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Football: Wykons blank Miners

West Iron County's Blake Lindberg, center, is brought down by several Gogebic Miners, including Brenden Aspinwall, left, and Tommy Lundin, bottom. (Pat Krause/The Daily Globe)

BESSEMER — West Iron County’s Zach Quintero and Blake Lindberg both ran for two touchdowns as the Wykons blitzed the Gogebic Miners 43-0 in a West-PAC crossover game at Massie Field on Friday night.

“We took a whipping in the first four minutes and it didn’t change much the rest of the game,” Gogebic coach Mark Mazzon said. “Our kids shut down. We have to come back on Monday and take out our frustrations on Houghton next week. Nothing good came out of a game like that except some kids stepped up and played well. Parker (Wilson) played a heck of a game even though he was running for his life, but he still made plays. Collin (Broemer), Joey (Rocco) and some other guys such as Tommy Lundin and Alex Church stepped in well for injured players. Certain kids are busting their butts but not all at the same time. To be a good team, you need to be playing team football. The hardest part about football is you need more than three to four guys playing hard.”

After the game, Wykon coach Mike Berutti still had his team’s 43-8 loss to Calumet from last week on his mind and it affected his planning for the Gogebic game.

“Calumet really handed it to us,” Berutti said. “We had three new starters in this game and they performed well. (Noah) Thomson played well and some of the other guys played all right. We executed when we needed to.

“Gogebic played hard. Number 72 (Collin Broemer) is a good ball player. Gogebic is young. Jacobi Fyle has come to our camp. They’ll be good in a couple of years if they stick together.

Zach Quintero led all rushers with 103 yards on only six carries and that included a 56-yard TD scamper.

Sophomore Seth Cole led the Miners with 15 yards on three attempts.

The Miners (0-5) hit the road to play Houghton on Friday at 6 p.m. CST.

West Iron COunty 22 13 8 0 — 43

Gogebic 0 0 0 0 — 0

First Quarter

WIC — Lewis 3 run (2-pt conversion), 9:37

WIC — Quintero 2 run (2-pt failed), 5:19

WIC — Thomson 5 run (2-pt conversion), 2:04

Second Quarter

WIC — Lindberg 5 run (2-pt failed), 8:07

Third Quarter

WIC — Quintero 56 run (2-pt conversion), 3:36

Fourth Quarter

WIC — Lindberg 1 run (2-pt conversion), 8:03

Individual Statistics

RUSHING — West Iron County, Lindberg 17-55, Quintero 6-103, Bociek 2-minus 3, Lewis 3-27, Thomson 3-47, Fritsche 7-16. Gogebic, Wilson 12- minus 16, Lundin 1-3, Cole 3-15, Solberg 3-4, Jett 5-2.

PASSING — West Iron County, Bociek 3-3-0-83 Gogebic, Wilson 5-20-121-2-121.

Receiving — West Iron County, Pellizer 2-50, Berlinski 1-33 Gogebic, Lundin 2-29, Recla 1-43, Solberg 1-14, Benson 1-23.

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