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WARRIORS CONTINUE TO IMPRESS

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WOODRIDGE OH- The West Branch offense continued to impress on Friday as they outscored Woodridge 28-7 in the second half to come away with the 48-24 victory.

Dru DeShields threw for 319 yards and found the endzone 5 times. Jaxon Hendershot was his main target catching 7 passes for 108 yards and 2 touchdowns. DeShields also found Christian Martig, Nick Wilson, and Steven Marra for touchdowns through the air. Marra and DeShields both punched it in to the endzone on the ground.

The West Branch defense forced two fumbles on the day, a big part in holding Woodridge to just 7 second half points. Nathaniel Summers, and Mitchell Coffee had recoveries.

West Branch returns to action next week in their home opener hosting Richfield Revere.

URSULINE’S FAB NUMBER FIVE

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YOUNGSTOWN OH- Last year during the shortened season, Irish quarterback Brady Shannon being the all around athlete that he is, didn’t know if he would continue his football or baseball career.  That all changed on March 7th 2021 when it was announced that he committed to the University of Central Florida to play baseball.  

 

Even with him going the baseball route, he is still focused on the 2021 Ursuline Football season, and after a 62-58 shootout win against Columbus Bishop Hartley where Shannon threw for 276 yards and five touchdowns, he and the Irish are looking to go 2 and 0 against the Hickory Hornets this Friday.  

 

Our own Ian O’Brien caught up with the quarterback to talk with him about last week’s shootout against Bishop Hartley, this upcoming week against the Hornets and many more.  

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*contributed by YSN’s Ian O’Brien*

HUBBARD BREAKS THE STREAK, BEATS MOONEY FOR FIRST TIME

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HUBBARD, Ohio –
Since 1961, the Hubbard Eagles and Cardinal Mooney Cardinals have faced off 14 times. For Cardinal Mooney, it has been nothing but pure domination of the series. With the majority of their matchups coming from their days as rival members of the Steel Valley Conference, the Cardinals came into the night with an unblemished record against the Eagles, outscoring them 366-72.
Looking for their first win in program history, Hubbard knew they were going to have to lead on their work horse, T.C. Caffey, and he delivered early. Through the first two Hubbard drives, Caffey touted the rock 12 times for just over 90 yards and got his Eagles out to an early 14-0 lead.
With momentum firmly on the side of the Eagles, the Mooney offense botched a snap and gave the ball back to Hubbard in plus territory. Just three plays later, Mooney finally caught a break, well, Davontae Miller created one, leveling a Hubbard ball carrier to create a turnover. Just three plays later, Miller would reach pay dirt from 23 yards out to cut Hubbard’s lead in half.
After forcing the Eagles to go 3 and out, Mooney would strike quickly once again. Sophomore quarterback, Ashton O’Brien, hit Daqua Douglas on a quick out from the backfield. With lots of green and a few blocker out in front of him, Douglas would take the ball up the Mooney sideline before cutting it back across to the opposite hash and winning a foot race to the endzone. A missed extra point left Mooney short of tying things up, 14-13.
Both teams would exchange trips into each other’s territory, but neither would come away with points, taking the score where it was into the half.
Coming out of half with the ball, Mooney would pick up one first down before being forced to punt the ball away to T.C. Caffey and Co. The Eagles ensuing drive, Caffey would carry the ball on 7 of the Eagles 8 plays, before capping their 72 yard drive off with an 8-yard touchdown run.
Answering the bell as they had done all night, Mooney’s first play from scrimmage on their next drive went for 31 yards into Hubbard territory. A couple Ashton O’Brien throws later and the Cardinals were in the endzone again, but, after missing their extra point earlier in the game, Mooney had to keep the offense out to try and go for 2. Looking to lean on their bell cow in Miller, Mooney turned and gave it to the senior power back, but would be stuffed at the goal line by the stout Hubbard front.
After stomping out the Mooney 2-point conversion attempt, Hubbard was able to hold on to their lead and secure their first victory over the catholic powerhouse in school history, 21-19.
BIG PERFORMERS
HUBBARD:
TC Caffey: 39 carries, 208 rushing yards, 3 TDs
CARDINAL MOONEY:
Ashton O’Brien: 8-12, 173 passing yards, 2 TDs
Davontae Miller: 15 carries, 76 yards, 1 TD
Ty Reali: 6 catches, 105 receiving yards, 1 TD
UP NEXT
Hubbard: Starting off the season 2-0 for the 8th time in 10 years, the Eagles will continue their home stint to start the year, playing host to East Cleveland Shaw (0-1). The Eagles last faced off with Shaw back in 2019, a game that ended 21-0.
Cardinal Mooney: The Cardinals will face off with another team with a slow start to the season in fellow Youngstown school, the Chaney Cowboys (0-2). Mooney will be looking to avenge their 30-0 loss to Chaney last season.

*Contributed By YSN’s Jamie Thomson

RAMS RUMBLE TO FIRST WIN OF THE SEASON

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With 9:04 left in the opening quarter Mineral Ridge Running Back Nathan Rohrman got the evening started off with a scoring 10 yard run. (Blair PAT good).
Not even 2 minutes later Mineral Ridge Quarterback Mark Bunch finds Tyler Tamburro on a 40 yard touchdown pass. (Blair’s kick is no good).
East Palestine answers back with 59 seconds to go in the first quarter. Quarterback Owen Jurjavicic found his receiver for a 6 yard touchdown score. Their extra point attempt is no good.
At the 10:02 market in the second quarter, Ram quarterback Mark Bunch scores on a 1 yard quarterback keeper. (Blair’s PAT good).
East Palestine is quick to answer back on the first play is of the new drive. Tyler Bistarkey found a hole for a 70 yard touchdown run. (PAT no good.
Bunch finds receiver Mason Miller and the two connect for a 34 yard touchdown pass. (Blair PAT good).
The Ram’s line again moved mountains to help Bunch sneak over the goal line on a 1 yard play with 9:10 to go in the 3rd. (Blair’s PAT good)
Bulldog’s Tommy Shasteen got caught up on a play in the end zone and was tackled by Ridge’s Mason Miller for a safety. (6:41)
Bunch and his receivers looked locked in tonight as he finds Tyler Tamburro on a 56 yard TD pass. (BLAIR PAT good).
Quarterback Mark Bunch shared the love when he found #20 Aaron Myers on a 5 yard passing TD. (11:18 Blair’s PAT good).
With 4:01 left in the game Tyler Bistarkey found the end zone for the Bulldogs. The 2pt attempt is no good.

Mineral Ridge
Passing
Mark Bunch 12-14 212 yards 4 TDS

Rushing
Nathan Rohrman 14 attempts 89 yards 1 TD
Mark Bunch 9 attempts 6 yards 2 TDS

Receiving
Tyler Tamburro 4 rec 123 yards 2 TDS
Mason Miller 4 rec 51 yards 1 TD
Ian Erb 2 recs 40 yards
Aaron Myers 2 recs -2 yards 1 TD

East Palestine
Passing
Owen Jurjavicic 6-18 129 yards 1TD 1 INT
Landon Price 0-3 1 INT

Rushing
Tyler Bistarkey 16 attempts 112 yards 2 TD
Jesse Lipp 7 attempts 24 yards

*Contributed by Nathan Spalding at ramsathletics.org

IRISH DOMINATE IN KEYSTONE STATE

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HERMITAGE PA; After a tough shootout 62-58 victory against Columbus Hartley last Thursday, the Fighting Irish of Ursuline were on the road and to some it may have been another big challenge as they hosted the Hickory Hornets who were in their first game of the season in Class AAA and came in as the defending District 10 Champions.

However, fans were not expecting the Irish to pull away as they did so right during the first quarter. Ursuline got on the board first when Brady Shannon handed the ball off to DeMarcus McElroy going nearly 60 plus yards to padre showing off that LaDainian Tomlinson speed, putting Ursuline up 8-0 after the muddle huddle two point conversion.

McElroy got his second touchdown of the night just a few possessions later when he took it in once again making it 16-0.

However, the Hornets would try to sting the Irish a bit as new junior quarterback Logan Woods on a fourth and goal at the six, found Ramarion Whitehead on a lob pass making it now 16-7.

However, that would be the only Hickory score as after that it was the Irish finding more gold with McElroy getting his third touchdown of the half going up 22-7 and Brady Shannon finding Will Burney just a couple possessions later on for a 30-yard strike with Burney showing some shifty moves. The score at the half was now 28-7.

The Irish kept on scoring even with the second string team led by Jack Erickson and Ty-Req Donlow in. Donlow who made the game winning tackle last week against Bishop Hartley got his first rushing touchdown as well as Erickson taking a QB option in making the final 50-7 in a shocking win for the Irish.

Stats
Ursuline

Rushing: DeMarcus McElroy made history today rushing over the 200 yard mark. Christian Lynch 8 carries for 24 yards. Ty’Req Donlow rushed for 22 yards.

Shannon: 127 passing yards and a touchdown to Will Burney.

Hickory

Woods: 15 pass completions for 128 yards and one touchdown in the second to Ramarion Whitehead.

Sean Kennedy: eight carries for 37 yards.
Up Next:
Ursuline (2-0) heads to Chardon to take on the reigning Division III State Champion Hilltoppers (1-0). Hickory (0-1) will travel next Friday to take on the Girard Yellow Jackets (1-1).

*Contributed by YSN’s Ian O’Brien*

EXLINE BECOMES X FACTOR IN BIG QUAKER WIN

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SALEM OH- The high octane Salem offense continued to roll on Friday night scoring early and often en route to a 62-35 drubbing of Beaver Local at Sebo Stadium. The Quakers would turn four Beaver Local turnovers (3 fumbles lost, 1 INT) into 27 points, which would prove to be the difference in the game.

After jumping out to a 14-0 1st quarter lead, the Quakers would open up the playbook with a 69 yard bomb from junior QB Jackson Johnson to junior classmate Caden Swiger for 69 yards and a TD. They would then would run their version of the “Quaker Special” when Swiger would connect with Johnson for a TD catch of his own, to give Salem a 27-7 lead.

The Beavers would make things interesting early in the 3rd, cutting the lead to 27-21, but the Quaker offense would slam the door on any thoughts of a BL comeback, ripping off 21 straight points.

Jackson Johnson had a record-setting night throwing for over 440 yards and 3 touchdowns through the air (Exline, Sinkovich, Swiger). Johnson wild spread the ball around having 4 receivers (Exline, Brock Young, Austin Sinkovich, and Swiger) go over 70 yards in receiving. His number one target, senior Blaize Exline would haul in 15 of those catches for over 200 yards and 5 total touchdowns (two receiving, three rushing).

Salem (2-0) continues their tour of Columbiana County next week on the road at East Liverpool.

*Contributed by YSN’s Jarrod Niederhiser

TIGERS BACK ON TRACK

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BROOKFIELD OH- In a daring match up between the Brookfield Warriors and the Springfield Tigers ended in winning touchdown by the tigers in the waning minutes of the game. The warriors had the game in control early with quarterback Donovan Pawlowski at the helm putting brookfield in front early twelve to seven. Then after a late safety against the tigers put the warriors up fourteen to seven, the tigers, led by star quarterback, Beau Brungard scored two consecutive touchdowns to take the lead twenty to seven and their tigers defense held the warriors offense to secure the victory. Brookfield looks to get back in the win column next week against the Western Reserve Devils as Springfield look to continue their win streak next friday against the Geneva Eagles.

*Contributed by YSN’s Matt Morrison

POLAND BOUNCES BACK AGAINST LEOPARDS

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Poland, OH- The Poland Bulldogs played their second game of the homestand against the Louisville Leopards. Both teams came into tonight’s game searching for their first win of the season. It was the Bulldogs of Poland who got into the win column. Poland’s Dom Parker and Jack Fulton both rushed for over 100 yards in tonight’s game. Coach Pavlansky picks up his first win as Poland head coach with a 21-13 victory.

Parker and the Poland Bulldogs kicked off all scoring with a 72 yard touchdown run down the Poland sideline to give the Bulldogs the early 7-0 lead. Jack Fulton would continue with the scoring for the Bulldogs with a 50 yard carry weaving through Leopard defenders increasing the lead to 14. In the second quarter the Leopards would get on the scoreboard with a 3 yard touchdown run by Riston Jobes to make the game 14-7 at halftime.

Poland would answer to open the third quarter with a 50 yard run by Fulton to find the endzone. The Leopards would get into the endzone one last time with a 24 yard touchdown catch to Zach Seaman from Caleb Miller but the Bulldog defense held their ground in the fourth quarter. Poland wins 21-13. Poland (1-1) will face Howland (1-1) next week while Louisville (0-2) will face Wooster (1-1). Catch all the games on YSNLive.com.

*Contributed by YSN’s Anthony Melone

ROCKETS OFFENSE NOT SLOWING DOWN

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LOWELLVILLE OH- The Rockets moved to 2-0 on the season with another impressive offensive performance beating Campbell 35-14. The Rockets have scored 85 points in 2 games.

To start the first quarter Vinny Ballone would start off hot with two passing touchdowns to Braylen Dabney and Matthew Lucido to end the first quarter with a 14-0 lead. In the second quarter, it was the same motion of the ocean as Ballone would throw another touchdown pass to Brady Bunofsky to end the half with a 21-0 lead over the Red Devils.

To start the second half the Red Devils would come out the gates scoring two touchdowns as one of them would be a QB keeper as Kayvon Moore would score and cut the lead to 21-14. The Rockets would answer back with two straight touchdowns as well. Vinny Ballone would throw one of the two to Anthony Lucente and rush for one to make the lead 35-14. The Red Devils would add one more score to end the game to make the final score 35-14.

Lowellville (2-0) will play Wellsville next week as Memorial (0-2) will play East Palestine.

*Contributed by YSN’s Derrick Grossen

BROOKFIELD FOOTBALL COACH’S CORNER (EP 1) WITH RANDY CLARK

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BROOKFIELD OH- The Brookfield Warriors are 1-0 after a massive week 1 victory over McDonald. Not too many of the “experts” gave Brookfield much of a chance this year, but the Warriors made an emphatic statement in McDonald. They won over the Blue Devils 35-6. Now, a week 2 monster matchup looms as Brookfield opens their home opener hosting Springfield.

Head coach Randy Clark joined YSN’s Running Point this week to talk about their week 1 win over McDonald, and the challenge that awaits against Springfield. He also talks with Anthony Hartwig, and Ty Bartell about the culture of Brookfield football, their development program, and much more. Get ready Warriors fans, Episode 1 of Coach’s Corner with Randy Clark is here!

 

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