WARDEN - Osvaldo Alba carried the rock 29 times for 142 yards and a touchdown, and Adam Hansen added 94 yards on 17 carries and a score to lead the Cougars to a home win over the Coyotes Friday.

The win improves Warden to 2-4 in the 1A SCAC East Conference and 2-5 overall.

"What a great feeling as a coach to watch your kids gut it out in crunch time," coach Erik Skone said. "We took care of the ball, cut down on the turnovers, and needed to make our move and drove down the field 81 yards into the end zone, converting on one fourth and five, and two third downs and left with a win."

The game got off to a slow start offensively as neither team scored in the first 12 minutes of action. Columbia-Burbank got a 25-yard field goal from Jose Barajas in the second quarter to go up 3-0 at the half.

The score held up until Warden got on the board in the fourth quarter on a 1-yard TD run by Hansen (PAT) to give the Cougars a 7-3 lead. Warden put the game away late in the quarter on a 30-yard scamper by Alba (PAT) to turn back the Coyotes 14-3

The stingy Cougar defense held Columbia-Burbank to 126 total yards for the game.

"Our defense played a great game," Skone said. "We caused six turnovers and pressured the QB all night ... it was a lights out performance."

Warden gets a chance to make it two wins in a row when the Cougars hit the road to take Kiona-Benton Friday.