Last Friday night the 2010 edition of the Fighting Tigers wrapped up their season with another exciting win. The Tigers were 1&6 until they reached Week 8 of the season. Even though they had 10 returning lettermen at the start of the season they were basically a young inexperienced team. Although Coach Skinner denied they were in a rebuilding season they were a developing team.
They developed nicely, ending the season with a three game winning streak to finish the season at 4&6. From what we could see they changed up a bit capitalizing on their talent at different positions. In Week 8 they ended a winning streak with the changes and got some of those young players to start believing in themselves.
Last Friday they played host to a 5&4 Lowellville team. At one point in the 2nd Quarter they were down 22-7. They came out of the locker room in the second half and put six more points on the board. It was shortly answered by the Rockets with another touchdown and a 2-point PAT making it 30-14 in favor of Lowellville. It didn't look good for the home team.
Being down by 16 going into the 4th Quarter they never gave up. With some nice blocking Senior Chad Elliott ground out two more touchdowns for the Tigers. The last came at the 2:41 mark left in the game making the score 34-30 Wellsville. The victory was sealed with an interception by Freshman Marcus Moxley deep in Wellsville's territory. After a couple of time outs it was three taking the knee for Wellsville to wind out the clock.
Elliott had another nice night on the ground with 116 yards on 25 carries. Jake Reed finished the night with 12 passes for 194 yards and the Tigers finished the season putting another one in the win column.
Now we have to wait until next year before we see more Wellsville High School football. There's a lot talent returning and from what we've seen there's going to be some Freshmen that will be challenging for playing time next season.
Good luck to the seniors...
ole nib
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