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Aerials Not Enough As GHS Rushing FizzlesDenman9Tri-VfllW1 11 » aliC jThump GHS 20-7A bout the best to be said for the football game in Dresdenbears not at allLicking County League flag scrambleLCL StandingsTeam OverallWLLakewood (4*0)30Wat.Mem.(4-0)30Granville(2-2)20Lick.Valy (1-1-1)10Utica(1-2)01North ridge (2-2)12Heath (1-2)02Johnstown (0-4)03Lick. Hts.(0-4)03scrappy, fine-executing Tri Valley eleven, capitalizing man snatched it on his own oneand seemed on touchdown-landon Granville mental and physical errors and, led by probably the best all-around player to antagonize GHS this fall, passed and ran Granville into a 20-7 pasting to the Mark Bowman, GHS linebacker-the way to when I overtaken on the Granville 41 by[ GHS GRID RE-CAp”-(Statistics: David Marshall)I First 4 gamesScoring by Quarters1 23 4Tot.GHS 0 2121 4082Opp. 8 2019 3178GHSOpp.Total Y ards925943Rush Yardage415618Pass Yardage510325Passes Att.8055Passes Comp.42231 ntercepted48First Downs5951Penalties182165Fumblq? v76than 2500 homecoming fansGame StatisticsGHS In Game TwiceOnly twice in the game did the GHS seem interested in winning a game; they scored on one of those occasions, failed to on the other.Driven to the air by piteously porous line-play that throttled any ground offensive, Kim Gir-kins twice passed the Aces to or inside the Scottie ten yard line.Only seconds into the second period, the big Granville quarter scored.the only GHS TD, him-self, on a keeper from the ten, by gold-jersies crawling overbut, after travelling 93 yards to wm wobbled a desperation passthe Scottie four, early in the to no one ™ particular and thefourth Quarter Girkins, infested Aces No. 1-tormentor, Don Den-GHSTVTotal Yds.'Gained189331Yds.-Gained Rushing51220Yds.-Gained Passing139111First Downs1214Passes Attempted2717Passes Completed129Intercepted13Fumbles23Fumbles Lost21IGRAMfullback.Girkins Goes InScotties Move on GroundThe Scotties, who were toOnly four minutes and twen- ultimately run up 230 rushing ty-one seconds and 11 plays had yards against the listless Aces’ been required for Granville’s defense, had not fared too well first and only score. Getting the on the ground themselves midball on a punt on their own 27, way in the second quarter whenGirkins, with his team unable toSkip” Mohler, running betweenmove over the ground, fired four Denman passesysparked the Scot-completions two to his favorite receiver, Steve Scott, and one each to Lee Bowman and Ron Felumlee moving to the Scottie ten from where he went in on a keeper, with Dave Piper converting on a place-kick. The aerials accounted for 59 yards in the drive that began with 3:30 left in the first quarter and ended only 51 seconds into the second, and Granville hopes were high.ties to the Granville 24, one play before the half ended.The Scotties went back to work on the ground after taking the Aces’ second-half kick-off, and, on a first and 10 situation on the GHS 49, Denman shot off tackle, went all the way for the Scotties’ third (and last) TD, Piper having the last crack at the fly in’ Scot around the GHS 40.Local hopes got their second and final lift near the end of theBut three minutes later TV’s third quarter when Scott thwart-clever quarterback, Denman, ed a Scottie penetration that had deep in a “shotgun” formation, carried to the Aces’ 24. Den-used only eight plays, passing man’s aerial, headed for Wisecar-and running the Scotties 70 ver, was intercepted by Scott yards, and taking the ball over, almost on the goal line and heback | to | thebeinghimself, from the two to give the fought his wayGranville three beforehometownersa 14-7 lead.Tri-Valley had scored first, midway in the first quarter when, after driving from their own 33 to the Granville 23, Denman fired to his rangy end, Dan Wisecarver, who outfought three Granville defenders for the ball and scored. Denman added the two-point conversion on a keeper, as he would on two more occasions, but with no success.brought down.GHS Drive From ThreeIn three plays the Aces had moved nine+ yards and on a fourth and inches Piper got the desperation first down. A Girkins to Scott pass was good for 14 and another FD, another pass to Scott collected six yards a third Girkins pass was speared by Lee Bowman for 16 yardsafter Scottie Rick Smith had(Continued on Page 14, col. 2)
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Granville Sentinel
Granville, Ohio, US
Wed, Oct 06, 1971
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