Week 3: Campbell Memorial (2-0) at Youngstown Liberty (0-2)

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BigDean1
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Sep 3, 2011 9:12am
Campbell travels to Liberty on Friday. The Red Devils are coming off two blowout wins over Mineral Ridge and South Range. Liberty has lost its first two games of the season to Youngstown East and Niles McKinley. Campbell's offense has been unstoppable thus far and their first team defense has not been scored upon. Liberty looks to be down this year. But the Leo​pards always have some athletes and speed. What are your thoughts on this game?
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cmhs_pride
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Sep 3, 2011 10:10am
Much of the same. I am not watching the 200 plus yards the starting TB puts up this week. Or our outstanding kicking game. Or our improved defensive effort. Or the crisp clean throws our QB has been making to a few very good WR. Im watching something else this week to see if it is getting corrected.
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Ohio
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Sep 3, 2011 4:58pm
Campbell rolls 49-0
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lets_go_devils
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Sep 3, 2011 10:26pm
Let's not forget the Leopards gave the Devils the closest game of all the wins last year, 15-14, if I remember correctly.

Liberty usually has the speed to compete and usually gives us fits. Granted last year was last year and the first game without Skev, but they always get up for this game.

In my mind, I see us having the ability to beat anyone around. Biased? Absolutely, but this is a pretty damn good Devils team.

Beat those leopards!
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Sep 3, 2011 10:40pm
Week 3 same as week 1 and 2. I don't know of any team on the schedule that will match Campbell's speed and passing game running game and defensive game and punting game. Girard? Might but i cant see them bringing Hughes to a complete stop and that what any team must do to win. And Just say they do stop him enough they better have some great CB. If Campbell would have kept the first String in in all 4qts in both games they easily would have scored 60 on each. I told everyone this team is real i smelled it in the Passing Scrimmage. This team is 20 times better then last year. and we made game 2 of the playoffs. I just hope we get enough points to get in cause this happen to Girard a few years back. Eww that would set me off.
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Sep 4, 2011 9:47am
lets_go_devils;882583 wrote:Let's not forget the Leopards gave the Devils the closest game of all the wins last year, 15-14, if I remember correctly.

Liberty usually has the speed to compete and usually gives us fits. Granted last year was last year and the first game without Skev, but they always get up for this game.

In my mind, I see us having the ability to beat anyone around. Biased? Absolutely, but this is a pretty damn good Devils team.

Beat those leopards!
Liberty is a weak team, nowhere near the caliber of what they were a few years ago. Niles put up 29 on them the other night. If Niles did that, Campbell will certainly do at least the same.
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oldschoolreddev
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Sep 5, 2011 8:21am
Campbell's speed on offense is scary. Defensively we have gotten better. The penalties for unsportsmanlike conduct needs to stop. Games at Labrae & Girard will determine our playoff fate. I don't like the fact that we blitz our ILB's every play. By the way, Manchester only lost 11 seniors. They had a lot coming back. So Girard' s win over them on the road is a little more impressive IMO.
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BigDean1
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Sep 5, 2011 10:31am
I've said it before..........a week of practice preparing to play Campbell Memorial is difficult. Why? It's not likely any team in the regular season can emulate the speed Campbell has when preparing to play them. Any team can watch film on them. And in practice they can simulate the plays Campbell's offense is more likely to run against their defense. But they cannot simulate the speed Campbell has. They find out how fast Campbell is when they get on the field against them on Friday night. Regardless of the good things I have seen from the Campbell team thus far, I do have some concerns about them. My concerns are shared by a few others.
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Sep 5, 2011 10:37am
Liberty is way down, Campbell wins easily.

I miss not having Campbell on the Quakers schedule--hopefully that can happen again sometime.

Good luck this season Devils!
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BigDean1
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Sep 5, 2011 12:51pm
GoPens;883738 wrote:Liberty is way down, Campbell wins easily.

I miss not having Campbell on the Quakers schedule--hopefully that can happen again sometime.

Good luck this season Devils!
Campbell will miss the Quakers too. Ashtabula Edgewood has replaced Salem on the Campbell schedule. Edgewood is nowhere near the caliber of football program of Salem.
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Spread All Day
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Sep 5, 2011 9:46pm
Liberty surprises people. 7-0 hahaha good joke right
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oldschoolreddev
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Sep 7, 2011 7:31am
Good Luck Red Devils!
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cmhs_pride
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Sep 7, 2011 8:39am
Once again I cant make this one. I hope I use up all my missed games early on here.
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BigDean1
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Sep 7, 2011 9:37am
Liberty may be down but they still have some decent speed and good athletes. Campbell needs to focus and get the job done.
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QuakerOats
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Sep 7, 2011 9:58am
Good luck to Campbell this week, and this season .... looks like you have a good squad again this year.
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BigDean1
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Sep 7, 2011 9:28pm
Bump. Not much interest in this game.
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Ohio
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Sep 7, 2011 9:41pm
I think people ran out of things to say after Liberty lost to might Niles by 29 lol
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BTrev
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Sep 8, 2011 4:35am
How has Campbell's Middle School and Freshmen teams looked so far this year? I know concerns were voiced about Campbell's JVs this year.
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omemorialhigh
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Sep 8, 2011 5:46pm
i never heard any concerns about the jvs to be honest...actually half the gridiron meeting is dedicated to underclassmen by sikora in my estimation. he loves whats coming up especially the freshman class. not to mention 6 freshmen are seeing varsity pt in these blow outs. sikoras got a special run ahead of him and he knows it.
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Sep 8, 2011 6:06pm
omemorialhigh;887805 wrote:i never heard any concerns about the jvs to be honest...actually half the gridiron meeting is dedicated to underclassmen by sikora in my estimation. he loves whats coming up especially the freshman class. not to mention 6 freshmen are seeing varsity pt in these blow outs. sikoras got a special run ahead of him and he knows it.
That's exactly what Sikora said the other night. We are blessed to have such a great staff in place.
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omemorialhigh
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Sep 8, 2011 6:35pm
lets look at the upcoming years for a minute. you have charles smith, reyes, shaq, burnett, no. 14 (name?) no. 33 all logging time as starters as juniors. then you have 3 sophomores logging serious playing time, including a starter on the offensive line. you have 6 freshmen playing a jv schedule as well as logging varsity playing time. all this coupled with a great sophmore and loaded freshman class...i dont see any hiccups for awhile to come.
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BigDean1
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Sep 8, 2011 7:53pm
#14 is Adrian Brown (sophomore or junior, not real sure), #33 is Shamar Robbins (junior), #20 is Ja'lel Shorter (sophomore), #51 is Dre Kelly (sophomore), #52 Ryan Kelly (sophomore), #54 is Steven O'Dea (freshman). And speaking of the freshmen, they beat Struthers 12-8 earlier today.
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southbender12
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Sep 8, 2011 8:11pm
gonna be a long night for liberty
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BTrev
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Sep 8, 2011 8:49pm
My bad... I thought I read somewhere that the JVs hadn't scored a TD yet. I was under the impression that the Freshmen played BL tonight. Do our JVs play Campbell this week too?
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Sep 8, 2011 9:06pm
BTrev;888053 wrote:My bad... I thought I read somewhere that the JVs hadn't scored a TD yet. I was under the impression that the Freshmen played BL tonight. Do our JVs play Campbell this week too?
The Campbell website sports schedule indicates the Campbell javyees play at Struthers this Saturday morning at 10.