Week 9: #13 Oak Harbor @ #5 Eastwood (no contest)

[BellevueBuckeye]

D5 Region 18 Quarterfinal, 7pm Saturday

[litebrite]

A rematch of last years regional semifinal. If everyone is healthy and safe (no quarantines) my gut tells me Eastwood 24 Oak Harbor 14. Both teams have good defenses. Eastwood gives up 11.7 ppg and OH giving up 14.4. Offenses very close too, Eastwood 32 ppg and OH 29 ppg.

Turnovers and penalties will play a big factor as well in games like these.

Should be a good one.

[litebrite]

Hearing not good news out of Oak Harbor....

[litebrite]

Oak Harbor forfeits due to COVID. I’m hearing Rockets will be done with football for the year as well. Tough break.

Eastwood will play winner of Liberty Benton/North Union.

[jafo]

Sorry to hear that, sending good thoughts and better times ahead for Oak Harbor.

[edchambers]

I realize it's a technicality but it's considered no contest rather than a forfeit. OH finishes the season at 4-3.

Tough way to end the season.

[litebrite]

Oct 20, 2020 18:43:39 GMT -5 edchambers said:

I realize it's a technicality but it's considered no contest rather than a forfeit. OH finishes the season at 4-3.

Tough way to end the season.

Yeah, a forfeit.

[kingmartinez]

I read the AD said they could have played but decided to error on the safe side. Any insight on the details of this situation?

[smitty1974]

litebrite,if its a forfeit wouldnt oak harbor finish at 4-4(3-3 sbc,1-1 in playoffs) but if is a no contest then its like a game not scheduled and oak harbor finishes 4-3.i looked up joe eitel under oak harbor, and he has oak harbor as being 4-3. so it means oak harbor at eastwood would never had happened.

[litebrite]

Oct 21, 2020 10:30:19 GMT -5 smitty1974 said:

litebrite,if its a forfeit wouldnt oak harbor finish at 4-4(3-3 sbc,1-1 in playoffs) but if is a no contest then its like a game not scheduled and oak harbor finishes 4-3.i looked up joe eitel under oak harbor, and he has oak harbor as being 4-3. so it means oak harbor at eastwood would never had happened.

Yeah. Oak Harbor can't play so Eastwood wins and advances.

[edchambers]

Oct 21, 2020 10:30:19 GMT -5 smitty1974 said:

litebrite,if its a forfeit wouldnt oak harbor finish at 4-4(3-3 sbc,1-1 in playoffs) but if is a no contest then its like a game not scheduled and oak harbor finishes 4-3.i looked up joe eitel under oak harbor, and he has oak harbor as being 4-3. so it means oak harbor at eastwood would never had happened.

Using litebrite's logic, OH would be 5-4 with a win over Elyria Catholic and a loss to Eastwood.

[litebrite]

Oct 21, 2020 11:22:26 GMT -5 edchambers said:

Oct 21, 2020 10:30:19 GMT -5 smitty1974 said:

litebrite,if its a forfeit wouldnt oak harbor finish at 4-4(3-3 sbc,1-1 in playoffs) but if is a no contest then its like a game not scheduled and oak harbor finishes 4-3.i looked up joe eitel under oak harbor, and he has oak harbor as being 4-3. so it means oak harbor at eastwood would never had happened.

Using litebrite's logic, OH would be 5-4 with a win over Elyria Catholic and a loss to Eastwood.

Sure they are

[smitty1974]

i just looked under joe eitel/eastwood schedule 6-1 but did not get credit for a win over oak harbor but i looked at joe eitel/elyria catholic and showed the panthers at 3-2 and did not credit them a loss to oak harbor.to me joe eitel next best besides the ohsaa to get this info.

[smitty1974]

i asked jeff swank on swank on sports in the mansfield area as far the covid goes it has been a policy to treat such games as games not played.he also says that assigning a win or a loss in
such situations would be admitting some sort of violation took place.a program might have done everything they could to avoid getting the virus and it still happens.in jeff swank's opinion different than lets say some sort of recruiting violation.thats why elyria catholicis still 3-2 and not 3-3 thats why oak harbor is still 4-3 instead of 5-4 and eastwood is 6-1 instead of 7-1 because a win or loss is not counted in no contest games.

[Hummingbird]

Oct 21, 2020 9:28:03 GMT -5 kingmartinez said:

I read the AD said they could have played but decided to error on the safe side. Any insight on the details of this situation?

Anyone know what he is referring to?

[litebrite]

Oct 21, 2020 19:57:28 GMT -5 Hummingbird said:

Oct 21, 2020 9:28:03 GMT -5 kingmartinez said:

I read the AD said they could have played but decided to error on the safe side. Any insight on the details of this situation?

Anyone know what he is referring to?

Probably a bunch of seniors and juniors that were positive or had to quarantine - not the whole team. You can still play with your sophomores and freshmen, but take a whooping in the process.

[smitty1974]

i think the coach wanted to be keep oak harbor and eastwood safe and not let covid run wild and then get eastwood players sick.so he rather took the no contest rather to get another players or teamsick and have them post a no contese.tapregrah its in todays october 21 Sanduskyregister.com.

[smitty1974]

Litebrite read about it in todays newspaper sanduskyregister.com.oak harbor athletic dept began exploring the cancellation option tuesday morning after a 2pm zoom call to the ottawa county health dept.the cancellation was madefinal.then the ad had a meeting had a meeting with football team after school.by then the school had conducted contact tracing and send multiple studentshome based on its findings.so basically that was it.

[kingmartinez]

Crazy to not play a game that “could have been played”. I respect the virus but can’t see shutting it down unless there was no other option, which wasn’t the case, according to the AD.