Game Stats: Milford vs. Kings
Coach Olds Corner: Coming Monday
Game Slideshow: Mindseye Photography
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Newspaper Coverage: Pulse-Journal
WKNG Radio: Re-play Podcast
Putter’s WKNG Player of the Game: Jamard Lewis – 4 catches for 142 yards, long of 59 yards and 2 touchdowns all in the first half! Putter’s congratulates Jamard Lewis! Great Game!
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Although the heading sounds like the title of a boring book, Friday’s opening was anything but boring! As this year’s seniors would walk down the hill into the stadium, I am quite sure their stomachs were about at the top of their throats. Click to read the rest of Coach Old’s Corner.
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“There is nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer. With it beats the spirit of service, generosity and compassion…and the health and well-being of our community, our country and our world.” KOBI YAMADA Click RoundTable to read the entire column.
Voting has ended for this week’s Beacon Orthopaedics Primetime Performer of the Week. Voting came to an end Monday at 11:59 p.m. Jamire received the most votes and was announced on News 5 on Tuesday at 11 p.m. Check out Beacon Orthopaedics Primetime Performer of the Week
Blitz 5 and Beacon Orthopaedics has nominated Kings Knights Junior Running Back Jamire Westbrook for Primetime Performer of the week. Jamire lead the Knights to a season opening win Friday night scoring 4 touchdowns including 3 key second half touchdowns. Jamire racked up 170 Yards on the ground with 3 rushing touchdowns and catching a big 41 yard touchdown pass on 4th and 7 in the 3rd quarter.
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Westbrook 41YD TD pass from Gebhardt
Offical results! Knights Nation delivered the knockout punch!!! Knights fans delivered over 1200 votes in the last 24 hours of the poll to overcome D.J. Slater of Bellevue who was leading Monday morning by over 100 votes!!!
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Game Summary: Game Stats
Coach Olds Corner: Tale of Two Halves
WKNG Radio: Game Re-Play Podcast : Post- Game Interviews – Head Coach Andy Olds – Defensive Coordinator Chad Seymour – RB/CB Nick Collado – Safety Spencer Rosekrans
Pulse Journal: Slideshow
Contributed by Bret A. Sims, WKNG Radio
On a night when there wasn’t a cloud in the sky the Kings Knights brought a combination of Thunder (Jamire Westbrook) and lightening (Nick Collado) to defeat their arch nemesis to the North, the Lebanon Warriors 34 – 21.
The Knights opened the scoring using a combination of short passes and hard running by Westbrook to march 44-yards ending on a 2-yard plunge by Westbrook, much to the delight of the Kings faithful in attendance and listening on WKNGradio.com.
Not to be outdone the Warriors would step up and answer the call behind running backs Dylan Miles (finished with 169 yards rushing and 1 TD) and Aaron Abbott. Abbott who is only a sophomore displayed his talents and clearly will be the man for the Warriors in the next couple of seasons. Dylan Miles who only stands 5-foot-9 is one of the tougher running backs the Knights’ have seen in a while. Sophomore QB Luke Morgan would end a 9 play, 83-yard drive with a TD toss to wide out Nick Esposito to tie the game at 7-7.
Though the game was tied, it appeared that the huge offensive line that the Warriors brought with them was overwhelming the Knights front line. Miles and Abbott were biting off big chunks of yardage and had it not been for Justin Crull, Nick Collado, Mason Barker and Spencer Rosekrans in the secondary making several tackles the Warriors would have found the end zone more often.
Once the Warriors seemed to get in the red zone their inexperience showed as they were hampered by penalties that took them out of scoring position a couple of times in the first half which was something the Knights’ defense used to their advantage.
Jamire Westbrook came into the season wanting to top 1,000 yards for the first time in his career. He managed to get 170 of those yards in tonight’s game to go along with 3 rushing touchdowns.
Sophomore Nick Collado brought the crowd to their feet with a 90-yard kickoff return after Lebanon had tied the score at 7. Collado virtually went untouched in route to the electrifying return and was a precursor of big plays for the Knights.
Kings coaching staff did a great job of making the necessary adjustments on both sides of the ball during halftime and it instantly showed when Jensen Gephardt hit Westbrook on a 41-yard touchdown pass that exhibited Westbrook’s natural ability to maintain his balance with Lebanon’s Nick Esposito hanging on him as he hauled in the pass.
While the Knight’s offense was clicking the difference in the game came on the defensive side of the ball where they seemed to shut down the rushing lanes that had been so open in the first half. Time and time again the defense rose to the occasion, leaving the Warriors frustrated and scoreless.
When Westbrook scored on a 21-yard run to put the Knights up 27-14 in the third quarter it looked like the young Lebanon team would bend to the will of the Knights. But Luke Morgan rallied his team with a combination of passes to all GWOC wide receiver Brody Wolf and smash mouth running by Dylan Miles. Morgan found Wolf in the corner of the end zone on a pass that should why Wolf is as valuable as he fully extended his body to make the diving catch and bring the Warriors to within six points.
Leading 37 to 21 the Knights defense went into more of a conservative mode instead of an attacking mode as they might have been content trying to run out the clock and rely on their defense that had found new life in the second half.
After turning back the Warriors and with time running out the Knights found themselves in a fourth-and-one situation on Lebanon’s 39-yard line. On a play that seemed very similar to the Super Bowl years ago between the Washington Redskins and Miami Dolphins when John Riggins of the Redskins bounced off tackle and took it to the house so did Westbrook. Westbrook’s score at the 1:21 minute mark sealed the victory for the Knights and the fans stood and applauded their efforts.
The Knights removed the 45-17 bashing they took last year at the hands of the Warriors and as the team ran off the field to the corner of the end zone to sing the fight song it was evident that this year things will be different. An early win can go a long way to build confidence in a young team.
Milford rolls into town next weekend after destroying Hughes and you can bet while the Knights were savoring the victory over Lebanon that their thoughts quickly turned to the Eagles and what would be required of them.
TV Coverage: Fox 19 Prep Rally Video : Blitz 5
Queen City High Coverage: Knights Get Revenge
Vote for Jamire Westbrook: Beacon Orthopaedics Primetime Performer of the Week (voting ends Monday at Midnight)
Fox 19 Cincinnati Bell Call of the Day – Blake Bates 1st series 4th down and 1 key stop.
Queen City High Gold Star Chili Star of the Game – Spencer Rosekrans
Putter’s WKNG Big Play of the Game: WKNG Re-play - Nick Collado 90 yard kickoff return
New Orleans Saint Coach Sean Payton goes back to his High School and introduces Kenny Chesney’s Boys of Fall Video. Enjoy!
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Andy Olds has to go back nearly two decades to find a player that compares to Blake Bates.
“Eric Louallen made a jump from his junior to senior season in the early 1990s so remarkable that it still stands out in my mind as the greatest jump in performance that a player has made in one year during my time at Kings,” Olds said. “Blake has matched and surpassed that this year.
“He has transformed himself into a Division I prospect in one offseason, and I mean that sincerely. He got in the weight room, understood that this was his last chance and jumped at it. He will be a difference maker for us on defense.”
Check out the rest of Scot Hayes article at the Pulse Journal.
Not only is Coach Old’s noticing Blake’s transformation but his hard work paid off this summer, check out this summary from OhioVarsity.com on his performance at the National Underclassmen Combine in Columbus where Blake was a Top 20 Standout/All-Combine Team member:
Bates builds on strong combine performance
Steve Hare
OhioVarsity.com
The Cincinnati Enquirer previews the FAVC Cardinal with coaches voting predicting the Knights to move up to second behind Turpin. Hum… Turpin’s last home loss was to the Knights 41-10 on Oct 3rd 2008… This will be the Knights first trip back to Anderson Township since that win…
Here’s what the Enquirer says about our Knights:
Kings
Division: II
Coach: Andy Olds (100-33)
Last year: 3-7 (2-3)
Fun fact: Junior RB Jamire Westbrook has a scholarship offer from UC.
Players to watch: Westbrook, senior QB Jonny Brewster, senior OLB/TE Blake Bates.
Other key players: Junior OLB Sean Horan, sophomore WR Justin Crull.
Outlook: The cycle that had Olds replacing 27 seniors and 21 starters last season has the veteran coach welcoming 18 starters – just three of them seniors – from his first losing season in 12 with the Knights. Brewster returns for his third year as the starter after throwing for 1,203 yards last season. Olds hopes to improve a defense that yielded the most points and second-most yards in the division.
Check out the entire FAVC Cardinal Division Coverage at the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Above Senior Spencer Rosekrans shows why he’s leading the Secondary at Safety.
Get a taste of the Pulse Journal Coverage:
“We fell on tough times last year,” Olds said. “But that makes us more hungry
to go out and chase a championship this year.
“I think we had so much success here over the years that the players, coaches
and fans started to take that success for granted. Now, there’s a fire in our gut
to renew those championship ways.”
Click Pulse-Journal to read the entire article.
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