The Trinity Shamrocks (7-2) close the regular season on the road against district foe Oldham County (6-2) on Friday night.

Trinity is coming off a 49-0 win at Eastern. Oldham County is coming off a 7-0 loss at Ballard. 

These two programs have played seven times in history with Trinity winning all seven meetings. That includes a 38-0 Shamrocks win last season.

Heading into next week, Trinity is the clear favorite in this one. However, the Colonels can't be slept on. The Rocks need to come out strong and can't afford to have another slow start like they did against Ballard two weeks ago, as well as Cincy X and St. X in the weeks prior. QB Zane Johnson will be rested after being given the Eastern game off and he will have his best O-lineman Nate Shields back in the lineup with him. Should help that T line, which has struggled at times, a good deal. JB Berry will also see his first full game back. He just played a few snaps vs Eastern with Chris Wilson and Benji Rice getting most of the time at RB.

In the blowout win, the T D-line was able to eat up Eastern as expcted. That will be a matchup to watch in this one and will likely be a key one, as well. 

The Shamrocks have not allowed a TD since the first half of the St. X game on Sept. 28. 

I was impressed with Oldham County against Ballard and they have been much improved all year. That defense is solid. However, despite getting the ball in the red zone multiple times the Colonels kept coming up empty. Derek Dees has over 1,000 passing yards and 15 TD tosses on the year. Miller Brown and Brooks Kightlinger have been his two favorite weapons. Ballard held that passing game in check. Jayden Corum leads the Colonels rushing attack.

Brown is a particularly good weapon all over for Oldham County. He can lineup as a WR and make plays out the back field. He also leads them in tackles as well and is a good return man. 

Going with Trinity in this one but I have a feeling Oldham will bring everything they have. And if that's the case, the Shamrocks need to break some of the bad habits (slow starts) they seem to have as the Colonels seem to have what it takes to possibly jump on an opportunity.

 

I was told the Colonels are down 8 starters after last night’s game. Oldham County cancelled the JV game at Trinity scheduled for Monday. 

5 minutes ago, thsrocks said:

I was told the Colonels are down 8 starters after last night’s game. Oldham County cancelled the JV game at Trinity scheduled for Monday. 

Last night was some intense football for both teams. 

Oldham County has a good defense but not enough to shut down Trinity and the Oldham County offense got shut out by Ballard so I would expect Trinity to hold them to a shut out as well.

On 10/19/2024 at 5:40 PM, thsrocks said:

I was told the Colonels are down 8 starters after last night’s game. Oldham County cancelled the JV game at Trinity scheduled for Monday. 

Anyone know which key players for each team will be “out” this coming Friday?  

Trinity is healthy. I do not have names of Oldham County players. I understand the Colonels will be missing one or two defensive backs with a better receiver moving to running back. All sorts of aches and pains with linemen and another skill player who played only one quarter vs. Ballard with a bad ankle being limited this week.   

Rough time of the year.

Hope its an Injury free game for both.

A Trinity win gives them the district championship.

Trinity is 7-0 all time versus OCHS.

Trinity vs. Oldham County
October 25th, 2024
7:30 PM ET
Pregame Coverage at 7:00 PM
Live from Oldham Co.HS
Commentators:
Paul Najjar & Joey Hamilton
Game Notes:
Shamrocks 7-2; Colonels 6-2
Shamrocks lead series 7-0 (since 2001)

https://www.glicod.com/video-stream-4/

Thanks for posting.

T 14-0. 

21-0

28-0