By Drew Terhall
DailyAdvocate.com
DARKE COUNTY — Listed here are the scores and stats from the second spherical of the highschool soccer playoffs from the groups across the county.
Division VII, Area 28: 2 Ansonia 34 vs 10 Mechanicsburg 8
The Tigers grinded their option to a win to maneuver on within the playoffs. Head coach Adam Corridor stated the staff got here into this one with quite a lot of accidents and had some guys go down through the sport.
That didn’t matter because the staff gained their twelfth sport of the season, the primary time at school historical past.
“To beat them interval is a win. To beat them with out a few of our guys the best way that we did is a testomony to how laborious our guys labored,” Corridor stated. ““Now we have nice children. They labored laborious all 12 months lengthy. We’ve by no means had a staff right here have a 12-win season. It couldn’t occur to a greater group.”
Ansonia had a 28-8 lead at half. Mechanicsburg scored their lone landing of the sport proper earlier than halftime on a two-yard landing run.
Senior Keegen Weiss had 299 yards dashing on 46 carries and three touchdowns. Junior Zane Henderson scored the primary landing of the sport on a five-yard landing run. Senior Nick Burns additionally had a 20-yard landing run.
The Tigers will tackle the 14th seed St. Henry Redskins on Nov. 10 at Piqua Excessive College at 7 p.m.
A full sport recap could be discovered on our web site, dailyadvocate.com
Division VI, Area 24: 5 Tri-Village 50 at West Liberty-Salem 29
Behind senior Reed Wehr’s seven touchdowns, the Patriots gained on a playoff sport on the highway. Head coach Matt Hopkins stated Wehr confirmed why he’s the most effective participant in Southwest Ohio.
“I’ll die on this hill, that child is the most effective participant in Southwest Ohio. I’m telling you that proper now. It’s a disgrace he didn’t get participant of the 12 months within the league. I’m nearly glad as a result of now he’s obtained a chip on his shoulder and he’s enjoying to show individuals fallacious,” Hopkins stated.
After stopping the Tigers on the sport’s opening possession, the Patriots scored on their first offensive play. Senior Braden Keating discovered Wehr for a 60-yard landing go to go up 7-0 early.
The staff then began to battle with penalties and particular groups errors. A misplay on a punt return led to the Patriots being near their very own aim line. On fourth down, Wehr was tackled on the punt try and West Liberty took a 9-7 lead. The Tigers then scored on the following possession.
On the kickoff after being down 16-7, Wehr returned the kick for a landing to solely be down 16-15. West Liberty senior Gabe McGill stored the Tigers out entrance as he had three dashing touchdowns within the first half and scored simply earlier than the primary half ended to go up 23-15.
Hopkins stated after a nasty first half teaching and a nasty first half from his staff, the staff got here out and had a terrific second half.
It was the Reed Wehr present. He returned one other kickoff, the opening second half kickoff. Wehr stated whereas he knew the Tigers have been making an attempt to keep away from kicking to him, he nonetheless needed to make a play on particular groups.
“I noticed they weren’t going to kick it to me, so I instructed my buddies Paul and Tanner, ‘Again off, let me get this. I’m going to go home this.’ I noticed a gap and I reduce up and left them within the mud,” Wehr stated.
Throughout the second half, Wehr scored 4 dashing touchdowns to convey his whole as much as seven for the sport.
The one time West Liberty scored within the second half was off a 21-yard interception return landing. Hopkins stated the protection rose to the event through the second half and shutdown McGill.
“All 11 of them performed simply imply, nasty. We obtained after individuals and tackled higher. That was what we talked about all week lengthy. We needed to deal with, we needed to deal with 21 (McGill). We did a very good job of that within the second half,” Hopkins stated.
The Patriots will tackle eighth seed Anna on Nov. 10 at Lima Senior at 7 p.m.
A full sport recap could be discovered on our web site, dailyadvocate.com
Division VI, Area 24: 2 Versailles 41 vs 7 Twin Valley South 8
The Tigers put up 21 factors within the first quarter on their option to a straightforward win over the Panthers. Seniors Joel Gehret and Lane Bergman every had two dashing touchdowns. Senior Aaron Bowlin and sophomore Brandt Patton every had a dashing landing as nicely.
Versailles had two interceptions within the sport and held Twin Valley South to 135 yards dashing. Senior Cais Kingsley had the lone landing for the Panthers.
Senior A.J. Griesdorn got here up with an interception on the Panther’s first possession of the sport.
Versailles will tackle third seed Cincinnati Nation Day on Nov. 10 at Xenia at 7 p.m.
Contact Every day Advocate sports activities editor Drew Terhall at [email protected]
Originally posted 2023-11-06 15:09:42.