Historic blowouts and a three-way conference tie highlight Week 7 football takeaways
Midwest Classic teams, Marquette put up the points on Friday opponents
As Kenosha St. Joseph and Racine Lutheran surge toward what appears to be an inevitable showdown for the Midwest Classic Conference title in a regular-season finale Oct. 13, neither team pulled punches Friday.
Racine Lutheran (5-0 Midwest Classic) throttled Dominican 82-22 at home in its highest-scoring game in more than two decades. The Crusaders scored 70 points or more for the third time since 2002, with the other two a 70-0 win over St. Thomas More in 2017 and a 73-18 victory also over Dominican in 2007.
St. Joseph also improved to 5-0 in the conference with a 69-7 rout of Living Word Lutheran on Friday. The point total was the Lancers' highest since at least 2002, according to available records. It was the fourth time in that span St. Joseph scored at least 60, a stretch that also includes a 2012 win of 61-22 over Shoreland Lutheran, a 2011 win of 61-46 over Martin Luther and a 2002 win of 64-6 over Shoreland Lutheran.
In the Greater Metro Conference, Marquette also put up the program's highest scoring total since at least 2002 with a 70-0 win over West Allis Central. The total eclipsed a 66-21 win over West Allis Hale in 2017 as the most points scored in that span. The Hilltoppers also shut out an opponent for the fifth time this season, a feat they have not accomplished in a season since 2010.
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Woodland race narrows with two games to play
The only area conference race with a three-way tie at the top through Friday is in the Woodland Conference, where Grafton, Wisconsin Lutheran and Greendale are 4-1.
Over the final two Fridays of the regular season, Wisconsin Lutheran has the easiest schedule by record as it travels to Cudahy (1-4 Woodland) and finishes at home against South Milwaukee (2-3). Grafton also plays South Milwaukee before ending the season at Greendale. The Panthers travel to Whitnall (2-3) before hosting Grafton.
A conference title for Wisconsin Lutheran would be its first since splitting the Wisconsin Little Ten with Oconomowoc in 2016. Grafton is looking to repeat as the Woodland champion, and Greendale would have two conference titles in three years after taking the 2021 Woodland crown.
Greenfield is on the outside looking in after falling to 3-2 in Woodland play with its 42-28 loss to Greendale on Friday. The schedule for the Hustlin' Hawks includes home games against the bottom two teams in the conference, Shorewood/Messmer (0-5) on Friday and Cudahy (1-4) in the season finale.
Milwaukee King clinches spot in City title game
Milwaukee King continued an unblemished run through the Milwaukee City Conference's Richardson Division with a a 57-6 win over Bradley Tech on Thursday. The win clinched King a spot in the City title game, where it will compete for a second crown in three years.
The Generals will face Milwaukee Washington Co-op (4-1) or Milwaukee Pulaski (4-1) from the Blackbourn Division in two weeks. Washington has the inside track to the title game with a win over Pulaski earlier in the season, but a Washington loss to Milwaukee Madison (0-5) and a Pulaski win over Obama SCTE (3-2) next week would allow Pulaski to sneak in. Both games are scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Week 7 Milwaukee-area high school football highlights
