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The Fallon Greenwave concludes the 2009 football season on Friday at Wooster.
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The Fallon Greenwave football team plays its final game of the 2009 season this afternoon knowing it won't have a winning season or make the playoffs.
However, the Greenwave has a chance to accomplish something unseen in the Lahontan Valley in a generation: Win four games.
Fallon is 3-6 overall and 2-5 in Sierra League play as it prepares to meet winless Wooster. Kickoff is at 1:30 p.m., and the broadcast on KVLV-FM 99.3 begins at 1:10 p.m.
It's the final regular season high school football game to be played in Northern Nevada this year. Lovelock is at North Tahoe and Sparks visits Truckee on Saturday, but those games are in California.
“Today's an opportunity to get four wins, something nobody's done in 20 years in Fallon,” coach Brooke Hill said. “We talked about it with the kids, so there's been a lot of motivation this week.”
The last Greenwave team to win as many as four games in a season was the 1989 squad that finished 6-3. Their coach was Chris Klenakis, now the offensive coordinator for the Nevada Wolf Pack, and Hill was the quarterback.
Since then, no Fallon team has won more than three games. The 1989 team ended its season on the same gridiron this year's team will, Wooster's Joe Mac Sellers Field, with a 22-0 playoff loss to a powerful Colts squad that was on its way to the-then 3A state championship, one of six Wooster won during Sellers' highly successful tenure as head coach from 1976-1997.
A different result could come today. Wooster football is the polar opposite of what it used to be. Once one of the most formidable and successful programs in the state, it is now one of the weakest. The Colts haven't posted a winning season since 2000 when they went 10-4 and finished second in the state to McQueen. Since 2001, Wooster has won only 14 games and lost 71 (.165 winning percentage) and since 2006 is only 3-36 (.077).
The Colts are 0-9 this year and have lost 18 straight games. Their last win was a 14-0 decision over Lowry in the first game last season.
Nevertheless, Hill expects a tough challenge today from the win-hungry Colts.
“The Wooster coaches work hard, the kids play hard and they're hungry for a win,” Hill said.
“It's senior day and their seniors want to walk off their field with a win, so we have to be ready to play football.”
Hill said Wooster is a power-run team and he expects the Colts to run the ball much as South Tahoe did. The Vikings ran the ball effectively against Fallon two weeks ago.
“We've made some changes, so hopefully we won't repeat the situation, Hill said. “But they will try to pound the ball and catch us with some play action, so we have to play good sound fundamental football. If we do we should be OK.”
Wooster has been outscored this season, 367-83 and has suffered three shutouts; 44-0 to Elko, 36-0 to Manogue and 50-0 to Carson. Fallon didn't play Elko, but lost 44-0 to the Miners and 48-0 to the Senators. The Greenwave, however, scored a 9-7 win over Damonte Ranch while the Colts lost to the Mustangs 46-14. Against South Tahoe, Fallon won 35-32 while Wooster lost, 35-34. Douglas beat Fallon 35-0 and downed Wooster 39-7.
A win today would also be the Greenwave's first-ever at Sellers Field. Wooster leads the series 20-2, but the Greenwave has won the last two meetings, 8-7 two years ago and 47-0 last year, both in Fallon. In the last meeting at Wooster in 2004, the Colts prevailed 12-6 after stopping Fallon at the 1-yard line late in the game.
However, the Greenwave has a chance to accomplish something unseen in the Lahontan Valley in a generation: Win four games.
Fallon is 3-6 overall and 2-5 in Sierra League play as it prepares to meet winless Wooster. Kickoff is at 1:30 p.m., and the broadcast on KVLV-FM 99.3 begins at 1:10 p.m.
It's the final regular season high school football game to be played in Northern Nevada this year. Lovelock is at North Tahoe and Sparks visits Truckee on Saturday, but those games are in California.
“Today's an opportunity to get four wins, something nobody's done in 20 years in Fallon,” coach Brooke Hill said. “We talked about it with the kids, so there's been a lot of motivation this week.”
The last Greenwave team to win as many as four games in a season was the 1989 squad that finished 6-3. Their coach was Chris Klenakis, now the offensive coordinator for the Nevada Wolf Pack, and Hill was the quarterback.
Since then, no Fallon team has won more than three games. The 1989 team ended its season on the same gridiron this year's team will, Wooster's Joe Mac Sellers Field, with a 22-0 playoff loss to a powerful Colts squad that was on its way to the-then 3A state championship, one of six Wooster won during Sellers' highly successful tenure as head coach from 1976-1997.
A different result could come today. Wooster football is the polar opposite of what it used to be. Once one of the most formidable and successful programs in the state, it is now one of the weakest. The Colts haven't posted a winning season since 2000 when they went 10-4 and finished second in the state to McQueen. Since 2001, Wooster has won only 14 games and lost 71 (.165 winning percentage) and since 2006 is only 3-36 (.077).
The Colts are 0-9 this year and have lost 18 straight games. Their last win was a 14-0 decision over Lowry in the first game last season.
Nevertheless, Hill expects a tough challenge today from the win-hungry Colts.
“The Wooster coaches work hard, the kids play hard and they're hungry for a win,” Hill said.
“It's senior day and their seniors want to walk off their field with a win, so we have to be ready to play football.”
Hill said Wooster is a power-run team and he expects the Colts to run the ball much as South Tahoe did. The Vikings ran the ball effectively against Fallon two weeks ago.
“We've made some changes, so hopefully we won't repeat the situation, Hill said. “But they will try to pound the ball and catch us with some play action, so we have to play good sound fundamental football. If we do we should be OK.”
Wooster has been outscored this season, 367-83 and has suffered three shutouts; 44-0 to Elko, 36-0 to Manogue and 50-0 to Carson. Fallon didn't play Elko, but lost 44-0 to the Miners and 48-0 to the Senators. The Greenwave, however, scored a 9-7 win over Damonte Ranch while the Colts lost to the Mustangs 46-14. Against South Tahoe, Fallon won 35-32 while Wooster lost, 35-34. Douglas beat Fallon 35-0 and downed Wooster 39-7.
A win today would also be the Greenwave's first-ever at Sellers Field. Wooster leads the series 20-2, but the Greenwave has won the last two meetings, 8-7 two years ago and 47-0 last year, both in Fallon. In the last meeting at Wooster in 2004, the Colts prevailed 12-6 after stopping Fallon at the 1-yard line late in the game.
