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Cougars surrender 80 points in 80-40 loss to Forest Park

CRYSTAL FALLS — Offense wasn’t the problem for the Superior Central Cougars in an 80-40 loss to Forest Park here Friday in a Great Lakes Conference crossover football contest.

The Cougars got 340 yards passing and four touchdowns from quarterback Kyle Frusti and 250 receiving yards and four touchdowns from Zach Englund, but they couldn’t stop the Trojans’ offense.

“We weren’t making adjustments like we should have been making,” Cougars’ coach Sam Eggleston said. “We had trouble figuring out what the coaching staff wanted and it didn’t translate on the field. We had breakdowns in communication from the sideline to the field.”

The Cougars (2-1) also shot themselves in the foot with turnovers, committing three in the first half that led to three Trojan scores.

“It was one of those things where if we hung on to the ball we might have been in the driver’s seat,” Eggleston said. “Offensively, I wasn’t disappointed — especially in the first half. But we couldn’t keep the momentum up.”

The combination of Frusti to Englund began the game with an 87-yard connection for a TD on the first play. Englund also returned a kickoff for a TD.

“Obviously, that Frusti to Englund combination has pretty much been gold for us,” Eggleston said. “That was pretty much our entire offense there. If we could have given Kyle more time in the pocket in the second half it could have been a different story.”

Frusti also completed all five of his passes on two-point conversions. Two went to Lucas Kanerva, one to Englund, one to Kevin Wynn and one to Jack Rondeau. Clayton Collier added 70 yards receiving and a score. Parker Maki led the defense with 14 tackles, Rondeau had 12, and Collier and James Maki each had 11.

The Cougars host Pickford next Saturday.

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