Burlington Central QB Jackson Alcorn has huge game in win over Dundee-Crown

BURLINGTON – Burlington Central quarterback Jackson Alcorn is blessed with solid receivers to throw to.

Alcorn used all of them in the Rockets’ 41-6 Fox Valley Conference victory over Dundee-Crown on Sept. 1.

With six players catching passes, Alcorn completed 17-of-24 passes for 295 yards and five touchdowns.

“That is probably Jackson’s best game of his career,” Rockets coach Brian Iossi said. “He was playing with a lot of confidence. We can run out eight guys as receivers. We have a ton of athletes at that position.”

Alcorn threw two touchdowns passes – 31 and 12 yards – to Brady Gilroy. The junior quarterback’s first TD pass of the night was a perfectly thrown 32-yard pass to Caden West. Chase Powrozek (39 yards) and Michael Person (25 yards) also had touchdown grabs.

“My offensive line gave me a lot of time to throw,” Alcorn said. “They get a lot of credit. I have a lot of great receivers to throw to. I worked a lot this summer on 7-on-7 drills with the receivers. We work a lot after practice, too. I was in a good rhythm throwing the ball tonight.”

West caught four passes for 92 yards. Person grabbed four for 60. Powrozek corralled three passes for 59 yards.

The Rockets (1-1, 1-1 FVC) had a balanced attack with 185 rushing yards to go with 295 passing yards for 480 total yards.

Joey Kowall led the rushing assault with 122 yards on 18 carries. He had a 2-yard TD run.

Dundee-Crown’s lone highlight was a 93-yard touchdown pass from Zach Randl to Kali Freeman, who caught six passes for 116 yards.

Randl completed 10-of-17 passes for 169 yards.

Dundee-Crown sophomore Kadin Malone ran 11 times for 108 yards.

“Kali and Zach played well,” Dundee-Crown coach Mike Steinhaus said. “We have a lot of young players and new pieces. We are just trying to grind it out now.”

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