Isreal Green rushed for Division II records of six touchdowns and 326 yards to lead Trotwood-Madison to
its first state football championship, 42-28 over Avon on Friday night.
Green's longest TD was a 74-yarder in which he eluded five tacklers near midfield with a series of remarkable moves and sped down the sideline.
He also scored on runs of 38 and 4 yards and three plunges of 1 yard.
Mike McCray, the Trotwood-Madison junior linebacker, stood on the field of Paul Brown Tiger Stadium holding a hat that read “2011 STATE CHAMPS.”
“My emotions,” McCray said as a boisterous Trotwood team danced across the artificial turf, “are just taking over.”
“In our minds,” said quarterback Michael Simpson, who transferred from Chaminade Julienne for his senior season, “we couldn’t lose.”
Afterward, players removed everything from their protective equipment to their shirts while toggling between hugging and waving toward the crowd chanting, “Raaammm Nation.”
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