Forget Glencoe-Silver Lake - Luverne put together perhaps the most dominating, and certainly the longest, drive of the day.  It covered 79 yards, took 20 plays, and used up nearly eight minutes of the clock, and ended with Phillip Paquette plunging over for the score.  The whole thing was nothing but third- and fourth-down conversions, interspersed with four- and five-yard runs.  I can’t imagine how tired the Hawley defense was by the end of that drive.

It could have been worse for Hawley, too - the Nuggets fumbled on their own 22, but just as Hawley couldn’t capitalize on great field position in the first quarter, Luverne could do nothing with the gift in the second quarter.

The Nuggets did move the ball right at the end of the half, driving to get into position for one final shot at the end zone, but a rainbow pass was batted away.

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