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The Indians offense looks to be strong this yr - w/Jesse Skellet coming in as starting qb and Kellen Dougherty playing back-up. Our running backs might need a little help with the loss of Phil Cappelli and Mike Simms, but we have Nate Pierce and Mike Winters to help carry the team. Adam Harrington looks to be a promising reciever as well as Josh Horton and Matt Luhrs. Tim Schmidt, already offered a Penn state scholarship for football, is a senior this year and one of the best offensive linemen. Gary Zwick, Jon Woodburn and Caleb Monell also look strong. Bill Herwerth is coming up to varsity in his freshman year (well pretend that hes not supposed to be in 11th grade) and Uno should see his time this season.
The Defense also looks good this year - Bestle and Monell are both fighting for the starting noseguard position - Ryan Brainard and Zwicker should also see time on the field this yr. Nate Pierce and Jeff McCarty will start at linebacker and both Woodburn and Herwerth (Uno) are top candidates for starting positions. Eric McCarty is a starter at cornerback as is Horton. Travis Tucker will man one of the safety positions and either Winters or Chad Halliday will start in the other safety spot.
Schedule:
September 8th - Chenango Forks
September 15th - Corning West
September 22nd - Maine-Endwell
September 28th - Elmira ND
October 6th - Jhonson City
October 13th - Elmira Southside
October 20th - Elmira Free Academy
October 26th - Ithaca
CHENANGO FORKS vs OWEGO -- LOSS :(
Regretfully, I missed the first game of the season, but I believe the score was a lot to a little - from what I was told, Skellet had a promising start, as did most of our players - but we couldnt keep up the fight. Im still looking for information on this game - check back in about a week and I should have something more OWEGO vs CORNING WEST -- Win 27-0 :)
Skellet threw two td's and ran one - the first was a 39 yrd pass to Harrington the play after pierce went down with a broken leg (see injury summary)- the 2nd td was a 26 yrd run by skellet - the third td was a 26 yrd pass to Josh Horton. Winters had a 9 yrd run for the final td of the game. Toal kicked 1 for three and Harrington scored a two point conversion off of a pass from Skellet to complete a 27-0 victory over Corning West. ELMIRA ND vs OWEGO -- win 22-18 :)
Elmira Notre Dame scored the first td with a failed kick. Skellet scored the first td on a one yrd run with a failed kick. Winters had an 80 yrds punt return with a failed conversion. Toal had a 24 yrd kick for a field goal, leaving Owego in the lead 15-6 at the half. Ed had two td's, both with failed kicks and winters won the game on a 2 run td and toal completed the kick. With about 4 1/2 minutes remaining, Owego had three fourth-dwon conversions. Winters comleted 191 yrds on 22 carries. Owego was not expected to win this game, and walked away proud with an amazing win. ELMIRA SOUTHSIDE vs OWEGO -- win :) 21-20
Owego won their homecoming game on close plays with Elmira - they were evenly matched through the whole game and ended the game in a 14-14 tie. They played for sudden death and on the first play, Elmira scored a touchdown. Harrington blocked the extra point attempt, leaving Owego with room to pull ahead. The very next play, Owego scored a td and toal kicked an easy extra point for the win. ITHACA vs Owego - loss 40-13
Owego's final season game ended in defeat. Owego played strong, but didnt seem to have their heart into the game. Mistakes were made, interceptions were made, fumbles happened, errors that the strong-willed Owego team typically didnt make. Owego couldnt pull ahead, losing their last season game to Ithaca, who finished 3-4, leaving Owego's final team record at 4-4. MAINE ENDWELL vs OWEGO - loss 34-21 :(
the season is over - a 34-21 loss to ME, who we lost to earlier in the season - the game was good - there were a few bad calls, but we have some of those in every game. Kellen started at qb and did surprisingly well for his first start this season - he scored two touchdowns off of one yrd runs, and threw a 29 yrd pass to skellet for another td. Toal completed all three kicks in the game for the extra point. Harrington, Luhrs, Winters and Horton all came out in the game with a few amazing catches. Mike Winters went 43 yrds on 10 runs. Horton went 26 yrds in 7 runs, Dougherty carried 23 yrds in 7 runs and Skellet carried 16 yrds in 3 runs. Dougherty completed 11 out of 21 passes, throwing a total of 157 yrds, 3 interceptions and 1 td, skellet went 2-4 throwing 29 yrds and 1 interceptino. Owego recieving was spectacular in this game, with Dougherty's combined throws and the help of Skellett, Luhrs, Winters, Harrington and Horton, Owego proved to ME that they could present a hell of a challenge. Springer, of course, was his typical cocky self - if my memory serves me correctly - i do believe he was sacked once in the game 8) - just wait till bball season - we'll get him then too:) - The game was close and some the calls sucked, but it was an amazing game - if you missed it you were crazy. 
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