Lisbon - The combination of Bubba Dowling, Jeremy Carter, and Brandon Edison proved too much for the Devils as Wellsville improved to 3-0 on the season with an impressive 41-0 victory. With Wellsville only up 7-0 at halftime, the Tigers exploded for 34 second half points to win going away.
Wellsville switched to the spread offense and a 4-4 defense to utilitze their talented skill players as the Tigers put 13 points up in the third quarter, and 21 more in the fourth. Edison would total 63 yards rushing with 1 TD, and Nick Dalrymple would add another 93 yards and a touchdown for the Tigers. Dowling would rush for 45 yards, and also throw two touchdown passes.
Next week the Tigers will play host to the McDonald Blue Devils in what could be a pivital game in the ITCL Lower Tier. Tigers coach Dave Skinner would comment after the game, "You can call it a real slober-knocker type of game."
Impressive wins were seen by ITCL teams as Columbiana beat D3 opponent Struthers 14-7, while Crestview hammered Oak Glen, who is a D3 size opponent, 55-20. South Range also joined the party by beating a very good D3 team in Marlington 14-7.
Southern continued their terrific season with yet another big win as the Indians downed Toronto 55-0, and Western Reserve blasted Southington 41-14. Those wins set up a big showdown next week in Berlin Center when the Indians and Devils put their perfect 3-0 records on the line.
In inter-league action, United looked impressive as they destroyed a good Jackson-Milton squad 60-0, Springfield improved to 3-0 with a solid 24-0 victory over Lowellville, and Wellsville blasted Lisbon 41-0. McDonald shut out arch-rival Mineral Ridge 25-0, as the Devils and Tigers will also meet in a crital ITCL showdown next week.
Leetonia continued their winning ways with a hard fought 28-17 win over a very good Mathews team dispite the Mustangs record. Unfortunately, the lone loss in non-conference games that was not an inter-league match-up came when Sebring lost to Youngstown Christian 0-34.
Saturday will see the Bulldogs of East Palestine hosting the Crusaders of Steubenville Central Catholic. ITCLFootball.net will be at the game to bring you more news and photos.
East Palestine - Shane Peterson and Austin Cope accounted for all six of the Bulldog touchdowns to lead the them to a convincing 42-22 win over D6 state power Steubenville Central Catholic. Peterson would run for two touchdowns, and hit Cope on four touchdown passes to improve to 1-2 on the season.
Peterson would have a career night by rushing for 150 yards, and passed for 245 yards. The Peterson to Cope TD passes would cover 75, 18, 14, and 50 yards. Central took a brief 22-21 lead midway through the third quarter, before Peterson took the Bulldogs on his shoulders and lead them to 21 unanswered points.
