Week 1 - Trimble at Nelsonville

[FANOSPORTS]

Ready's best player is out for the year with an injury. They usually roll Franklin Heights... Bucks can and will win. NC is not the NC of old. Buckeyes will give them a southern Ohio welcome to hard nosed football! Best of luck!

This is the first real intelligent post from a N-Y fan I've read in awhile. He know's about the injuries, knows Ready beats Franklin Heights almost always and is not spouting off about how great and powerful the Bucks are, he knows the Newark Catholic is not as formidable here in the few years since their last state championship and is expecting to win as you should on your home turf. I especially like the reference of "giving them a southern ohio welcome". Great post :aaaaa41

[pbuck]

Man what a night.... I was very pleased on how well we played tonight up front on both sides of the ball looked solid. Our D was tremendous all night long especially our secondary which has been a question mark the last few years I know we gave up a few catches & a td toss but we had tight solid coverage the majority & up the middle vs the run is stingy. On Offense we moved the ball at will our bread & butter the ground & pound game looked superb ... passing game needs some work Dean made good descision but a few of his passes were high but I feel that was nerves & rust but will get it together & also we gotta clean up the turnovers. All things considered a great game & effort from both teams I feel the better team won way to go Bucks .... Will be ready for the Green Wave there gonna be a formittable foe but a great test for us & if we play sound football will be in a position to get a W IMO

[nerkfan]

Ready's best player is out for the year with an injury. They usually roll Franklin Heights... Bucks can and will win. NC is not the NC of old. Buckeyes will give them a southern Ohio welcome to hard nosed football! Best of luck!

You are correct NC hasn't been the NC of old the past several years but this team looks to be heading in the right direction. I give NY the edge in this game. This is a true measuring stick for NC.

[91Buckeye]

It's gonna be a fun one to watch. Can't wait.

[NYF]

NY over 300yds of total "O". Held the cats to under 100yds. Great job by that NY "D". They were all over the place. WOW the hits were unreal. Every play you heard the pads cracking.
The Offensive line played great, Young 200 yards rushing, Cunningham 75 yards rushing.
Fumbles killed the Buckeyes. Should of scored 2 times in the first half. Regardless, typical NY Trimble game, hard hitting to the last second. Good luck to both teams next wk.

[Rutterkickballer]

The Gambler sure did a great job keeping the Buckeyes off balance all night. He really fooled them when he chose to punt with 1:30 to go in the game and down by 8 points. I think he fooled everyone in the park.....WOW TIMMY!

[NYBuckeye96]

http://www.athensmessenger.com

Another classic
Young helps Buckeyes edge Tomcats

By KEVIN WISEMAN
Messenger sports editor

NELSONVILLE — As another classic Trimble- Nelsonville-York football game was unfolding, the Buckeyes’ next big-time running back emerged.

Junior Dustin Young led a Buckeyes’ surge in the fourth quarter, stealing a win away from the Tomcats for the second season in a row. Young finished with 33 carries and 201 yards, as the Buckeyes posted a 14-6 victory at Boston Field.

For fans wondering how the Buckeyes would replace two-time all-state running back Derek Arnold, Young provided an emphatic answer.

“Anytime we graduate a young man like Derek it’s hard to replace him. He was a great kid,” Nelsonville-York head coach Dave Boston Jr. said. “This young man (Young) has waited and it’s his turn now.”

It was ultimately Young’s effort, combined with a stellar defense, that gave the Buckeyes their third win in a row in the series. Young had 11 carries for 62 yards in the fourth quarter alone, a quarter that saw the Buckeyes outscore the Tomcats 14-0.

“He worked hard in the offseason,” Boston said. “He worked on speed, worked on strength. He’s a tremendous kid and he’s going to give us 100 percent just like Derek did and we expect big things from him.”

While Young shined, the Nelsonville-York defense was able to contain Trimble’s all-state senior running back Tyler Dyla, who finished with 11 carries and 39 yards.

The 39 yards was a number that even Boston didn’t see coming.

“He’s a great back,” Boston said. “But we have a very experienced defense back and most of those guys played against him last year and did the same things. We felt we had contain tonight. Our kids did a little better job then even we thought we might tonight.”

The Buckeyes ended the game with a huge statistical advantage, they outgained Trimble 301 to 84 yards, but had to claw out the win late.

Trimble held a 6-0 lead going into the fourth quarter, but could- n’t keep the Buckeyes off the scoreboard in the final 12 min-utes. The Buckeyes pieced together two scoring drives that went a combined 47 yards. The first drive started on Trimble’s 21-yard line after the Tomcats were guilty of a 15-yard personal foul after a punt.

It took the Buckeyes six plays from there to tie the game, with Young scoring from seven yards out with 10:29 to play. Young car- ried the ball five times on the scor- ing drive for 18 yards.

Nathan Dean’s extra point was blocked, keeping the Tomcats tied.

The Buckeyes defense got the ball back, and continued to feed the ball to Young. He got four carries in a row before a two-play sequence that went a long way toward decided the game.

With the Buckeyes facing 4th- and-4 at the Trimble 40-yard line, Young got the ball on a pitch out to the left side. The Tomcats defense was there, allowing only a yard and getting the ball back in a tie game with 5:07 to play.

It was Dyla’s turn, and the next play, he took the ball outside left tackle for Trimble. He was met by a Buckeye defender, and tried to reverse field. Only more Buckeye defenders awaited him, forcing him to continue to retreat in the wrong direction.

As the Buckeyes caught him on the 26-yard line, Dyla lost the ball and Nelsonville-York’s Dillon Knippa recovered the fumble. Not only did the Tomcats lose the ball, but they lost 13 yards in field position on the play. The stunning turnaround shifted the momentum squarely in the Buckeyes’ favor with 4:56 to play.

“You get the ball to your best offensive player,” Trimble head coach Phil Faires said. “He’s just trying to make something happen. I’m sure he wishes he had it back but give him credit for trying to make something big happen. You live with it and learn.”

The Buckeyes scored four running plays later on Isaiah Andrews’ 1-yard plunge. Dean hit Young in the back of the end zone for a two-point conversion, and the Buckeyes led 14-6 with 3:03 left.

“Gave them the ball in real good field position,” Faires said. “Got them fired up a little bit. They took advantage of it. Our defense was on the field for a long time. That makes a big difference.”

The Tomcats didn’t get a first down on their ensuing drive, electing to punt on 4th-and-11 from their own 11-yard line with 1:35 left with two timeouts left.

Young iced the game from there with 32 yards rushing on two plays, allowing the Buckeyes to take a knee.

“We put it all together there at the end of the ball game and didn’t want to lose,” Boston said.

It was a bitter pill for the Tomcats to swallow. A season ago, they lost a 7-6 game that saw Nelsonville-York score with just over a minute to play. Friday, they managed to take a lead into the fourth quarter but couldn’t close the win.

Faires said Trimble will learn from the loss and move on.

“We’re going to watch the film and as soon as we pull it out of the player, we’re going to forget about it,” he said. “We tried to tell them the last time we lost in Nelsonville we went 8-2 and beat Caldwell in the playoffs. Not once did we think about the Nelsonville loss at that time.”

The Tomcats dodged bullets for the entire first three quarters, recovering two fumbles to end Nelsonville-York drives.

Trimble’s scoring drive was a 13- play drive in the third quarter that concluded with Charles Kish finding Austin North in the end zone for a 12-yard score.

In the end, it was another comeback win to start the season for the Buckeyes over Trimble.

“It always feels good when you get that first win,” Boston said. “It being Trimble, right over the hill from us, these young men know each other. They fight hard on this night then they talk for a lifetime. It’s a great rival. It’s a fierce rival. You probably won’t find a rival football game that’s anymore physical than this one right here.”

[NYBuckeye96]

Trimble will dominate a lot of games this season on their schedule. Wahama should be a good game next week. Coal Grove should be a good game in Week 4.

The Tomcats will probably run all over everybody else on their schedule. The sad thing is that the three best teams on the Trimble schedule were teams played in Weeks 1, 2, and 4. The final six weeks of the season will do nothing to prepare Trimble for a game against a playoff team in Week 11, should the Tomcats make the playoffs. But that's life in the TVC Hocking I guess.

NY also has a top-heavy schedule, but beating bigger schools in the TVC OHIO does wonders for playoff points for the Buckeyes, and overall year in and year out, the Ohio schools are more competitive than the Hocking schools. I'm surprised Trimble has never tried to join the TVC Ohio. That would be a better move to make a run in the D VI playoffs.

[Green Beagle]

The Gambler sure did a great job keeping the Buckeyes off balance all night. He really fooled them when he chose to punt with 1:30 to go in the game and down by 8 points. I think he fooled everyone in the park.....WOW TIMMY!

You got to know when to hold them, Know when to fold them, know when to walk away and know when to punt! Take away the 60 yard drive to open the second half and they have 24 yards total offense! Gambler, dr.phil...wow timmy!