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Class 2 No. 2 Lathrop took the opening kickoff back for a touchdown and never looked back, dominating Mid-Buchanan in all three phases of the game and serving up a 49-0 rout of the Dragons on Friday at Mid-Buchanan High School.

Initially, Class 1 No. 3 Mid-Buchanan (2-1) responded quite well to their opening play gaffe. The two teams traded fruitless possessions throughout the first quarter.

“You gotta give them credit, their coaches had them ready to go. The Mid-Buchanan kids were playing hard,” Lathrop (3-0) coach Chris Holt said. “But we were able to get it going there in the second quarter and were able to maintain that in the second half.”

Lathrop broke the scoring stalemate with a 29-yard touchdown run from senior Tyler Paul on a trap play at the start of the second quarter and added on another 3-yard rushing score later in the period.

By halftime, Lathrop had taken a 35-0 lead, and by the game’s end were able to run with the second team.

Ultimately, Mid-Buchanan coach Aaron Fritz shouldered much of the blame for the disappointing performance.

“We worked really hard this week because we wanted to keep them away from the perimeter, but they got to the perimeter and we couldn’t tackle very well,” Fritz said. “We didn’t do things that we wanted to do, didn’t do things we worked on all week and were coached to do ... They’ve got to do their part, we have to do our parts as coaches, and we need to figure out how to come back from this.”

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