The Buckeyes travel to Bidwell to take on the River Valley Raiders in Week 4. NY is finally at full strength with its roster and the three missing players from Week 1 and 2 made a HUGE statement in a 62-21 win over Berne Union in Week 3. This will be the 6th all-time meeting between the Buckeyes and Raiders, although NY did play the former North Gallia Pirates 4 times in the early '70s. If you count pre-consolidation numbers for River Valley, this will be the 10th all-time meeting. NY leads the all-time series 4-1 over River Valley and 8-1 if you count the North Gallia games.
NY Season Scores - (1-2)
8/24 H Trimble L 14-21
8/31 H Newark Catholic L 6-32
9/7 A Berne Union W 62-21
River Valley Season Scores - (1-2)
8/24 A Southern W 13-12
8/31 A Adena L 12-34
9/7 H Meigs L 18-48
NY leads all-time series 4 wins, 1 loss
2003 River Valley (A) 18-7
2004 Nelsonville-York (H) 42-6
2005 Nelsonville-York (A) 44-6
2006 Nelsonville-York (H) 47-6
2007 Nelsonville-York (A) 41-14
Former North Gallia Pirates stats: NY leads all-time series 4 wins, 0 losses
1970 Nelsonville-York (H) 38-0
1971 Nelsonville-York (H) 28-12
1972 Nelsonville-York (A) 37-6
1973 Nelsonville-York (H) 41-0
NY will win, but it may take some time to pull away. I can see like a 35-21 or 27-14 game. The O is coming around, but the D is still giving up a little too much.
Not much discussion on this game. I think if NY plays a game against anyone that cannot generate multiple pages of discussion, that is a sign that few fans care about that game, which should reflect on who NY schedules in the future. Ideally, fans are excited about all 10 games being played each year.
RV will see one of the best coached,most fundamentally sound teams in Southern Ohio this Friday night. They had better not miss tons of tackles or turn it over 4-5 times,this could get ugly fast.
Fundamentals Boys!
NY will win that is ust expected from a Buckeye team!!! NY looked better last week and will continue to get better each week, but with just getting all their players back it will take time to get up to speed while they work everything out..
Schedule your games according to the amount of attention they get on SEOP? Wow… Do you know how small of a percentage of the people who attend the games actually even look at this site. NY and NC got 2 pages of comments and NC had 25 people at the game.