A six touchdown effort from Hazen’s Marquise Lee helped get the Highlander football program got back to .500 this week with a 55-6 win Friday over the Foster Bulldogs.
Foster got on the board first, with a 1-yard touchdown run and a 6-0 lead, but the Highlanders took over from there, keeping the Bulldogs out of the end zone for the rest of the night.
Lee’s first touchdown of the night came next on a 4-yard run (Ryan Wong kick) to give the Highlanders a 7-6 lead after the first quarter.
Lee scored two more int he second, on a 6-yard run and a 50-yard run, each with Wong kicks, to put Hazen up 21-6 at the half.
Lee kept things going in the third, catching a 49-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Nolan Hoover and then running in another touchdown from 24 yards out.
Hoover then hooked up with Isaiah Davies on a 22-yard pas-and-run touchdown to give Hazen a 41-76 lead after three.
In the fourth, Lee picked up his sixth touchdown of the day, this one a 50-yard punt return.
Daniel Palanciuc added a 6-yard touchdown run for the final score of the day and a 55-6 Hazen victory.
The Highlanders are now 4-4 overall and 3-2 in the Seamount. They wrap up the regular season at 7 p.m. Friday against Renton at Renton Memorial Stadium.