On a chilly Wednesday night in St. Louis Park, the high school football season concluded with Reese Turner rushing for two touchdowns and Jamarrius Courtney throwing for two more to lead the Chaska Hawks to a 42-6 rout of the host St. Louis Park Orioles.
The Hawks got the game off to a flying started with a kickoff return into Oriole territory. Turner would move Chaska closer to the end zone with a 27 yard gain and score from one yard. The Orioles had a couple of opportunities to even the score but they went 0-2 on fourth down conversions.
In the second quarter, Courtney threw a left side pass to Aiden Fontaine and he went down the right sideline for an 85 yard pick up that would result in first and goal for the Hawks. Once again, Turner would put the ball in the end zone, this time from two yards. St. Louis Park would erase the shutout when Stefano Giovannelli, the new Oriole quarterback after Declan Gaines was ruled out for the season due to a concussion, threw an eight yard touchdown pass to Manny Kaplan and the Orioles cut the deficit to 14-6. But Chaska was not finished in the first half as Courtney fired a 13 yard strike to Aidan Whicker with :01.7 left to give the Hawks a 21-6 halftime lead.
Courtney would throw his second touchdown pass in the third quarter when he found Nevin Krause deep in the end zone from 13 yards. The Orioles did have some life on a trick play. Zach Helfmann passed to Giovannelli but on the next play, the Hawks Preston Lorenz recovered a fumble so Chaska was back in business. The Hawks did take care of business as the clock hit :00 and Courtney scored on a two yard keeper touchdown.
With the game pretty much decided in the fourth quarter, Chaska head coach Bryan Dahl started to utilize his bench and it paid off when Xavier Harvieux ran up the middle from 10 yards to send the game into running time due to the wide margin. Defense also paid off for the Hawks thanks to an interception from Russell Gillette.
Chaska concluded the regular season with a 6-2 record and St. Louis Park fell to 2-6. Section play begins next week.
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