Lourdes battles back but comes up short

Byron held off a third-quarter surge by Rochester Lourdes to win the Hiawatha Valley League football game 25-10 Friday.

Byron's Adam Schroeder broke open the game in the second quarter on a 70-yard screen pass, helping the Bears to a 18-0 lead at halftime.

Lourdes' defense stiffened in the third quarter, and the Eagles battled to within 18-10. But a fourth-down attempt on a drive late in the third quarter failed, and Byron came back shortly thereafter to score an insurance touchdown.

"Byron's got a good ballclub," said Lourdes coach Marv Peters. "They came to play in the first half. We didn't really show up until the second half."

Byron's Schroeder provided 73 yards rushing and 80 yards passing in the game.

scoring by quarters

Lourdes 0 0 10 0 -- 10

; Byron 6 12 0 7 -- 25

; First Quarter

B -- Brandon Boomgaard 9 run (kick failed)

second quarter

B -- Adam Schroeder 70 pass from Bryce Fogelson (run failed)

B-- Nate Moore 10 pass from Fogelson (pass failed)

third quarter

L -- Pat Jewison 28 from Jay Kasner (Kasner kick)

L -- FG Kasner 21

fourth quarter

B -- Shawn Campion 23 pass from Fogelson (Schroeder kick)

Lour Byron

; First downs 7 11

; Total scrimmage yards 191 341

; Total yards rushing 56 128

; Total yards passing 135 213

; Passes attempted 34 23

; Passes completed 13 10

; Passes had intercepted 3 0

; Number of punts 7 5

; Fumbles/fumbles lost 0/0 2/1

; individual statistics

Rushing

Lour -- Ted Garry 9-24, Jace Hadaway 7-24. Byron -- Adam Schroeder 16-73, Brandon Boomgaard 10-40.

Passing

Lour -- Jay Kasner 13-34-3 135; Byron -- Bryce Fogelson 10-23-0 213.

Receiving

Lour -- Pat Jewison 3-47, Ted Garry 7-44, Tim Carroll 2-14, Matt Wamer 1-30. Byron -- Nate Moore 1-10, Adam Schroeder 2-80, Boomgaard 2-17, Shawn Campion 3-78, Matt Storlie 2-28.