The football season got off to a tough start on Friday for the Hazen Highlanders, who traveled to Lake Washington for their first game of the season and fell 35-7 to the Kangaroos.

Lake Washington scored first, a 1-yard touchdown run with 6:34 left in the first and never looked back, picking up a second TD before the quarter was out to take a 14-0 lead.

Things did not get better for the Highlanders in the second as Lake Washington put up a pair of passing TDs, a 48-yard strike and then a 7-yard touchdown toss as time ran out to put Hazen into a 28-0 hole at the half.

Halfway through the third, Lake Washington scored again on a 7-yard run to take a 35-0 lead after three.

But Hazen kept fighting, finally breaking through in the fourth quarter on a 32-yard touchdown run by Austin Buza to make it 35-7.

Hazen falls to 0-1 on the season. The Highlanders play their home opener against Liberty at 7 p.m. Friday at Renton Memorial Stadium.