Football Score: O'Hara 42 Smith-Cotton 35

Quarterback Jake Fortin scored the deciding touchdown with 24 seconds left in the game between the O'Hara Celtics and the Smith-Cotton Tigers on September 16. _____ All eleven touchdowns in the game were followed by successful kicked extra points, six by Julian Gidley for the victorious O'Hara team and five by Timmy Lor for the Tigers. ______ The final score was O'Hara 42 and Smith-Cotton 35, and both teams had led at various stages of the game. _____ The Tigers held the ball for every offensive play throughout the first quarter except one, but that one was an 87 yard TD run by Ronnie Sailer and gave the Celtics a 7-0 lead going into the second quarter. _____ O'Hara nearly had another six points when D. J. Griffin interepted Connor Moriarity's pass and returned the ball to the endzone; however it was nullified by a penalty. _____ The Tigers tied and then took the lead in the second quarter on two one-yard TD's by Darian Weeks and Connor Morierity. _____ The Tigers appeared to be knocking at the door for a third touchdown when they advanced the ball to the 10 yard line with 1:23 remaining in the first half. _____ Brandon Dennis intercepted to stop the drive and the Celtics reached the goal at the other end of the field on three nifty consecutive pass plays. _____ Jake Fortin completed passes to D. J. Griffin for 15 yards, to Brandon Dennis for 26 yards, and a touchdown pass to Brett Coatney covering 44 yards. ______ Halftime score was 14-14. _____ The Celtics regained their lead in their first series of the third quarter. _____ Aided by a 40 yard pass completion to Brandon Dennis and a 28 yard run by Ronnie Sailer, O'Hara got the touchdown on a 12 yard run by Ronnie Sailer. ______ The Tigers then tied the score at 21-21 when Josh Hesseltime scored on an 11 yard run. _____ A while later, the visitors jumped ahead of the Celtics with a 68 yard pass play from Connor Moriarty to Shae Buckner. ______ This lead was short lived inasmuch as Jake Fortin was able to loft a pass to Brandon Dennis for an 80 yard strike. _____ The two teams entered the fourth quarter tied at 28-28. _____ In the final quarter, the Tigers struck first with Shae Buckner gathering in a 29 yard pass from Connor Moriarty. _______ To knot the game at 35-35, the Celtics called upon D. J. Griffin to haul in a long pass from Jake Fortin, a play covering 55 yards. ______ The Tigers played ball control in their next series and managed to approach the 18 yard line before yielding the ball on downs. ______ Although a fairly long way to go, the Celtics methodically advanced the ball in relatively small increments to the 2 yard line where Jake Fortin was able to score. ______ The final 24 seconds were taken up by four incomplete pass attempts by the Tigers. ______ Jake Fortin completed 11 passes in 16 attempts for 310 total yards and Brandon Dennis caught six for 181 total yards. ____ These were among the area's best for the weekend.

SOME CROSS COUNTRY UPDATES

Six cross country runners from Archbishop O'Hara High School registered their personal bests at the recent Platte County Meet. ______ The runners along with their times are Blake Hudon (17:50), Corbett McKinney (20:06), Jeremy Ambrose (22:54), Thaddeus Green (23:08), Ronald Clark (23:20), and Katelyn Gutteridge (23:46). ______ Blake Hudon took a medal for 18th place; in the previous Meet hald at Oak Grove, Blake won the 8th place medal.

O'Hara Soccer Team Wins 8-1 vs Holden

Pat Berney and John Allard kicked two goals apiece in Archbishop O'Hara High School's 8-1 victory hosting the Holden Eagles on September 13. ______ The Celtics also had individual points from Colton Ludwick, Kevin Henderson, Ryan Wald, and Sam Allen.

UNDEFEATED O'HARA LEADS IN WCC FOOTBALL

On September 9, the Archbishop O'Hara High School football team took sole possession of first place in the WEST CENTRAL CONFERENCE when they won their game with Warrensburg while Saint Pius X lost an overtime contest with Clinton. _____ The Celtics' 2-0 Conference record places them ahead of second place Saint Pius X whose record became 2-1. _____ Tied for third place with 1-1 records are Clinton and Smith-Cotton. ______ Yet to win a Conference game are Center (0-1) and Warrensburg (0-2). _______ ________ _________Ronnie Sailer became the Celtics' leading scorer with 26 points on four touchdowns and a two-point conversion. _____ Brandon Dennis has 18 points on three touchdowns and is followed by Julian Gidley with 14 points on eleven extra points and a field goal. ______D. J. Griffin and Brett Coatney each scored two touchdowns and Jake Fortin and Tanner Hull each have one. _____ _____ ______ On September 12th, the underclassmen played in a rather novel arrangement. _____ The two frehman squads played for the first two quarters and the JY teams played for the third and fourth quarters. ______ The Celtics won the combined contest 27-14.

O'Hara Celtics 28 Warrensburg Tigers 7

The Archbishop O'Hara High School football team trailed the Warrensburg Tigers until there were six minutes remaining in the third quarter, and then went on to post a 28-7 victory on September 9. ______ The Tigers scored on their first possession with a 94 yard scoring drive._____ The touchdown was on a 25 yard pass from Sam White to T. J. Cutler and Ram Hoyer added the extra point. ______ The Tigers did not score again in the game, but had a 7-0 lead going into the second quarter._______ The Celtics got six points on a two yard run by Ronnie Sailer in the second quarter, the big play in the drive was a 32 yard gain on a Jake Fortin to D. J. Griffin pass. _____ A bad snap prevented an extra point kick and the Celtics were down 7-6. _____ Just before the half, the Celtics appeared to get a touchdown with 45 seconds remaining in the second quarter, but a catch by Brandon Dennis in the corner of the end zone was ruled incomplete. _____ Julian Gidley tried a field goal with 25 seconds left to the half, but it went wide to the right. _____ In the third quarter, the turning point of the game was an interception by D. J. Griffin along with a return for 46 yards! _____ Six plays later, Brett Coatney caught an eight yard pass for a touchdown for O'Hara's first lead of the game at 12-7. ______ Ronnie Sailer was able to run for a 2 point conversion and bring the score to 14-7 by the end of the quarter. _____ In the final quarter, the Tigers gambled on a fourth down at midfield but had to give up the ball on downs. ______ O'Hara marched down to the 21 yard line where Ronnie Sailer broke through to boost the O'Hara advantage to 21-7. _____ A successful on-side kick returned the ball to the Celtics and set up a drive for the last points of the contest. _____ Having field position at the 34 yard line, the offense used eight plays to reach pay dirt. _____A 21 yard pass completion from Jake Fortin to Tanner Hull kept the drive alive as well as a fourth down short run by Jake Fortin. ______Ronnie Sailer ran in from one yard away for the TD. _____ The Tigers tried to get something going via passing but gave up the ball on incomplete tosses. ______ O'Hara cranked out yards all the way down to the one yard line and then let the time run out.

O'HARA OPENS CROSS COUNTRY SEASON

On Saturday, September 3, the Archbishop O'Hara High School cross country team opened their season at the Saint Mary's Invitational. _____ The meet consisted of three races, one for boys, one for girls, and a first year run. _____ In the boys division, the Celtics were 10th of 12 teams and Blake Hudon was O'Hara's only medalist finishing in fifth place. _____ The four others making up the team were Dakota Defreece, Corbett McKinney, Thaddeus Green, and Ronald Clark. _____ O'Hara did not field a complete team in the girls division but had two medalists in Claire Becker (13th) and Katelyn Gutteridge (29th). _____ In the race for first year runners, O'Hara had four who earned medals. ______ J. D. Meyer was 4th, Aidan Eckart came in 8th, Sean Christianson was 10th, and Jeremy Ambrose finished 13th.

O'Hara Takes a 28-14 Football Win Over Clinton

O'Hara pass receiver Brandon Dennis scored three of the Celtics' touchdowns along the way to a 28-14 West Central Conference win at Clinton on September 2nd. _____ Tanner Hull accounted for O'Hara's final TD and Julian Gidley provided all four extra points. _____ A 42 yard pass play from Jake Fortin to Brandon Dennis put O'Hara ahead 7-0 in the first quarter. _____ In the second period, Fortin connected with Brandon Dennis for a 74 yard TD and a 14-0 halftime advantage. ______ The Clinton Cardinals, relying mostly on their running game, kept a drive alive in the third quarter to eventuallyscore on a 3 yard run by quarterback Chris Sidfrid; Gabe Suthoff's extra point was good to bring the score to 14-7 to start the fourth quarter. _____ With six minutes remaining in the game, Brandon Dennis made an oustanding catch in the endzone giving the Celtics some breathing room with a score of 21-7. _____ Adding to that with less than a full minute left in the game, Tanner Hull scored on a 1 yard run. ______ But the game did not end at 28-7. Following a kickoff that went out of bounds, Tanner Perry carried for the cardinals 65 yards as the clock ran out of time and the home team got their second TD. _____ Gabe Suthoff had 107 yards rushing for Clinton and Ronnie Sailer had 105 yards for the Celtics. _____ Jake Fortin had 12 completions, ten of which were to Brandon Dennis. _____ With his three receptions in this game, Brandon Dennis is in 4th place among O'Hara receivers, one catch behind Danny Hernandez. ____Jake Fortin passed for 212 yards in this contest. _____ Chris Sidfrid wasn't so successful for the Cardinals completing one pass in four attempts and was intercepted twice (by jorge Belcher and Ronnie Sailer). ______ In O'Hara's two games this season, they haven't given up any points in the second quarter. _____ _____ ______ On Monday, the O'Hara JV, with Cardell Miller quarterbacking, beat the Cardinals 32-14. _______ The game was played as a part of a doubleheader following the O'Hara freshman team's 19-14 win against Oak Grove. ______ It was the freshman squad's second game of the season having lost a close 21-20 game with Saint Thomas Aquinas earlier in the young season.