2008 Rewind
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3 Spartans Selected 1st-Team All-District
As the 2008 season comes to an end, many Start Spartans have achieved post-season honors in the Toledo City league and All-District Teams. First-Team All-City Recognition went out to: Running back & Defensive back, Troy Bell, Linebacker Terry Mitchell, Defensive tackle Parish Wimberly, and Place kicker Kyle Whitmore. Second Team honors went to: Wide receiver Hank Oswald and Fullback Danny Wood. As far as the All-District Team is concerned, the offensive player of the year is Start running back Troy Bell, who rushed for 1,658 yards and scored 24 TDs to follow up a similarly productive junior season. Joining him on the first team are fellow Spartans Terry Mitchell at linebacker and junior Parrish Wimberly at defensive line. |
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Bell Breaks School Records as Spartans Roll 21-12
Troy Bell ran for 226 yards on 34 carries and scored three touchdowns to not only lead Start (4-6, 4-3) to victory, but become the Spartans' all-time career rushing and scoring leader. His scoring runs were for 4, 8 and 21 yards. Spartan Quarterback, Josh Giles finished 7 of 14 for 88 yards. Corey Cook hit 9 of 24 passes for 134 yards for the Bulldogs (2-8, 1-6), including scoring strikes of 46 yards to Phillip Bobo and 8 to Kenneth Campbell. Armon Richardson led Scott with 103 yards on 21 carries. The Spartans finish the 2008 season 4-3 in the Toledo City League and will return 9 starters on offense, and 8 on defense for the 2009 football season. Start will travel to Fremont Ross High School on Friday, August 28 and and then back to Spartan Stadium for Anthony Wayne and Sylvania Southview. |
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Walt Anderson accounted for four touchdowns as St. John's Jesuit scored in every quarter of its 47-28 City League win over Start last night at Rogers. Anderson was 8-of-17 passing for 141 yards, including TD passes of 53 and 29 yards to Mike White, for St. John's (6-3, 5-1). Anderson also rushed for 118 yards on 15 carries with TD runs of 7 and 1. White totaled 77 receiving yards on four catches. P.J. Wimberly led the Titans on the ground with 147 yards on 17 carries. St. John's finished with 420 total yards (279 rushing). Mike Noward opened the scoring for St. John's, which never trailed, with a 33-yard field goal and later converted a 29-yarder. Troy Bell led Start (3-6, 3-3) with 85 rushing yards on 12 carries with TD runs of 1 and 4 yards. He also scored on a 96-yard kickoff return in the fourth quarter. Josh Giles and Aaron Newman combined to finish 18-of-37 passing for 241 yards. Hank Oswald was their favorite target with 104 receiving yards on five catches, including an eight-yard TD pass from Giles. |
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Bell Closing in on All-Time Leading Rusher, Scorer
SSDN Sports Over the years, the Spartans rushing game has been overshadowed because of their prominent passing attack, but in the past 7 seasons, Start has produced 4-thousand yard rushers, including Greg Wimberly(2002), Julian Nash (2005) and Troy Bell (2007, 2008). In '07, Bell (Toledo City-League rushing leader, 1st Team All-City) finished the season with 1,409-yards on 204 carries while scoring 12 touchdowns. This season, has been no different for Bell, as he has compiled 1,335-yards on 156 rushes (8.6-yards per carry) and has totaled 18 touchdowns after just 8 games. Currently, the Start High School career-rushing record is held by Brandon Carter (1998) with 3,054 yards. Troy Bell now needs just 170 yards over the next 2 ball games to surpass that mark. Bell is also only 2-touchdowns away from becoming the Spartans All-Time leading scorer, the current mark is 31. Troy is currently coming off a 197-yard, 4-touchdown performance against Libbey, and will take the field again this Friday night against St. John's Jesuit. Kickoff is slated for 7:00pm at Rogers High School. |
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Spartans Ruin Libbey Homecoming, 42-0
Dave Gatwood Start head coach Pat Gucciardo left the field at halftime yesterday shaking his head and talking to himself. His team was ahead, 7-0, but their performance was less than stellar and despite clearly winning the battle in the trenches the Spartans were shooting themselves in the foot. Four turnovers, two fumbles and two interceptions, had allowed the Libbey Cowboys to stay in the game and Gucciardo knew on the long walk into his team's locker room that he had to make his team understand that they had to improve their execution or face a possible loss. In the first three minutes of the second half the entire complexion of the game changed dramatically. Within those three minutes the previously hapless Spartan offense scored three touchdowns on 7 plays, amassed 67 yards rushing, and passed for 87 additional yards passing. In essence, in three minutes the Spartans not only surpassed the entire first half performance but also extinguished any dreams that the Cowboys may have had of winning the game. The lone first half score came early in the first quarter and it came suddenly. After struggling a bit on their first possession, the Spartans took advantage of a poor punt by the Cowboys and struck immediately on a 18 yard touchdown toss from quarterback Josh Giles to receiver Devin Price. However, the remainder of the half was a comedy of errors for the Spartans and an exercise of futility for the Cowboys. For Start, moving the ball on offense was not a problem as they totaled 168 yards of total offense in the first half but untimely turnovers proved costly. For Libbey, their was no offense as they managed only 22 yards on the ground and 25 yards through the air but the good news was that they were still in the game. Unfortunately, this all changed shortly after the teams entered the field after halftime. Once the Spartans took charge of the game in the first three minutes after halftime the outcome of the game was clearly determined. At that point the only issue became what the final score would be. The Cowboys continued to struggle on offense and it was clear that they lacked the firepower necessary to come back against the Spartans. The star for the Spartans on the afternoon was senior running back, Troy Bell. Bell, who is quickly zeroing in on the all-time Start rushing record, scored 4 touchdowns, three rushing and one on a 46-yard pass reception, and amassed 196 yards on the ground on 21 carries. |
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Bell, Spartans Ring Up 61 on Woodward
SSDN Sports Photo: Dave Gatwood Senior running-back, Troy Bell, had a career day by scoring six touchdowns as Start dismantled Woodward 61-0. The Spartans were playing without the services of 5 starters due to injury on Saturday afternoons game at Waite High School's Mollenkopf Stadium. Backup quarterback, Josh Giles (playing for the injured Aaron Newman) played near perfect completing 7 of 11 passes for 151 yards and 2 scores, while Troy bell carried the ball 15 times for 162 yards and accounted for 6 touchdowns (Single-game School Record). Bell is also closing in on a two more school-records, as he needs 540-yards to become the Single-Season Rushing Leader and 396-yards to become the Career Rushing Leader at Start High School. As well as the offense played, the Spartan Defense was the story, holding Woodward to 1 of 11 passing for minus 5 yards and only allowing 39 total offensive yards (2nd in school history). The Spartans forced 6 turnovers including a safety. Start is now 2-2 in the Toledo City League, and will face the Libbey Cowboys (2-2) next Saturday afternoon at Cowboy Stadium (1:30 pm. Kick-off). Woodward takes on the Bowsher Rebels. |
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Irish Hold off Feisty Spartans
Toledo Blade
Central Catholic
remained unbeaten with a 21-0 victory over a determined Start defensive
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Start Shows up Big on
Homecoming Support from
Toledo Blade
Start quarterback, Aaron Newman and Devon
Price hooked up for a pair of touchdown passes as Start cruised to a
29-10 home win in front of a packed Spartan Stadium. The Spartans will take on city-league rival, Central Catholic, Friday night at 7:00pm (Spartan Stadium). Gates will open at 6:00 pm. |
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Whitmer 4th Quarter Puts Away Spartans Toledo Blade
At Whitmer, the Panthers
outscored the Spartans 28-7 in the second half to break open a close
game. |
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Southview Claws Way to 28-12 Victory
Dave Gatwood The evening began poorly for the heavily favored Southview Cougars. On the very first possession of the game, the visiting Start Spartans drove 55 yards to the Cougars' 1 foot line and looked poised to score before a tightened Cougar defense and an untimely Spartan penalty forced Start to settle for a 13 yard Kyle Whitmore field goal. Whitmore's field goal gave the Spartans an unexpected 3-0 lead but it would be the last time that the Spartans would enjoy this position. Despite their courageous goal line play, the Cougars' offense did not respond with their own courageous play. Instead, on their second play from scrimmage, the Cougars fumbled the ball and the Spartans recovered at the Southview 31 yard line. Full Article |
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Youngstown Boardman Too Much for Spartans Toledo Blade Toledo, Ohio - Boardman jumped out to a 21-7 lead after one quarter and never looked back in the road win. Damian Jarrett rushed for 151 yards on 12 carries for the victors with touchdown runs of 78 and 5. Troy Bell rushed for 65 yards on 14 carries for Start (0-2), along with a 99-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in the first quarter. Start quarterback Aaron Newman finished 18 of 32 for 166 passing yards with a nine-yard touchdown pass to Devin Price in the third quarter. |
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Week 2 - Boardman High School, of Ohio's Federal League, will travel across the state to take on the Spartans tonight at 7:00 pm. Boardman (1-0), defeated Cuyahoga Falls 43-0 in week one as Start tries to rebound after a road loss to Lorain Admiral King 30-21.
Get your 2008 Spartan Game Day Program On sale at Spartan Stadium - Friday Night and all Home Football Games and Sporting Events Program includes all the information for the 2008 Spartan Football team as well as the other Fall Sports. |
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Spartan Turnovers Key in Loss to Admiral King LORAIN - Admiral King scored 22 points in the third quarter - including a 15-yard fumble return by Adrian Casey and a 68-yard punt return by Chris Kimbro - to put Start away. Troy Bell rushed for 256 yards on 25 carries and scored all of Start's touchdowns, on runs of 52, 58 and 46 yards. |
Irish, Titans should battle for City League crown
Is this the season that the Toledo City League football becomes the “Big Two” and the “Little Ten?” Some coaches think so. “Central Catholic and St. John's are way ahead of the rest of us,” said Rogers coach Rick Rios at this week's City League “Smoker.” Each City League coach humbly addressed fellow coaches and the media, proclaiming how good their competition is and how many problems their own teams have. Of course Rios didn't tell everyone that his Rams dominated perennial state power Canton McKinley in a recent scrimmage. One of the “Big Two” doesn't see things the way Rios does. “I think both Whitmer and Rogers are going to be very good; they're flying under the radar right now,” said St. John's coach Doug Pearson. “Start is going to be pretty good as well. I think the league will be better this year than it has been in a long time. You better come and strap it up every week. For a while the league has been the haves and the have nots, I don't see it that way anymore.” Complete Story
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 Spartans Impressive in Shoe Bowl Dave Gatwood Spartan head coach Pat Gucciardo entered preseason practice wondering whether he would be able to find a quarterback to direct his complicated offensive schemes. For the past several seasons, coach Gucciardo has had the services of an experienced, quality quarterback and he was therefore able to direct his primary attention to other areas of the Spartan offense. This season, however, this was not the case but, now that the scrimmages are over and the regular season begins next Friday it appears that Start will again field one of the area's finest quarterbacks. Friday evening the Start Spartans played two fifteen minute quarters at Bowling Green's Doyt Perry Stadium as part of their state allowed scrimmages. In the first quarter the Spartans played Ken Jame's Northwood Rangers. Full Story |
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Newman steps up at Quarterback for Start
BOWLING
GREEN — It’s no secret that Start coach Pat Gucciardo is a great
developer of quarterbacks in the City League. |
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TOLEDO CITY LEAGUE HALL OF FAME BOWL CHAMPIONS 1979 1997 2002 2003 2006 2007
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Toledo Blade
Defense
Pitches Second Straight Shutout
Defense
holds Woodward to 39 Total Yards while Bell Sets another School Record
Youngstown
Boardman Travels to Toledo
By Norm Wamer
Start High School - 2100 Tremainsville Rd. - Toledo, Ohio - 43613