It's needless to say that the first meeting between Hamilton Southeastern and Fishers High Schools was a big game for the players on both sides - the schools were combined as one just a year before.
And incoming freshmen football players and twins Nate and Josh Powers teamed up to leave their mark on the game.
The first scoring came on a Powers to Powers pass as Josh connected with Nate for a touchdown.
However, they won't have an opportunity to do so at Penn - both are slated to contribute to Al Bagnoli's defensive game.
"He was always more of an athlete than a quarterback," Josh's high school coach Scott May said of him.
And Josh worked both sides of the ball in high school. When not at quarterback, he also returned punts for an average of 10.8 yards and ran the secondary as a safety.
"I would rather play quarterback, but I don't have the characteristics of a college quarterback," Josh said. "It will be nice, though, to just focus on playing defense."
Nate led the Royals in receiving with 21 catches for 459 yards and three touchdowns. At cornerback, he also pulled in seven interceptions, leading the team there as well.
The Fishers, Ind. natives said they were not going to base their college decisions on where the other was going, but had received interest from many of the same schools - even though many college coaches didn't realize they were brothers at first, according to Nate.
Being best friends though, they're happy about the outcome.
They said they received interest from all the Ivy programs, especially Harvard and Penn, but Wharton attracted them to Philadelphia.
"I thought we meshed really well with a lot of the guys and Penn as the blue collar, harder working team of the Ivy League, so I'm happy to identify with that," Nate said.
Both also participated on their track team. Nate placed seventh in the state this year in the hurdles and Josh was part of the 4x400m relay that broke the regionals record in 2005.
But don't look for them on the Franklin Field track.
"On a recruiting visit, we met [football player and runner] Sam Shepherd, who balanced both really well," Josh said. "But for the first year we'd like to focus just on football."
With both at 5'11 and 180 pounds, it would be easy for the two to switch numbers for a joke on Bagnoli - like the pair did in high school until they were nabbed because Nate can't throw the ball that well.
"Definitely not next year," Nate said, "Maybe junior or senior year."
