Sports Round-Up by Paul Beitler

Fiechter receives top Norwell awards
Norwell senior Klay Fiechter received two top awards at the Knights’ football banquet Tuesday night.
Fiechter was voted as the 2009 Player of the Year and the Offensive Back of the Year after rushing for over 2,000 yards in a single season and rewriting most of the rushing records.
Junior middle linebacker Alex Eichler was named Defensive Player of the Year. Senior Jake Shapley was the Lineman of the Year.
Sophomore Kyler Mills was named the Scout Team Player of the Year.

Norwell girls’ hoopsters to scrimmage
The Norwell Knights girls’ basketball team will be scrimmaging against the Elmhurst Trojans at 6 p.m. on Thursday at Fort Wayne. Entry fee is $1 or two canned food items. All proceeds will benefit the food drive.

Runners invited to W.O.O.F trail race
The Ouabache River Runners will be hosting their second W.O.O.F. trail race at Ouabache State Park on Nov. 7. Race starts at 10 a.m. with registration beginning at 8:30 a.m. There is a five-mile race, a 15-mile race and a relay consisting of three team members running five miles each. Online registration continues this week on runrace.net and there is also race-day registration. Post-race food includes bison burgers, vegetable soup and a variety of other goodies. For more information, contact Mac McAvoy at 450-1071 or at macmcavoy@gmail.com