Brebeuf's football team honored its seniors on Friday night, but it was a pair of juniors who stole the limelight, as QB Keegan Bouwkamp and WR Carter Cosgrove electrified the home crowd with a pair of long touchdown connections, igniting a 47-6 blowout win over an overmatched Terre Haute North team, and sending the Braves into the 4A playoffs on an up note. Bouwkamp, you will recall, was Zionsville's starting QB last season and, like every other QB in the state, he watched Maverick Geske direct his father's offense like Leonard Bernstein en route to 6,000 yards and 72 touchdowns in 11 games. Keegan- 6'2", rocket arm, chiseled jaw- transferred to Brebeuf, and became the QB1. He was just settling into a rhythm in the second quarter of his first game against North Central, keeping the Braves close with 250 yards and two TD passes to his lanky WR classmate Carter Cosgrove, when he broke his right foot, beginning a two-week open audition for QB1 eventually won by Cosgrove, who had never played the position. Carter played his first three games as QB1 against Guerin, Chatard and Roncalli, maybe the hardest slate of opponents for a brand new #1 since LBJ went from watering the plants in the White House to grappling with Vietnam, the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement all in the course of one November evening. So when Bouwkamp hit a streaking Cosgrove with a 65-yard TD pass on the game's second play, and then again with a 74-yard scoring pass on the third play of the second quarter, it felt like Brebeuf's offense, to borrow a phrase from another vice-president, was showing what could be, unburdened by what had been. Bouwkamp finshed the evening 11 for 19 for 268 yards and 3 TDs, the third to sophomore Keivon Mattox as part of a 33-point second quarter, by far the most prolific of the year for Brebeuf's offense. Cosgrove was targeted three times and caught all three, for 148 yards and 2 TDs. But enough about the underclassmen (and vice-presidents) when we haven't yet sang the praises of Matt Geske's seniors, many of whom were in top form against North. Zion Crowe had 50 yds rushing including a 16-yard TD dash in that jailbreak of a second quarter. Edwin Watson III bolstered his team-leading receiving stats with three catches for 54 yards. Parker Stewart caught a 5-yard TD pass in the third quarter. And Parker Maiers... Parker Maiers' senior night performance deserves its own paragraph. The Dartmouth-bound member of the IndyStar/USA Today Preseason Super Team did what he has done all season for Brebeuf: a little bit of everything. He led the team in tackles with nine, including three tackles-for-loss, but a four-play sequence in the second quarter showcased why Dartmouth is so excited to unleash him on Ivy League opponents: *Parker takes his only offensive handoff of the game at 5:35 in the second quarter for a 20-yard touchdown run *Opting to go for two after an earlier missed PAT, Bouwkamp hands off to Parker for the 2-point attempt, but North's Mason VanLaningham tackles him in the backfield. Parker is pretty mad about it... *...Which becomes apparent on the following kickoff, when North's Braiden Bruce fields the ball and advances it exactly two centimeters before an ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Maiers) flattens him. *On the next play, VanLaningham takes the handoff and is immediately engulfed by Parker in the backfield, who then scoops the ball out with his right hand mid-tackle, sending it spinning to the turf where it was recovered by Brebeuf's Gabe Cox. For those keeping score at home, that amounts to a rushing TD, a helmet sticker play on special teams, a TFL and a forced fumble, all in about 50 seconds- four plays by #11, the heart and soul of Brebeuf Football throughout the challenging 2025 season. The Braves improve to 2-7, and will open the 4A Sectional 22 play next Friday, hosting a very good Crispus Attucks team. Come cheer on your Braves!