Ballard 48 Oldham County 7

Story of the game was simply the inability of Oldham's O-line to keep Ballard's speedy D-line off the Oldham QBs.    We had Ballard with (unofficially) six sacks on the night, but they had countless hurries and hits on the Colonels' sophomore QB Derek Dees and his backup Kingston Dugan.    If it weren't for the fact that both QBs are pretty mobile, there would have been a lot more sacks....as it was, they were running for their lives all night.

Ballard's own sophomore QB - Larry Irvin - was very good at finding holes in the Oldham zone defense, and WR Maurice Stephens had a huge night, with 4 TDs.

Oldham's running game, which has been their strength behind big 250+ pound fullback Caden Sheppard, mustered just 3 yards on 41 carries (unofficially).   Of course, that was tinted a bit by the six sacks, but even taking the sacks off, OC had 35 carries for less than 50 yards rushing.

Ballard will be favored in their final district game - against Eastern - next week and should have a first round playoff home game.

Oldham finishes district play on the road at Trinity next week.

Oldham County - a team dominated by sophomores - had some bright moments, but speed kills, and Ballard had a lot more of it.