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Page 8 • FREEMAN & ENTERPRISE LAKE COUNTRY SEPTEMBER 2015 By Tom Badger Freeman Correspondent WAUKESHA — Quick Nick and Mad Matt. While on different sidelines Fri- day, both Nick Bastien and Matt Harris made a big statement dur- ing and after Arrowhead's 56-0 vic- tory over Waukesha North in their Classic 8 Conference opener. Bastien, a senior tailback, rushed for 115 yards on nine car- ries and scored the Warhawks' first two touchdowns — a 3-yard run in the first quarter and a 68-yard sprint in the second quarter. Afterwards, Harris, the second- year coach at North, couldn't hold back his frustration regarding the disparity within the conference. With the win, Arrowhead improved to 3-0 this season, 1-0 in conference. The loss snapped a two-game winning streak and left the North- stars at 2-1 overall, 0-1 in league. "This is crazy," Harris said. "They're (Arrowhead) a Division 1 powerhouse. We've proven that we're a competitive Division 2 team. I get four guys hurt in a game that's meaningless. If I were Arrowhead, I wouldn't want to play this game. It's pointless. "I know it sounds like a defeatist attitude, but what are you sup- posed to do? They beat us up and pounded us the way they do. Noth- ing against them. They're an amaz- ing football team. It's a little bit frustrating. Once our quarterback went down, what's the point? They have to do something about this conference. This is ridiculous." Arrowhead's first possession ended with its first touchdown — a 2-yard run by Bastien with 6:43 left in the first quarter. The 15-play drive covered 62 yards and high- lighted by a 14-yard gain by Bastien on the game's second play. After a Northstar three-and-out, a holding penalty ruined a 48-yard Arrowhead touchdown pass and generally ruined the Warhawk offense for the rest of the first half. Early in the second quarter, North moved into Arrowhead ter- ritory with an 11-yard run by senior Tony Tromblay and a 19- yard pass from junior quarterback Brennan Demark to junior Corey Fuchs. However, North's drive stalled at the Warhawk 27 with 11:02 left in the half. Arrowhead quickly went ahead 14-0 after Bastien swept left and cut through a large hole and outran the Northstar defense with a 67- yard touchdown. "I was supposed to go more inside and somehow, I don't even know what happened, I was bounced to the outside," Bastien said. "Suddenly I saw a big hole and headed right through it. "Being 5-8, I get to kind of hide behind the linemen so it's hard to see me in the backfield and I get a chance to slip through. I use my quickness to my advantage, I guess. I use the holes that the line- men give me and make the defend- ers miss with my quickness." "Nick is like a water bug," Arrowhead head coach Greg Malling said. "I don't know how he does some of the things he does. You just never know when Nick's going to break one. I wish that the play would have carried over more a little bit more because it seemed like we fell flat." An Arrowhead fumble and inter- ception — both taken by North junior Noah Neira — kept the Warhawk offense off the field until a 31-yard run by Myers was fol- lowed up by a 3-yard touchdown run by Myers and a 21-0 lead with 3:27 remaining in the half. "We weren't too pleased at half- time," Malling said. "We had a big penalty and a couple of turnovers in the first half. We have to clean those things up and control what we can control." In the second half, Arrowhead took complete control with a 1-yard score by Myers and a 58-yard punt return by junior Jake Driscoll with 6:20 left in the third quarter — a score that brought out the continu- ous clock rule. "There is no reason why a school of 1,100 (enrollment) should be playing a school of 2,300," Harris said. "It does nothing for either team." Bastien runs for 115 yards, two TDS Arrowhead wins big over Northstars HARTLAND — Senior Ethan Kennedy's 34-yard touchdown run with 7 minutes, 17 seconds to play lift- ed Lake Country Lutheran to a 35-28 victory over St. Francis in the teams' Midwest Classic Conference opener Friday. The lead changed hands six times during the contest. Kennedy rushed 14 times for 141 yards and three scores, while junior quarterback Ryan Nehls completed 11 of 17 passes for 164 yards and a touchdown for the Lightning (2- 1). Junior Adam Mielke caught six passes for 119 yards and a TD to help LCL drop St. Francis to 2-1. Marquette drops Hamilton to 0-3 TOWN OF LISBON — Milwaukee Marquette broke a 7-7 tie by scoring 28 consecutive points over the middle two quarters en route to a 42-14 Greater Metro Conference victory over Hamilton on Sept. 4. The Chargers got a 37-yard touch- down pass from Jordan Smith to Ty Olejnik and a 3-yard TD run from Dustin Griepentrog. Marquette emerged at 2-1. Lead changed six times during game Kennedy's TD helps LCL win PREP FOOTBALL: Wauwatosa West 27, Pewaukee 20 PREP FOOTBALL: Arrowhead 56, Waukesha North 0 Mary Catanese/Special to The Freeman Arrowhead senior Nick Bastien tries to avoid the tackle of Waukesha North senior Jacob Pryor on Sept. 4. By Todd Hansen Freeman Correspondent PEWAUKEE — There are losses and then there are tough losses. The Pewaukee football team suffered the latter Sept. 4. Leading by 20 points early in the second quarter, Pewaukee saw Wauwatosa West score 27 unanswered points — the last coming with just 1:18 remaining — to stun the Pirates 27-20 in the Woodland Conference opener for both schools. The loss was the second straight for the Pirates, while the Trojans ended an eight-game losing streak to Pewaukee. Pewaukee looked for the potential tying touchdown in the final minute and drove to the Tosa West 20- yard line before finally turn- ing the ball over on downs with 9.8 seconds left. "It's a tough loss anytime you lose," Pewaukee coach Justin Friske said. "When you're up 20-0 early and you think you have all the momentum, it's hard to swal- low. It's really hard to swallow. "I think that's the toughest part of it. If this had been a nip and tuck, back-and-forth game, you still feel terrible, but being up 20-0 and not being able to score again is a really frustrating situation for us." The Pirates actually fum- bled going into the end zone on the first possession of the game before scoring touch- downs on three of their next four offensive series. Two plays following a punt by the Trojans, senior run- ning back Alec Wandler scored on a 34-yard touch- down run, giving the Pirates at 7-0 lead with 6:59 left in the first quarter. Pewaukee senior defensive lineman Evan Gard recovered a Tosa West fumble on the next play from scrimmage and five plays later junior quarterback Carl Renz scored on a 1-yard plunge, extending the lead to 13-0 after the extra point was blocked with 4:55 left in the first quarter. Junior defensive lineman Blaze Beltran then recov- ered another Tosa West fum- ble for Pewaukee and just four plays later, Wandler scored on a 1-yard touch- down run, giving the Pirates a 20-0 lead with 11:32 remain- ing in the first half. Wandler finished with 146 yards rushing on 18 carries. Most of the remainder of the game, however, belonged to the Trojans. A 47-yard touchdown run by senior running back Kobe Vines and a 14-yard touch- down pass from junior quar- terback Rayvon Bartlett Jr. to junior running back Paris Howell cut the Pewaukee lead to 20-13 at the half. "Give them credit, they never quit and they battled back and made some big plays." Friske said of Tosa West. "The big run that they scored on really sparked them and I think put our guys back on their heels a little bit." The Trojans then took the second-half kickoff and went on a 21-play, 92-yard drive that ended with a 2-yard touch- down run by Bartlett that took all but 1:23 off the clock in the third quarter. The extra point was blocked by Pewau- kee sophomore Seth Bickett and the Pirates' lead was down to 20-19. The Pirates would punt and fumble on their first two pos- sessions of the second half with the turnover happening with just 2:32 remaining and the Trojans recovering at the Pewaukee 32-yard line. Five plays later, Bartlett found senior running back Truman Tyson for a 19-yard touchdown and the 2-point conversion gave the Trojans their first lead at 27-20 with 1:18 remaining. Pewaukee did get to the Tosa West 20-yard line, helped by a 54-yard pass from Renz to junior running back Michael Walters, but the Pirates would get no closer to the end zone. Pirates final drive stalled on 20-yard line Wauwatosa West erases 20-point deficit to beat Pewaukee PREP FOOTBALL ROUNDUP

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