OHS football

The Big Southeast football season began with six blowouts, but the biggest news is the tragedy out of Austin, where a 14-year-old player passed away Saturday from complications from cardiac arrest according to the Austin Daily Herald.

Owatonna scored 27 points in the first quarter of Friday night's season opener against Faribault at the OHS football field, then scored 27 more in the second quarter for a 54-0 halftime lead and early showers for most of the starters.

The loss to Faribault in week three of the 2016 football season still doesn't sit well with Owatonna's players. That 21-10 loss marked a turnaround, however, as the Huskies won their next eight games to reach the state semifinals at U.S. Bank Stadium.

Owatonna scrimmaged against a pair of Class 6A teams on Saturday and looked quite good. The Huskies, a 5A team, scored several touchdowns and were difficult to score against.

The Owatonna High School football player and cheerleader rally has become the closing event of the Steele County Fair. Huskies' coach Jeff Williams told the immense crowd at Fair Square Park Sunday night that he didn't think the idea would go over big when fair publicity director Todd Hale approached him with it a number of years ago.

More than 200 potential future Huskies took to the new sod on the Owatonna football field to work on the skills and attitude to ultimately play there on Friday nights.

Most of the current Owatonna varsity football players were on the other side of this experience as elementary players.

The sounds of football are resonating on the Owatonna High School football practice field as the varsity team holds its annual team camp this week.

Tournament committee organizers have announced that a few openings remain for the annual Ken Bey football classic golf tournament July 8 at Brooktree Golf Course.

Owatonna captured the title at the Notre Dame passing camp Saturday by beating a team that had defeated them in pool play.