Sorgi, Bruins Run Over Depleted Braves in Home Opener, 47-29
By Tad Williams | Aug 30, 2025 12:36 AM

What a difference a year makes. The last time we saw Tri-West junior QB Jack Sorgi, Brebeuf had run his Bruins off their home field in week two of the 2024 season, as Braves QB Maverick Geske threw for 299 yards and four TDs in the first half of a 27-7 win, a game that was called at halftime due to lightning (both the kind that came from the sky, and from Geske's right arm.) Little Jack Sorgi, a sophomore QB, and the son of Peyton Manning's backup, dad Jim Sorgi, made his first high school start in that game and was ineffective, a tall, spindly deer in headlights. Friday night, Brebeuf fans got to see just how much the Bruin QB had grown up, as now-junior QB and Louisville-commit Sorgi torched the Braves for 320 yards passing and four touchdowns, running for a fifth, as the Bruins ran away from a Brebeuf team which limped into the game missing four starters from week one, including quarterback Keegan Bouwkamp and defensive team leader Parker Maiers. Tri-West scored on their first four drives to take a 28-0 halftime lead, and when Sorgi threw his fourth TD, a 24-yard teardrop to Quentin Alexander midway through the third quarter to make it 47-7, a running clock was called for by IHSAA mercy rules, shortening the remaining proceedings. Interestingly, Brebeuf scored three more touchdowns after the running clock was implemented, beginning with Keivon Mattox' electrifying 86-yard kickoff return on the next play, and including QB Dylan Rogers' 54-yard scoring run on a fourth-and-one midway through the fourth. Interesting indeed, and possibly the first time in the history of football that a team with six first downs scored 29 points, but coach Matt Geske's staff is looking for a lot more than footnotes, especially with the schedule that Brebeuf plays. On a happier note, probably the play of the night for Brebeuf was Edwin Watson's 15-yard return of a Luke Lautenbach blocked punt for the Braves' first score, making it 28-7 three minutes into the second half. As the cheerleaders danced to "Call Me Maybe," you could ...maybe imagine a Brebeuf comeback. (We've all been so spoiled the last couple years, right?) But Sorgi led his team to two more scores in his next nine snaps, and the Hendricks County hay was in the barn. Next up, 0-2 Brebeuf travels to 1-1 Lafayette Harrison, and the Braves will almost certainly be limping a little less, and snarling quite a bit more, in search of their first win of the 2025 campaign.