WHS Tigers To Wrap Up Football Season

Unfortunately this year's Wellsville High School football season will wrap up Friday night at Nicholson Stadium. The 2010 version of the Fighting Tigers were basically a young team with only six seniors that began the season. Now there are only five left on the squad and one of them is using crutches following knee surgery.

The Tigers started out the season down at Toronto in a hard fought battle that went down to the last minute of the game. With a heads up defensive play a blocked punt was converted into a touchdown to tie the game. A young soccer style kicker nailed the PAT to put the Tigers up by one. With just seconds left on the clock the Red Knights were unable to move the ball against a very fired up defense.

From that game on it was rough going for the next six games but things got turned around in Week 7 out at Leetonia. The Tigers got back on the winning track that night. Last week they picked up win number three with a nice 10 point win against Jackson Milton. Senior Chad Elliott had another outstanding game with 277 yards on the ground and three touchdowns. Wellsville brought home a 39-29 win number three.

According to the announcers on WHS Sports Station internet broadcast last Friday there was some outstanding play on defense with Joe Hall making several nice stops and Nick DaLonzo recovering a fumble that led to a Wellsville score. We got the impression from the last two weeks that a developing team was finally believing in themselves. Even though this team was short on experience they never gave up. They never quit.

Tomorrow night is senior night and it will be the last game for the five remaining seniors on the team. Elliott was named the ITCL Player-of-the-Week for Week 9. Although their record stands at 3&6 on the season this team is ready to show you that they are winners. Tomorrow's opponent is 5&4 Lowellville. Game time is 7 P.M.

Pictured above are the players going through their last week of practice. The picture was taken on Tuesday. Friday night is suppose to be football weather at its best, cool & crisp. It will be a good evening to come out and salute the Tigers.

Good luck guys...

ole nib