Week 4: oakhill (0-3)@wellston (1-2)

[jungle cat]

Oak Hill gets another L in the win lost Colum. Golden Rockets 42 - 6.
I can only remember a few Years the Oaks had winning seasons other than the last few.

[oneoak]

From the Jackson Chamber of Commerce website

"It appears that Oak Hill fielded their first ever team in 1919 and quickly found success on the gridiron, going 18-3-1 from 1920 through 1922, including wins over Jackson and Wellston and two of the three losses to the powerful teams from Gallipolis. In matter of fact, after an 0-2 season in 1919, Oak Hill posted six straight winning seasons, something that would not happen again for nearly 70 years.

The Oaks, as is their nickname, did not have the advantage of a stable high school league to play in like Jackson and Wellston, although Oak Hill did try to join the SEOAL in 1937.

Oak Hill's first league was the Big Six Conference, of which they were a member from 1933 through 1938, the six years the conference existed.

They were charter members of the Southeastern Ohio Buckeye League in 1946, and remained there for two years, then in 1953 were charter members of the Ohio Valley Conference, a league made up primarily of Lawrence County teams and were a member of that conference until 1984, when they felt they could not longer be competitive with the bigger Lawrence County schools.

Oak Hill shared three conference titles in their 30 years in the league.

In 1986, Oak Hill joined the Southern Valley Athletic Conference with predominantly Gallia and Meigs county schools, and also hired Jeff Conroy to be their new head coach. Instant success was found by both.

Conroy was 37-3 in his four years at Oak Hill, and won first 21 league games and three league titles. Scott Bartholomew continued the tradition and had no losing seasons in his eight years at Oak Hill and posted an all-time winning record of 52-28 as in 1992 Oak Hill moved into the Southern Ohio Conference.

From 1986 through 2001, Oak Hill had but one losing season in 16 years."

[Rocketfan88]

Wellston defense held a very good Oak Hill team under 100 yds. passing in last years match-up. I dont think many teams can make that claim. Wellston defense is a little better this year. And in the second half of the gallipolis game Wellstons offense found something they could build from. Need to work on some P.A.T.s in this match-up. Wellston wins this one 33-7 Hoping for an injury free game!!

[96stroker]

wellston by alot game over by halftime 48-13 final

[jungle cat]

Wellston smashs the Oaks this year 46 - 0.

[bryanc45]

I want to ask something i can't remember who it was said the oaks never made the playoffs we went to playoffs last year if I remember.

[Eye Lander]

Hey a blind Turkey could find a acorn under a Oak tree every once in a while as well. I think the big scores (running it up) from last year in still in everyone minds. I think sometime you have to act like you been there even if you havent.

[Downtown]

Because they really ran up the score on Wellston, beating them 21-8. It's not like Wellston ever beat Oak Hill 77-14 or anything like that.

[gunit]

Oaks back down to reality this year. The talent they had last year does not come around very often. The Oaks should be competitive in a few SOC I games this year.

Good Luck to both teams on an injury free game

[Charles Farquar]

The Oaks went to the playoffs the last two years being Regional Runner last year. As for running the scores up, one of the things the coaching staff was concerned with was that the first team really never played a full game in a lot of those games. They started being pulled in some of those games before half time. It concerned the coaching staff because of conditioning and not having a lot of game reps going into the playoffs. Im not around Oak Hill anymore but dont let Jungle Cat get to you, in the years I was there he would always emerge out of the woodwork to try to torment, like the little brat that pops up to stick his tongue out and wave his years at you once in awhile. A case of real case of Oak Tree phobia or maybe just an inadequate feeling related to BIG WOOD envy.

[camnott]

I think the rockets will take out some frustration and pile up the numbers this weekend.

[4thgoal]

I just hate that individuals get on Oak Hill about their program. They have always been successful, they just haven't made the playoffs. And, with their size, enrollment wise, they're a tweener school. Too big to be in a small division, too small to be in a big division.

I copied this from a thread in the basketball forum (they SOC is divided for basketball below), but if you look at the numbers, Oak Hill really isn't that small. They are bigger than Burg, Valley and way bigger than all the schools in the SOC1 in football.

SOC - 1 Boys/Girls
Symmes Valley 96 / 83
Western 92 / 69
Eastern 90 / 76
Sciotoville 74 / 70
Clay 65 /71
Green 64 / 66
New Boston 53 / 48
Notre Dame 37/ 48

SOC - 2 Boys / Girls
Waverly 235 / 226
Northwest 187/158
Minford 187/ 154
West 162 / 182
Oak Hill 160 / 156
Wheelersburg 155 / 142
Valley 126 /135
South Webster 108 / 99

Some others:
Jackson 295 / 282
Fairland 235 / 193
Wellston 188 / 192
Chesapeake 187 / 175
Piketon 179/ 192
Portsmouth 179 /156
Ironton 174/161
Rock Hill 170 /179
Dawson Bryant 136/ 147
South Gallia 91 / 100
Ironton St. Joe 17 / 18

[Downtown]

They are much larger than Wheelersburg. Five boys are so many now-a-days. It's actually only been like this for two years. Oak Hill two years ago had 134 boys in the high school compared to Burgs what? Right around 165-170?

[The _Big_One]

It's game day, let's get back on the winning track rockets!!!!

[4thgoal]

They are much larger than Wheelersburg. Five boys are so many now-a-days. It's actually only been like this for two years. Oak Hill two years ago had 134 boys in the high school compared to Burgs what? Right around 165-170?

Oak Hill's enrollment number for boys went from 145 (2009) to 160 (2011) and Burg went from 150 to 155. My only point is that Oak Hill isn't that small for D5 compared to other schools in the area such as Burg and Valley. Valley actually took the big hit going from 152 (2009) to 126 (2011).

[Billybobb]

Prater and the rockets roll in this one

[HDRider70]

Does anyone have an update? Score?

[Dundas]

I heard Wellston was up 13-6 in the second.

[Dundas]

Wellston-26
Oak Hill-12

[gorockets2]

Wellston-44
Oak hill-18
That was with 10:00 min left in the forth when I left.