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By Kyle Nagel, Staff Writer 1:56 AM Saturday, October 3, 2009

HUBER HEIGHTS — Few Northmont High School football players completely avoided the flu bug this week.

“The guys we can count on,” said coach Lance Schneider, “came to the top this week.”

Two of them are named Ringer. With two interceptions from sophomore Kaleb and 128 rushing yards and two touchdowns by senior Korey, Northmont survived a second-half Wayne rally and won 27-14 on Friday, Oct. 2.

More than 30 Northmont players missed practice this week with flu-like symptoms, and Wayne faced its own injury problems, as star junior quarterback Braxton Miller missed his second straight game with a thigh bruise. In Miller’s place, Wayne started freshman Javon Harrison, who completed 17-of-45 passes for 177 yards but threw five interceptions.

Wayne (3-3) faced a series of misfortunes in the first half, and Northmont (4-2) capitalized. On the opening drive, Kaleb Ringer intercepted and returned 52 yards for a touchdown. Two Warriors possessions later, Wayne failed to score after taking shots from the 2- and 1-yard lines.

Northmont responded with Korey Ringer’s 1-yard score to make it 14-0 with 45 seconds left in the first quarter.

Wayne then drove 15 plays before missing a field goal, and Northmont came back with an 80-yard drive capped by a 13-yard Korey Ringer touchdown. With that, it was 21-0 with 7:22 left in the second quarter.

Wayne scored on a 6-yard run from Harrison on its opening possession of the second half, and Harrison passed 10 yards to Caleb Elkins following a Northmont fumble to climb to within 21-14 with 4:36 left in the third quarter.

The fourth quarter included four combined turnovers, but Northmont held on with an 8-yard touchdown run by Quintin Cooper with 1:33 left to maintain the victory.

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