{"id":2448425,"date":"2019-09-06T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/basalt-football-rolls-over-olathe-29-7-in-season-opener\/"},"modified":"2019-09-06T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T03:52:00","slug":"basalt-high-football-rolls-over-host-olathe-29-7-in-season-opener-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/basalt-high-football-rolls-over-host-olathe-29-7-in-season-opener-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Basalt High football rolls over host Olathe 29-7 in season opener on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Basalt High School football team handled Olathe in its season opener on Friday night, winning 29-7 on the Pirates\u2019 field.<\/p>\n

The Longhorns led 13-0 at halftime and didn\u2019t allow a point until the final minutes to beat Class 1A Olathe in the opener for the second straight season. BHS also beat Olathe 28-0 in the first game last fall, that game being played in Basalt.<\/p>\n

\u201cOffensively we really moved the ball well,\u201d BHS coach Carl Frerichs said. \u201cWe just got to work on penalties and finishing drives. I felt like the offensive line did a nice job and the running backs ran hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Basalt fumbled the ball over to Olathe on its first possession Friday, but got the offense going after that. Sophomore fullback Gavin Webb scored from 5 yards out on the second possession to make it 7-0, a score that held into the second quarter. Sophomore running back Cole Dombrowski had a 79-yard touchdown run negated by a penalty late in the first quarter.<\/p>\n

Early in the second quarter, Webb scored again from a yard out, a touchdown set up by a 40-yard pass and catch down to the 1-yard line.<\/p>\n

Junior quarterback Matty Gillis, making his starting debut at the position for the Longhorns, found senior receiver Jackson Rapaport for a 25-yard score midway through the third quarter. A successful 2-point conversion made it 21-0.<\/p>\n

Basalt\u2019s lead became 23-0 after a safety midway through the fourth quarter, and it was 29-0 after Gillis found Rapaport for a second time, this one coming from 6 yards out with 2:42 to play.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of penalties to clean up, but defense I felt played really, really well,\u201d Frerichs said. \u201cThose are all things we can clean up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Olathe\u2019s only points came on a roughly 50-yard touchdown pass and catch with less than two minutes to play.<\/p>\n

The loss dropped Olathe to 0-2 after it fell 35-14 at Coal Ridge, one of Basalt\u2019s Class 2A Western Slope League foes, last week.<\/p>\n

Basalt (1-0) will host Class 3A Battle Mountain on Saturday, Sept. 14, in its home opener. BHS beat Battle Mountain a year ago in Edwards, winning 47-6.<\/p>\n

The Aspen High School football team\u2019s season opener will be noon Saturday, Sept. 7, on the AHS turf against Bayfield (0-1)<\/a>. The Wolverines are the 2017 state champions and were the No. 1 seed in the 2A playoffs a year ago.<\/p>\n

AHS took Bayfield to the wire last year, losing 20-8 on the road. The Wolverines lost their season opener this year to San Juan (Utah), 42-13.<\/p>\n

Other scores of note this week include Meeker beating Coal Ridge, 40-8; Holy family beating Glenwood Springs, 29-0; and Delta beating Thornton, 42-0.<\/p>\n

acolbert@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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