{"id":122121,"date":"2019-09-03T03:32:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T08:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=122121"},"modified":"2019-09-03T03:32:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T08:32:32","slug":"random-thoughts-hs-and-college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/09\/03\/random-thoughts-hs-and-college-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts: HS and college football"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week\u2019s Random Thoughts center around a state record, a huge game in the Western Buckeye League, some thoughts on college football, Dayton Dunbar, and Ohio State. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nine touchdowns<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perry high school quarterback Drew Schiano tied an Ohio High School Athletic Association record by throwing nine touchdown passes on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not Perry High School in Lima, but the Perry High School Pirates in Lake County. Regardless, it\u2019s very impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pirates needed all nine of Schiano\u2019s touchdown passes in a 63-54 win over Riverside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The accomplishment ties a record by eight other players, including Colby Speice of Wayne Trace, Grant Sherman and Maty Mauk of Kenton, and James Elchinger, Ryan Radcliff and Kirk Jesse of Fairview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WBL co-champs to meet<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This feels like it should be a Week No. 10 game on a permanent basis, but it doesn\u2019t work like that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defending Western Buckeye League co-champions St. Marys Memorial and Wapakoneta will meet at Harmon Field this Friday night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two teams met in Week No. 10 last season, when the Roughriders were 9-0 and the Redskins were 8-1. Wapak eked out a 26-24 win to force a co-championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday night should be very interesting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Yikes<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are several things I can say \u201cyikes\u201d to from the week\u2019s college football games \u2013 Tennessee\u2019s home loss to Georgia State; Purdue\u2019s loss to Nevada; Oregon\u2019s loss to Auburn; Idaho giving up 79 points to Penn State; Liberty coach Hugh Freeze coaching from his hospital bed (that\u2019s dedication), and Jalen Hurts scoring six touchdowns and going off for over 500 yards against Houston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m sure there\u2019s more, but you get the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dunbar<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In case you haven\u2019t heard, Dayton Dunbar\u2019s game against Cincinnati Roger Bacon came to an abrupt end when a Dunbar player intentionally head-butted an official. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dunbar was trailing 23-8 in the second quarter when the incident occurred. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you haven\u2019t seen it, just Google Dayton Dunbar\u2013Roger Bacon football. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m guessing the young man involved is done for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ohio State offense<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, Ohio State beat Florida Atlantic 45-21. 28 of those points came in the first quarter, then the Buckeyes were actually outscored 21-17 the rest of the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The offense seemed inconsistent and play calling seemed strange at times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know, it was the first game of the season, but I\u2019m already a little concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully there will be some improvement against Cincinnati on Saturday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have thoughts on any of the above subjects, feel free to email me at sports@thevwindependent.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor This week\u2019s Random Thoughts center around a state record, a huge game in the Western Buckeye League, some thoughts on college football, Dayton Dunbar, and Ohio State. Nine touchdowns Perry high school quarterback Drew Schiano tied an Ohio High School Athletic Association record by throwing nine touchdown passes on Friday. Not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 05:52:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}