O'HARA 41 WARRENSBURG 21

The O'Hara Celtics football team didn't pull away until midway through the third quarter in their 41-21 win over the Warrensburg Tigers. Five of their six touchdowns came in the second half of the game. _____ The first quarter was scoreless. The best play the Tigers came up with was a 14 yard pitchout run by Alex Kostas, and the Celtics had a 23 yard pass play from T. J. White to Louis Golden and two 17 yard runs by Terrell Johnson and Raphael Spencer. _____ In the second quarter, O'Hara quarterback T. J. White broke away for a 29 yard TD run and Ryan Hurr scored on a short 3 yarder for the Tigers. Both Joe Melchior for O'Hara and Layton Moore for Warrensburg kicked extra points and the two squads were knotted at 7-7 at halftime. _____ After losing the ball on a fumble, the Celtics were unable to stop the Tigers from sustaining a touchdown drive. In six plays Warrensburg scored and for the first time this season, the Celtics were behind in a game. Ryan Hurr took the ball in from 7 yards out and Moore again kicked the extra point. _____ Following the ensuing kickoff, T. J. White on first down ran along the left side line for a 60 yard TD. But the Celtics still trailed by a point when the extra point attempt was blocked. _____ The Tigers could not advance the ball in their next series which was highlighted by a quarterback sack by Raphael Spencer. A poor punt gave O'Hara possession on the 31 yard line. O'Hara was in for the score in five plays, T. J. White taking it in on a quarterback sneak.. Aaron Stubblefield scored the two point conversion on a pass play, and O'Hara was ahead to stay. _____ O'Hara scored three more touchdowns. ______ The first was set up by a successful on-side kick. The actual scoring was done on a one yard run by Raphael Spencer. O'Hara's extra point kick was wide however, but the score now read 27-14. _____ The next time O'Hara got their hands on the ball, they scored in just two plays. Terrell Johnson outran the Tiger defense for a 66 yard touchdown. Joe Melchior scored two points on a pass for the extra points. _____ Before O'Hara scored for the third time in the quarter, Warrensburg managed to slip in their final TD. Quarterback Layton Moore ran the ball across the goal line from 9 yards out. _____ Aaron Subblefield provided O'Hara with the Celtics' last six points of the game on a 25 yard pass from T. J. White. The run for the extra points was stopped short of the goal. ______ Warrensburg was able to advance theball as close as the 10 yard line in the waning seconds of the game but ran out of time.

Results of JV & Freshman Football vs Oak Grove

On Labor Day, the O'Hara JV and freshman football teams met with Oak Grove at Paul Monteil Stadium. The O'Hara Celtics JV team won 8-6 but the freshman team suffered a 40-16 defeat _____ In the JV contest the deciding two points came from a third quarter bad snap out of the endzone for a safety. _____ The Celtics scored first near the end of the first quarter but failed to run in the two-point conversion. Andre Jordan caught a 27 yard pass from Ryan McD0well for the TD. _____ The Oak Grove Panthers got their six-pointer on a one yard run midway through the second quarter and also failed to make the two-point extra points. _____ The safety was the only scoring in the second half although at one time the Panthers had first and ten on the O'Hara 12 yard line and did not get any closer. _____ _____ _____ In the freshman game, O'Hara got a third quarter TD on a 6 yard pass play from Cardell Miller to Ben Janet and a 4 yard sweep by Derreck Davis within the final minute of playing time. _____ Extra points for the two TD's were by Derreck Davis and Cardell Miller. _____ Oak Grove's six TD's were on two runs of 5 yards each, a 16 yard run, and a 19 yard run. They also scored on two 20 yard pass plays.

136 MORE TO GO

Julian Gidley, a sophomore at Archbishop O'Hara High School, is in pursuit of the school's football career record of 141 successful extra points establish over the past four years by Bryce Scovill. He is off to a great start kicking all five of the Celtics' extra points in their 35-14 win over Oak Grove. When and if Gidley reaches 87, he shall have the runner-up position [Kevin Furey holds the second place total of 86 established back in the year 1992]

Cross Country Off And Running

For James Keeney, Ronald Clark, Laura Jameson, and Allison Seck, it was their first cross country competion when O'Hara participated in the 14-school Saint Mary's Invitational at William Jewell College on Saturday, September 5th. _____ Freshmen Keeney and Clark completed the course in the 28th and 39th places. _____In the other First Year Runners Race, Seck finished 6th and Jameson came in 12th. _____ The five O'Hara varsity boys were Andy Meyer, Lowell Thomas, Sam Baird, Cullen McKinney, and Travis Peter. Meyer won the medal for 12th place. _____ Only three girls ran on the varsity level, not enough for a team score. Their places were Claire Becker (30), Amy Gaston (71), and Katelyn Gutteridge (76) among the many runners. _____ The schools that furnished particpants were O'Hara, Saint Mary's, Saint Pius, Miege, Lee's Summit, Holden, Rockport, Northtown, Lawson, Penny, Marshall, Oak Grove, West Platte, and Kearney. _____ Coach Mike Martin reports that recent outstanding O'Hara cross country alumni are among the top five runners at their colleges: Max Storms at MU and Stevie Katzer at Longview.

FOOTBALL: O'HARA 35 OAK GROVE 14

In the scoreless first quarter, the Celtics had the ball for only eight plays, two of which were punts. Although the Panthers controlled the ball most of that time, the best they could come up with was an attempted field goal after they had reached the 17 yard line. _____ From midfield in the second quarter, O'Hara put their first points on the scoreboard with three plays, the big play unfolding from a T. J. White to Aaron Stubblefield 40 yard pass. The actual points were scored from two yards out by Raphael Spencer. Julian Gidley kicked the extra point, the first of five in the game. _____ O'Hara's second TD came on a sustained drive in which Raphael Spencer carried the ball most of the way. T. J. White took the ball in on a two yard run. _____ Again the Celtics scored, this time with only two running plays. Terrell Johnson ran for a 34 yard gain and Brett Coatney tagged on the remaining 18 yards for the six-pointer. _____ On the final play before halftime, Raphael Spencer nearly got into the end zone before time elapsed, catching a pass from T. J. White and exhibiting a dazzling broken field run. _____ In the third quarter, Oak Grove drove to the 29 yard line and Austin Latshaw's pass from that point was intercepted by Aaron Stubblefield who raced down the sideline for the Celtics' fourth touchdown. _____ As the fourth quarter got under way, T. J. White intercepted a pass near the goal line and returned the ball to the 35 yard line. A few plays later, Terrell Johnson scored on a ten yard run; the big play of the drive was a 41 yard pass play to Joe Melchior from T. J. White. _____ The Panthers did manage to put two touchdowns on the scoreboard in the final quarter on a 32 yard pass play with seven minutes left in the game and on a 5 yard pass with less than a minute remaining.

VOLLEYBALL SEASON BEGINS

Blue Springs won 25-21 and 25-11 in the Celtics' first encounter but O'Hara came back with 25-15 and 25-18 against Blue Springs South.

Soccer Team Looking for First Win

The 2009 soccer team opened their season with losses to Lee's Summit West 10-1 and Fort Osage 3-2. Scoring all of the Celtics' goals was Matt Shelton.