Indians pick up second victory of season with 34-21 win over South Decatur

Josh Barnett - Sports Editor

In their seventh game of the season the Milan Indians' varsity football team picked up their second victory with a 34-21 win over the visiting South Decatur Cougars last Friday night. With the win the Indians push their record to 2-5 on the season. "We made some personnel changes both offensively and defensively and it seems to have paid off," stated Milan coach Marty Layden, "The defensive back field had a good game defending against one of the best QB's in the MIFC."

The Indians jumped out to an early lead when Matt Posten rushed in for a short touchdown to make the score 6-0. Milan missed the PAT to keep their score at six. South Decatur intercepted a Rusty Ison pass and eventually punched the ball in to tie the game up at 6-6. The Cougars connected on the PAT to take an early 7-6 lead.

Early in the second quarter Bob Stanley intercepted a Cougar pass and ran it into the end zone to give Milan a 12-7 lead. The Indians connected on the two-point conversion to go up a touchdown at 14-7.

In the third quarter the Indians doubled their score adding two touchdowns to their total while holding South Decatur to one. Going into the fourth quarter Milan was leading 28-14.

Both teams scored again in the fourth quarter but Milan was unable to connect on the PAT giving them a total of 34 points, which was enough to hold on and get their second victory with a score of 34-21.

On offense the Indians compiled 11 total first downs on 265 total yards, 244 rushing and 21 passing. They had
35 yards on 4 Cougar penalties.

Quarterback Rusty Ison completed 2 passes on 7 attempts for 21 yards and a touchdown. Andy McIntosh caught the TD pass for 14 yards, which was his only completion of the game. Nick Arthur also had a catch for 7 yards.

Matt Posten was the Indians' leading rusher with 132 yards on 22 carries and 3 touchdowns. Bob Stanley had 52 yards on 10 carries, with a defensive TD and Nick Arthur had 48 yards on 5 carries.
On defense the Indians gave up 12 first downs to the Cougars on 282 total yards, 240 rushing and 42 passing. They were called for 6 penalties for 60 yards.

Josh Schwanholt, Anthony Spaulding and Derek Pennington led the Indians with 5 solo tackles each. Pennington and Schwanholt chalked up Milan's only tackles for losses.

The Indians continue their season this Friday on the road at Edinburgh. That game is scheduled to start at 7:00 pm.

Eagles fall to G'burg for 19th loss of season

Josh Barnett - Sports Editor

Jac-Cen-Del's volleyball team suffered their 19th straight loss of the season last Thursday at home against Greensburg. The Lady Eagles fell to the Lady Pirates in three games with scores of 23-25, 21-25 and 16-25.

Two Eagles finished the match serving perfect with both Kayla Walke and Abby Rohlfing going 9-9. Rohlfing was also one of the team leaders in setting going 34-35 with 6 set assists. Tiffany Downey finished the match setting a perfect 34-34 with 3 assists.

Rohlfing led the team with 4 blocks and Kaylin Ploegar was the team leader in passing completing 16 out of 17 passes (94%).

The Lady Eagles continue their season tonight on the road at Franklin County. That game is scheduled to start at 6:00 pm with the JV playing first.