Article content The field was bathed in sunlight and the breeze crisp, but there was nothing crisp about the offence on either side of the football. The Superior Steelhawks opened the senior football season with an 8-1 win over the White Pines Wolverines on Saturday morning. “A win is a win,” Heights head coach Matt Desando said.
“We all know it wasn’t in a pretty fashion.” Daikaden Gauthier scored the only touchdown at 5:03 of the fourth quarter on a five-yard keeper. Both teams scored a rouge in the third quarter.
A pair of Heights touchdowns were reversed because of penalties. White Pines had a touchdown of its own called back due to a penalty. Gauthier found Cameron Hernden in the corner of the endzone with a 20-yard pass, but the TD was called back for holding.
Gauthier intercepted a Garrin Pine pass inside the Wolverines 10-yard line and ran the ball into the endzone late in the second quarter, but the major was nullified on a dead ball foul. “Penalties kill and turnovers kill, and we had too many of those today,” Desando said. “We didn’t take care of the ball, and we had some touchdowns called back.
” On the other side, Pine found Tristen Holzworth from 11-yards out late in the third quarter. An offside penalty nullified the major. Pine completed seven passes for 51 yards.
DJ Pine led both teams in rushing with 102 yards on 12 carries. Wolverines head coach William Basawa thought penalties were the story of the game. Certainly, his offence was affect.