TIGERS OPEN PLAYOFFS AT NORTH UNION

By JON KLEINKNECHT

Inquirer Sports Editor

sports@galioninquirer.com

The Galion Tigers (9–1) will travel to Rich­wood on Fri­day to take on the North Union Wild­cats (10–0) in the open­ing round of the Divi­sion IV foot­ball play­offs.
Kick­off will be at 7:30 p.m.
North Union is a mem­ber of the Mid-Ohio Ath­letic Con­fer­ence, the league Galion will be join­ing in two years.

“They are a Wing-T power team that wants to run the ball first,” Galion head coach Chris Hawkins said of the Wild­cats. “Personnel-wise, they are a lot like us, although a lit­tle big­ger. They have a lot of speed on both sides of ball, just like we do.”

This marks the fifth time in pro­gram his­tory the Tigers have advanced to the post-season. They have a 4–3 over­all mark, with all four wins com­ing in the 1985 Divi­sion II state cham­pi­onship sea­son. The locals posted a per­fect 14–0 mark that year. Since then, the Orange-and-Blue have lost first-round games in 1986, ’89 and 2009.
“Our first two goals every year are to win an out­right league cham­pi­onship and to make the play­offs,” Hawkins stated. “We’ve put check marks next to those. Our third goal is now to win the first play­off game in 27 years. Every Sat­ur­day we want to make a new goal.”

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