After a slow start and initially falling behind, the Madison Warhawks finished strong to remain undefeated at 8-0 in high-school football action.
The visiting Warhawks downed the South Lakes Seahawks, 35-7, Friday night (Oct. 25) in a Concorde District game to remain atop the league standings with a 3-0 record. South Lakes, which led 7-0 at one point, fell to 2-6, 0-3.
Madison’s last 8-0 start was in 2021.
For South Lakes, Cody Wood ran three yards for the team’s first-quarter touchdown, and Nicholas Bertoni booted the extra point. But from that point on, it was all Madison.
The Warhawks tied the contest at 7 by period’s end on a 63-yard touchdown run by William Helvey and Julian Hopewell’s first of five extra points. Madison took the lead for good at 14-7 by halftime on a seven-yard Dominic Knicely scoring run and Hopewell’s conversion.
Madison’s three second-half TDs came on a 55-yard run by Knicely, a one-yard run by quarterback Cael Yates and Matthew Weiler’s three-yard run.
Of the Warhawks’ 300 total yards, 285 were rushing, led by 110 from Knicely, 73 from Weiler and 66 from Helvey. Yates passed for 15 yards with Will Smoot having one catch for 11 yards and Hopewell one for eight.
The Madison defense held South Lakes to just 60 total yards and six first downs.
NOTE: The last time Madison finished a regular season with a 10-0 record was in 1978 when Check Sell coached the Warhawks.
