When Micah Mosley reflects on his superb high school football career, Nederland’s senior tailback can remember he saved his most productive night at Bulldog Stadium for his grand finale.

Rambling through Lumberton’s defense for his personal career-high of 406 yards on 28 carries, with four touchdowns, Mosley merely became the greatest single-season and career rusher in Nederland’s long and storied football history.

Micah passed them all. Move over Steve Fleming. Move over Troy Sumrall. Move over Ross LaBove. Make room at the top for Mosley.

About the only one he didn’t pass was Silsbee’s Jay McGuire, who rushed for 424 yards against Nederland at Bulldog Stadium in 1993. That’s believed to be the Southeast Texas single game record.

Running Nederland’s counter gap play to perfection, the 6-1, 200-pound senior darted 55 yards on his final Bulldog Stadium carry, capping the Bulldogs’ 51-25 playoff-clinching victory over Lumberton before around 5,000 on Nederland’s old English ‘N’.

Let me tell you something, the Big Ned ‘N’ will miss this young man very much.

The victory clinched Nederland’s return to a school-record 11th straight bidistrict playoff appearance. The Dogs (5-5) will be the home team next Saturday night against Galena Park (8-2) in the 4A Division I bidistrict round in Baytown’s Stallworth Stadium at 7 p.m.

Ticket details will not be finalized until early next week.

Limited to only 92 yards by a sneaky fast Dayton defense last week, Mosley ripped out 159 by the end of this night’s first quarter and scored on touchdown runs of 64, 1, 56 and 55 yards.

His able-bodied escorts, led by the outstanding left tackle performance of senior Joe Isbell, refused to allow Mosley to be trapped for negative yardage on any of his 28 carries.

For the record, let’s look at the record book because Micah rewrote it on Friday night. His 406 yards surpassed his previous single-game high of 318 at Waller. That’s the most in a single game ever for a Nederland rusher.

Then there’s Mosley’s new 10-game season total — 2,010. Ross LaBove rushed for 1,897 yards over 13 games in 1999. Troy Sumrall dashed for 1,601 in a 12-game season in 1997. Stop the presses, Micah’s not done yet.