academy will host Hokes Bluff and Westminster Christian will host Oak Grove in the first round of the 4A playoffs.