WHS Football team defeats Oakwood 47-7

The Cowboys football team turned in a second consecutive impressive performance Friday night against Oakwood. The Wyoming fans who battled Labor Day traffic and a single person selling tickets may have been a little concerned as the game remained scoreless at the end of the first quarter. However, things would soon change.

On the sixth play of the fourth quarter junior RB Drew Perry scored Wyoming's 47th unanswered point, capping a bit more than 2 periods during which Wyoming scored touchdowns on six consecutive offensive possessions and added a "pick six" interception return for a touchdown by senior RB/DB Isiah Nearor of 50 yards.  Scoring included 2 seven yard TD runs by Nearor and an 86 yard TD pass from junior QB Kyle Seyfried to junior WR Jonathan Tighe during the second period, Nearor's pick six and a 59 yard TD jaunt along with a 7 yard TD pass from Seyfried to senior RB Harry Meisner in the third, and Perry's 7 yard run to cap Wyoming's scoring early in the fourth.

Oakwood then scored a touchdown on an 80 yard drive with 1:56 left after most of Wyoming's starting defenders had been pulled.

Nearor lit up the stat sheet with 102 yards and 3 rushing TD's on just 9 carries.  As mentioned he also tallied a fourth touchdown on his interception return.

Kyle Seyfried had another very strong performance, going 13-19 for 236 yards and TD passes to Tighe and Meisner.  "Big Play" Seyfried now has touchdown passes of 86 yards (Tighe-Oakwood), 78 yards (Aleshire-CHCA) and 64 yards (Aleshire-CHCA) in just 2 games.

The defense had another good game as well.  They allowed Oakwood 264 yards and 16 first downs, but 80 of those yards and 2 of the first downs came on Oakwood's final possession.  The Cowboys also forced four turnovers including the aforementioned interception by Nearor, an interception and 26 yard return by sophomore safety Adam Chalmers, and fumble recoveries by junior defensive ends Tony Davis and Michael Newman.

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Next: at Norwood Friday at 7:30.

CHL notes:
Madeira lost 21-0 to CHCA (39-3 losers to Wyoming last week) at CHCA. 
Despite leading 20-15 going into the fourth quarter, Indian Hill lost to Valley View 37-27, and is now 0-2 on the season (week 1 loss to McNicholas).  They've got another tough game, although at home, this Friday against Enquirer #3 (Div. II-VI) Turpin.