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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Streakers
Coldwater owns the area’s longest football winning streak, 18. The Cavaliers haven’t lost since a Week 2 defeat to Marion Local last season.
Next best is, surprisingly, Beavercreek with 9. However, that’s because the Beavers have never advanced to the playoffs. Creek won its last four games in ’07 and take a 5-0 record to Fairmont on Friday, Sept. 26.
Of course, for those teams that do qualify for the postseason, the only way their seasons don’t end with a loss is to run the table and win a state title.
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Kiper loves area college players
The “Hairdo” is impressed with Miami Valley high school football.
ESPN NFL draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. — famous for his helmet-hard ‘do — lists his top five senior and junior college football players/NFL prospects at various positions.
Some highlights:
Among senior tailbacks, Kiper has Michigan State’s Javon Ringer (Chaminade-Julienne) at No. 1. Among senior fullbacks is Louisville’s Brock Bolen (Valley View) at No. 3.
In the senior outside linebacker category, Kiper lists Ohio State’s Marcus Freeman (Wayne) at No. 3. At senior cornerback, Cincinnati’s Mike Mickens (Wayne) is No. 4.
Finally, among junior safeties, Kiper lists Wisconsin’s Shane Carter (Troy) at No. 5.
I’m not sure what the record is for area players drafted in a year by the NFL, but I’m guessing the 2009 class will break it.
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Still looking
And then there were 10.
That’s how many winless football teams remain in the area midway through the regular season. Yellow Springs, Bethel and Indian Lake posted their first wins last week.
The Bulldogs (1-4) leaned on some final-minute dramatics. Ridgemont scored with two minutes left to lead 22-20. YS struck back with a 54-yard strike from Ryan Newsome to Raphael Allen. That put kicker Joe Fugate in field goal range, and he delivered a game-winning 22-yarder with 25.8 seconds left.
Bethel beat National Trail 24-21 in a battle of winless Cross County Conference rivals and Indian Lake stunned Bellefontaine 14-7 in a Central Buckeye Conference game. The Chieftains were 9-2 last season, falling only to unbeaten Tippecanoe in the regular season and in their D-III opening playoff game to Shelby.
Ten still looking for wins: Belmont, Bradford, Jefferson, Marshall, Monroe, National Trail, Stebbins, Trotwood-Madison, Vandalia Butler and West Carrollton. All are 0-5 except Belmont and Jefferson, both 0-4.
National Trail has has the longest running losing streak at 26. Stebbins is next at 15.
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