SYRACUSE —
Timing, or lack thereof, has been everything for Wawasee’s football team this season.
In their first two games, the Warriors were consistently off on converting big plays, and through more than half of Friday’s Northern Lakes Conference opener against Northridge, the same held true.
Then, Tyler Hare connected.
The Wawasee quarterback found Tommy Kehoe over the middle for a 44-yard touchdown pass near the end of the third quarter, then hit Kehoe again later on what would be the game-winning drive of a 17-13 victory.
Hare hit just three of his eight pass attempts, but the last two were huge. After Northridge’s Tyler Priem scampered 28 yards for a fourth quarter touchdown that gave the Raiders a 13-10 lead, Hare found Kehoe over the middle for a 33-yard pass down to the Northridge 10 yard line. Two plays later, Hare ran it in from the 3 for the deciding score.
“Once we get our confidence up, we’re unstoppable,” Hare said. “We were all down after they scored that touchdown, but we just got back up and moved the ball down the field.”
Hare led Wawasee with 54 yards rushing and threw for 95 yards.
“We were able to finish something,” said Wawasee coach Tom Wogomon. “There wasn’t any panic or any woe is me.”
Priem paced Northridge with 72 yards on the ground and Raiders QB David Letherman was 9-for-18 through the air for 96 yards and a touchdown.
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