Freedom stuffs Fox Valley Lutheran football

AppletonSportsPage.com

FREEDOM – The Fox Valley Lutheran football team could not hold on to an early lead and suffered its first loss of the season, falling to Freedom 28-17 on Friday night at Freedom High School in a Bay Conference-North Eastern Conference crossover game.

The Foxes scored twice in the first quarter as Gabe Heiges connected on long touchdown passes of 66 yards to Jacoby Dobberstein and 35 yards to Amani Dahlke as they took a 14-0 lead.

From there, the FVL offense was stymied. Freedom scored a touchdown in the second quarter and Levi Hermann’s 25-yard field goal gave the Foxes a 17-6 halftime lead, but they would not score again as Freedom scored three rushing touchdowns in the second half to secure the win.

Freedom is now 4-1 overall and 2-1 in the North Eastern Conference, while Fox Valley Lutheran falls to 4-1 overall and 2-1 in the Bay Conference.

Freedom outgained FVL 263-232 as the Foxes were hurt by 11 penalties and finished with just 68 yards rushing on 24 carries.

Gabe Heiges finished with 133 yards passing before exiting and the two quarterbacks that replaced him combined to go just 3-for-18 for 31 yards.

Fox Valley Lutheran will play at Seymour (4-1, 3-0 Bay) next Friday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m.