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GRANVILLE SENTINEL-Wednesday, OctoberPage 13Score First Tune With Ball, Two Field Goals By PiperBlue Aces Coast ByW-M (Yawn!) 13Subduing Watkins-Memorial 13-0 Friday night, Granville High School kept a tight grip 011 first place in the Licking County League with its fourth victory of the season, all wins coming against LCL opposition.Here to provide the opposition in GHS' Homecoming festivities, the Warriors from the west, proved troublesome throughout, but never were really in contention after the Blue Aces first got their hands on the ball when they received the opening kick-off.Felumlee ShinesRon Felumlee, senior halfback, gave his best performance of the season as he averaged over five yards in the 13 times he carried the ball and hauled in two Kim Girkins passes, one of which covered 65 yards, although 1 5 of those yards were chopped off on a clipping penalty on the play.Dave Piper, another senior, booted two field goals, bothLCL StandingsGame StatisticsGHSWMTotal Yds. Gained239158Yds. Gained Rush.13599Yds. Gained Pass.10459Passes Attempted1712Passes Completed74Passes Intercept.12Yds. Penalized9955Fumbles02Team OverallWLGRANVILLE (4 0)40L. Valley (3 1-1)30Lakewood (4-1)31Watkins M. (4-2)32Heath (3 2)22Northridge (3-3)23Utica (14)12Johnstown (1-5)14L. Heights (0-6)05from 35yards out, and turnedadded aJunior Danaconversion ana turned in another of his excellent defensive shows as he spent most of the evening messing things up in the Warrior balt;Hartman’s fine defensive play throughout and Jerry Black-stone's key recovery of a Watkins fumble on the Aces' five yard line were other spelling final doom for the visitors.Aces Get Early TD Winning the loss, and electing to receive, GHS used up seven minutes and ten seconds of firstat the line of scrimmage and the Warriors were not to threatenagain.Late in the fourth quarter, after a Granville drive had stalled on the Warrior 15, Piper registered his second 35-yard field goal to post the final score 1 3-0. on the board, and seconds later, with 1:20 remaining in the game C oach Jerry Sheets cleared his bench, letting the reserves run out the clock inside the WatkinsI his week the Blue Aces visit Summit Station where they meet winlessquarter playing time on atouchdown drive, longest in the march, turning be a 15-yard clippingthe Pataskalaplay“gainerout topenalty against eleven. !■■■clipping infraction, however, couldn’t have been more opportune from the local point of view inasmuch as the Aces’ push had stalled at mid-field and the penalty came on Lee Bowman’s kick, thus keeping the drive alive.jHThe Blue | worked |itl into a ^first and goal situation on the own 15 with 1:40 showing on Watkins three, from where Fel- the clock.points andfor curiousTwo plays later Blackstonejarred the ball away from Wat-kin s sophomore quarterback,Mike Beal to thwart the threat.Three plays after taking over on their own 16, Girkins threw astrike to Felumlee on the Granville 45 and it looked like the fleet halfback was going all the way until he was overhauled by the fleeter Mike Truex who hooked Felumlee’s belt and dragged him down on the Warrior’s 21.Piper BootsUnable to move and facedwith |ai fourth |and three situa- §tion, Piper booted his first field jn second place by the time of aoal, the ball spotted on the their Granville visit, Oct. 19.Watkins' 25.Although Watkins worked the ball into the Granville 26 on their next series, three, straight fumbles stalled them and the Aces took over.When the Aces couldn’t advance, Watkins came charging back to the Granville 29, this time were set back to their own 41 on a 15-yard penalty, andafter the fourth-down kick theAces had it first and ten on their■■■who were bombed by Heath54-0 Friday.Next week it’ll be the Aces and Licking Valley, the Panthers currently closest in pursuit of front-running Granville.But inasmuch as Valley tan-with Heath this week, the Panthers may or may notScoring Summary1st QuarterGranville: Touchdown, MarkBowman, 1-yd. run;PAT, Piper, place-kick.2nd Quarter Granville: Field Goal, Piper,35-yds. (10-0)4th QuarterGranville: Field goal, Piper,35-yds. (10-0)Score by Quartersumlee picked up two and Mark Bowman, junior fullback, slammed into the end zone. Piper added the extra point on a place kick, and it was 7-0.Neither Watkins nor Granville could make the sticks their next two times with the bail and as the quarter ended with Watkins punting, Granville returned a favor, got caught on a clip on the punt-play to give the Warriors another crack, and on theplay Don Donovan brokeside for 24Ahead by 10taking to the air reasons, Steve Vint picked off aGirkins I; passonly to have Warrior halfback, Tom Lee, fumble the ball back to Granville on the next play.Taking over again, and still passing, but going nowwhere,Lee Bowman punted to mid-field as the half ran outEarly in the third quarter, the Warriors were to drive clear into the Granville five, but there on a fourth and five, Dave Gage ended all that with a crashing tackleon the local 30,the | ^yards as a first down on the Aces' 16 yard line.GHS\NMi234F730313000001971 BLUE ACESFootball Schedule4GHS 15 GHS 35 GHS 7 AGHS13 GHS 13AflLLERSPORT 28Johnstown 12 .Heath 18 9 TRI-VALLEY 201 Lakewood 10 * Watkins Mem. 0tOct. 29 f Nov. 5Licking Valleyat Utica1GHS Wins LCLX-CountryGranville’s Jiti. Cooper finished in 10:34 to take first place in the Licking County League cross country meet, won for the first time by GHS, after two straight second place finishes behind Heath.Teammate Andy Woodring’s10:50 gave the Aces a solid one-two effort and the crownI Nov! 12 .!.. !! Northridge I with 26 P°ints- Granville finish-Nite)Last Week With G HS 0 pponentslLick.Valley 14Johnstown 6Northridge 22 Utica 20Heath 54 Lick. Hts. 0Gun Club MeetsThe Granville Gun Club met Saturday Oct. 16 at Ralph Donaldson’s shooting range, Rt. 3, Newark for a course in gunsafety under the direction of the Ohio Division of Wild Life.Instructor Brian Simpson, with the assistance of William Boltres, demonstrated the shooting of different caliber guns. Alter receiving their instruction, 29 local boys and girls passed a written test and were presented with wild life safe hunter stickers.All teenagers interested in the Gun Club should attend their meeting at the Granville PublicLibrary on Thursday Oct. 21 at 7:00 p.m. or contact Pettet.ed with four runners among the top ten, including Jim Apollonioin 11:06 and Doug Weber in 11 ;12._GHS Grid Re-Cap(Statistics: David Marshall)Six GamesScoring by QuartersTot.GHS 7 31 21 49 108 Opp. 8 30 19 31 88Total Yards Rush Yardage Pass Y ardage Passes Att. Passes Comp.InterceptedFirst Downs Penalties Fumbles Rec.GHSOPP13431403565875778528126916238988278303267159Individual ScoringPlayerTD'sTotM. Bowman60036Scon36024Piper17322Girkins22014L. Bowman1006Smith1006
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Granville Sentinel
Granville, Ohio, US
Wed, Oct 20, 1971
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