By Ben Spector
Winning After MidKnight
It has just been one of those seasons
for the Middletown High School Knights JV football team. The breaks just
haven’t been going there way.
No one could have predicted that when
practices started on the first day that the Varsity would call up not one and
not two players from JV, but a whopping five players.
Those five were some of the best
players in the sophomore class and it seemed like they would be helping to
steer the JV team to success.
Instead those players have been seeing
touches at the Varsity level, forcing the JV team to have to pick together the
pieces when the season finally rolled around.
It hasn’t been for lack of better
effort either, with Middletown almost never getting blown out and giving almost
every team they see a competitive game.
Unfortunately, for Middletown their
game against the Oakdale High School Bears followed the same pattern that their
season had, with them ending up losing by a final score of 8-0.
Middletown and Oakdale would see each
team squander drive after drive as they game went on with both teams getting
close to end zone but neither team being able to punch anything across the goal
line or through the uprights.
It appeared as the teams were destined
for overtime. The Bears though decided to make separate plans that didn’t
include the Knights.
Midway through the fourth quarter,
after receiving good field position, Oakdale would punch the ball into the end
zone and complete the two point conversion giving themselves an 8-0 lead, that
they wouldn’t relinquish.
Middletown will look towards their
regular season finale an October 29th game versus rival
Walkersville.
The Knights will look to get a win and
scrape something positive from a season that has been frustrating.
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