Scouts are still stylin'

It's not just the girls at Lake Forest who get their hair done for homecoming.

The seniors on the football team go out and get special 'dos, too.

Mohawks.

"We've been doing it since sophomore year and we think it's really cool," said senior quarterback James Borrasso, whose Mohawk was spiked with sweat after Saturday's game against visiting Mundelein. "It's just a thing for homecoming … But maybe we'll do it for the playoffs."

The Scouts certainly seem playoff bound.

In christening their brand new stadium and artificial turf on the high school's West Campus, Lake Forest beat Mundelein 34-7 to improve its record to 4-0 overall and 2-0 in the North Suburban Conference Lake Division.

The Scouts need only two more wins to qualify for the playoffs and are tied for first place in the division with Lake Zurich.

Mundelein, meanwhile, drops to 2-2 and 0-1 in the Lake.

"I've seen a lot of other teams play, and they're the real deal," Mundelein coach Dave Whitson said of Lake Forest. "They've got a lot of good weapons."

One of those weapons is Borrasso.

He had a spectacular game -- when he was on the field, that is.

Last week against Zion-Benton, Lake Forest began using a regular rotation at quarterback -- Borrasso for one series, sophomore quarterback Thomas Rees on the next, then back to Borrasso, and so on.

Against Mundelein, the setup worked beautifully.

Lake Forest's first pass of the game was a 35-yard touchdown toss from Borrasso to Miles Smith with 7:13 left in the first quarter.

After Rees got his turn for a possession, Borrasso came back in on the following series and struck again with his first pass. This time, it was a 32-yard touchdown pass to John James Parker.

Then, just before halftime, Borrasso got his third crack of the game, and the result was the same as the first two. On the sixth play of the drive, he hit Andrew Carpenter for a 27-yard touchdown.

That gave Lake Forest a 21-7 lead at halftime.

Mundelein had scored on a 10-yard run by quarterback Mike Petlak in the first quarter.

"(Mundelein was) playing man coverage and our receivers got open really easy," Borrasso said. "It made my job kind of easy to put the ball on them. We did a lot of play action. The line gave a really good push, Miles (Smith) gave some really good fakes and the receivers just got past the DBs.

"(By halftime) I felt really good."

Borrasso's halftime numbers were really good, too: 3-for-3 for 94 yards and 3 touchdowns.

For the game, he completed 5-of-6 passes for 139 yards and 4 touchdowns.

His fourth touchdown of the day came when he hit Carpenter again (27 yards) in the third quarter.

Meanwhile, Rees was also effective. He completed 4-of-6 passes for 72 yards. He also scored on a 1-yard run.

"We started doing (the rotation) not for any fault of anyone. We just felt we had a couple of guys we could try and play and hopefully get both guys better," Lake Forest coach Chuck Spagnoli said. "Jimmy (Borrasso) is a senior and he's such a great competitor and heady kid. Tommy's a sophomore but he does some things differently for our offense.

"For us to be the best offense we could be, we just felt like we needed both guys to help us in different ways."

Meanwhile, the Mustangs didn't help themselves much at all.

The only time they reached the red zone was during the drive that led to their only touchdown.

"The problem was we just couldn't get anything going," said Petlak, who completed 8-of-13 passes for 82 yards. "It's really hard to pass when you can't run the ball and it's really hard to run when there's no pass. It was just kind of a tough day on offense.

"(Lake Forest was) pretty fast (defensively), but our main problem was that we never clicked. We'd have a good play and then maybe three bad ones in a row. We just have to string together good plays."