Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 134, Number 43, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 25 October 2012 — Page 6

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Seventh grade football champions

For the second year in a row, the North Wood seventh grade football team captured the Big 11 Championship. They defeated Penn Discovery in the championship game by a score of 36-0. Bryaton Yoder started the scoring for North Wood with a 34-yard touchdown run. Caleb Lung added a kick to make it 8-0. Yoder then scored from 57 yards out and with another Lung kick, North Wood led 16-0. Yoder added a 58-yard punt return injhe second quarter. William Ingle closed out the half with a 49-yard interceptiorTreturn for a touchdown to make it 30-0 at halftime. Yoder ran 32 yards for a touchdown in the second half to cap the scoring. Jacob Chupp led the defense with 10 tackles. Brendon Kaser had six tackles, Bailey Peacher and Evan Bonne had five while Payton Bear had four. The Panthers averaged 39 points per game and had a school-record five shutouts. The 7th grade program is 22-2 over the past three year with back-to-back Big 11 championships.

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34 with the football dutched securely in his grasp. Blake Cleveland promptly bolted 22 yards up the middle to the Rockie 13, but the defense stiffened and it took the Panthers four plays to earn another first down at the Plymouth three-yard line. After three straight rushes netted just two plus yards, Hoover sent out the field goal unit and despite an attempt to "ice" the Panther kicker, the cool-as the-other-side-of-the-pillow Widner calmly drilled the football from the steady hands of holder'?*fitfj Sauceda and through the uprights, giving North Wood a 15-12 lead with 39.5 seconds remaining. "1 wasn't worried about the icing," said a happy and relatively clean Widner after the

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game. "1 just wanted to put it through for the team. The team means the most to me." After another towering kick by Widner, an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Plymouth on the kickoff and a holding penalty on the first play left the Rockies at their own three-yard line with )ust 25 seconds remaining. One play later, Smith sacked backup quarterback Jack Barron in the end zone for a safety for the final 17-13 margin, setting off a raucous celebration by the NbrthWood students who joined the team in the mud on the field for a rousing rendition of the school fight song. "I'm really proud of how our guys came back after a very poor start," said a soakingwet but beaming Hoover. "It would have

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NORTHWOOD 36, PENN DISCOVERY 0 From left (above) are North Wood’s seventh grade champions: first row Ty Grimm, Alex Mullins, Spencer Brubacher. Bryce Sowers, Zach Royster, Tanner Demien, Matthew Thornton, Sawyer Warren, and Hunter Warren; second row Connor Swihart, William Ingle, Jarrett Spahr, Brant Mast, Anthony Sheron, Cooper Stillson, Micah Pippenger, Jordan BeMiller, and Cameron Hershberger; third row Landen Gessinger, Preston King, Ethan Hochstetler, Lane Flowers, Zach Hunting, Cooper Middaugh, Cole Fuller, Cole Minder, Blake Germann, and Payton Bear; fourth row Jack Phipps, Jacob Chupp, Brayton Yoder, Bailey Peachey, Mason Shafer, Chayse Sheets, Trenton Callihan, Juan Pantoja, and Austin McCuen; fifth row James Fisher, Tyler Hahn, Rashan Nisly, Micah Lehman, Randy Kauffman, Evan Bonne, Cade Henschen, Nate Mikel, Brendon Kaser, and Caleb Lung; and sixth row assistant coach Brooks Blosser, assistant coach Steve Sherk, and head coach Bob Bilinski. Not pictured is assistant coach Randy Mitschelen.

been very easy for us to just quit and give up but we kept fighting." North Wood finished with 149 yards on the ground, led by 70 from Blake Cleveland and 60 plus a touchdown by younger brother Tanner. Kirkwood completed just five of 11 passes for 59 yards, but one went for the TD to Graber and two others were for first downs. Graber followed up his performance against Plymouth in the regular-season finale (eight catches, 155 yards, three scores) with four grabs for 54 yards and the critical fourth-quarter score. The valiant Black Crunch defense was led by 10 tackles each from Smith and safety Dylan Risser, while middle linebacker Albert Gongwer added nine stops.

including a score. The only pass completed by Plymouth was a 19-yard end-around from Trenton Briles to Dakota Brooke that set up the second Rockie TD. Ethan Sampson's seven tackles led Plymouth while Pickford and Michael Garnty each had six stops. North Wood (5-5) travels to Wawasee Oct. 26 for a rematch with the Warriors (6-4), that advanced with a 27-14 victory over Dekalb. North Wood downed Wawasee 35-21 in Syracuse back on Sept 14. The Rodties end their NLC-championship season at 7-3. • NORTHWOOD 17, PLYMOUTH 13 Ai Andrews Held. Nappanee - Sectional Game 1 Pl> mouth 13 0 00 - 13 North Wood 6 0 0 11-17 P - Ike Kasmer 2 run (Jacob Frantz kick) P - Justin Drudge 14 run (kick failed) NW - Tanner Cleveland 2 run (kick blocked) NW - Nick Graber 30 pass from Will Kirkwood (run failed) NW - Brendan Widner 17 yd. FG NW - Justice Smith sacked Jack Barron for safety North Wood Plymouth Yards Rushing 149 223 Yards Passing 59 19 Passing (Comp/Alt/lnt) 5-11-0 1-2-0 Penalties (NoiYds. i 2-10 8-80 Punts (NoVAvg.) 4-24 3-35 Fumbles (NoTLost) 3-2 3-3 Rushing - North Wood (Blake Cleveland 12-70; Tanner Cleveland 13-60, TD; Kirkwood 9-7; Edwards 2-12); Plymouth (Kastner 23-96. TD; Drudge 8-70, TD; Stevens 12-63; Eads 3-5; Brile 1-I-8J; Barron I (-3)) Passing - North Wood (Kirkwood 5-11-0, 59 yds., TD); Plymouth (Briles 1-1-0, 19 yds.; Barron 0-1-0,0 yds.) Receiving - NorthW'ood (Graber 4-54, TD; Sauceda I -8); Plymouth (Brooke 1-19).

Plymouth rushed for 223 yards but managed just 66 in the pivotal second half, with Kastner's % yards on 23 carries leading the way. Sam Stevens added 63 yards on 12 carries while Drudge picked up 70 on just eight carries

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