{"id":6322,"date":"2008-10-18T09:29:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T13:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/?p=6322"},"modified":"2008-10-21T09:32:53","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T13:32:53","slug":"vikings-raiders-in-championship-tilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/?p=6322","title":{"rendered":"Vikings, Raiders in championship tilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/vikings-raiders-tyronew.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/vikings-raiders-tyronew.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"vikings-raiders-tyronew\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/vikings-raiders-tyronew.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/vikings-raiders-tyronew-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nShown above are the 2008 Vikings and Raiders youth football teams at Gray-Vets Memorial field on Saturday October 4. The Vikings are preparing to line up on offense for what turned out to be the game-tying touchdown in this year\u2019s Tyrone Youth Football championship game.<br \/>\nViking\u2019s coach Kevin Soellner strategically worked the clock in the fourth quarter burning up well over five minutes before Jacob Berry would punch reach paydirt with forty-two seconds left in the game.<br \/>\nThe Vikings were then successful on the two-point conversion try to go up by the score of 22-20 and would eventually hold off the Raider\u2019s nifty offense on the team\u2019s final drive.<br \/>\nThe Vikings and Raiders had split their regular season games with the Vikings defeating the Raiders in their first meeting 22-20 in overtime, while the Raiders got the upper hand in the second meeting winning 26-22. Both teams finished the regular season with matching records of 5-1.<br \/>\n The championship game featured Raider\u2019s running back James Oliver who scored all three touchdowns plus the two-point conversion. Oliver scored on two long runs and caught two passes from quarterback Eric Wagner, one for a touchdown and the other for a conversion.<br \/>\nThe Viking\u2019s tailback Jacob Berry ran hard all day reaching the end zone five times with three touchdowns and two conversions.<br \/>\nWith the victory the Viking\u2019s have now won the last three Tyrone Youth football championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shown above are the 2008 Vikings and Raiders youth football teams at Gray-Vets Memorial field on Saturday October 4. The Vikings are preparing to line up on offense for what turned out to be the game-tying touchdown in this year\u2019s Tyrone Youth Football championship game. Viking\u2019s coach Kevin Soellner strategically worked the clock in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area","category-excerpts-from-the-tyrone-daily-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}