BIG day for former Tigers

By JON KLEINKNECHT
Inquirer Sports Edi­tor
sports@galioninquirer.com

ALEX NICHOLLS recorded 3 tack­les as unde­feated and #1-ranked Mount Union (9–0) thumped Baldwin-Wallace 38–7 to wrap up its 21st con­sec­u­tive Ohio Ath­letic Con­fer­ence foot­ball cham­pi­onship last Sat­ur­day.
Also in Divi­sion III, CARTEL BROOKS grinded out 134 yards and 2 touch­downs on 29 car­ries and caught a pass for another 42 yards as nationally-ranked Hei­del­berg (8–1) hum­bled John Car­roll 31–10.
Car­tel entered the game as the top rusher and scorer in the 10-school OAC. It was the 1,000th foot­ball game in Hei­del­berg his­tory.
The 1972 national cham­pi­onship team — quar­ter­backed by long-time GHS coach and retired ath­letic direc­tor JIM RUTH, was hon­ored dur­ing a cer­e­mony at the game.
Jim was elected to the Hei­del­berg Ath­letic Hall of Fame 25 years ago.
Another for­mer GHS coach, JIM GRUDEN, was elected to the Hei­del­berg HoF in 1993.
He is the father of for­mer NFL head coach and cur­rent Mon­day Night Foot­ball ana­lyst, Jon Gruden.

In Divi­sion II col­lege foot­ball, LEE OWENS watched his 5th-ranked Ash­land Uni­ver­sity Eagles improve to 10–0 with a 49–21 pum­mel­ing of Tif­fin Uni­ver­sity. Lee — who had a 33–11-1 record as the head coach in Galion from 1983–86, includ­ing the Divi­sion II state cham­pi­onship squad of 1985 that went 14–0 — has been the head coach at Ash­land for nine years.

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