Homecoming Brings First Braves Win

On Friday Sep. 23, 2016 the Talawanda Braves Football team took on the Little Miami Panthers starting off the weekend in a very exciting and hard fought homecoming game. In the first quarter the Panthers established a very strong running game out of the gate and scored on a 50 yard rush to put the game at 7-0 early. The Braves came back with a strong offensive possession and ended the drive with a 31 yard touchdown pass from Logan Kamphaus to Luke Croucher to tie the game at 7-7. At the end of the first quarter the score was all tied up at 14 a piece after another rushing touchdown from Little Miami and a receiving touchdown from Andrew O’Donnell.

In the second both teams scored and went into halftime tied 21-21.

Coming out of halftime into the third quarter the Braves defense held the Panthers to 0 touchdowns meanwhile the offense scored on a 15 yard pass to Kevin Engelhard and a 26 yard field goal to go up on the Panthers 31-21.

Starting off the fourth quarter, Talawanda started off strong and scored on a 17 yard receiving touchdown to Luke Croucher. Little Miami fought back from their deficit with 2 more rushing touchdowns to bring the score to 35-38. On the kickoff return to Tyler Prater he returned the kick for 87 yards for the touchdown to put the Braves up 35-45. Talawanda had a very consistent rushing and passing night. With 1:43 to go in the game the Panthers had fought back and scored on a field goal and just scored a touchdown for 6 to put the score at 44-45. On a controversial call to go for the two-point conversion instead of tying the game up with the field goal led to a failed rushing two-point conversion and your Braves took over and held the ball for the final minute to win a thrilling Homecoming game ending the 15 game losing streak and started the winning streak off of Logan Kamphaus’s 13 for 28 on passing with 233 yards, 4 touchdowns, and only 1 interception. He also contributed by running the ball with 21 rushing attempts for 151 yards and 1 touchdown. In all he accounted for 384 total yards of offense. Logan is in the running for WCPO Player of the Week for his performance.

He is currently leading all vote getters with 22% of the votes so far. Talawanda’s next game is Sep. 30, 2016 at 7 p.m. on Friday against the Harrison Wildcats at home. Be there!