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Football preview: Sidney
This is another in a series of capsules previewing area high school football for the 2010 season:
SIDNEY (D-II, Region 8)
League: GWOC North
Coach: Dan Cairns (6 years, 13 overall, including 7 at Brookside, Ind.)
2009 record: 3-1, 5-5
Key returners:
Colin Beer, sr., QB/DB
Aaron Burns, sr., RB
TJ Golden, sr., RB
RJ Heins, sr., DB
Tyler Minix, sr., OL/DL
Cole Palmer, sr., WR/DB
Jared Sowders, sr., WR/DB
Devin Yost, sr., OL/DL
Extra points:
No matter what happens this fall, the Yellow Jackets are big-time winners. That’s because Sidney passed its school levy last spring by the slimmest of margins, just one vote. And that was determined on a recount.
What that meant is the pay-to-play price from the ‘09 season dropped from $450 to just $35. The difference was immediate. Last year the program had 60 players in grades 9-12; now there are 110.
Besides the levy win, Sidney finished last season strong, sweeping its final three games and knocking Troy out of the playoffs with a Week 10 OT defeat of the Trojans. Another win and the Jackets would have qualified for the (D-II) playoffs for only the second time in program history.
“Just by our play the last couple years, we’ve brought our level of competition up to the rest of the league,” Cairns said. “We want to compete year in and year out and every now and then get a special class that can make a run at things.”
Despite the graduation of super back Jack Foy, the Jackets are loaded in the backfield, featuring three-year starter Golden. Minix is a force on both lines and is being recruited by Big Ten and MAC programs.
However, the GWOC schedule rotation wasn’t kind. Gone is Miamisburg and Beavercreek, replaced by Northmont and Lebanon, both potential playoff teams. Longtime rivals St. Marys Memorial and Bellefontaine remain locked in Weeks 1-2.
“It really doesn’t matter who you play in the crossover games,” Cairns said. “Any given night we’re going to be undersized and undermanned.”
Perhaps, but no GWOC team is better than the Yellow Jackets in the classroom. For the first time in program history Sidney was anointed academic All-Ohio last season by the OHSAA. The team’s accumulative GPA is compared to other competing schools throughout the state to determine the lofty status, “which we’re extremely proud of,” Cairns said.
“Hopefully, we can continue that tradition and do it again.”
SIDNEY
Fri., Aug. 27 at St. Marys Memorial
Fri., Sept. 3 Bellefontaine
Fri., Sept. 10 Lebanon
Fri., Sept. 17 Northmont
Fri., Sept. 24 at Fairborn
Fri., Oct. 1 at Springboro
Fri., Oct. 8 Vandalia Butler
Fri., Oct. 15 Piqua
Fri., Oct. 22 at Trotwood-Madison
Fri., Oct. 29 at Troy
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By Dan Meyers
August 19, 2010 11:39 AM | Link to this
GOOD LUCK SIDNEY!!!!! I LIVE IN HOUSTON TEXAS NOW LOOKING FORWARD TO WATCHING YOU THIS YEAR. DAN MEYERS
By Tyler
February 11, 2011 12:32 PM | Link to this
sidney sucks balls 0-10