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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH, 2014

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WAUSEON
INDIANS WIN
FIRST ROUND
PLAYOFF
THRILLER

FULTON

WILLIAMS

EDON BOMBERS MONTPELIER LOCOS NORTH CENTRAL EAGLES

HILLTOP CADETS STRYKER PANTHERS FAYETTE EAGLES
PETTISVILLE BLACKBIRDS WAUSEON INDIANS

PHOTO BY TIMOTHY KAYS, STAFF

MOVE THE CHAINS ... Wauseon junior running back Jacob Flory
picks up first down yardage at the expense of a stiff-armed Genoa
defender during their D-IV - Region 12 showdown on November 7.

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High School Assorted News

High School Volleyball Action

THE HOMETOWN HUDDLE

THE HOMETOWN HUDDLE

Montpelier Athletes Clean

Yards For Community
By: T.J. Hug
THE VILLAGE REPORTER
Sports are about more than simply winning and losing, though thats certainly
important.
Athletes who give it their all as individuals, while admirable, miss the point as
well. So do the ones who rely on nothing
but statistics to tell them who is successful and who is not. Athletic competition is
all about groups coming together to overcome adversity. It may take a different
form in each sport, but teamwork is the
lowest common denominator in almost all
of them.
Thats why, when the Montpelier Athletic Department announced that their
high school sports teams were going to
work together to rake leaves for the community, they wasted no time in looking for
places their student athletes could be put
to work. They knew the kids would make
short work of their chore, thanks to the gift
of cooperation.
The locations where the volunteers, six-

Hilltop High School Recognizes

Volleyball Players For Great Season

ty kids in all, raked were predetermined.

In preparation of the event, the athletic
department put out word weeks ago that
they were in search of people who might
need assistance gathering their leaves.
From there, it was only a matter of organization to get the kids to the places where
they were most needed.
They began raking at 1:00 P.M. Appointments had already been set so the
student athletes had no trouble finding
places in which they could work.
While the raking was intended to last
until 4:00 P.M., the students, coaches,
and boosters worked so hard that they
were able to complete their task early. By
3:00 P.M., between twenty-five and thirty
yards had been raked.
Afterward, the participants gathered
back by the football field, where refreshments were served. Then, they took their
PHOTO BY ANGI WALKUP, STAFF
rakes and went home, taking with them
VOLLEYBALL AWARDS ... The Hilltop Lady Cadets held their volleyball awards on Monthe satisfaction that can only come from
day evening. Pictured receiving special awards are: Baylee Schmitt - BBC Scholar Athseveral individuals acting as one.
lete, BBC Honorable Mention, D Award; Madeline McKinney - BBC Scholar Athlete;
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Back: Carissa Crisenbery - BBC Scholar Athlete; Veronica Roth - BBC Scholar Athlete;
Allie Schmitt - BBC Honorable Mention; Cierra Grant BBC - 1st team, BBC Scholar
Athlete, Dist 7 Honorable Mention.

Wauseon High School Honors

Outstanding Volleyball Players
For Amazing 2014 Season

PHOTOS BY T.J. HUG, STAFF

FRIENDS WORKING TOGETHER ... Taylor Brown (left), Jaelyn Lyons (middle), Mackenzie Nemire (right), three friends who took part in the Montpelier Athletic Departments
efforts to rake yards in town, hang out after a hard days work.

PHOTO BY ANGI WALKUP, STAFF

AWARDS BANQUET ... The Wauseon Lady Indians held their volleyball awards on
Tuesday evening at Rotary Park with a pre-awards banquet dinner. Pictured are Kallie Strauss - NWOAL Honorable Mention; Kierra Fountain - Captain award, 1st team
All District (Dist 7), 1st team All League (NWOAL); Sariah Yackee - Captain award,
All League Honorable Mention, 2nd team All District (Dist 7); Sydney Bosell - Captain
award, All League Honorable Mention, 2nd team All District (Dist 7).

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SMILE FOR THE CAMERA ... A group of Montpelier student athletes pose for a picture
after finishing their work, rakes still in hand. In front, left to right: Austin Peffley, Blake
Bumb, Chance Miller, Jace Norrick, and Ashtin Norrick. In back, Max Hulbert and
Coach Anthony Coleman.

HARD AT WORK ... Peyton Houk (left) and Jacqueline Carlson (right) put their rakes
to work, gathering up leaves cluttering up a local yard. During the course of the day,
Montpelier student athletes cleaned up twenty-five to thirty such yards.

PEYTEN SHADBOLT
WAUSEON HIGH SCHOOL

KIERRA FOUNTAIN
WAUSEON HIGH SCHOOL

The Wauseon Senior Linebacker made

the play of the game against Genoa in
the first round of the State Playoffs.
With the game on the line, Shadbolt
blocked the field goal attempt of Genoas
All-State Kicker, preserving a 9-7 lead to
advance Wauseons post-season.

After a great season, and a trip to

Districts in the post-season, the
Wauseon Senior was recognized as a
First-Team NWOAL member. Averaging
3.4 aces a game in conference play, her
serving abilities were of superior quality.

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Assorted Local Sports News

THE HOMETOWN HUDDLE

North Central Recognizes Outstanding Performances Of Fall Athletes

NORTH CENTRAL GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY AWARDS Taylor Harper (Captain Award),
Brooke Schofield (All-BBC Third Team and Most Improved Award), Brooklynn Brown,
Emma Zenz (All-BBC Second Team and Eagle Award), and Samantha Vassar (Coaches
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NORTH CENTRAL BBC SCHOLAR ATHLETES Front - Keeley Shaw, Rachel Oxender,
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Zuver (Academic All-Ohio), Aleea Lonabarger, Taylor Harper, Samantha Vassar, and
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NORTH CENTRAL BOYS CROSS COUNTRY AWARDS Front - Adam Knepper (All-BBC
Third Team and Captain Award) and Keean Livensparger (Coaches Award). Back - Trent
Sakos (All-BBC Second Team and Eagle Award), Skyler JoHantgen (Most Improved
Award), and Jason Vassar (All-BBC Second Team).
NORTH CENTRAL GOLF AWARDS Brady Zuver (PRIDE Award), Jordan Reeves (AllBBC First Team, Team Morale and Eagle Medalist Awards), David Pinc (Coaches Award,)
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North Centrals Sabrina Pickford

Signs To Play Softball At Huntington

LETTER OF INTENT ... Those in attendance for the signing: Front row L-R: Doug
Gower, Head Softball Coach at Huntington, Sabrina Pickford, Deb Pickford, and
Mark Pickford (Sabrinas parents). Back row: Tim Rettig, North Central High School
Principal, Joe Fidler, North Central Head Softball Coach, Larry Bunting, former
North Central Head Softball Coach, Rodger Swank, North Central Assistant Softball
Coach, and Kent Hutchison, North Central Athletic Director.
By: Kent Hutchison
THE VILLAGE REPORTER
PIONEER On Friday, October 31,
North Central Senior, Sabrina Pickford,
made it official when she signed a letter
of intent to continue her education and
softball career at Huntington University.
Huntington, a member of the National

Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

(NAIA) and the Crossroads League, has
an enrollment of approximately 1200
students and is located in Huntington,
Indiana. In the fall of 2015, Pickford
will begin at Huntington majoring in
Education.

Despite The Thinner Field, Fayette

Kellen Keiser Memorial Run Is A Success
By: Timothy Kays
THE VILLAGE REPORTER

It seems as though the staging of 5-K

runs and half-marathons has become an
in vogue thing in society today. Unfortunately, small town fundraising events
like the Kellen Keiser Memorial Run wind
up suffering in the process. When bigger
events are scheduled in bigger cities at the
same time as a race in Fayette, Ohio, the
bigger events are going to siphon away a
considerable swath of the field that would
normally take to the course in Eagle Country. Despite dramatically lower numbers
due to the aforementioned technicality, the
third annual event sponsored by Team KBob took off on the morning of November
8.
The idea of Melanie Seiler, and named
in honor of the son of Kirk and Tina Keiser
who lost his battle with juvenile leukemia, the event still drew a diverse crowd
for its third straight year. What were
doing today is for Team K-Bob, raising
funds to support leukemia and lymphoma
awareness and the cure, said Kirk. This
year, half of the proceeds are going to the
Friends of the Fields project here at the
Fayette High School. Our numbers are
down; were just doing the 5-K this year,
and were thinking about doing something
a little different next year. Were excited to
have the people come out in remembrance
of Kellen, and for a good cause. Hopefully,
one day therell be a cure that no one else
has to have a memorial run.
126 registered for the event, down over

half from prior years. They have a run every other day, said Kris Keiser. Its like
its become polluted. Theres some big runs
today arent here. We didnt do the halfmarathon this year, because theres one
that started in Perrysburg last year that
takes away all the runners in the area. It
is what it is. The first year, we had 360some people, and last year we had 280some. The first two years, we had halfmarathons, and there was not another one
within 100 miles of us. The people who ran
in ours loved the course, because it ran out
and around Harrison Lake and back. With
the other competition now, theres just not
enough runners. Last year we only had 34
runners, and you just cant do a half with
just 34 runners. It takes a lot more people
to run a half than it does to run a 5-K, so
we just did the 5-K this year, and we dont
know what well do next year.
First across the line for the 2014 event
was the D-III State contending Skylar
Lantz. Not too far behind him was Christian Suarez, another member of the Eagle
Cross Country squad. As the walkers approached the finish line, one of them was
none other than Ms. Ruth Hutchison.
While this reporter will not disclose the age
of Ms. Hutchison, I will tell you that she
had Lawrence Welk on her iPod.
Whatever happens next year, its a sure
thing that it will not just be big, but it will
be special and a great time for young and
old. No surprises there thats just the
way Team K-Bob rolls.
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FIRST ACROSS THE LINE ... D-IV State

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EAGLE LANDING ... Christian Suarez was

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WAUSEON CONTINUES ON IN PLAYOFFS

Wauseon Defense & Special Teams Shut Down Genoa In D-IV Region 12 Opener

PHOTOS BY TIMOTHY KAYS, STAFF HOUDINI ACT ... Quarterback Zac Robinson takes off on GAUGING THE ENEMY ... Nate Suntken alters his course
GOING SOMEWHERE? ... Even after changing directions a designed running play.
in anticipation of the closing Genoa defenders.
and giving ground, the Comet ball carrier cannot escape
Wauseons Noah Castle and Derek Rupp.

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Andrew Clausen and Gordon Winland safeguard the PAT
kick of Josh Whitcomb.
By: Timothy Kays
THE VILLAGE REPORTER
WAUSEON: November 7, 2014 - The #3
ranked 10-0 Wauseon Indians opened up
their Division IV - Region 12 postseason aspirations on the evening of November 7, with
the #6 Genoa Comets flying into Harmon
Field. Genoa came into the contest with an 8-2
mark on the season, with both losses coming
against playoff-bound teams#5 Port Clinton, and D-V - Region 16 powerhouse Pemberville Eastwood. The Comets averaged 37.6
points per contest during the regular season,
compared to a scoreboard frying 39.4 points
per game for the Tribe. While that alone said
that the potential for an offensive explosion
was present, both teams also sported great
defenses that helped them get to where they
were on this night. Genoa allowed an average
of 14.5 points per game, while Wauseons 7.2
points per game allowed was a steel wall to
opponents. That defense pitched three shutouts during the regular season, including a
61-0 clobbering of NWOAL rival Bryan that
essentially ended their playoff hopes.
That was then. This was win-or-go-home
postseason play, and despite staging the
contest in their own backyards, the semantics were far from lost on the defenders of the
home turf.
Those who were expecting fireworks got
a part of their expectations answered with
a brilliant and loud display during the pregame playing of the Star Spangled Banner by
the combined Genoa and Wauseon Marching Bands. Once the ball was kicked off to
start the game however, the defensive units
of the Indians and the Comets put the kibosh
on any further pyrotechnics. It was a pair of
miscues by the Genoa special teams, and a
huge breakthrough by Peyten Shadbolt and
the Wauseon special teams that turned into

TOUGH GRAB IN TRAFFIC ... Noah Castle of Wauseon reels in a 16-yard pass in tight coverage for a first down.

a 9-7 win for the Indians. If the Tribe would

have cashed in on all their opportunities on
this evening though, the fireworks fanatics
rocking the red would have been ecstatic.
Wauseon won the coin toss and elected
to defer. The Comets elected to receive, while
the hometown boys opted to open play in
defense of the western end zone. The wind
direction flags at the top of both goalposts
registered slight winds, but nothing of consequence.
After receiving the opening kick, Genoa
set up shop on their 30 and immediately
tipped their hand as to how they would attack the Indians defense. The first play was
a handoff to Jacob Wojciechowski, a 5 11
senior fullback who proved to be a major
thorn in the Tribe defense all evening. Wojo
went over left guard, carrying defenders with
him for an instant 14-yard first down. The
Tribe defense held on the next three plays
though, forcing a punt.
Wauseon took over deep in their own territory, and opened with a short run from
quarterback Zac Robinson. Mixing the pass
in with the run, the hometown boys were
able to get the ball out to the 46 before the
drive died. The punt rolled dead on the Genoa 14, and with the Comets being flagged
for holding on the play, they started their
second drive on their own seven.
The Comets got themselves into trouble
on a second and seven from their own ten.
They tried a pitch sweep left, which had previously been successful. This time around, the
Genoa back found a sea of red hemming him
in, so he stopped, gave ground and changed
directions. Looking for the right corner, he
instead found Noah Castle and Derek Rupp
awaiting. With late arriving pursuit from the
backside, the Tribe buried the Comet back
at his own six. Looking at a third and long,

Genoa quarterback Kyle Edwards moved left,

then fired a long pass into double coverage
up the left sideline at the 40. The ball was
nearly picked off, forcing a punt.
Wauseon took over the ball a half yard
shy of the 50, but they were only able to advance the ball to midfield before being forced
to punt. This three-and-out drive was the
home of one of the missed opportunities for
the Tribe. With the offensive line holding a
clean pocket for Robinson, Mason Creager
took off down the near sideline, with Zach
Johnson flying downfield just a shade over
onto the Genoa side of the pasture. Creager
had a full step on his defender, while Johnson had opened up a six-yard gap between
himself and the Genoa deep back. Given the
option, Robinson let fly down the sideline for
the streaking Creager, but led him a touch
too much on the throw, which fell ahead of
his outstretched hands. The Indians were
again forced to kick the ball away with time
winding down in the opening stanza. Genoa
took over at their own six, setting the stage
for what looked to be the first big break of the
game for Wauseon.
Again using Wojciechowski as a battering
ram, the Comets slowly advanced the ball.
After a false start call moved the ball back
to the seven, Edwards tested the middle of
the Wauseon pass defense with a short pass
that went straight into the arms of senior
linebacker Nate Suntken. Wauseon was
flagged for holding on the return though,
and with no time left on the clock, the ball
was marched back to the Genoa 30 for one
final untimed down. Robinson called his own
number for a gain of four that ended a scoreless first period.
The second period started with a false
start that moved the ball back to the 31. A
Jacob Flory run made it third and two, and

a Robinson run made it fourth and a little

more than a foot. Going for it on fourth down,
Suntken was stonewalled by the Genoa front
four, giving them the ball back on their own
22.
From that point, the Comets went back
to work, completely forsaking the aeronautics in favor of blasts between the tackles
by Wojciechowski and sweeps by Donte McClure. Eleven plays after taking over, Wojo
got his touchdown mojo on with a two-yard
rush over right tackle for the first score of
the night. Cody Pickard booted the PAT kick
through with plenty to spare, and with 4:03
left in the half, the hometown boys were facing unfamiliar territorydown by a touchdown with the clock running late in the second period.
After the kickoff, Robinson brought the
offensive unit back onto the field at their own
13. A run by Robinson brought the ball out
just shy of the 20. A pass to Creager fell incomplete, but on third down Robinson found
Castle on the left flat for 16 yards to move the
chains. The Tribe looked to finally be on their
tried and true warpath.
With the Genoa defense reminded that
Robinsons arm was as dangerous as his feet,
the Tribe signal caller and Jacob Flory took
advantage of the Comets trepidation in the
secondary. With Flory on his right looking
like a blocker, Robinson took the snap and
dropped back. Looking to his left, Robinson
waited for the right side of his line to seal
off their men, while the right side of the Genoa defense bought into the snake oil that
Robinson was selling and pulled to their
right in anticipation of the pass. In the three
seconds it took for this to transpire, a huge
hole opened in the center left of the Genoa
defense.
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The trap being sprung,
Robinson gave the ball to
Flory, who took the delayed
handoff to the Genoa 49 for
another first down. Robinson
connected with Creager for
a gain to the 42. On second
down, Robinson was thrown
for a loss, and a third down
pass to Castle fell incomplete
after the Big Indian was waylaid in midair going up for the
ball. The calls for a flag from
the Wauseon faithful went
unanswered, ending the drive
and forcing a fourth and six
punt. As the door closed on
that opportunity, a window
opened to another.
The punt came down to
the Genoa return man near
his own ten, where he opted
to receive it instead of letting
it perchance bounce into the
endzone for a touchbackbig
mistake. The ball did indeed
bounce, but it bounced off the
numbers of the receiver after
it went straight through his
hands. An onrushing Josh
Kauffman, thinking he had
a bead on the receiver, suddenly found himself directly

in the path of a loose football

that was bouncing straight
toward him. The senior cover
man pulled the ball in and
covered it up at the Genoa
16. Served up by the special
teams, another golden opportunity awaited the Tribe
offense with 1:31 left in the
half. This time, they made
good on the chance.
Robinson took a run to
the 12, and then found Jacob
Newlove for a gain to the five
and a first and goal. The next
play, Robinson found Newlove again on a crossing pattern from right to left in the
endzone with 33 seconds left
in the half. The Josh Whitcomb PAT boot tied the game,
and the score remained 7-7
going into the intermission.
Wauseon took the second
half kick and immediately
picked up where they left
off. Robinson connected with
Suntken on a screen that netted 28 yards. After a catch by
Johnson, two runs by Robinson took the ball down to the
Genoa 17. A pass to Johnson
fell incomplete, but a Robin-

Wauseon Defense & Special Teams...

son run took the ball to the

12. A third down pass into
the endzone fell incomplete,
but the Genoa defender was
flagged for pass interference.
The ball was moved to the six,
setting up a first and goal for
the Tribe.
Robinson took the first
down run inside the five to
the two. He tried again, only
to lose a yard. Jacob Flory
took the third down run down
about a foot away from the
goal line. With opportunity
knocking yet again, the Indians were unable to answer as
the exchange between center
and quarterback went awry
on fourth down. As a huge
groan of frustration rose from
the Wauseon fans, the loose
ball was recovered by Robinson at the seven. Having
dodged a lethal bullet, Genoa
took over on downs.
The third period ended
with the score remaining tied
at 7-7, and the war of attrition between the two defenses continued into the fourth
quarter. It would take something special to break the tie,

and again it was the special

teams that made that something special come to pass.
With the clock running
down to six minutes remaining in the game, the Wauseon
defense forced Genoa into
a fourth and three from the
Comets 28. Opting to punt,
the kicker dropped back into
punt formation. He called for
the snap, but instead of the
ball he got a moon shot that
sailed high over his head and
into the end zone. By the time
he was able to get to the end
zone to attempt some type of
desperate save, the ball was
rolling out of the back of the
end zone for a safety. With
6:05 remaining in the game,
Wauseon had their first lead
at 9-7, and they were getting
the ball back to boot.
Once again the Genoa
defense rose to the occasion,
forcing the Tribe to eventually punt the ball away. They
did not score, but Wauseon
did do something to Genoa
on their short drive that was
almost as damaging to the
hopes of the Comet collec-

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tive sap precious time off

the clock.
Taking over the ball with
almost 80 yards to cover and
little time in which to do it,
Genoa returned to the old
alchemy of Wojciechowski
between the tackles, and McClure on sweeps. As it did in
the second period, the formula worked, and Genoa began a time consuming march
downfield. Facing a fourth
and six, a sweep left by McClure netted big yards, bringing the Comets ever closer
to the range of the explosive
leg of Pickard. As the Comets continued to pound Wojo
into the Indian line, the clock
ticked away the seconds, and
the Tribe faithful became ever
more pensive. With under a
minute to go, a third and six
run became a first and ten at
the Wauseon 21, easily within the range of Pickard. McClure took a run down to the
19, and quickly calling his
linemen back to the line, Edwards spiked the ball to stop
the clock. Pickard calmly took
his place to kick what would
be a game winning field goal
with 13.4 seconds left in the
game.
Coach Travis Cooper
used his final two time outs
to ice the Comet kicker.
When play finally resumed,
both teams came to the line
with their seasons in the balance. The decibel level from
the north grandstands rose
to ear-splitting levels as the
crowd took over the TwelfthMan assignment. The call
was made for the ball. The
snap was perfect. The ball
was set, but the thud of a
football being met by a hardswinging foot was met by a
second thudthat of a flying football meeting a foreign
object in midflight. That foreign object was the hand of
Peyten Shadbolt who, along
with Castle, broke through
the left side of the Genoa
line. The outstretched hand
of Shadbolt deflected the
football, sending it bouncing
harmlessly away. The Tribe
had held, and after Robinson
took a knee in the victory
formation, the hometown
boys were celebrating a hard
fought 9-7 win with the Indian faithful that left the last
vestiges of their vocal cords
echoing across the cold Harmon Field turf.
We had the field position, and we had the opportunities, said Coach Cooper
after the game; we just
didnt capitalize on them.
Nate Suntken had some
phenomenal punts, and
that was field position right
there. Nate had strep throat
this week, and missed some
days of practice. He was a

sick kid, but came out and

was big. Those punts alone,
making them have to drive
the football down the field, I
thought that was a big part of
the game.
Were going to have a lot
of sore guys, because Genoa was very, very physical. Coach Cooper continued. We havent seen a team
thats that physical yet. Weve
played some physical teams,
but they gave it everything
that they had. I thought that
Zac (Robinson) did a great job
of handling the heat. We knew
that they were going to key on
him, and he made some plays
when he needed to keeping
the offense going, and keeping the guys up.
Robinson was 11 of 19
through the air for 99 yards
and a score, and he gained
82 yards on 19 carries on the
ground. Flory went 8 times
for 32 yards.
Jacob Newlove grabbed
5 passes for 30 yards and a
touchdown, while Suntken
hauled in a 28 yard pass on
the first play of the second
half. Castle reeled in a pass
for 16 yards, and Creager
landed 2 passes for 13 yards.
Flory caught an 8 yard strike,
and Johnson grabbed a 4
yard pass.
Up next for the Tribe is the
#2 ranked team in Division
IV - Region 12, the Belleview
Redmen, a team that went 2-2
against Division III teams this
year, and also knocked off the
#1 ranked team in Division
V - Region 16, the Huron Tigers. Belleview punched their
ticket by punching out #7
ranked LaGrange Keystone
in a 40-32 slugfest. The semifinal game will take place at
Fremont Ross on November
14 at 7:00.
Timothy Kays can be reached
at tim@thevillagereporter.com

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