FORT HALL — Coming off a rough home loss last week, the North Gem Cowboys got their get-right win at Sho-Ban High School Friday, but it was a hard-fought battle that many may not have expected to be close.

The Chiefs (0-3) were playing their third game in six years and had lost their first two games of the season by a combined score of 110-0.

Sho-Ban scored its first touchdown of the season in the second quarter and was within six points at halftime. But the Cowboys, behind freshman Clay Johnson, pulled away in the second half, earning a 36-14 victory.

North Gem head coach Corry Hatch was impressed by the Chiefs, who had not fielded a varsity football team since 2019.

“This was not the (Sho-Ban) team that played Week 1,” he said. “They played hard — a lot of credit to those guys and th

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