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Never in doubt

Lakeview earns 42-6 win over RTR in dominant performance

TYLER – Starting quarterback Owen Louwagie put on a show and left no doubt who the dominant team was on Friday night as the Lakeview Lakers powered past the Russell Tyler Ruthton Knights 42-6.Big plays made by the Lakers defined the game tonight as on the opening drive Louwagie made a 78 yard pass to running back wide receiver Greg Schafer for an early lead. It was all Lakers after that. The defense of the Lakers allowed the Knights to get to the two yard line and was stuffed on fourth down, as the Knights had trouble getting into any kind of offensive rhythm and blocking the front of the Lakers.Wide recei6Nathan Fenske would catch two first half touchdowns thrown by Louwagie of 45 and 69 yards. Louwagie would also get his fourth touchdown of the half by running it in from two yards extending the lead to 27-0.The second half began with the Knights receiving the kickoff and after again driving the ball down the field starting quarterback for the Knights, Blake Christianson threw an interception that ended the drive On the ensuing the drive the Lakers would score again and Fenske would run in a successful two point conversion, making it 35-0 midway through the third quarter. Louwagie threw another short touchdown pass to Taylor Issackson, giving him five total and four passing on the night, leading the Knights 42-0 towards the end of the third.

Cody Wichmann for the Knights had a 10 yard run for a late touchdown to avoid the shutout. Head coach of the Lakers Scott Hanson talked about his team’s dominant performance and what the message was to the team looking forward.“We started out the first drive, had a couple nice plays but we had to punt, Hanson said.” We have a lot of good players and have a quarterback that can make checks at the line and allows us to make big plays.”Hanson added that the defense wasn’t particularly too happy with their performance last week despite the win and wanted to put forth a better effort in tonight’s game, which they did Head coach of the Knights Joshua Fredrickson, spoke on rough night and what ultimately went wrong early.

“They have a really nice team and they did a really good job,” Fredrickson said.” We got down early and they forced our hand, made us kind of predictable on offense. On defense, we have a lot of things to clean up. We had some momentum going and then they stopped us, credit to them. They got some guys on their team that have some great athletes, fast and strong. We have to learn from this, watch the film and put this one out of our minds, we will get it figured out.”The Lakeview Lakers (2-0) will host the MACCRAY Wolverines next Friday evening and the Russell Tyler Ruthton Knights (1-1) will travel to Canby taking on the Canby Lancers also on Friday evening.