Tonight in Nelsonville the Newark Catholic Green Wave and their struggling offense, with a wide receiver turned quarterback limped into town to square off with the Buckeyes. The Buckeyes offense scored fourteen points in their loss last week,so I as many others did felt this would be a low scoring game.

 

The Buckeyes would get all of the points they needed with 3:55 left in the opening quarter. The Newark Catholic long snapper managed to snap the ball over the head of 6-6 Nick Cavinee, who was lined up to punt the ball out of his own end zone, after the Green Wave offense started the night miserably once again. The made the score, 2-0 in the home teams favor.

 

The Newark Catholic defense had stopped the Nelsonville offense on a fourth and one with 6:38 left in the quarter to set the offense up but as I posted it went for not.

 

On the free kick the Buckeyes got a nice return from their 35-yard line all the way out to the Newark Catholic 36 BY Jeremy Warren, with 3:46 left in the fast moving, slow action opening quarter.

 

The Buckeyes would score the games only touchdown with 11:53 left in the half,when Alex Mount scored easily from six-yards out on a sweep. The Buckeyes were facing a fourth and five at the time. The point after kick increased the lead to, 9-0.

 

The Green wave offense got one of their only nice plays with 11:04 left int he half when, Wes Jurden broke loose for a 30-yard gain. He was stopped by Donovan Ross before he could do any more damage.

 

With 10:11 left in the quarter and the Green Wave looking like they might find the end zone put the ball on the ground and coming up with it for the Buckeyes was Ross.

 

Nelsonville would have taken a 15-0 lead with 3:22 left in the half but, Warren dropped a pass in the end zone and then was hit hard enough to be shaken up on the play.

 

The clock showed 11:26 left in the third when Jack Wollenburg had a wide receiver wide open but his pass landed in another zip code as it fell incomplete.

 

Then with 9:52 left in the quarter again Wollenburg had a receiver wide opened and again his pass was not close to the receiver and again falling incomplete killing any momentum the Green Wave might have built.

 

With 5:10 showing on the clock and the Mighty Mites, also known as the Newark Catholic defensive line bending but not often breaking got punched in the mouth when, 5-9 203 Noah Andrews plowed through for a easy first down on a fourth and one play. Andrews looked like John Riggins going through the Cleveland Browns line on this play.

 

With 3:02 left in the quarter the Buckeyes quarterback put the ball on the ground and coming out of the pile with the ball was a Green Wave player. The announcer who seemed to omit the name of Green Wave players on plays like this left the fans hanging as he moved right to the next play. Overall he, the announcer did a good job of calling out players names especially the home team. He did mess up on the Green Waves quarterbacks names as he constantly called Kris Goodman, Wollenburg.

 

10:18 was left in the game when Wollenburg coughed the ball up and everyone in the stadium knew that Jakob Talbert made the recovery as his name came loudly across the P.A.system speakers.

 

Kris Goodman the Newark Catholic back up QB enter the game and for a split second managed to bring the visitors side crowd to their feet, when he connected on a long pass to Luke Ceneviva, who was once again wide opened.

 

On 3rd and 8 and 4th and 8 Goodman showed how poorly the Newark Catholic quarterback situation is when he missed badly on two throws.

 

The last bit of life for Newark Catholic came with 6:20 left in the game, when the Buckeyes again put the ball on the ground and a Green Wave defender came up with it. Missing on the Speakers once again was the players name making the recovery.

 

UNOFFICIAL STATS

NEWARK CATHOLIC

44 PLAYS

114 YARDS

PASSING 8-18

 

NELSONVILLE YORK

71 PLAYS

286 YARDS

PASSING 2-6

 

This marked the first time I had ever asked for a media pass for putting out these articles on several message boards sites that I was turned down. Even the Public Schools in Dayton issues passes for this.

Another solid report. :thumb:

Thanks.

 

I know it's not Kentucky but a few said they enjoying reading these, so I continue to post them.

 

Thanks to the powers to be for allowing me to do this.