Cleveland Glenville enjoys its trip to Huber Heights; Wayne falls 57-28
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HUBER HEIGHTS – It was billed as the MVP Game of the Week, but Friday’s showdown between Cleveland Glenville and Wayne turned out to be a 57-28 wind sprint in the park for the visiting Tarblooders instead.
MVP Star of the Game, Glenville quarterback Christian Bryant (100 yards rushing on 12 carries, 129 yards on 6-for-10 passing), accounted for three touchdowns – and kicked a field goal for good measure – on behalf of the winners.
“If I had to pick one concept that this game will probably hinge on it is execution,” Wayne head coach, Jay Minton, prophesied on Thursday afternoon. “I\’ll say it again. If we turn over the ball on a regular basis in this game we cannot win.
“And if we don\’t block and tackle well we cannot win. They have too much speed – too much of everything – for us to win without being at the very top of our games.”
Three Warrior interceptions and three fumbles (2 lost) ended up setting the tone for the evening. Those turnovers offset a massive 28:53-19:07 Wayne advantage in possession time.
Glenville had 453 yards of total offense (324 yards on 33 carries, and 129 yards on 6-for-10 passing) compared to 295 yards for the highly-ranked home team.
The high rolling Tarblooders averaged nearly ten yards a carry and nearly twenty yards per completion in this game.
“I\’m pleased with how things turned out because Wayne is a fine football team,” said head coach, Ted Ginn, Sr., after the game. “They are very well coached. They don\’t make very many mistakes.
“You have to proactively create your own opportunities against them, and tonight that is what we did.”
The most impressive part of what the Tarblooders did on Friday night was the incredible speed at which they did it.
You had to see it to believe it, but first, some background.
Wayne scored on a 69-yard touchdown pass from blue chip quarterback Braxton Miller to Bear Westmoreland on the third play of the game. Glenville then failed to get a first down and they punted.
Miller then showed why he is the best quarterback prospect in the Midwest by leading the Warriors on a 10-play, 71-yard scoring drive to make the score 13-0 with 4:36 still remaining in the first quarter.
Things were really looking good for the openly celebrating Warriors – but, then all hell broke loose.
On Glenville’s second play from scrimmage, Robert Walton, Jr. took advantage of some well executed – but garden-variety – trap blocking to score from 69-yards out. He looked a little surprised when he broke into the open.
Then he turned on the afterburners and blew away the Warriors, the home crowd – everybody – with his dead-on Beanie Wells imitation.
For the evening, Walton rushed for 109 yards and two touchdowns on just 11 carries.
Wayne fumbled the ensuing kickoff and on the very first play of the possession, Bryant found Shane Wynn on a beautifully executed fly pattern in the right corner of the end zone.
The man was open by almost ten yards.
In just four plays and 29 seconds, Wayne’s two touchdown advantage was erased, and their resolve was broken. The rest of the game was all Glenville.
Miller, who isn\’t used to being upstaged by other quarterbacks, personally scored two touchdowns and ended up with 163 yard of total offense (130 yards and a TD on 9-21-3 passing) for the game.
Things don\’t get any easier for the Warriors as they open Greater Western Ohio Conference inter-divisional play on the road against Trotwood (2-1, 0-0 GWOC-N)–who some observers believe to be even faster than Glenville is.
That’s no joke folks, as remnants of their 2008 national champion 4 x 200 meter relay team are still on the Ram’s roster.
“Here at Glenville, I really don\’t believe in celebrating,” Ginn said in a post game message directed, perhaps, at an over exuberant Wayne student section. “That’s been a pet peeve of mine as I don\’t think that young men can celebrate and think at the same time.
“So – you know – it’s all about business. It’s all about character and it’s about how you carry yourself because you never know who is looking at you. People are always watching.”
“I think that you have to be a professional at all times,” the veteran head coach stressed, “but that’s just me.”
Next Friday, Glenville will host John Hay High School (1-2, 1-0 Senate Athletic Conference) in an interesting inter-divisional SAC match up.
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