The Luxemburg-Casco Spartans opened their 2023 football campaign with an impressive 34-20 win over the Xavier Hawks in Friday night in Luxemburg.

The Spartan starting quarterback Max Ronsman had a huge game throwing three touchdowns and rushing for another.

Luxemburg-Casco took the lead in the first quarter on a three-yard run by Chris VanderWielen on the opening drive for the Spartans.

The Spartans would then socre on a three yard run  by Ronsman with 9:39 left in the second quarter to take a 13-0 lead.  Xavier would come back as the Hawks scored on a 5 yard run by running back Evan McCormick to make the score 13-7 after the extra point. 

It didn’t take the Spartans long as they went on a 73 yard drive in less than 90 seconds culminated by a 29-yard strike from Ronsman to Brady Massey with 2:24 left in the half.

The Spartans weren’t done yet, as after a three-and-out by the defense, Ronsman hit tight end Trace Schoenebeck on a 26 yard pass with just :11 left before intermission to take a commanding 26-7 lead into halftime.

On the opening drive of the second half the Spartans used up more than half the third quarter clock and scored on a two-yard Ronsman scamper to put the game pretty much away at 34-7 with 5:41 left in the frame.

To the credit of Xavier, the Hawks didn’t quit and scored the last 13-0 points on two touchdown passes by quarterback Reid Hietpas.

Luxemburg-Casco will now travel to Kewaunee to take on the Storm next Friday night.

The pregame is set for 6:45 pm on 104.1 WRLU and kick-off set for 7 p.m. from the Luxemburg-Casco Sports Complex.  Paul Schmitt and Henry Annen will have the play-by-play of the game that will also be streamed on New Radio Sports Network.

 

(photo courtesy of Ron LeCloux)