PEQUOT LAKES - CJ Borleis rushed for 102 yards and two touchdowns and returned an interception for a score as the Pequot Lakes Patriots held off the Staples-Motley Cardinals for a season-opening 38-30 victory Saturday night.
Borleis scored in the first quarter on a 5-yard run and on a 25-yard run in the fourth. On defense, he intercepted a pass and returned it 36 yards for a score in the second quarter.
Pequot Lakes' Chad Christianson ran 12 yards for a TD in the second quarter and 5 yards for a TD in the fourth. He finished with 10 carries for 84 yards.
Trailing 38-16, the Cardinals scored twice in the final three minutes. Hunter Berggren ran in from a yard out with 2:52 remaining. Matt Miller caught a 40-yard scoring pass from Mason Rychner with 1:30 left.
Berggren finished with two TD runs and Rychner with two TD passes.
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Staples-Motley 8 8 0 14 - 30
Pequot Lakes 6 14 6 12 - 38
First quarter
PL-CJ Borleis 5 run (kick blocked), 8:09
S-M-Tyler Johnson 17 pass from Mason Rychner (Hunter Berggren run), 1:04
Second quarter
PL-Borleis 36 interception return (Borleis run), 10:27
PL-Chad Christianson 12 run (Austin Young pass from Borleis) 8:10
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S-M-Berggren 10 run (Berggren run), 1.2
Third quarter
PL-Max Tangen 24 pass from Borleis (run failed), 7:35
Fourth quarter
PL-Christianson 5 run (run failed), 11:50
PL-Borleis 25 run (run failed), 5:00
S-M-Berggren 1 run (Berggren run), 2:52
S-M-Matt Miller 40 pass from Rychner (run failed), 1:30
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Overall: SM 0-1, PL 1-0. Next: Pequot Lakes at Fergus Falls 7 p.m. Friday, Frazee at Staples-Motley 7 p.m. Friday.
