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Making a case

10/28/2023

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Titusville's first winning season since 2016 has them on the bubble, with three other teams, for the last three spots of the District 10 class 3A playoff bracket. One team is going to be left out. One community is going to feel slighted by a group of suits sitting around on a conference call deciding who is worthy of a shot at the district crown and therefor has the potential for a cinderella trip to Hershey.
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They went into week nine against Oil City knowing if they could knock out the Oilers they would have a legitimate seat at the table. They couldn't pull that off making the final week of the season a must win against the 3-6 Corry Beavers.
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They needed to win with enough gusto to make the district executives take notice.

They won 28-21.

​The Rockets know it isn't the best scenario to have a decision made in an office and not on the field.
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So how do they make their case?
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"We have relentlessly scored points throughout the season, we have an affective offense, our defense has gotten significantly better since the (second week of the season) at Sharpesville. We're one of the top eight teams in District 10," said coach Mike Reynolds  just after winning their sixth game of the season. "At this point, we told the kids, 'you can only control the things you can control.' We knew it was going to be a battle to the end of the game. They execute well, they throw well that's a real good quarterback and they have a couple real good receivers." He said Corry beat Leboeuf last week so they were not a push over
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"We did what we do running the football and you saw, there were times where maybe we were getting a yard or two, but all of a sudden a big play would come and at the end they just kept the peddle to the metal and just jammed it down their throat to finish off well," Reynolds said. "The defense played big tonight."

District 10 has their hands full.  The Rockets are 6-4, but they did not beat a team with a winning record. They scored 330 points in 10 games this season. That has to mean something.
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Fairview is 6-4 as well with big a win over North East last week and crushing Northwestern in the finale. They did lose big to General McLane in week eight 42-7.

McLane is also 6-4 and have scored over 40 points in each of their last three games against Fairview, Girard and winless Warren. They did lose to Leboeuf, but it was in week two 38-28. They scored 326 points in ten games.

Leboeuf is 7-3 , but were upset by Corry last week. They rebounded to win their last game convincingly over Sharpesville. They also won a barn burner overtime game against Fairview In week four.

So the D10 folks have a real mess to figure out.
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Against Corry Jaxon Covell had in the neighborhood of 200 yards rushing. Kameron Mong had a huge game rushing for 120 yards and added another 17 in receiving. Mong also had a huge punt on a bad snap that pinned Corry deep in fourth.
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Mong and McDonald had touchdowns as well as two by Covell.
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"Communication was big tonight, the kids told us something was open and we listened and adjusted to what the kids were telling us. I'm so proud of these kids," Reynolds said. "Now it is up to the D10 committee to decide who goes where."
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