Red Lion is making their first of three trips to Ohio this week as they take on the three-time defending state champion Ursuline Irish.

Kickoff is at 7:30pm at YSU Stambaugh Stadium.

Red Lion was in the USAToday this past week because they gave up the chance to compete in the DE playoffs so they can recruit the best possible talent in that region to play football there. Here is the article: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/preps/football/2011-08-16-red-lion-christian-delaware-football_n.htm

Their freshman QB is the well known kid nationwide that committed to USC as a 7th grader. Not sure if he will get his first high school start Friday or not.

As an aside, Ursuline won their toughest scrimmage on Thursday Night, defeating Canton Glenoak 12-7 in Canton. Ursuline shut down 5-star running back Brionte Dunn for Glenoak.

Predictions!

I dont see a young kid tearing up the ursuline defense. Irish 35-14

mvred he already had his first high school start. He was their QB last year if I'm not mistaken.

Ya they went 6-3 last season when he was an 8th grader. Not knowing their opponents tho.

Looks like D6 Level1 Harbins if you beat 'em.

rmolin73;868806 wrote:mvred he already had his first high school start. He was their QB last year if I'm not mistaken.

Have never heard of 8th graders playing on HS teams, but thanks for the clarification!

Red Lion looks huge! Ursuline has 3 great backers and RedLion has a Young QB. I look to see a BATTLE! WHY IS THIS NOT ON TV

Wow, biiiiig game, I am Red Lion team parent and fan. The fellas have been working hard and this should be a gooood game. Lotsa respect for Ursuline, but we are ready. QB is looking real sharp O-line is psyched, D-line is pumped. Hope everyone enjoys the game. I will probably not be there so everyone be sure to post the scores etc. Good Luck Ursuline, RLCA is coming atcha !!!

I see the irish to get to the young QB early and often. Ursuline has athletes everywhere with some big guys over 300 as well.

Deleware football > OHIO football :] Even tho they arn't an actual Deleware school they openly recruit and arn't even allowed to play in their state tournament LOL

Go IRISH!

To OHIO

Just want to clear up a few things, there is a lot of talk and rumors, must of which are negative, biased and flat out untruths. RLCA is an actual "Delaware school", it is located in Bear, Delaware. All of the players reside in Delaware, 90% were even born in the state and have never lived elsewhere. We can recruit, not sure how much we do because our roster is the same as it was last year with only 2 new kids, that I know of. One of them i know personally and he was born in Christiana Hospital 2 weeks before my son. We are a small private school with enrollment less than 1000 for High School. Because of the jealousy by haters and the cowardice of many local schools and coaches, we withdrew from the DIAA. That had nothing to do with recruiting or anything else. We simply wanted to play the best competition we could find. ........... Obviously we could have chosen less talented competition, but why do that, we want to be the best, so we challenge the best. Therefore we will be playing Ursuline on Friday and making two more trips to Ohio in the next few weeks. If you check our schedule there are no slouches, We play all ranked and regarded opponents.

DeFootballdad;873730 wrote:To OHIO

Just want to clear up a few things, there is a lot of talk and rumors, must of which are negative, biased and flat out untruths. RLCA is an actual "Delaware school", it is located in Bear, Delaware. All of the players reside in Delaware, 90% were even born in the state and have never lived elsewhere. We can recruit, not sure how much we do because our roster is the same as it was last year with only 2 new kids, that I know of. One of them i know personally and he was born in Christiana Hospital 2 weeks before my son. We are a small private school with enrollment less than 1000 for High School. Because of the jealousy by haters and the cowardice of many local schools and coaches, we withdrew from the DIAA. That had nothing to do with recruiting or anything else. We simply wanted to play the best competition we could find. ........... Obviously we could have chosen less talented competition, but why do that, we want to be the best, so we challenge the best. Therefore we will be playing Ursuline on Friday and making two more trips to Ohio in the next few weeks. If you check our schedule there are no slouches, We play all ranked and regarded opponents.

Doesn't matter. Them boys better tighten those chin straps! GO IRISH!

Pretty sure Canada isn't Delaware lol but okay

DeFootballdad;873730 wrote:To OHIO

Just want to clear up a few things, there is a lot of talk and rumors, must of which are negative, biased and flat out untruths. RLCA is an actual "Delaware school", it is located in Bear, Delaware. All of the players reside in Delaware, 90% were even born in the state and have never lived elsewhere. We can recruit, not sure how much we do because our roster is the same as it was last year with only 2 new kids, that I know of. One of them i know personally and he was born in Christiana Hospital 2 weeks before my son. We are a small private school with enrollment less than 1000 for High School. Because of the jealousy by haters and the cowardice of many local schools and coaches, we withdrew from the DIAA. That had nothing to do with recruiting or anything else. We simply wanted to play the best competition we could find. ........... Obviously we could have chosen less talented competition, but why do that, we want to be the best, so we challenge the best. Therefore we will be playing Ursuline on Friday and making two more trips to Ohio in the next few weeks. If you check our schedule there are no slouches, We play all ranked and regarded opponents.

KUDOS

We are glad you're headed this way.

I hope you have a great year, abut go 1-2 in Ohio

Just to expand on what the other DE parent was saying.. All but a handfull of kids are DE kids. Most live within 30 minutes of the school The ones that arent come from nearby states due to the school being located in what is called the tri state area.. MD, PA, NJ lines all within 10-20 minutes from the school.. But only two or three players are from those states we have many other students that are from the neigboring states but not football players.. Other private schools in the Wilmington area have many more PA/NJ kids on roster.. Not that it matters really it is due to the locale of the schools.. Contrary to rumors RL does not solicit football players from other schools.. What they did was build great facilities, start a training program and a financial aide prgram for students who need it. It is a needs based financial aide program where the need is determined by the FACT national financial aide service that most private schools use. Its called FOCAS and you can google it it has a website. For what ever reason the DIAA in DE wants to call it athletic scholarship so RL made the deal (The deal does not allow RL to recruit from other High Schools) they did so they could play their schedule, start early like the teams we play and continue to offer needs based aide. .. There was immediate interest and the kids came.. mosty all freshman or middle school and most the kids kind of recruited each other to the school as they played or knew eachther from their rec teams... Red Lion is not interested in going after other high school players,, It serves no purpose.. Really RLCA operates no differently them most private schools everywhere.

As for the 2 Canada kids they are from the same school in Ottawa and they seeked out Red Lion one is a DE and one is a kicker/punter.. They were looking for a school in the states to learn the US game better and get offers.. They met some of our players at a combine event and one struck a friendship with one of our players and wanted to look into coming to our school from that.. Most privates cant accept senior transfers but in our case we had no seniors on the team.. These two are our only seniors... Needless to sat DE is way behind when it comes the current climate of high school football and without getting too much into what happened thats the gist of it and we are so excited to come play teams from Ohio Win or lose our boys wil get better and thats all we want... See you all tomorrow..

Oh almost forgot..My wife can't make the trip and some other family friend would like to know if there will be a webcast or radio cast that can be picked up online of the game??

Doesn't seem to be

I don't think that it's even on local radio

If I find out different (or if someone else does) we'll post it here

Safe travels

It's not on the local radio

Thanks.. The team should be there already us parents are coming tomorrow.. very excited.. Ohio FNL is the real deal... I might not sleep tonight but I guess I can get the Zzzz's on the parent bus, maybe LOL..

Nothing small about your school. Ursuline has around 450 students and that may be stretching it.

mvred;874185 wrote:Nothing small about your school. Ursuline has around 450 students and that may be stretching it.

D5 is the second smallest Div. in Ohio. And the IRISH just win and keep winning! Hopefully it continues

Rocket08;873784 wrote:KUDOS

We are glad you're headed this way.

I hope you have a great year, abut go 1-2 in Ohio

Haha, wasn't expecting the 1 to be against on of the YAST's were ya? Haha.

skank;874747 wrote:Haha, wasn't expecting the 1 to be against on of the YAST's were ya? Haha.

lol always trolling on Youngstown Catholic Schools... You're the man

Just heard YU lost 54-18 but can't verify it anywhere