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I don’t normally like to toot myown horn (well maybe a little), butwhen you get the opportunity asinfrequently as I do, you have totake advantage of it. So I beginthis week’s predictions column bybriefly noting that I posted a per-fect 7-0 record last week. I willadmit that week three didn’t offerthe most difficult slate of gameswe will see this year, but weekfour promises to offer yours trulysome serious speed bumps if Iexpect to remain perfect for a sec-ond-straight week.

This is the perfect weekend forthe serious high school footballfan because it kicks off a littleearlier than usual and doesn’tend until Saturday night. Threestraight nights of some of the bestSouthwest Ohio has to offershould make for an interestingweekend and an even more inter-esting week of predictions.

Alter kicks it all off in a rareThursday night appearance whenthey host Greater Catholic Leaguefoe Purcell Marian. The Cavalierscome into the contest 2-1 andappear to be improved from the2010 squad that fell to the Knights28-14. Improved or not, I don’tthink they have caught up to thelikes of Alter. The Knights’defense has found its footing fol-lowing some preseason concernsand they should be the differencein this one. I think the Knightsstay unbeaten in impressive fash-ion, 34-6.

Friday night’s slate is certainlyhighlighted by Wayne travellingto Trotwood-Madison in a battlebetween last year’s division I andII runners-up. The Rams lookpoised to battle for another spotin Canton after racing out to aperfect 3-0 start while theWarriors have stumbled out of thegate at 1-2. The difference here isthe level of competition as theWarriors’ two losses have comeagainst a pair of division I squadsthat are among Ohio’s best whilethe Rams three wins haven’texactly come against a trio ofpowerhouses. Wayne definitelyneeds this more than the Ramsand for that reason I’ll take theWarriors in a close one, 33-27.

Fairmont stays at home for thefourth consecutive week as theywelcome Fairborn into RoushStadium for Homecoming. TheFirebirds have won two straightand look like they are figuringsome things out following theirweek one disappointment againstAlter. A win over the Skyhawkswould eclipse last year’s total oftwo wins and put them in excel-lent shape heading into the mid-way point of the season. I thinkFairmont does exactly that in a34-13 victory.

Oakwood has struggled throughthe opening three weeks of theseason and it doesn’t get any easi-er in week four as they host SWBLrival Valley View Friday night.The more comfortable the Jacksget with new head coach RickRobertson’s system the more like-ly they are to break through in thewin column. Although I think that“W” is coming, I don’t think theyget it here. Valley View survives,30-23.

Butler will make our weeklyFriday night road trip as theytravel north to take on division IIIBellevue. The Redmen droppedtheir first game of 2011 in a 14-7loss to Clyde last week and with-out knowing much about them,something tells me they are introuble again this week. Butlerhas division I size and a division Irunning attack and I expect theAviators to show it off for thefourth straight week. I like Butlerin convincing fashion, 44-12.

The final game of our slate iscertainly one of our best asCenterville heads to Cleveland onSaturday night to battle St.Ignatius. The Wildcats are muchbetter than the team that gothanded a 31-7 loss and a long busride home a season ago. They willface a desperate Centerville teamhowever that is much better thana 1-2 record would indicate. Thelong trip concerns me, but I stilllike the Elks to get to .500 in a 31-27 victory.

That wraps up another week ofpredictions and hopefully anoth-er opportunity to do some seriousboasting in our next edition. Thisweek offers some of the bestmatchups we may see all year, soit should be a great weekend ofhigh school football. As always, e-mail us your picks and commentsand we’ll do our best to respondthe following week.

Week fouroffers threenights of joy

By DARRELL WACKERContributing writer

After narrowly escapingwith a win last againstMiamisburg, the FairmontFirebirds were looking forimprovement and a moreconvincing victory thisweek against the LimaSenior and head coachAndy Aracri got just whathe was looking for as theFirebirds pulled away fora 35-21 victory at RoushStadium in Kettering.

The Firebirds used abalanced offensive attackand good field position tooutscore the visitingSpartans 21-7 in the sec-ond half before surrender-ing a touchdown with eightseconds left after the out-come was decided.

Fairmont coach AndyAracri noted his team’simprovement from weekone to now.

“I think we played reallywell, but I’m sure thereare a lot of things we willsee on film that we canimprove on,” said Aracri.“We knew they were anathletic team and wereable to make some bigplays but defensively wedid a pretty good job. Weonly gave up 14 pointsuntil the last few secondswhich we feel really goodabout. Give them credit-they fought to the end,have a good team and anew head coach and hehas his kids playing reallyhard.”

The Firebirds startedfast on both sides of theball with the defense forc-ing Lima to punt on theirfirst possession and turn-ing the ball over to theoffense at the Lima 36-yardline.

Fairmont’s first drivetook just five plays as run-ning back Chris Rhoadescarried the ball in from ayard out and, after missingthe extra point attempt,the Firebirds had a 6-0lead with 7:55 to play inthe first quarter.

After exchanging puntsand field position, Limatook their only lead of thegame with just over fourminutes to go in the firsthalf as Lasenby Keithierambled for a 47 yardtouchdown and a 7-6 lead.Lima appeared to have themomentum as theirdefense forced theFirebirds to punt afterthree plays on the subse-quent possession, but afumble recovery at theLima 10-yard line byFairmont’s Nick Bower setup the Firebird’s go-aheadscore.

Bower got the first carryand took the ball to the 5-yard line, and Rhoadestook the drive to the one.Bowers again got the callon fourth down and wentin over the right guardfrom a yard out to giveFairmont the lead. Bowerstook the two-point conver-sion in over the rightguard as well andFairmont claimed a 14-7lead with 15.6 seconds left

in the half, and itappeared to be a backbreaker.

“It was huge for us toscore there,” said Aracri.“I think we came out fastand had a great first driveand played very well butwere a little flat in the sec-ond quarter. That scoreallowed us to kind of pumpup our tires going intohalftime and helped usrefocus and get our mindsback where they needed tobe.”

Despite Fairmont’s firstpossession of the secondhalf ending in a punt, theFirebirds won the fieldposition battle and pinnedthe Spartans inside theirown 5-yard line. Lima wasforced to punt from theirend zone, and theFirebirds took over at theLima 38-yard line andwere poised to take advan-tage of it.

Bowers got the drivestarted with a 10 yard gain,but the drive appeared tostall on third down, but alate hit on Fairmont quar-terback Tom West on thirddown kept the drive alive.Bowers got a first down atthe 5-yard line and thenrolled around the rightside for the five yardtouchdown with 5:02 left inthe third period to give theFirebirds a 20-7 lead.

Lima didn’t quit, howev-er, and cut the lead to 20-14with ten minutes to play,but it was all Firebirds

from there. Set up againwith good field positionafter a personal foulpenalty was assessed onthe kickoff, the Firebirdsneeded nine plays toscore, but none was as piv-otal as Bower’s 12 yardgain on fourth down tokeep the drive alive.Eventually Rhoades wasable to get in from threeyards away and, followingBower’s conversion run,the Firebirds led 28-14.

Any doubt of a Limacomeback was quashed ontheir next possession asFairmont’s Danny Salesand Emerson Demetryusrecorded consecutivesacks on the Spartan quar-terback deep in Lima terri-tory. The Spartans electedto go for it on fourth downneeding a score and cameup well short with 4:01 toplay.

“I think our defenseplayed really well,” saidAracri. “We have a longway to go, but we are a longway away from where wewere a year ago. I knowthese guys, and they wantto improve with every sin-gle rep, every single prac-tice, and every singlegame, and tonight I thinkthey showed that they aregetting better every game.”

Fairmont needed justtwo plays as Rhoades ranfor 11 yards and West for a23 yard touchdown with3:35 left and a 35-14 lead.

Lima added a late touch-

down with eight secondsleft to set the final score.

Fairmont used a bal-anced attack with DamonBahns running for 87yards, Bower for 76,Rhoades for 62, and Westfor 40. Overall theFirebirds gained 267 yardsof offense compared to 250for Lima Senior.

“I think we proved thatwe are going to play hardfor four quarters, we aregoing to make tackles, andwhen we have to ball upthey will,” said Aracri.“We didn’t give anything tothem-Lima Senior earnedtheir drives. We bent attimes when we were flatbut we didn’t break andwere able to come back atthem in the second half.”

The Firebirds will finishtheir four-game homestand this Friday eveningwhen the host theFairborn Skyhawks (1-2) ina Greater Western OhioConference crossover con-test that will also beFairmont’s Homecomingcelebration. Kickoff is setfor 7:30 p.m.

“Fairborn can be a verytough team because theyare very athletic,” saidAracri. “They played ustough last year and weknow it is important for usto get another win on thisfield. To be 3-1 would be agreat complement to thisteam because it has been along time since we havebeen 3-1.”

Firebirds cruise to second winPhoto by Doug Wilson

Fairmont’s Chris Rhoades follows a host of blockers into the open field during Friday night’s 35-21 victory.

Photo by Doug WilsonFairmont sophomore Damon Bahns finds room to run as he heads toward the leftsideline during Friday night’s victory over Lima Senior at Roush Stadium.

Kettering BasketballClub (Future Firebirds)is a non-profit organiza-tion for both boys andgirls who attendFairmont feeder schoolsand who want to playyouth basketball on acompetitive level. Therewill be one or two teamsper grade for both boysand girls depending onnumbers of players andcoaches.

The fee is $160 perplayer. Teams beginpractice in mid-lateOctober and leaguegames start in lateNovember and end inlate February with aseason ending tourna-ment to follow. All teamsplay in the GWOC orDayton Metro leaguesand possibly one addi-tional. Teams are placedin divisions accordingly.Home games are onSaturdays with the boysat Prass Elementary andthe girls playing atBeavertown. Teams willplay approximately 20-30 games per season.Players also get theopportunity to be “ballboys/girls” at aFairmont varsity homegame!

All open gyms and try-outs will be held at theFairmont main and aux-iliary gyms.

Basketball open gymsSunday, September 18

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5:30-7:30 p.m. Tryoutevaluations** and opengym

Sunday, October 25:30-7:30 p.m. Make uptryout evaluations** andopen gym

**The players’ height,jump height, and sprintspeeds will be meas-ured during the evalua-tion sessions.

Basketball tryoutsSunday, October 9

Girls 3rd/4th – 10:30-11:30 a.m. Boys 3rd – 1:30-3:00 p.m.

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12:30 p.m. Boys 4th – 3:00-4:30 p.m.

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offer gymnastics clasesthat will be included forall girls to work on mas-tering tumbling skillsfor all grades. There areno schedulin conflictswith football cheerlead-ing, and you can cheerfor free by usingfundraising to cover the

total cost to participate.Sideline cheerleading is$280 and competitioncheer is $460. Girls arerequired to attend ALLpractices.

Practice scheduleWednesday, Sept. 14, 6-

8 p.m. BeavertownElementary

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Friday, Sept. 23, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Tumbling @YMCA Marshall Rd

Tryouts will be held atFairmont High School

on Monday, September26 from 6-9 p.m. Specifictryout times will beannounced at practice.

For more informationor to register visitwww.futurefirebirds.com, call 985-6987 or emailhelp@futurefirebirds.com.

By SHAWN BAUMANTimes sports editor

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After scoring theirthird touchdown of thenight with just over aminute remaining in thefirst half, Alter’s offensehad to be feeling prettygood about themselves.After all, junior quarter-back Malik Zaire’s 14-yard touchdown runwith 1:17 left in the sec-ond quarter capped notonly a brief 3-play 65-yard drive, but also a 21-point first half.

Unfortunately forAlter, it would be thefinal time the Knightsfound the endzone theremainder of the gameas host Napoleon keptAlter off the scoreboardin the second half.Fortunately for theKnights however, theirdefense made sure the21 points were morethan enough.

Alter’s defensepitched a second halfshutout of their own,making the Knights’ 21-12 halftime advantagestand up as theyimproved to 3-0 on theseason. The Knightsmade the nearly threehour trip north toNapoleon and handedthem their second-straight defeat, drop-ping the Wildcats to 1-2in 2011.

“We take a very matterof fact approach to roadgames like this,” saidAlter head coach EdDomsitz. “We get on thebus every week no mat-ter where we play, this isjust a little bit longer ofa trip. You have achoice, you can get offthe bus lethargic andnot ready to play andmore than likely getbeat. Or you can get offthe bus with the rightmindset and ready toplay and get after it. Toour kids’ credit, they’vebeen able to get it doneover the years, includingtonight.”

The Knights’ offensegot it done early, while itwas the Alter defensethat took care of it late.The Knights opened thescoring in the first quar-ter when Zaire addedhis first of two touch-downs with a 33-yardscamper with 4:21 left.Andrew DiMario addedthe first of his threeextra points on the nightand Alter led 7-0.

An alter turnover ledto the Wildcats’ firstscore as the Knightsfumbled the ball ontheir own 4-yard linelate in the opening quar-ter. Napoleon quicklypunched it in but aftertheir kick failed, Alterheld a narrow 7-6 advan-tage. Alter came rightback, notching their sec-ond score of the eveningon a Joe Penno 2-yard

plunge to extend thelead to 14-6 with 7:22 leftin the half.

After the team’s trad-ed brief possessions,

Napoleon took over attheir own 40 and wastedlittle time covering the60 yards. QuarterbackJacob Plassman covered

the final 14 yards with atouchdown pass to TylerMiller with only 1:50 leftin the half. The Knights’defense knocked downthe 2-point conversionattempt however andthe lead stood at 14-12.

Alter opened theirensuing drive from theirown 35 and it took Zairejust 33 seconds andthree plays to cover the65 yards. On the firstplay of the drive, hebroke free along the leftsideline and picked up45 yards down to theWildcats’ 20. After hit-ting Cameron Heyd witha quick 6-yard pass,Zaire kept it himself forthe final 14 yards.DiMario’s extra pointsent the Knights to thehalf with a 21-12 lead.

The Knights wouldintercept Plassman onNapoleon’s final fourdrives of the game,including twice insidethe 15-yard line toensure the 9-pointadvantage would stick.Senior Keenan Platehad a pair of the inter-ceptions, including oneinside the 5 while Pete

Ballard and BrianO’Donnell each chippedin one.

“I thought we didsome good thingstonight but we alsomade our share of mis-takes offensively,”added Domsitz. “Ourdefense certainly bailedus out. They were strug-gling three weeks ago inour final scrimmage andthey have really turnedthe corner and done agreat job thus far.Obviously we came upwith some big intercep-tions but those camebecause of our ability tostop the run. We knew ifwe let them run the ballwe wouldn’t get out ofhere with a win.”

The Knights will hostPurcell Marian in a spe-cial Thursday nightGreater Catholic Leaguematchup at Springboro’sCareflight Field. TheCavaliers come into thecontest with a 2-1 recordand winners of two-straight after a 14-7 vic-tory on the road atReading Friday night.Kickoff Thursday is setfor 7 p.m.

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Photos by Shawn BaumanAlter’s Malik Zaire(above) and CameronHeyd (right) helpedlead the Knightsoffense in Friday’s win.

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Something had to giveas the OakwoodLumberjacks traveledsouth to Carlisle to takeon the Indians in aSouthwestern BuckeyeLeague (SWBL)crossover game. Withboth teams standing at0-2 to start the year, onewas bound to come outwith their first win, andunfortunately it wasCarlisle who capital-ized on Oakwood mis-takes in rolling up a 37-0 win.

The Jacks were ableto move the ball some-what effectively in thefirst half of the gameand had two drivesdeep into Carlisle terri-tory, but mistakes bythe Oakwood offenseshort-circuited the scor-ing opportunities andseemed to deflate theJacks. Carlisle took fulladvantage of theOakwood mistakes andwas in control of thecontest the entire sec-ond half.

Oakwood (0-3) willlook to rebound nextweek in their firstSWBL Southwesterndivision game of theyear as they host ValleyView (1-2). The Spartansare coming off a 28-0blanking by theFenwick Falcons andwill also be playingtheir first league game.Kickoff is set for 7:30p.m.

Contributed photoOakwood’s defense stands up this Carlisle ball carrier during theIndians’ 37-0 victory over the visiting Jacks on Friday night.

Offensive woes limit Jacks

The Air Force Marathon announced todaythat Josh Cox will be the featured guest at the2011 Sports & Fitness Expo to be heldSeptember 15th and 16th at Wright StateUniversity’s Nutter Center.

Cox, the American 50K record holder, alsoowns the course record at the Air ForceMarathon, having run a 2:20:57 in 2007. The 35-year-old from Mammoth Lakes, CA is also a four-time U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier and a three-time U.S. National Team member.

“We’re just thrilled to be able to bring a run-ner of Josh’s caliber to Dayton,” said MollyLouden, Director of the Air Force Marathon.“He’s a great addition to our expo, and we arelucky to have him participate this year. We workreally hard to present a top-notch roster ofspeakers, and I think this year’s line-up reallyrepresents something for everyone.”

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The annual home and awaycross-town field hockey rivalrytook place last week as theFairmont Firebirds hosted theOakwood Jills.

With 18 seniors between thetwo teams you would expect ahigh level of play, and that’sexactly what happened as theJills pulled away for a 6-1 victo-ry.

Fairmont is led by theirdynamic forwards Allie Whiteand Annie Vonderbrink.Oakwood is an extremely deepteam led by captains PeanutJohnson, Hanna French andNicole Maher. From the start ofthe game the Jills exerted pres-

sure on the Fairmont defensiveset. After many missed opportu-nities Oakwood opened the scor-ing about a third of the waythrough the half on a goal off thegoalie pads by EmilyFeldmiller.

Oakwood maintained controlof the game until with just lessthan two minutes remaining inthe half when Fairmont’s AllieWhite scored the tying goal.Approximately a minute laterPeanut Johnson answered backby dribbling through theFirebird defense to set the half-time score at 2-1 Oakwood.

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Oakwood take control. The Jillsracked up four more unan-swered scores by MaddieManey, Anna Johnsen, French,and Johnson to take a 6-1 lead.

Oakwood got 13 additionalpenalty corner opportunitiesduring the contest and finishedwith a total of 25 shots on theFairmont goal.

The Firebirds will get achance to even the annualseries when Oakwood hoststhem Wednesday October 12that 7 p.m. This will be a specialnight as this not only will betheir senior night but will beplayed under the lights at MackHummon Stadium.

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Welcome back Kettering GrayFirebirds! Wow, football seasonis here again. it seems like justyesterday we all were atWelcome Stadium watching theKettering Firebirds ThirdGrade Gray playing for, and win-ning, the championship game.Now the Fourth Grade GrayFirebirds are back this seasonand on fire.

On August 13 the ‘Birdsplayed their premier gameagainst Huber Heights Red. Allthe boys played an awesomegame and won 20-0. Then onAugust 20 Fourth Gray startedthe first game of the regular sea-son facing Northmont White.With tackles that were made byAndrew Creager, Trey Baker,Kalib Banks, Corbin Senter,Kaleb Hall, Christian Roddy,Garrett Baker, Tyler Hines, andChristian Traufler the Firebirdswere able to stop Northmontfrom scoring. Great blocking bythe entire Gray offensive lineallowed T. Baker and TylerShaneyfelt to get pastNorthmont’s defense winningthe game 12-0.

On August 27 Fourth Grayplayed against Mad River Redand played another great gamewith a 21-0 victory.

This past Saturday the FourthGray Firebirds played a terrificgame against Vandalia Purple.The Firebirds’ offense started

the game and with the muddyfield the offensive line did anawesome job on blocking soEvan Overholser could rundown the field for the Firebirds’first touchdown. Caleb Hallthrew a pass to Trey Baker thatwas complete for the two-pointconversion to give the Firebirdsan 8-0 lead.

The Firebirds’ defense cameto the field and were deter-mined to stop the Aviators fromgetting by and with great hits bythe entire defensive line thatallowed T. Baker, Roddy,Creager, Baker, Traufler, andOverholser to get through theAviators offense and make theirtackles and also allowedTraufler to get his first sack ofthe game.

The ‘Birds’ offense returnedto the field and continued play-ing great but the Gray fumbledthe ball and the Aviators gainedpossession. The Firebirds’defense came back to the fieldstill ready to stop the Aviatorsoffense, and once again withtackles by T. Baker,Traufler,Tyler Hines, JacobBurke, Creager, and anothersack by Traufler the Firebirds’defensive line wasmade it hardfor the Aviators to get by them.Traufler recovered a Butlerfumble to bring back in the theGray offense, and with greatblocking by the offensive line

they were able to give TylerShaneyfelt the opening he need-ed to run down the field foranother Firebirds touchdownand set the halftime score at 14-0 Kettering.

The Firebirds defense startedout the second half of the gamebut with great tackles by Hines,T. Baker, Creager, DrakeNickerson, and a sack byTraufler the Aviators was ableto make their way by for theirfirst touchdown taking the scoreto 14-8.

After seeing the touchdownthat got by the birds defense theFirebirds’ offense returned tothe field on fire. With awesomeblocking from the ‘Birds therewas an opening that allowed G.Baker to go through for aFirebirds touchdown givingGray a 20-8 lead.

Great tackles by Hines, Burke,G. Baker, and Shaneyfelt keptthe Aviator offense at bay. T.Baker broke up a pass play andthen intercepted another Butlerpass late in the game. On thenext possession T. Baker fol-lowed his blockers down thefield for another Firebirds’touchdown and a 26-8 lead.

The ‘Birds defense returnedto the field and with just sec-onds left on the clock theFirebirds forced a fumble astime expired to cement theirdominance in the contest.

Fourth Gray Firebirds remain unbeaten

Fairmont wrestling slates“College Football Mania” fundraiser

Fairmont wrestling “College Football Mania”fundraiser is back again this year! In additionto raising money that goes directly to FirebirdWrestling, it enables our supporters to have funand possibly win $1,000’s in prizes for just a $20donation. We’ve distributed $2,155 in total win-nings in two years and we will have a winnerevery single week!

If you would like to purchase a ticket, youhave three options to do so: Contact Head CoachFrank Baxter by email at frank.baxter@ketter-ingschools.org or by contacting a currentFairmont wrestler. You can also purchase tick-ets online at https://www.charitymania.com/give/M1029 using seller - Frank Baxter and sell-er email - frank.baxter@ketteringschools.org.

To see a short overview of the game, pleasevisit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=800d_Bm5boI.

The deadline for purchase is September 19th.Help Fairmont Wrestling as we “DevelopChampions On and Off the Mat!”

Middle School CrossCountry championships set

Registration is now open for the 5th AnnualOhio Middle School Cross Country StateChampionships. The event will be held atGroveport Madison High School just South ofColumbus on October 23, 2011. The first 600 ath-letes to register will receive a free event t-shirt.

With almost 900 athletes competing in 2010 weare expecting over 100 teams and 1200 runnersto attend the event this year. With both teamand individual catagories the event is open toall youth in grades 5-8.

Entry Deadline is October 20. Rooms are stillavailable at our host hotel which is the FortRapids Indoor Waterpark Resort, which islocated on the same road as the state meet andonly three miles away. Pre-Check in will be atthe hotel on Saturday night from 5-7 p.m. Plan tomake a weekend of it!

To register or for more info go towww.ohiocrosscountry.org

Sports Briefs

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The Oakwood men’s soccerteam endured their most chal-lenging week of the 2011 cam-paign by going 2-1 against threelocally ranked foes in Monroe,Bellbrook and Tipp City whileadvancing their season recordto 5-1.

On Tuesday, the Jacks hostedthe Lemon-Monroe YellowJacks who came in with a 2-2record. The Jacks quickly con-trolled the game with continu-ous pressure on the YellowJackets defense. Senior mid-fielder Max Snyder put theJacks on the board at the 20:17minute mark in the first halfwhen he knocked in a deflectionoff of a Monroe defender givingthe Jacks a 1-0 lead.

The Jacks made the score 2-0when senior Seth Mansfieldcentered a cross to sophomoreattacker Dan Gardner in thebox. Gardner then found juniorMidfielder Brian Koenig whoplaced the ball past the Monroekeeper with 8:18 left.

The goal scoring continuedwhen senior defender LukeGreen found Mansfield in theMonroe penalty box whopatiently zeroed in his shot giv-ing Oakwood its third goal of thehalf with 3:06 left.

That would be all Oakwoodwould need as the second halfwas dominated by the Oakwooddefense of seniors Luke Green,Dan Fecher, Ben Georgin andjuniors Alex Gardner and JacobPeake. Oakwood senior goal-keeper Mitch O’Connor securedhis first shutout of the seasonand a 3-0 win.

Thursday’s contest presentedthe Jacks a greater challengewith an away game against lastseason’s SWBL champs, theBellbrook Eagles. Like allOakwood/Bellbrook matches,

the game became a physicaldual. The Eagles struck first ona long crossing pass and well-placed goal giving them a 1-0lead just before half. The Jackscontinued to battle throughoutthe second half putting heavypressure on the Bellbrook goal.Unfortunately their shots couldnot find the net. The gameremained a stalemate until mid-way through the second halfwhen Bellbrook scored off of adeflection with 18:10 left.Bellbrook finished the scoringlate giving the Jacks their firstsetback in 2011 by a 3-0 score.

On Saturday, the Jacks trav-eled north for an evening matchwith the Tippecanoe RedDevils. These two top areateams battled to an even drawin their 2010 meeting. The Jackscontrolled the initial pace ofthe game with great teamdefense and ball movement.With 29:54 remaining in the firsthalf the Jacks took the advan-tage. Gardner battled throughseveral Red Devils defenderand found the Tipp goal and a 1-0 lead. With key players forcedto watch from the sidelines dueto injuries, the Jacks battledthroughout the second half. TheOakwood defense of Fecher,Georgin, Green, AndrewDickerson and junior Alex Rankalong with O’Connor would notallow the third-ranked RedDevils a goal by snuffing out allattacks in the second half. Jackshad one last exciting momentwhen a Brian Koenig shot hitthe Tipp cross bar and then afollow-up header missing off thepost with minutes remaining.Nevertheless, Oakwood sealedcoach Jeremy Storos’s first vic-tory over the highly ranked RedDevils and a 1-0 win.

The Jacks head to Franklin on

Tuesday for their first game ofthe season with the Wildcatsbefore returning home againstValley View on Thursday.

Junior Varsity Soccer JacksGo 1-1-1 for the Week

The men’s JV Soccer Jacksbeat Monroe Tuesday night atMack Hummon Stadium 1 to 0.The first half was a back-and-forth battle with both Monroeand Oakwood having multipleattempts at goal. Then with twominutes left in the first half,Oakwood freshman HaydenPeake received the ball aboutmid-field and out ran theMonroe defense for a shot intothe net. In the second halfMonroe had a couple chances totie the game but the Jack’s goal-keeper junior StevenStefanopoulos and defendersjunior Richard Terrell, sopho-mores Colin Mackintosh andKeeghen White, and freshmenPaul Georgin, Matt Klein, andAlex Barnes played tough keep-ing the ball out of the net.

On Thursday the Jacks had atough battle with a skilledBellbrook team losing 3 to 0.

Saturday the JV finished witha 1 to 1 tie against a toughTippecanoe squad. Both teamsstarted out very strong with theRed Devils getting on the boardfirst nineteen minutes into thegame. The Jacks battled backwith multiple attempts at goal,when, with seven minutes left inthe half, freshman Logan Shaferheaded the ball over the Tippgoalkeeper from a Peake throw-in. In the second half, Jackskeeper Stefanopoulos stopped aTipp penalty shot, keeping thetie, after Oakwood was calledfor a handball in the box.

Next the men’s junior varsitysquad travels to ChaminadeJulienne.

Contributed photoOakwood seniors Max Snyder, Dan Fecher, Alex Gardner and Andrew Dickerson battle for pos-session of the ball during a 2-1 week against a trio of locally ranked opponents.

Jacks win two out of threeduring difficult stretch