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Tri-Valley football: Unbeaten Scotties host Sheridan in Week 9

showdown on Senior Night by Gregg Meadows

a hefty 30 carries paced the Scotties in
the big road win.
But this is 2024, and after a 1-2
start to their regular season (losses to
Licking Valley and Licking Heights, sand-
wiched around a Watkins Memorial win)
the surging Generals have won their last
five, including last Friday night’s 48-16
win at Morgan.
More significantly, the Generals
match unbeaten marks with the Scot-
ties in Muskingum Valley ‘Big School’ di-
vision play headed to the Jack Anderson
Stadium certain collision.
Kick-off for THE GAME is set for 7:00
p.m. at Jack Anderson Stadium, where
in a pre-game ceremony (approx. 6:30
p.m.) Scottie senior football players (18
in number), will be recognized and hon-
ored alongside their parents, with the
seven senior cheerleaders and TVHS
senor cross-country runner Dalton Cro-
zier in the spotlight with their parents as
well.
Back on Friday night, Oct. 4 in Dres-
den at Jack Anderson Stadium, the Scot-
ties defeated an outmanned River View
squad by a 65-0 count, coming on a
night where the 2017 TV state runnerup
Scottie football team was inducted into
the school’s athletic Hall of Fame, along
with former TVHS All-Ohioan quarter-
back Nate Strock and All-Ohio softball
great Riley Paxson.
Tri-Valley scored early and often
Senior Carter Dinan, set a school-record after completing a 49-yard ‘free-kick’. Matthew Dotson against the visiting Black Bears, whose
Coach Cam West and his unbeaten strength of a long kick-off return, to tie Jayden Wallace led Scottie rushers with last win came against the Coshocton
Tri-Valley football team tuned up for the game on a two-yard end zone push 63 hard-earned yards on 18 carries with Redskins in the 2022 season.
this Friday night’s annual showdown by quarterback Jack Lincicome. A Philo an end zone visit. Keaton Hahn led TV Scottie senior Ashton Winner scored
with Sheridan with their 35-7 win Friday PAT tied the game at 7-7, and it looked receivers with five catches for 116 yards the first points of the night for the home
night, October 11 over the host Philo like the Scotties might have their hands and a score, with Lamonica grabbing team, on a short-two-yard bust from
Electrics at Sam Hatfield Stadium. full with the host Electrics. two Lyall aerials for 65 yards and a six- his fullback position, then fellow senior
With the victory, Tri-Valley improved But the Scotties then took control of pointer, as did Ashton Winner, hauling in Jayden Wallace added a pair of scoring
to 8-0 on the season as they welcome the contest, as a Lyall to Keaton Hahn two passes and his team’s first score of runs (15 and 39 yards), Scottie junior
visiting Sheridan to Dresden on Friday, bomb down the right sideline resulted in the night. Kade Hindel and Jayden Wal- rusher Isaiah Doyle found the end zone
Oct. 18 for the yearly ‘football face-off’ a 41-yard score at 1:46 of the first quar- lace also snared a pair of Lyall tosses. from 16 yards out, and a blocked Black
between the league’s perennial powers ter. Defensively for the Dawgs, Ashton Bear punt by TV’s Chris Gargasz was
– the Scotties and Generals. Early in the second quarter, Scot- Winner was the top TV tackler, followed scooped up by Kam Karns for score by
In the win over the host Electrics, tie senior two-way standout lineman by Logan McClellan, Chris Gargasz, Der- the home team score, who led 34-0 at
the Scotties scored on all of their first Chris Gargasz blocked a Philo punt, and ek Frue, Kam Karns, Kurt Ross, Ryan La- the first quarter break.
half possessions – and added a blocked teammate and classmate Kade Hindel monica, Gavin Spiker, Kade Hindel, and Jayden Wallace’s last carry of the
punt returned for a score as well - as scooped up the loose ball and raced to Carter Dinan. game came early in the second quarter,
their commanding 35-7 lead over Phi- the end zone for another TV touchdown. Note: Scottie two-way standout and resulted in a 37-yard end zone visit
lo at intermission ended up being the Tri-Valley senior tailback Jayden Ryan Lamonica’s sixth interception of for a 41-0 lead, as a running clock – a
only points scored, as a scoreless sec- Wallace capped another Scottie scoring the season tied the Scottie football sea- rarity in first half action – was agreed
ond half saw the black-and-gold return drive with a six-yard run up the middle at son school record for pics, with former upon by Coach West and Black Bear
home with their eighth straight win of 3:21, then Lyall hit Ryan Lamonica on a TV greats Casey Williams and Taylor boss Thom Lesiecki.
the 2024 pigskin season. sideline pass, and the 6’3” junior receiv- Trout. Tri-Valley freshman Leevi Wade
The Scotties first score of the game er did the rest, shaking a pair of Philo scored the only points of the third quar-
came on a short Max Lyall to Ashton defensive backs to gallop to paydirt with And now… THE GAME. ter – a 38-yard zip to paydirt – then the
Winner pass-catch hook up at 8:31 just 1:17 left before halftime. Bode Mc- In the long series of gridiron battles fourth quarter featured another rarity,
of the opening quarter, as a Bode Mc- Cullough’s fifth PAT of the contest were between pigskin rivals Tri-Valley and a free-kick by the Scotties from senior
Cullough had the visitors up 7-0. the game’s final points. Sheridan, there have been numerous Carter Dinan, who booted a school-re-
The host Electrics responded how- Max Lyall finished an efficient 13- nail-biters, a few blowouts, and even a cord 49-yard ‘free-kick’ through the up-
ever, marching down the field on the 25 for 234 yards and three scores, while controversial ending – the infamous ‘Py- rights.
lon Plunder’ at Jack Anderson Stadium The game’s final points were sup-
in 2008 when the Generals escaped plied by the Scottie defense on an Aedin
Seward fumble recovery and rumble to
Purchase Dresden with a 22-21 win and MVL title the end zone, then a ‘pick-six’ intercep-
thanks to an overturned call on a win-
ning two-point conversion. tion and score from freshman Stone
Spiker for the final 65-0 tally on the
THE GAME – always hyped to the
Your Copy hilt – has also had MVL title implications home scoreboard.
the past 21 years as well. In abbreviated play, Scottie QB
And last season, the TV vs SHS en- Max Lyall completed three of his four
at the Next counter was no exception, as Coach attempted passes for 66 yards, and
Cam West and his Scottie football team Jayden Wallace rushed for 137 yards
Home Game! matched their conference unbeaten Defensively for the Dawgs, Chris Gar-
and three scores.
mark with Sheridan, as the game
played out at Paul Culver Jr. Stadium gasz, Caleb Apple-Oler, Ashton Winner,
on a spooky, Friday the 13th fall night and Derek Frueh were the top tacklers,
100% Of the proceeds benefit the in Thornville, with a full moon hanging with Apple-Oler and Kurt Ross credited
with fumble recoveries as well. Bode Mc-
overhead.
Tri-Valley Touchdown Club. And what a game it was, as the Cullough booted eight PATs through the
Scotties earned a share of the school’s uprights as well for the winners.
13th Muskingum Valley League football
title with their thrilling come-from-be-
hind 28-17 win over the host Generals.
Jayden Wallace’s bruising 143 yards in