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CRESTVIEW TAMES THE LEOPARDS

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COLUMBIANA OH- Crestview’s impressive eight game winning streak kept on rolling on Thursday night with a quick sweep of Liberty. The win brings Crestview’s record to 13-2 (9-0). (25-15 25-10 25-21).

Lucy Montgomery led a balanced offense with a triple double finishing with 13 kills, 14 digs, and 13 assists. Grace Auer narrowly missed a triple double of her own finishing with 22 assists, 10 digs, and 9 kills. She also served 5 aces. Lainey Mercure led the Rebels with 17 digs. Shelby Rambo and Alycia Flowers both had strong night’s with 8 kills a piece.

Crestview will now take their mind game win streak into Campbell on Saturday. Liberty drops to 7-5 and will host a LaBrae on Tuesday.

LEOPARDS BATTLE BUT FALL TO JACKSON

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LOUISVILLE OH-

The Lady Leps fought a tough 3 set match tonight against a strong Jackson team.
Sets 2 and 3 were a hard fought battle leaving the Leps just short of the set Win.
Scores were 17-25, 32-34, 25-27

Leading the way for the Leps offense were senior setters Lauren Siegfried (18 assists) and Amanda Clark (16 assists). Senior Paige Cole added in a team high of 22 kills. Tonight’s match puts Cole into the 900’s for career kills.
Defensively, Senior Sydney Bast led with 19 digs while teammates Paige Cole, Lauren Siegfried, and Kendal Loy each added in 4 blocks.
Junior Emma Davis led at the serving line with 8 service points while Siegfried added in 2 aces for the night.
Leps now 6-7

JV fell in 2 sets. 10-25 and 11-25

Lady Leps are home again tomorrow with hosting Wooster.

*Contributed by Alicia Mihelic at leopardsathletics.org.

FITCH SENDS LEOPARDS HOME EMPTY HANDED

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AUSTINTOWN OH- It was a highly anticipated matchup on Thursday night between Fitch and Louisville, and it did not disappoint. The Falcons responded from being down 2-1 to win the match 3-2 (20-25 26-24 14-25 25-15 15-10).

The Falcons struggled at first to get a handle on Louisville standout Paige Cole. She had a big chunk of her match- high 28 kills in the first set. The Falcons couldn’t get their blockers to get in time. Cole, and the Leopards navigated their way to a 25-20 set one victory.

Set two was the most competitive set of the night. The two teams went back and forth as the set went on. Fitch jumped out to a 4-0 lead early, and that was enough to keep them close. The Leopards still showed great power in the front row and took a couple leads. But Chelsie Wheeler got a strong kill from the left side to end the set.

The two teams traded dominating sets, helped out by opponent errors. Serve receive got shaky for Fitch in set three and the Leopards pounced all over them. Then, in set four it was attack errors that became the bugaboo for Louisville letting Fitch run away with the set and force a set five.

Trailing 11-10 lead in set five, Louisville made a mistake that would turn the set around. For the first time in the match they were called for a double touch on the set, and it would give the Falcons a 12-10 lead. They would go on a 3-1 run to end the set and the match.

Alyssa Leskovac earned a double double with 10 kills, and 24 digs. Chelsie Wheeler led the Falcons offense with 16 kills. Jocelyn Jourdan player tremendous net defense on the strong attackers of Louisville. She finished with 6 blocks, and 8 kills. Emma Bartlett fought through a cut on her right thumb to still finish with 40 assists.

For the Leopards, Paige Cole has another terrific night with 28 kills, and 15 digs. Lauren Siegfried set up 27 assists. Kendall Loy served up 2 aces.

The Falcons are now 11-1 and will travel to East on Monday. The Leopards fall to 6-5 and they’ll host Jackson on Wednesday.

RED DEVILS WIN A WILD ONE IN LIBERTY

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LIBERTY OH- This matchup inside the MVAC between Liberty and Campbell had a lot of crazy plays. From wild red zone turnovers, to big time catches, the difference of the game would end up being a two point conversion. Campbell would win 14-12.

It was Christian Stores threw a pass on the money to Dylan Harris to complete a two point conversion and give the Devils a 14-12 lead. The big play came after a 19 yard touchdown pass to Christian James. James made a solid play to tie things up and give the Devils the opportunity to take the lead.

Campbell moves to 2-2 on the season and will host Toronto in Week 5. Liberty drops to 1-3 and will need to gather themselves to travel to LaBrae on Friday.

HOOVER PROVES TOO MUCH FOR LEOPARDS

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CANTON OH-

The Louisville Leopards Varsity Football Team fell to the host North Canton Hoover Vikings 45-21 Friday Night at Memorial Stadium. With the loss, Louisville falls to 1-3 on the season.

Dan Kennedy carried the ball 17 times for 115 yards, ran for 2 touchdowns, and made 3 catches for 35 yards to lead the Leopards as they rallied back from a 14-0 deficit in the first half. Louisville tied the game at 21-21 when quarterback Tyler Jackson hit wide receiver Brock Pickens on a 2 yard touchdown pass on the final play of the first half. Jackson would finish 10 of 20 passing for 120 yards through the air.

Neither team scored in the third quarter, but North Canton poured on 24 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to quickly turn a competitive game into a blowout.

*Contributed By YSN’s Rob Roberts

IRISH HAVE ALL THE LUCK AGAINST LOUISVILLE

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LOUISVILLE OH- St. Vincent St. Mary took the opening kick off the distance and didn’t look back, defeating Louisville 35 – 7.
Darrian Lewis scored on a 70 yard kick return and threw a 35 yard touchdown on a half back pass. Kid did it all.

George Linberger ran for 124 yards and a touchdown for STVSTM.
Louisville could not get much going on offense. Zack Seaman caught an 80 yard touchdown pass from Tyler Jackson for Louisville’s lone score

Louisville will look to bounce back in week 4 on Friday as they travel to Hoover.

Contributed by YSN’s Rob Roberts

LIBERTY FOOTBALL COACH’S CORNER (EP 1) WITH CHET ALLEN

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LIBERTY OH- The Leopards bounced back nicely in week 2 against to bring their record to 1-1. Now they will look to improve on their conference record to 2-1 as they travel to Champion. both teams are 1-1 as the Flashes lost to Southeast in week 2.

Leopards head coach Chet Allen juggles a lot of plates as teacher, football coach, and athletic director. COVID-19 has placed a lot of challenges on top of his normal responsibilities. Yet he’s found a way to grow the program in numbers. 34 players went out for football this season. Leopards will try to use that depth to their advantage as the season goes on.

Chet Allen called into Running Point to talk about his program. Coach and Ron talk about the Leopards success in week 2, how they plan to keep their momentum, and much more. Coach Allen leaves Ron speechless , find out how in Episode 1 of Liberty Football Coach’s Corner.

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LEOPARDS RUMBLE PAST NEWTON FALLS

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Liberty OH- Newton Falls Tigers visiting Liberty Leopards for their first game of the season as Liberty already played week one against Brookfield losing 35-12. Liberty started off strong in their second drive as QB Derek DeMatia threw a 30-yard touchdown to C.J Myers to give the Leopards a 6-0 lead. Newton Falls would answer back to begin the second quarter as QB Nolan Kaehne would throw a bomb to Cameron Brainerd to bring them inside the five. Nolan Kaehne then would run in the endzone with the extra-point will give them the lead 7-6 going into halftime. The leopards would make some great halftime adjustments with their first drive starting Daveyon Williamson in at the wildcat. Williamson would push it down the field and eventually putting it in the endzone to take back the lead 12-7. The next drive, sophomore Jayden Taylor would intercept the ball from Kaehne and take it inside the ten. Williamson would get his second touchdown on that drive to extend their lead 18-7. To start the 4th, Donte Ventures would recover a fumble and return it to eight to give running back, Chris Cunningham a rushing touchdown to give the Leopards a lead of 25-7. The Tigers would score late in the 4th to cut deficit 25-13.

 

Liberty get their first win to set their record (1-1). Newton Falls will fall losing their first game to (0-1). Liberty will meet Labrae next week as Newton Falls will face Crestview.

LOUISVILLE’S LATE SCORE SECURES VICTORY

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CANTON OH- Louisville defeated Glen Oak tonight 17 to 14.
Head Coach Troy Davis earned his first win as head coach.
QB Tyler Jackson was very efficient throwing 2 touchdown passes to Dan Kennedy (40 yards) and Broc Pickens (80 yards).
Andrew Essik led the Leopard rushing attack.
The Defense was solid all game. Cam Brazek, Josh Stafford, Tony Brahler and JD Spittaleri played great on the defensive line.
Linebackers Brady Vanover, Connor Addelman, Kurt Haren, & Carson Rose were solid all night.
Defensive secondary played very well with Zack Seaman  getting an interception.
Kicker Miles Lab continues to be perfect on field goals and PATS. Connecting for a 20 yard FG and 2 extra points.
The Leopards host St. Vincent St. Mary next Friday.

*Contributed by YSN’s Rob Roberts

LEOPARDS POUNCE ON NEW PHILADELPHIA

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LOUSIVILLE OH- The Louisville Girls Tennis Team got a big win over New Philadelphia on Wednesday 4-1. This brings the Leopards record to 6-6. The individual scores are as follows

Singles
#1 Rachel Kibler (L) d. Maddie Troyer (NP) 6-0, 6-0
#2 Sherilynn Mullett (L) d. Grace Engstrom (NP) d. 6-7, 6-1, 6-1
#3 Jade Thomas (L) d. Bryante Caldwell (NP) 7-5, 6-2
Doubles
#1 Bailey Menegay & Katy Yarnall (L) d. Sophie Troyer & Alli Richwine (NP) 6-2, 4-6, 6-0
#2 Alexis Mamula & Maggie Prucha (NP) d. Kora Woolf & McKenzie Taylor (L) 2-6, 6-3, 6-4

*Contributed by Rod Hall at leopardathletics.org