Football: Week 2 by the numbers

Two weeks are in the books.

Last Friday was a night of last-second touchdowns from players like Amari Addy of Lima Senior, Mikey Hale of Bath and Zach Looser of Spencerville.

Other teams, like Columbus Grove, Bluffton, Waynesfield-Goshen and St. Marys, continued to look untouchable in blowout victories.

Let’s take a look at the numbers that stood out in Week 2.

2017 — Amari Addy’s touchdown put the Lima Senior back in the win column for the first time since Oct. 13, 2017, against Findlay. It was the 31st meeting between the two teams, and Findlay still has the edge with 19 wins over the Spartans. The Trojans were in the midst of a six-game winning streak in the series and might have continued that if Ryan Montgomery, a Georgia commit, hadn’t gone down with a torn ACL in Week 1. Either way, a win is a win for Lima Senior. Credit to our old friend Tim who stopped by the office last week with all the Findlay-Lima Senior matchup information we could ever dream of.

1,061 — Waynesfield-Goshen beat Crestline 49-12 on Saturday, running its regular season winning streak to 24. The last time the Tigers lost a regular season game was Oct. 8, 2021, 32-6 to Perry, meaning as of Wednesday , that’s 1,062 straight days without a regular season loss. In his first year as head coach at Waynesfield-Goshen, Chris Sommers, the former Delphos Jefferson and Spencerville coach and Fort Loramie assistant, has picked up right where former coach Shane Wireman left off.

50 — Marion Local’s 49-0 shutout of Franklin means the Flyers now own the nation’s longest active winning streak at 50. That includes three consecutive state championships in the last three seasons. To find the Flyers’ last loss, you have to travel all the back to Nov. 6, 2020, against New Bremen, the eventual Division VII state champion that year. Marion Local also currently has the most playoff-era football state championships in the state of Ohio at 14.

53 — Zach Looser played hero for Spencerville on Friday night. With 53 seconds left on the clock, the talented junior ran in the game-winning touchdown against Wayne Trace. The Wildcats are out to a 2-0 start this season, which is another positive step for the program under second-year coach Kyle Koenig. If the Bearcats beat Riverside (1-1) on Friday night, they’ll match last year’s win total well before the halfway point.

2011 — The last time Bath won a WBL opener was Sept. 9, 2011, against Defiance. That drought is no more after the Wildcats took down Van Wert for the first time since 2016 on Friday night. As some of you might remember, the exact scenario was in play last year when Van Wert and Bath were tied at 35 in the third quarter before the Cougars ran away with a 64-42 win. When I asked Frank Russell in August about that loss, he promised his defense would be better, and despite giving up 35 points, his kids never folded in a close game.

101 and 108 — St. Marys’s two-back duo, Colton Mabry and Dominik Osborne, has everything trending in the right direction early on. Mabry ran for 101 yards and two touchdowns on 21 carries in a statement victory over Celina and Osborne had 108 yards and a touchdown on 21 carries. Through two games, Mabry and Osborne have combined for 517 yards and eight touchdowns. That’s tough.

169 — Coldwater coach Chip Otten recorded career win No. 169 on Friday night against Clinton-Massie, passing John Reed for most wins in program history. To say that’s an impressive feat would be an understatement, especially in a historically tough football conference like the MAC. In what’s been a highly emotional start to the season for the Cavaliers, it’s great to see the program get to celebrate something positive.

Reach Chris Howell at 567-242-0468 or on Twitter/X at @Lima_Howell