HORACE, N.D. — If you’re simply basing it off of school size and division, Kindred was technically the underdog in Friday night’s contest between the Vikings and West Fargo Horace.

But as Hawks head coach Harvey McMahon put it afterwards, Kindred in recent years has established a football program that doesn’t know how to lose.

The Vikings showed it again Friday, outlasting a late Horace rally and escaping a packed Essentia Health Hawk Stadium with a 34-32 win.

Kindred, ranked No. 2 in Division 2A, improved to 2-0 on the season. Division 3A Horace fell to 1-1.

The Vikings wasted little time finding the end zone, with senior return man Sawyer Hesse taking the opening kickoff 89 yards for a house call to give Kindred a 6-0 lead just 13 seconds in and stunning the Horace homecoming crowd.

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