TSCHETTER POWERS PHOENIX PAST BON HOMME
Freeman/Marion/Freeman Academy overcame a sluggish start and dominated the second half of play en route to a 50-19 win over Bon Homme in Class 9AA action in Freeman Friday night, Aug. 30.
The Phoenix trailed 7-0 and 13-6 before taking a 14-13 lead as time expired in the first half. F/M/FA then scored the next 36 points of the game to jump ahead 50-13, with the Cavaliers scoring the final six points after the starters had been pulled.
Freeman junior quarterback Riley Tschetter had a monster of a game, throwing for 319 yards on 18-for-24 passing and running for another 93 yards, including a 75-yard winding scamper through the Bon Homme defense that made it 42-13 midway through the fourth quarter.
The Phoenix’s scoring players were as follows:
- A Chris Aasen 85-yard kickoff return that made it 6-7;
- A Tschetter 1-yard touchdown run and two-point conversion from Tschetter to Karter Weber that made it 14-13;
- A Dominic Sperling 1-yard touchdown run and two-point conversion run by Tschetter that made it 22-13;
- A 16-yard touchdown pass from Tschetter to Luke Peters that made it 28-13;
- A 55-yard touchdown pass from Tschetter to Aasen and two-point conversion from Tschetter to Alaric Knittel that made it 36-13;
- Tschetter’s 75-yard touchdown run and two-point conversion run by Easton Tschetter that made it 44-13;
- A 5-yard Easton Tschetter touchdown run that made it 50-19.
The Phoenix tallied 186 yards on the ground and 319 through the air, with 89 of those yards going to Weber. Jackson Donlan — who left the game in the second half with a knee injury — caught four passes for 66 yards, Aasen finished with 63 yards receiving and Luke Peters caught three passes for 61 yards.
Senior Sawyer Wipf led the defense with 11 tackles, junior Tate Sorensen had nine and freshman Tayden Kerrigan added seven.
F/M/FA travels to Elkton next week to face No. 3 Elkton-Lake Benton.
