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Surprise, Surprise: Spring Lake is 4-0

The biggest surprise of the high school football season around here has to be Spring Lake High School. After going 0-9 last year, the team is off to an amazing 4-0 start.

SPRING LAKE, Mich. - It sounds crazy but football used to be a chore for Spring Lake senior Caleb Montgomery.

"It's like going to work at a job you don't like doing, said Montgomery. "You come to football and it's like, 'I don't want to be here today.'"

But as they say, that was then and this is now, and now, football is a whole lot more fun for the Lakers.

"It's a lot better," said Montgomery with a smile. "You feel achieved. Now everyone is getting more and more excited. It's kind of cool."

It's very hard not to get captivated by the team's 4-0 start. But rest assured their success did not happen over night. In fact, it pretty much started the moment they dropped their final game of the 2017 season.

"I think this year all we needed was that chip on our shoulder, that 0-9 chip." said senior free safety Gavin Alban.

Led by a group of determined seniors, the tone was set. Soon the rest of the team started to buy into what was needed to do.

"We averaged 45-50 kids in the weight room that winner, said head coach Dan Smart. "In the summer it went up and you know that's kind of the reason it happened."

Everyone could tell something special was happening but they didn't know how special until they rallied from 12 down to win their first game of the season against Orchard View.

"We came out so stellar and so hard, said Alban. "It was the greatest feeling ever. I'll be honest, I cried, it was so exciting .

Now three wins later, the excitement hasn't stopped but if you think they're satisfied, you'd better think again.

"We look at last year and see we have more to prove," said Montgomery.

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