Kuenning’s seen his last JV action for St. Marys

Bo Kuenning won’t be seeing any more action in junior varsity games.

The St. Marys Memorial freshman rushed 20 times for 182 yards and a touchdown as the Roughriders beat Celina 21-13 in the Battle of Grand Lake.

Kuenning entered the game with just 14 yards on three carries while playing primarily in JV games. His four-yard TD run in the third quarter put St. Marys into the lead for good and he averaged 15.3 yards on his final seven carries to keep the clock running.

“It worked out pretty well,” said St. Marys coach Doug Frye. “I told Bo I don’t think he’ll be playing any more JV football.”

DOIN’ IT ALL: Wauseon’s Zac Robinson ran for four TDs and threw for another in a 40-0 win over Hamler Patrick Henry, setting up a battle of unbeaten state-ranked teams this Friday at Delta, which blanked Montpelier 56-0 for its sixth win; Ada’s Seth Conley threw for 375 yards and five TDs while adding two rushing TDs in a 61-14 victory over Paulding; Anthony Carroll threw for five scores in Dayton Northridge’s 51-26 victory over New Lebanon Dixie; Brody Hoying ran for two scores and threw for two more in leading top-ranked Coldwater to a 41-0 win over Parkway; and Doylestown Chippewa’s Jerry Bennett caught four TD passes from Bailey Breitenstine and also returned an interception 22 yards for a score in leading the way to a 47-26 win over Apple Creek Waynedale - giving the Chipps their first 6-0 record since 1956.

BIG TURNAROUND: Lima Senior won a Division I state championship in 1996, but then fell on hard times, going just 21-99 from 2001 through 2012.

But the school tabbed Mike Fell to be head coach after the 2012 season, and the Lima Senior alum, who earlier had success at Celina, Ada and Columbus Grove, has turned the program around.

Friday’s 56-17 win over Findlay in a matchup of state-ranked unbeatens, marked the first time Lima Senior has ever been 6-0.

KIDS, DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME: Wooster Triway beat Massillon Tuslaw 57-13 to start out 6-0 for just the third time in school history and first since 1990. The Titans matched their scoring average for the season as the Mustangs played a drop-10 and even drop-11 defense to try to stop the nationally- ranked Triway passing attack. So, the Titans ran the ball for a season-high 176 yards and five TDs.

“It was pretty bizarre to see Parker (Carmichael) drop back and have, what seemed like 15 seconds, to throw the ball,” Triway coach Tony Lee said. “We probably could’ve (run) it all night, but I’m too stubborn to give up on the pass.”

Carmichael, who entered averaging over 435 yards passing per game - third nationally according to maxpreps.com - finished just 26 of 38 for 178 yards with three TDs. He did rush for 65 yards and two first-quarter scores.

WELL GROUNDED: After missing a game and a half, Alex Mount returned and carried 41 times for 363 yards and three TDs in Nelsonville York’s 32-14 win over Pomeroy Meigs; J.D. Orr broke Mount Vernon’s rushing record, carrying 22 times for 311 yards in a 41-28 victory over Olentangy Orange; Edgerton’s Duane Miller rushed for 256 yards and four TDs and passed for 114 yards and two TDs in a 54-31 win over Antwerp; Maumee’s Isiah Khalfani ran for 223 yards and two TDs and Brian Utter added 201 yards on the ground and three rushing TDs, in addition to a pair of TD tosses, in a 49-35 win over Napoleon; Bedford’s Chawntez Moss ran 30 times for 296 yards and seven TDs in a 55-36 win over Lorain; North Ridgeville’s Demario McCall is now at 1,234 rushing yards and 24 TDs through six games; and West Chester Lakota West’s Kole Gentry ran 27 times for 215 yards and tied a school record with five TDs in a 49-21 win over Hamilton.

THROWIN’ OHIOANS: Seth Conley, a freshman in the same Ada system that produced Denver Broncos’ backup QB Zac Dysert, completed 33 of 50 passes for 375 yards and four TDs in a 61-14 win over Paulding; and Grafton Midview’s Dustin Crum has thrown for 1,428 yards and 16 TDs, and rushed for 653 yards and 10 TDs through six games.

SOMETHING HAD TO GIVE: Arlington (Division VII) and Liberty-Benton (Division V) were both 5-0 and ranked No. 4 in their divisions when they clashed in a Blanchard Valley Conference game Friday.

Arlington got 242 yards and two TDs from senior running back Austin Rettig, but Liberty-Benton outscored the Red Devils 15-0 in the fourth quarter to earn a 25-13 win. It was Liberty-Benton’s 13th straight win over Arlington, and gave the Eagles a 25-24-1 edge in the 50-year BVC series.

NOTABLE: After starting out 0-3 in non-conference action against opponents that now have a combined 16-2 record, Millersburg West Holmes has won three straight in the Ohio Cardinal Conference and is in sole possession of first place; Michael Hoecht set a record for the longest run in Dayton Oakwood history with a 99-yard TD dash and Hayden Peake had three field goals, including 43- and 46-yarders in a 38-22 win over Brookville; Cole Hull rushed for 208 yards and four TDs as Fort Recovery reached five wins for the first time since 2007 with a 43-7 win over New Bremen; Chesapeake had 427 total yards - all rushing - in a 34-26 win over rival Proctorville Fairland, attempting only one pass that was erased due to a penalty; in a battle of small-school unbeatens, McDonald beat Berlin Center Western Reserve, 14-12, to snap Western Reserve’s winning streaks of 23 regular-season games and 24 Inter-Tri County League lower-tier contests; Lisbon Beaver Local scored on a 72-yard run by Robert Johnston on the first play and came up with seven fumbles and an interception, but Wintersville Indian Creek scored twice in the fourth quarter for a 14-7 win; and Athens beat Steubenville 58-42 while scoring the most points by an opponent at Steubenville since Canton McKinley scored 60 in 1963.

UPCOMING: One of the most anticipated games this week in the state takes place at Booster Field in Maria Stein as defending Division VII state champion Marion Local takes on defending Division V state champion Coldwater. The teams are undefeated and share first place in the Midwest Athletic Conference. Last year the Flyers dominated the Cavaliers 47-14 en route to a perfect season, with Coldwater rebounding to run the rest of the table.

Marion has outscored teams 270-55 this season and is led by Dustin “Doc” Rethman who is 48 of 74 passing for 1,068 yards and 16 TDs.

Coldwater is paced by reigning Division V offensive player of the year Brody Hoying. Despite missing Week 3 with an injury and limited in week four, Hoying, a cousin to both 1990 Mr. Football and former Ohio State QB Bob Hoying and former Ohio State LB Ross Homan, has rushed for 387 yards and 10 touchdowns and passed for 536 yards and four scores.

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