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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Elder 35, Wayne 14, final
UPDATE: Elder got 270 yards and three touchdowns passing from quarterback Mark Miller and 106 rushing yards and four total touchdowns from Ben Coffaro to beat Wayne 35-14 in a Division I, Region 4 quarterfinal at Elder’s The Pit.
Elder led 21-7 at halftime and got two second-half scores from Coffaro, a 5-foot-9, 175-pound junior — a 40-yard completion from Miller on which he did much of the work and a 30-yard run with 8:43 left in the game for Elder’s final score.
Wayne quarterback Braxton Miller finished with 156 yards passing, including a 47-yard scoring toss to Caleb Elkins with 6:05 left.
Wayne finished its season 7-4, and Elder improve to 8-2.
FIRST HALF: Elder scored on its first three possessions, including two scoring passes of 42 and 18 yards by senior quarterback Mark Miller, to take a 21-7 lead at halftime of this Division I, Region 4 football quarterfinal at Elder’s The Pit.
Wayne scored on its fourth play when quarterback Braxton Miller took a keeper 61 yards for a touchdown and a 7-0 lead with 10:44 left in the first quarter.
On its next three possessions, Elder got a 52-yard pass from Miller to Tim O’Conner, an 18-yard pass from Miller to Ben Coffaro and a 10-yard Coffaro run to go up 21-7 with 10:52 left in the second quarter.
Wayne stumbled offensively, but the Warriors were also able to hold Elder for the remainder of the half.
Elder’s Miller finished the first half 13-of-18 passing for 175 yards and two touchdowns. Wayne’s Miller has 49 yards passing and 55 rushing following several losses.
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TweetNuggets from state cross country
Here’s some news, nuggets and names to wrap up the boys and girls high school state cross country championships held at Scioto Downs in Columbus on Saturday, Nov. 7:
• If you weren’t at the cross country championships Saturday, you still might have known Cleveland St. Ignatius won the Division I boys title. Ignatius’ wild and enthusiastic student cheering section — complete with three St. Ignatius flags waving them to victory — blasted out the school song and chanted ‘State Champ!’ with gusto.
• Mason junior Zach Wills repeated as the D-I champ in 15 minutes, 45.11 seconds. That was slower compared to his 2008 time of 15:15.66.
• Among other local finishers in D-I, Butler senior Doug Norris was 44th, Carroll junior Chadd Kiggins 48th and Fairborn sophomore Jordan Redd 53rd.
• Peninsula Woodridge won the D-II boys title and Bay Village Bay junior Michael Brajdic won the individual title.
• Eaton junior Todd Hewitt just missed All-Ohio honors (top-15 finish) in the D-II boys meet. He clocked in at 17th, a second behind the cutoff. Clinton-Massie senior Myles Corcoran and Tippecanoe freshman Sam Wharton also logged top-25 finishes.
• Independence claimed the D-III boys title and individual title with sophomore Ryan Polman.
• Bethel senior Brandon Graves finished in the top 25.
• Russia’s boys finished 8th in the D-II boys meet, with New Bremen (11th) and St. Henry (12th) close behind.
• Springboro’s girls, runner-up in the D-I meet, returns six of its top seven runners next season: freshman Rachael Mahle (11th), junior Carly Hamilton (18th), junior Alex Mahle (76th), freshman Lycia Hollon (84th), freshman Sarah Smith (111) and sophomore Heather Baruxes (121). Senior Katie Kessler was 30th.
“We basically said to win state we‘re really going to have to step it up,” Springboro coach Ron Rohrer said. “We tried to be realistic with them but we knew we had a good shot at runner-up. … They all stepped up and did it.”
• Sylvania Northview senior Meredith Wagner won the girls D-I title.
• Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary won the girls D-II title and Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy junior Christina Blair took the individual title.
• Chaminade Julienne senior Lizzie Gleason (16th) and Alter sophomore Grace Untener (17th) just missed podium finishes by one second.
• Alter’s girls logged the best D-II finish at fifth, led by Untener and sophomore Olivia Albers (25th). Coldwater was sixth, Greenon eighth, Carroll 13th and Bellbrook, making its first state appearance in girls cross country, 15th.
• When Minster freshman Natalie Fausey led the Wildcats to their eighth state title and second straight in D-III, it marked the first time all season she finished first among her teammates.
“She’s run well all year,” said Minster coach Jessica Magoto. “She just had that extra umph and that courage to go out there.”
Magoto admitted the carefree and practical-joking Wildcats had her a bit nervous before the state meet with their attitude.
“Let me tell you, they almost killed me,” Magoto said. “They like to have a lot of fun and I was worried they wouldn’t know when to stop having fun and focus. Spending time with them Friday I was really, really nervous, that I was telling them remember what you‘re coming here for. Remember what the focus is. The fun comes after the race.”
Magoto thought quiet and reserved Fausey wasn’t one of the ring leaders. Oops.
“The girls were telling me she’s one of the craziest of all,” Magoto said.
That brought a smile to Fausey’s face.
“Yeah, I’m quiet around her but the whole team is pretty wild though,” said Fausey, who has two older sisters that also won state cross country titles with Minster.
• Xenia Christian freshman Bethany Norman finished 24th to crack the top 25.
• West Liberty-Salem also competed as a team and finished fifth.
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TweetCenterville wins girls soccer regional final against Wayne
BELLBROOK — The Centerville High School girls soccer team scored two goals in the final 7:35 to rally and defeat Wayne 2-1 in a Division I regional final on Saturday, Nov. 7, at Bellbrook High School.
Wayne (20-2) took a 1-0 lead with 3:04 left in the first half on a goal by Nichole Stewart that bent from left to right and curled into the right side of the goal.
The Warriors held that lead until 7:35 remained in the game, when Centerville’s Claire Falknor took the Wayne keeper away from the goal while handling the ball and passed into the middle to teammate Kacie Kumar, who scored into the unattended net.
Centerville (20-1-1) set the final margin on a goal from Delaney Thompson with 1:43 left. Elks junior Fallon Vaughan sent a pass into Thompson on the right side of the goal, and Thompson headed it through for the final score.
Centerville will play in a state semifinal for the first time since 1998 in the hope of making its first state final appearance since ‘94.
The Elks will face the winner of Dublin Coffman and Upper Arlington at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The site, as scheduled now, will be Hilliard Bradley High School.
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