ARTICLE AND PHOTO COURTESY OF CHATHAM-KENT SPORTS NETWORK (CKSN.ca)
It was a dream season for the Wallaceburg Tartans senior football team.
They went undefeated in the regular season posting a perfect 6-0 record, only to extend that to 8-0 on route to their first senior Kent Football Championship in more than a decade.
They followed that up by defeating St. Christophers to make their record 9-0.
Thursday however at the University of Windsor, the Tartans capped off an unbelievable season defeating the Kennedy Clippers 35-7 to capture the SWOSSAA football championship and go undefeated on the season with a perfect 10-0 record.
Early in the game, as he has all season, Jonah Pataki ran in a touchdown from roughly 45-yards out. Following a rouge, the Tartans held an 8-0 lead.
Kennedy responded with a touchdown of their own to close the gap to 8-7.
Lee Purnell however, would pick up the Tartans and carry them into the endzone yet again to expand their lead to 14-7 heading into the 4th quarter. Purnell, a 5th year student, scored twice in the SWOSSAA semi-final as well. Pataki then added another touchdown with only 5 minutes remaining to put the Tartans up 21-7.
Purnell wasn’t done there either, as he ran in a late 4th quarter touchdown from 28-yards out.
With only minutes left, after a dropped punt by the Kennedy Clippers on their own 10-yard line, Jonah Pataki rounded out the scoring punching in a 10-yard run to close out the game 35-7.
With no OFSAA in ‘AA’ senior football, Wallaceburg has come as far as they can this season, as the undisputed 2011 champions.
