Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 135, Number 36, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 8 September 2016 — Page 8

Advance News * Thursday, September 8, 2016

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Bilinski, Panthers down 4A No. 8 Concord

Trey Bilinski threw for 350 yards and three touchdowns, and North Wood dispatched arch-rival Concord in a highscoring 50-32 game at home in Nappanee last Friday. The Panthers trailed early after Julius dark's 52-yard field goal die first of two field goals by the Minutemen at the 8:19 stop of the first, but Bilinski connected with DeAndre Smart on a 13-yard TD completion a little over a minute later. He tossed his second TD of the night, a 23-yarder to Landen Gessinger, and followed with a twopoint conversion pass to Bronson Yoder with just one second leftin the opening stanza to give his team a 14-3 lead headed into the second quarter. North Wood never trailed Qass 4A, No. 8 Concord again. i Bilinski went an ultra efficient 12-of-19 passing with no interceptions on his way to a QB rating of 146.3, while Smart finished with four catches for 196 yards and two touchdowns, and Payton Bear rushed for 130 yards and two more scores as the Panthers racked up 659 total offensive yards. Cedric Mitchell finished with 177 receiving yards and four IDs, and Damien Jackson finished with 147 receiving yards a$ Jack Lietzan accumulated 375 yards through the air. North Wood was penalized for 174 yards on 14 flags, and Concord finished with 143 yards on 12 whistles in the Northern Lakes Conference rivalry game. The Panthers improve to 3-0 with a 1-0 start in conference play. Concord drops to 2-1 and 1-1 in the NLC. North Wood puts its undefeated record on the line at Goshen this week.

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DAT photo NorthWood'sTrey Bilinski is brought down by a host of Minutemen during the Panthers' win over visiting Concord last Friday.

• NORTHWOOD 50, CONCORD 32 At Nappanee Concord: 3 10 6 13 32 North Wood: 14 614 16 5O First quarter C - Julius Qark 52-yd field goal, 8:19 NW DeAndre Smart 13-yd pass from Trey Bilinski (Run fail), 7:02 NW Landen Gessinger 23-yd pass from Bilinski (Bronson Yoder pass from Bilinski), 0:01 Second quarter C Clark 26-yd field goal, 8:16 NW Bilinski 4-yd run (Pass fail), 5:58 C Cedric Mitchell 45-yd pass from Jack Lietzan (Clark kick), 4:32 Third quarter NW Yoder 2-yd run (Run fail), 9:26 C Mitchell 60-yd pass from Lietzan (Kick fail), 7:42

Going gold at Bremen

James Master Staff Writer BREMEN As the Trojans will be facing off against the Lions at Bremen High School this Friday, another battle will be taking place on the same field. The fight against cancer. The third annual Go Gold Bremen football game on Friday will help spread awareness of pediatric cancer."We are calling all 'Super Heroes' to join us in our fight against pediatric cancer. We encourage all kids, young and old, to wear their favorite super hero costume to show support to all children fighting cancer," Jenna Meister said. Meister along with Brook Young are the organizers of Believe in the Shine. The group is a combination of both Meister's and Young's former Facebook pages. In 2012, Meister's son, Brock Meister, was diagnosed with a malignant inoperable brain tumor. In response, Meister created the Facebook page Believe in Brock for family and friends. Young's son, Seth Young, was diagnosed with leukemia on November 12, 2012. Young created the Facebook page Shine for Seth for family and friends. , "We decided to join forces and created 'Believe in the

NW Payton Bear 1-yd run (Yoder run), 2:32 NW Smart 47-yd pass from Bilinski (Yoder pass from Bilinski), 1:12 Fourth quarter C Mitchell 40-yd pass from Lietzan (Clark kick), 10:13 NW Bear 8-yd run (Bear run), 5:21 C Mitchell 22-yd pass from Lietzan (Pass fail), 3:55 Concord North Wood First downs: 10 19 Yards rushing: 40 309 Yards passing: 375 350 Passing: 16-32-0 12-19-0 Punting: 1-42 2-30 Fumbles-lost: 1-0 2-1 Penalties-yards: 12-143 14-174 Records: North Wood 3-0 (1-0 NLC), Concord 2-1 (1-1 NLC)

Shine' as a way to give back to our communities that helped us during our children's cancer journey," said Meister. Believe in the Shine is ran strictly off of donations and has helped numerous families through Memorial Children's Hospital. Gas cards, grocery gift cards, Christmas adoption program through Memorial Children's Hospital, personal gifts to a child receiving treatment, character band aid drives, helping to fill the treasure chest at the hospital, provided groceries for families, monetary donations for household bills, donation of clothing, and providing popcorn for popcorn parties at the hospital are just some of the ways the group has aided families in the community. Along with the gold ribbon painted on field, the group will have a booth set up for face painting and a photo booth. Gold pompoms were bought by three members of the group in 2015 for the Bremen Cheerleaders to use. "We will also be sharing facts about pediatric cancer and items supporting pediatric cancer may be purchased at our booth," Meister said. The highlight of the night, according to Meister, will be the gold "glitter war" that the

kids will have in the stands. Glitter may be purchased at the booth that night. September is Pediatric cancer awareness month. Here are some facts about childhood cancer according to www.alexslemonade.org: • Childhood cancer research is vastly and consistently underfunded. • Childhood cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in children under the age of 15 in the United States. • One in 285 children in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer by the time they are 20 years old. • Every year an estimated 250,000 new cases of cancer affect children under the age Of 20 worldwide. • Two-thirds of childhood cancer patients will have long lasting chronic health conditions from treatment. • Childhood cancer occurs regularly, randomly and spares no ethnic group; socioeconomic class; or geographic region. In the United States, the incidence of cancer among adolescents and young adults is increasing at a greater rate than any other group, except those over 65 years. • Childhood cancer is not just one disease. It is made up of a dozen types and countless subtypes.