Scoring was scarce Friday night at Hermann High School’s Bearcat Memorial Stadium between the visiting St. James Tigers and host Hermann Bearcats.

Tied at 7-7 at halftime and entering the fourth quarter, Hermann trailed 13-7 with 3:08 remaining until freshman quarterback Miles Eikermann found Tayven Hopkins on a six-yard touchdown pass with 1:04 left before Carter Humphrey’s extra-point kick eventually gave Hermann a 14-13 victory for their first win of the season.

Hermann’s first score of the game came at the 5:38 mark of the second quarter when Eikermann connected with Hopkins on a 65-yard TD pass.

Humphrey’s kick tied the game at 7-7 at that point.

Going on to their first win of the season, Hermann was offensively by Eikermann who went 7-10 passing for 157 yards and two touchdowns.

On the ground, Kohlt Witthaus ran the ball 13 times for a team-leading 54 yards while Hopkins also had 41 yards rushing on eight carries.

Will Schutt added three yards rushing on one carry for the Bearcats.

Hopkins also finished with two catches for 75 yards receiving and a pair of touchdowns while Kyle Koch also caught three balls for 68 yards.

Schutt and Witthaus each also caught one pass for seven yards.

Defensively, Witthaus showed the way with 16 total tackles (13 solo).

Hopkins added eight total stops (six solo) while Koch had six total tackles (four solo).

Bentley Edwards and Corbin Sadler each added five total tackles to go along with four total stops each from Sawyer Moore and Schutt.

Racking up three tackles apiece were Brady Traub, Eikermann and Humphrey.

Creten Page had two total tackles to go along with one stop each from Leif Slusser and Chase Willimann.