Sports Round-Up by Paul Beitler

7th-grade Crusaders beat Woodside
The Norwell 7th-grade football team rolled over Woodside 41-13 Tuesday night at Fort Wayne.
Brody Myers scored the first two touchdowns for the Crusaders (7-2) with runs of 44 and 33 yards. Hunter Ingle kicked two extra-point attempts to make the score 14-6.
Zach Kintz scored on a nine-yard run before halftime to up the Crusaders’ lead to a 20-6.
In the final quarter, Ingle ran 36 yards for a touchdown and tossed an extra-point pass to Myers. Carson Gerber followed with a 14-yard TD run and Ingle added the PAT. With 15 seconds left, Jaron Stoppenhagen ran 62 yards for the final touchdown.
Alex Archambualt, Austin Bishop, Trevor Eichler, Isaac Hinshaw, Bradley Kelley, Carson Lockwood, James Austin Harris, Jacob Meekin, Drew Pietosi, Chad Randen, Chandler Schoeff and Bailey Wright led the Crusaders’ defense.

8th-grade Crusaders fall to Woodside
The Norwell 8th-grade football team lost 16-6 to Woodside Tuesday night at Fort Wayne.
The Crusaders tied Woodside, both 6-3, for third place in the 10-team Northeast Hoosier Middle Level Conference.
Piercen Harnish scored the only Norwell touchdown with a 46-yard run in the third quarter.
The Crusaders drove to the Warrior eight-yard line in the fourth quarter but could not score. Reggie Hayes converted nine passes to help spark the Norwell attack. Anthony Richard and Adam Nahrwold caught big passes.
Jace Geiger had four tackles for loss and Andrew Oakes recovered two Woodside fumbles. Ashton McCune, Brandon Norman, Jeremy Davis, Nahrwold, Harnish and Richard also contributed on defense.

River Runners to host races
Ouabache River Runners will host their third W.O.O.F. 15-mile and 5-mile trail races at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 6, at Ouabache State Park. Registration is available online at teamorr.org. Registration forms are available at FPC and Hot Cakes. For more information contact Mike McAvoy at macmcavoy@gmail.com.

NCAA student-athletes doing better
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Student-athletes are earning degrees at record rates, graduate at higher rates than other students, and football players and black men’s basketball players are making big gains in the classroom, according to the NCAA’s annual Graduation Success Rate figures.
The report shows 79 percent of all Division I athletes entering school between 2000-01 and 2003-04 earned a degree within six years. That matches last year’s record number.