Saturday, September 15, 2007 - 12:00 AM
KingCo 4A Football | Roosevelt roughed up
By Matt Massey
Special to The Seattle Times
Trey Burwick supplied three touchdowns and 66 all-purpose yards as second-ranked Bothell thumped Roosevelt 56-13 Friday night in a KingCo 4A Conference football game at Memorial Stadium.
Burwick, a junior running back, scored on a 32-yard catch-and-run and a 1-yard plunge for a 14-0 lead by Bothell (3-0 overall, 2-0 KingCo) in the first quarter.
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Bothell's Ben Moschel intercepts a pass in the end zone intended for Roosevelt's Andrew Jacobs (83) Friday night. Moschel also caught a touchdown pass in the second-ranked Cougars' 56-13 victory.
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Roosevelt quarterback Nick Foster is sacked for a 5-yard loss by Bothell's Theo Hunt in the KingCo 4A game at Memorial Stadium.
The Cougars led 21-0 lead midway through the second quarter after Jonathan Kirchner cruised into the end zone on a 5-yard pitch and run 8:48 left before halftime.
Bothell built the margin to 35-7 when quarterback Johnny Hekker found Ben Moschel on a slant for a 19-yard touchdown strike 1:31 before halftime. Ryan Hunter, Kurt Stottlemyer and Moschel all had first-half interceptions for the Cougars.
The game was stopped for 22 minutes when Bothell tight end Craig Monson was coughing up blood on the sideline with 4:29 left in the third quarter. Monson, who took a shot to the ribs a few plays earlier, was taken by ambulance to Harborview Medical Center as a precautionary measure. According to an assistant coach, Monson was released from the hospital with bruised ribs.
Kirchner led the Cougars with 97 yards on 11 carries. Hekker completed 16 of 21 passes for 273 yards and two touchdowns. Bothell outgained Roosevelt (1-2, 1-2) 405 yards to 268, with the Cougars getting 232 on the ground.
Florida, Texas prep
powers meet today
Once upon a time, if a Texas high school football team was on the verge of a 50-year-old state record for consecutive wins, the Big Game would come against another team from Texas.
That kind of thinking is so 20th century. Southlake Carroll will go for its 50th consecutive win — Abilene won 49 in the mid-1950s to set the Texas record for big schools — against Miami Northwestern, Florida's finest team. And the game will be played not on a high school field under Friday night lights, but today on national cable (ESPNU, 4 p.m. PDT) at Southern Methodist University's Ford Stadium.
At a time when games between high school powers in the same regions often pop up on national cable TV, Carroll-Northwestern is a matchup on another level.
Carroll is No. 1 and Northwestern No. 2 in USA Today's Super 25 rankings of the nation's top teams. It's only the third time in the list's 25 years that the top two teams will play, and the first that they come from different states.
Rashid Ghazi of Paragon Marketing Group, the game's matchmaker, says it's the most high-profile, made-for-TV prep game since LeBron James played basketball for Akron (Ohio) St. Vincent-St. Mary on ESPN2 in 2002.
Today's game in the Dallas area will be between teams from different worlds.
Carroll (1-0) is an 89 percent white school in an affluent Dallas suburb; 1 percent of its students get free or reduced-price lunches. Northwestern (2-0) is a 93 percent black school in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood; 67 percent of its students get free or reduced-price lunches.