Skyline Crosstown Showdown on ESPNU

Moeller Football Seniors 2010

For the first time in event history, the Skyline Chili Crosstown Showdown will be played on a Sunday to accommodate national television coverage. Sunday evening, The Moeller Crusaders and The Wayne Warriors will go head to head for the Skyline Chili Crosstown Showdown. The game will be featured on ESPNU beginning at 7pm.

The Moeller Crusaders and the Wayne Warriors each play on 24/7 synthetic turf fields installed by The Motz Group and it will be no different as they meet for Sunday's game at St. X's Ballaban Field ~ another Motz Group 24/7 field.  

Braxton Miller, Wayne's Quarterback

Braxton Miller, Wayne's QB,  is aiming for that elusive state championship, but he will first have to hurdle a major challenger in Archbishop Moeller (Cincinnati, Ohio), one of the winningest programs in state history. The game, which also headlines Moeller’s highly-recruited pass rusher, Jesse Hayes, will be nationally televised at 7 p.m. Aug. 29 on ESPNU, part of the ESPN RISE High School Football Kickoff. Helping out Miller will be his backfield buddy, Anthony Taylor, and on defense, defensive back Trey Thomas.

Skyline Chili Crosstown Showdown Schedule / Results 

8/20/10 @ Nippert Stadium

Dixie Heights 35 / Newport Central Catholic 28

Covington Catholic 7 / Ryle 61

8/26/10 @ Mason High School

Loveland 6 / Turpin 24

Edgewood 7 / Wyoming 21

8/27/10 @ Nippert Stadium
Anderson* vs. Oak Hills, 6 p.m.
Elder* vs. Winton Woods 8:30 p.m.


8/28/10 @ Nippert Stadium
Lakota West* vs. La Salle, noon
Middletown* vs. Simon Kenton, 2:45 p.m.
East Central, IN vs. Harrison*, 5:30 p.m.
Clayton Northmont* vs. Colerain, 8:15 p.m.


8/29/10 @ Ballaban Field / St. Xavier High School
Good Counsel, MD vs. St. Xavier*, 3 p.m.
Huber Heights Wayne* vs. Moeller, 7 p.m.

Sixteen of the teams playing in the Showdown play on Motz Group Fields.  We are very proud of the teams and wish them luck in the Showdown and the rest of their football season!  We'll be watching!  

For more information or to learn more about The Motz Group Synthetic Turf Systems call Zach Burns at The Motz Group at 513-533-6452 or email info@themotzgroup.com

New On-Campus Field for Notre Dame Academy!

Pandas fall to LexCath at new on-campus field

NDA loses first-ever "home" game

 

Notre Dame unveiled its beautiful new on-campus artificial turf soccer field on Saturday, honored its past coaches and players and boasted an actual home-field advantage for the first time in its program history.

 

Unfortunately for the Pandas, Lexington Catholic crashed the field-warming party, edging Notre Dame, 2-1 in the inaugural game at the Notre Dame Academy Sports Complex.

 

“Lexington Catholic is a good opponent,” Notre Dame coach Sara McSorley said. “I think we missed a lot of opportunities, but I’m not disappointed in the game at this point.”

Notre Dame had two excellent scoring chances in the first 20 minutes, but junior Katie Schutzman shot just wide off a centering feed 13 minutes in and senior striker Heather Shelton slipped on a similar play six minutes later.

Junior midfielder Ellyn Abdelghany fired just high on a chance with 11 minutes left until halftime, and junior midfielder Belle Leininger nearly scored on the transition following an errant LexCath corner kick.

But the momentum shifted late in the half. Sophomore Mary Beth Gorham shot from straight on inside the box, but junior Lauren Knasel made a clean stop. Knasel then denied a close-range shot by senior Mary Catherine Combs with a sliding save in the final two minutes before halftime.

The teams traded scoring chances in the first 20 minutes of the second half, but LexCath finally broke through with 19 minutes remaining. Gorham fired a point-blank blast that new Notre Dame goalkeeper Megan Reilly denied, but the rebound went right to freshman Sarah Gorman, who tapped it in to make it 1-0.

Mary Beth Gorham, who finished with a team-high 10 helpers in 2009, set up the second Knights score with a perfect corner to junior Claire Bodart, who beat Reilly to extend LexCath’s lead to two with 13 minutes left.

Abdelghany had two more chances in the next few minutes as Notre Dame furiously attacked the LexCath net, but one shot was saved and the other just missed the post.

Finally, junior midfielder Chandler Clark knocked home a header with six minutes left to make it 2-1 Knights.

But Notre Dame had just two more chances – one was a shot that went high by sophomore Ellie Eckerle, the other a shot on net by junior Sydney Scheben that was denied in the closing minutes.

Knights coach Terry Quigley admitted that despite his team’s win, Notre Dame outplayed the Knights in many aspects.

“The game really doesn’t matter – it’s the second game of the season,” said Quigley, whose team was a state semifinalist last season. “The significance is it might make us a little more confident.”

Two bursts of rain – one in each half – and the final score put a damper on the opening of the new field, but the long-term impact far outweighed one early-season non-district loss.

“We’re all really excited, it’s awesome to have our own field,” Shelton said. “I definitely think it’ll give us a home-field advantage and make us more excited to play, more determined to win.”

The complex is not yet complete – a scoreboard and restrooms are still in the works – but not having to play home games like this one off-campus is a benefit the Pandas have been without for far too long.

“Normally this would be an away game,” McSorley said. “It’s just really nice we can play where it’s convenient for our fans to come out and watch.”

HALFTIME: 0-0. GOALS: LC—S. Gorman, Bodart. ND—C. Clark. RECORDS: Lexington Catholic 1-0-1, Notre Dame 1-1.

Original article can be found here.

‘New’ Frank Irelan Field officially dedicated at CMHS

There was a great turn out for the official dedication of the “new” Frank Irelan Field on Tuesday night at Clinton-Massie High School.  The dedication was given during the Meet the Teams ceremony.  The Motz Group recently completed installation of their new artificial turf field. 
The boys and girls soccer teams scrimmaged Madison following the ribbon cutting.

In the ribbon cutting photo, from left to right, are Jamie Evans, Clinton-Massie Boosters Club; Zach Burns, the Motz Group; Jeff Borton, Clinton-Massie school board; Dan McSurley, varsity football coach; Jackie Phipps, boosters club; Lisa Homan, school board; Dr. Mike Sander, district superintendent; Keith Mattison, athletic director; Matt Johannes, boys soccer coach; Pat Black, representing the girls soccer team; and Chris Robinson, boosters club.

Anderson Twp. Synthetic Fields Nearing Completion

The new synthetic football and soccer fields at Riverside Park should be open for play in the next month.
Crews are currently laying the turf for the 165,000-square-foot playing area off Round Bottom Road, which will have two full-size football fields and a soccer field overlay.

Anderson Township Park District Operations Manager Mike Smith said once crews finish laying the turf it will be filled with a silica-coated sand called Envirofill that will make the fields feel more like natural grass.

The park commissioners adopted the field rental agreement and policy that details the permit process, priority classification, applicable fees and other details at last night's meeting.

The Park District will rent the new synthetic fields from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day.

Rental times include set-up, warm-up and take-down or clean-up time and fields will be allocated based on priority.

Park district youth or adult athletic programs of leagues, or Park-District sponsored event will have the first opportunities to use the fields.

Nonprofit youth organizations based in Anderson Township will be next on the priority list and general youth users, select programs and adult users fall into group three.

For-profit organizations, tournaments, clinics and camps with paid staff or trainers are also in the last group.

Ken Kushner, executive director for the Anderson Township Park District, said a few games are already scheduled shortly after the planned Sept. 27 opening.

The fields are estimated to cost taxpayers more than $1 million.

Cincinnati Community Press • By Lisa Wakeland • lwakeland@communitypress.com • August 12, 2010

Riverside Park ~ Anderson Twp Park District

With turf being installed this week, Riverside Park will glow under the lights while football, soccer and lacrosse get underway on their new fields...

 July 26, 2010 ~ A sea of gravel

 August 3, 2010 ~ Mike Smith of Anderson Parks and Zach Burns of The Motz Group are just a few of the good men in charge of making this project come to life.

August 3, 2010 ~ Lou Schindler of The Motz Group laser grades the gravel.

Check out Bee Hill Honey on Fox 19 News!

Sacred Heart Academy

The Motz Group completed installation of Sacred Heart Academy's new synthetic turf field two weeks early.  Perfect timing as the Valkyries get set to host the 38th Apple Field Hockey Tournament.  This tournament kicks off the season for Louisville schools.