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High School 2006 Division 2 Final: Piqua (12-2) vs. Pickerington Central (13-1)

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OhioState49

Good luck with Pick Central

They are GOOD. Just don't play like you guys did against Grove City. Or it could get ugly.

Once they get on you, its hard to come back. Only one team has been able to come back against them, and that was the first round game against Canfield. They led Canfield 42-14 in the 3rd, but somehow let them back in the game. Allowing 3 onside kicks in a row to be recovered. Final score 42-37.

Their QB, Chazz Anderson in some respects should be up for "Mr. Football". He can kill you both ways (Think Troy Smith).

I saw them on TV when they faced Olentangy. Both teams were undefeated going in, and it was billed up to be a great game.

Final score.......

Pickerington Central-50
Olentangy-7
 
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OhioState49

Good luck with Pick Central

They are GOOD. Just don't play like you guys did against Grove City. Or it could get ugly.

Once they get on you, its hard to come back. Only one team has been able to come back against them, and that was the first round game against Canfield. They led Canfield 42-14 in the 3rd, but somehow let them back in the game. Allowing 3 onside kicks in a row to be recovered. Final score 42-37.

Their QB, Chazz Anderson in some respects should be up for "Mr. Football". He can kill you both ways (Think Troy Smith).

I saw them on TV when they faced Olentangy. Both teams were undefeated going in, and it was billed up to be a great game.

Final score.......

Pickerington Central-50
Olentangy-7
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Shhh, we don't want Piqua utilizing onside kicks from the get go. :)
 
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PICKERINGTON CENTRAL 7 MACEDONIA NORDONIA 3
Tigers fly into final
Defense keys Central?s win in state semifinal
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Mark Znidar
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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</IMG> Pickerington Central?s Brian Peters reaches the 1-yard line on a 32-yard screen pass that set up the Tigers? touchdown.


ASHLAND, Ohio ? Jordan Mabin of Macedonia Nordonia might end up being voted Mr. Football as the best high school player in the state.
If he wins the award, it will have to be for the body of his work. He was stopped cold in game No. 14, a Division II semifinal last night against Pickerington Central.
Everywhere Mabin ran, there were three or four tacklers waiting as the Tigers limited him to 57 yards on 17 carries in a 7-3 victory before a capacity crowd in Community Stadium.
Pickerington Central (13-1) will play for its first championship against Piqua (12-2) at 7 p.m. Friday in Paul Brown Tiger Stadium in Massillon.
"Hats off to our kids," coach Jay Sharrett said. "They were on no one?s radar screens 14 weeks ago."
Suddenly, the Tigers are on center stage. They got there by giving up 154 total yards. Mabin had been unstoppable with 2,295 yards rushing and 30 touchdowns.
The game plan was simple enough: Swarm Mabin before he could get into space for game-breaking runs. His longest gain was 18 yards.
"We wanted to keep our blitzing game going and not give him any space to work with," linebacker Nick England said. "We played hard ? real hard. We played Tiger football. He?s a great, great running back and it was a challenge. But we watched a lot of tape."
The tone was set on Nordonia?s first possession. Linebacker Kyle Kozak sacked Zach Boedicker for a 7-yard loss on the first play. Mabin gained 4 yards on second down and Boedicker was sacked for a 3-yard loss on third down.
"Those downs definitely fired us up," England said.
The Knights (12-2) took a 3-0 lead on a 24-yard field goal by Eric Vukmanic with 4:02 left in the first quarter.
Pickerington Central made it 7-3 on a 1-yard sneak by quarterback Chazz Anderson with 1:07 left in the first half. The 10-play, 58-yard drive was kept alive by a pass interference penalty on third-and-12 that carried to the 30-yard line. Three plays later after 3 yards in losses, Brian Peters took a screen pass 32 yards to the 1 to set up the touchdown.
Tailback Jordan Jarrell helped keep Mabin off the field by outplaying him. Jarrell ran for 118 yards on 32 carries.
"I think I got the tough yardage when we needed it," Jarrell said. "I get a lot of long runs. But the coaches tell me all the time that to be a complete running back I?ve got to get the tough yards. I just played as hard as I could."
Jarrell smiled slyly when asked how it felt upstaging Mabin.
"It?s always special to go against someone like that," he said. "I won?t say it was a showdown, but it was a showdown."
The offensive line gave Jarrell running room despite being outweighed by the defensive line.
"We said at halftime that we?ve got to pound it up the middle," tackle Colin Jack said. "We just kept pushing and pushing. Coach told us that the game rode on the offensive line, but we knew that."
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We'll be sitting in the top row of section 4 for this game. Ya'll are welcome to stop up and discuss the finer points if you're at the game.

Here's how to recognize us
Us before the game -:cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Us after if Saine rumbles -:drunks: :drunks: :drunks:

Us after if the Tigers pull it out - :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

I'm sensing a theme for the night. :tongue2:
 
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Cleveland.com

Piqua vs. Pickerington Central
Piqua (12-2) vs. Pickerington Central (13-1)

Both Piqua and Pickerington Central advanced to the state final after securing hard-fought semifinal victories. Piqua needed a late fourth down conversion to lock up their victory over Cincinnati Turpin. Pickerington Central came out on top of a defensive struggle, besting Nordonia 7-3 in the other semifinal matchup.

Piqua, whose only two losses were seven point setbacks to Division I programs, boast one of the most explosive players in the state, senior running back Brandon Saine. The Ohio State recruit is a front-runner for Mr. Football honors. Meanwhile, Pickerington Central features one of the top duel-threat quarterbacks in the state in senior Chazz Anderson.

When Piqua has the ball: never take your eyes off the field because the Indians can score in a hurry. Piqua has scored over 40 points in half of their games. They only managed 22 points against Cincinnati Turpin in the state semifinal, but still rolled up 345 total yards.

Their offense runs through Brandon Saine, who posted 128 yards and both touchdowns against Turpin. He broke a 52-yard scoring jaunt with under four minutes remaining to secure the Indians' state semifinal victory. He has rushed for over 2,500 yards this season and has scored over 30 total touchdowns.

Saine could find the going difficult against a formidable Pickerington Central defense, a group that has allowed a total of 10 points over the past two games. They are particularly stout against the run and use an aggressive, blitzing style to stack up opposing rushing attacks.


When Pickerington Central has the ball: expect two key weapons, quarterback Chazz Anderson and running back Jordan Jarrell, to have the ball in their hands the majority of the time. Each is a talented playmaker capable of getting into the endzone multiple times per game. Jarrell has several games under his belt this season in which he scored three or more touchdowns. Against Nordonia in the state semifinal, Jarrell rushed for 132 yards, nearly tripling the output of Nordonia's star tailback Jordan Mabin (57 yards).

Lineman Dustin Snyder, linebacker Pete Rolf and defensive back Phillip Collier are the senior leaders of Piqua's fast, attacking-style defense. Each player was a first team All-Greater Western Ohio Conference selection. Collier's 58-yard interception return for a touchdown was one of the many big plays for the Indians in their victory over Turpin last week.

Outlook: Piqua's quick-strike offense led by the speedy Saine likely won't find the same running lanes as they are used to. They will have to play mistake-free football and be able to put together steady drives. The Tigers scrappy defense will hope to force them into negative plays and turnovers. The Pickerington offense, which had scored in bunches earlier in the year, hasn't had the same explosiveness over the past two weeks of playoff football. In fact, they have only managed 20 total points. They have won both those contests, however. They will need quarterback Chazz Anderson to manage the game well and Jordan Jarrell to be able to grind out yardage and control the clock.

-Mike Parris
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