Gabe Gray with about 240 yards rushing.


Beechwood vs. Covington Catholic Predictions

Beechwood / Covington Catholic Updates

Seems to me the Colonels are back.

Beechwood was worn out in the 2nd half. They were winning at half 14-13..

Total Yards: CCH 520, BW 330

Stars of the game: Gabe Gray and his "O-line" and Brady Reese! What a game Brady had on the "D" side of the ball.

 

A tip of Theoldguy's hat to Coach Wirth and his CovCath coaching staff. They had CovCath very well prepared for this game! Outstanding job gentlemen!

 

 

Scoring Summary:

 

7-0 CovCath

1st quarter 1:26

Bir to Best 2 yard TD pass

Talkers PAT good

 

End of the 1st quarter 7-0 CovCath

 

7-7

2nd quarter 9:36

Erdman 5 yard TD run

J Nussbaum PAT good

 

13-7 CovCath

2nd quarter 5:16

Gray 1 yard TD run

Talkers PAT no good

 

14-13 Beechwood

2nd quarter 1:09

Erdman 3 yard TD run

J Nussbaum PAT good

 

End of 2nd quarter Half Time 14-13 Beecwood

 

20-14 CovCath

3rd quarter 10:56

Gray 1 yard TD run

Talkers PAT good

 

21-20 Beechwood

3rd quarter 10:36

Vocke 80 yard fumble advance on Kick-off

J Nussbaum PAT good

 

27-21 CovCath

3rd quarter 7:35

Gray 9 yard TD run

Talkers PAT good

 

End of 3rd quarter 27-21 CovCath

 

33-21 CovCath

4th quarter 10:05

Gray 7 TD run

Gray PAT run failed

 

40-21 CovCath

4th quarter 6:13

Beatrice 20 yard TD run

Talkers PAT good

 

40-28 CovCath

4th quarter 0:34

Davis to Brennen TD pass

J Nussbaum PAT good

 

CovCath improves their record to 4-1 and next plays Ft. Thomas Highlands @ CovCath on September 24th Saturday @ 1pm.

My loyalties in HS football are with Beechwood. My loyalties in college football are with Notre Dame. My loyalties in the stock market are with Pillsbury. Why? They all produce turnovers at a blinding rate.

Congrats to CCH. Much as I hate to say it, the better team won today. Best of luck to CCH as you make your way to state!

Nice game, CCH made some well timed adjustments at the half.

Turnovers played a big part in this one.

I would have to agree with Beechwoodfan - Cov Cath is just a little better. Their size in the offensive line is just a little too much. Honestly, I don't know why they bother throwing the ball. Every time I have seen them, when they put the ball in Gray's hands and let the big boys up front go downhill, they take control of the game. They did it against Dixie. They did it against Boone County. They did it today versus Beechwood.

 

That being said though, it is about Gabe Gray even more than the line. He is one heck of a back. Great combination of strength and speed. Very tough to tackle. And breakaway speed once he gets into the open. Although I have to give props to Max Nussbaum for impressively coming from more than 5 yards behind and chasing him down on one long run. Max has some serious wheels. Without Gray back there, even with the size up front I am not sure CCH wins the game.

 

Beechwood shot themselves in the foot again with turnovers. There were two key turnovers. One was just a very heads up play by a CCH defender who kept pursuing a pass play that was completed to Vocke, caught Vocke as he was juking around the last defender and heading for a TD and punched the ball out from behind. CCH recovered that one around the 10. The other big turnover was on running play inside the 10 when Erdman just lost the ball as he was going down. No big hit or anything that forced the fumble that I could see. The tape may show something different. Those plays really hurt. If Beechwood maintains possession and scores (they were moving the ball on both possessions), then we are looking at a game that goes down to the wire.

 

As to fatigue, I didn't see it. Adjustments, nothing different than what CCH has done in all their games. They come out in the second half and decide to be primarily a running team. IMO, if they do that to start the game, they would have similar success. CCH's strength is a power running game, giving the ball to Gabe Gray.

 

Other comments:

 

Joey Nussbaum won the kicking battle. Every kickoff with great height and through the end zone. His shortest kickoff hit 5-6 yards deep in the end zone with serious hang time. The kicking game for both teams was excellent. Talkers would be the #1 kicker in N. Ky. in most years. Nussbaum nailed some punts. McDowell though is probably the best punter in N. Ky. Hopefully his ankle injury is minor. Showed some guts continuing to nail punts after the ankle injury.

 

QB's - Bir was a little hit and miss today. I have seen him better for sure. Taylor Davis needs to stay focused and just keep working at it. He has talent but it isn't showing up on game day since the first game of the year. And for the Beechwood faithful, can we finally put to rest the "he should have started last year" talk. We are now four games into this season and I haven't seen anything that tells me he should have started last year. If you disagree with that, you are talking through prejudice either for Davis or against Colosimo.

 

Vocke had some great plays. He is something to watch in the open field. Beechwood needs to find a way to get him more touches in space on offense in these tough games.

 

I am not discouraged at all except it would be nice to play better against CCH. The turnovers are irritating and have to stop. When you get two evenly matched teams, turnovers decide the game and they did that today. Beechwood is going to learn from this game and get even better.

 

As to CCH, if they can find a way to get some stops on the Highlands offense, they can pull the upset. If they make up their mind to be the running team they are and control the clock, they could get it done. But stopping the Highlands offense is one serious challenge.

Dandy job by the Colonels to knock-off arch rival Beechies at home by two scores. Good luck next week!

I enjoyed the game today and have some random thoughts:

 

Beechwood has a fantastic Class A Football team.

 

Vocke is very elusive and without him Beechwood gets beat by 50 today.

 

I don't understand the CCH coach staff, run the football. You tried to give the game away today, Beechwood couldn't stop you, once you decided running was a good idea you dominated Beechwood and it was the Men vs. Boys.

 

I still think what I thought last week, CCH has a solid football team but not the kind of team that is going to beat Highlands.

 

This games tells us Boone County is the favorite to win 6A in NKY.

 

Brady Reece from CCH is a stud. I wanted to mention this last week and didn't get to it. He played a fantastic game and ran Vocke down twice. Reece could play for any high school team in America.

 

It is a shame CCH and Highlands are in the same district.

 

Mayfield has to be encouraged by Beechwood's inability to play run defense.

 

The CCH public address system can barely be heard on the visitor side.

 

CCH needs to police people standing in front of the visitor's stands. It was mostly kids but there were a couple of clueless adults blocking everyone's view today.

 

If CCH's program continues in this direction Beechwood needs to consider dropping them from their schedule.

 

And finally, Coach Rash put on a show at halftime. He got up on a table/bench and did his best Rocky Balboa impression in an attempt to fire up the Beechwood crowd. I am not sure if it worked but it sure was funny Coach.

My loyalties in HS football are with Beechwood. My loyalties in college football are with Notre Dame. My loyalties in the stock market are with Pillsbury. Why? They all produce turnovers at a blinding rate.

 

:laugh:

Why is it a shame that Highlands and CovCath are in the same district?

Why is it a shame that Highlands and CovCath are in the same district?

 

Because CCH has a nice football team, probably the second best team in 4A, and a state final between the two best teams in any class is always a good thing. Think Beechwood/Mayfield.

Why the interest in driving 3 hours to watch this match-up when we can see it in our neighborhood?