ALGONA — The Bishop Garrigan football team ended reign of eight-player king Remsen St. Mary’s here Friday night at Conway Field.

Thanks to a trick play on offense and strong defense all night, the Golden Bears advanced to the quarterfinals with a 21-18 victory.

Bishop Garrigan (9-1 overall) will host Anita-CAM back here on Thursday for a spot inside the UNI-Dome. CAM knocked off Garrigan’s district rival, West Bend-Mallard, 36-34.

Leading 13-12 with just over two minutes to go and facing fourth-and-6, BGHS head coach Marty Wadle called for a trick play. Tate Foertsch tossed the ball to Justin Bauer who found a wide open Sam Plathe on a 29-yard touchdown.

“We’ve worked on that play this week,” Wadle said. “It’s an old 11-player play we’d run with Gibson Behr. We weren’t sure what to do an a coach brought it up. We figured why not. Go for it, if it isn’t there, throw it away, play defense and get the stop.

“It was a great play by Justin, Sam got open and the line gave Justin enough time to get the ball off.”

Instead of going up by eight with a potential extra-point, the Golden Bears scored a two-point conversion off a Foertsch-to-Ethan Marso pass.

For the Hawks (9-1), who missed on all three two-point conversion attempts, suffered their first loss in 22 games. They are 56-3 over the past 59 games.

“That is a great program with great tradition,” Wadle said. “People are going to see this score and really turn some heads.

“We weren’t picked to win anything since round one of the playoffs so we’re just going to continue to defy the odds and play our style of football.”

Bishop Garrigan sealed the win with Caden Roethler broke free on third-and-6 with just over a minute to go after Bauer recovered the onside kick attempt.

In the fourth, Roethler answered a TD run by RSM’s Landon Waldschmitt to make it 13-12.

Roethler finished with 21 carries for 147 yards and the two scores with Foertsch adding 50 yards rushing.

On defense, Bauer and Andrew Lichter each had 12 tackles with Plathe adding 10, Benjy Trainer nine and Keaton Helleseth eight.

Remsen St. Mary’s failed on all three two-point conversion attempts on the night, with Drew Lappe making one PAT for the Golden Bears, who also were successful on a two-point attempt.