Campbell sophomore Scott Hershberger is tackled by Monadnock senior Anthony Patch during their Division III football semifinal game in Swanzey Friday night. (Photo by Hannah Schroeder / The Keene Sentinel)

What a difference a month can make.

The feeling in Litchfield the last couple of weeks was that the Campbell High School football team would have a different mentality in Friday’s Division III semifinals at Monadnock than it had when it was blown out by the Huskies at home nearly a month ago.

That feeling was right on the money.

This time the Cougars, especially running back Scott Hershberger, were more than ready to play last night in a 37-14 win that featured 276 yards and five touchdowns by the sophomore standout.

As a result, the Cougars will be in their first Division III title game since 2018, and will face the winner of today’s 2 p.m. semifinal in Manchester between top seed Trinity (9-0) and Inter-Lakes (6-3) next Saturday at Souhegan High School. The game time has yet to be determined.

This was an incredible difference from the game on Oct. 8 in which Hershberger was kept in check in a 52-8 Monadnock win that gave the Huskies (8-2) the second seed and home field advantage.

It was yet another memorable chapter in the rivalry between these two programs that played in back-to-back Division III finals in 2017-18.

“Today we executed,” Campbell coach Glenn Costello said. “Anytime we play (vs. Monadnock), it’s a bloodbath and this one was no different. We were lucky to execute a little better than they did.”

Hershberger had touchdown runs of 1, 1, 56, 3, and 48 yards. The Cougars jumped out to an 18-0 lead by early in the second quarter and never trailed. Monadnock cut the game to 18-7 on a fourth down 43-yard run by Ethan Brown (146 yards on 20 carries) with 8:12 left in the first half. But two more Hershberger runs made it 34-7 by the half. Game over.

“[Hershberger] was the difference,” Monadnock coach Rob Lolito said. “They beat us in the trenches and that was the difference.”

Hershberger also had 17 yards passing while Jack Kidwell had 57 receiving yards. Kody Kham added a 30-yard field goal.

(Keene Sentinel staff writer Christopher Detwiler contributed to this report.)