The Luxemburg-Casco Spartans defeated the Shawano Hawks 27-7 for a homecoming win on Friday night in a conference crossover game before a huge crowd at the Luxemburg-Casco Sports Complex.

 

Andrew Klass led the way for Luxemburg-Casco with three rushing touchdowns, and the L-C defense made the Hawks scoreless after the first quarter.  

 

The Spartans started out slow, with two fumbles in the first quarter. Shawano scored first on a six-yard touchdown pass from Parker Beyer to Wide receiver Austin Heling, making it 7-0.

 

Klass scored his first touchdown with 4:25 left in the half on a 17-yard scamper up the middle to tie things up. 

 

After a Landon Derenne interception on defense at the Hawks's 31-yard line, Klass scored from eight yards out to make it 14-7 with 1:59 left in the second quarter.

 

Klass would get his TD hat trick with a one-yard plunge late in the third quarter to give the Spartans a 21-7 lead heading to the fourth.

 

Luxemburg-Casco would salt the game away with a 24-yard touchdown pass from Derenne to Braydon Loritz to close out the scoring.  (photo above)

 

Shawano falls to 1-5 overall and 0-4 in the Bay Conference. 

 

The Spartans (3-1, 3-3 overall) will now stay home to play the Two Rivers Raiders next Friday in a rematch of the Division 4 Level 3 playoff last year.  The pregame is set for 6:45 p.m. on 104.1 WRLU, and the kick-off is set for 7 p.m.  Paul Schmitt and Eric Fischer will have the play-by-play of the game, which will also be streamed on New Radio Sports Network.

 

 

Photo courtesy of Ron LeCloux