With its thrilling overtime win, 2-1, over Shaker Heights, the Eagles will square off against their arch-rival St. Ignatius.
With its thrilling overtime win, 2-1, over Shaker Heights, the Eagles will square off against their arch-rival St. Ignatius. Tickets for Saturday's district championship game are on sale at the St. Edward Athletic Office for $7.
Eagles downed 20-17 before thousands of fans.
In one of the most storied football rivalries in the state, Lakewood's St. Edward High School lost the "Holy War" to visiting St. Ignatius, 20-17. And it wasn't pretty. According to the Plain Dealer, the Eagles (7-3) were plagued with too many turnovers that cost them the game. An estimated 11,000 people packed Lakewood Stadium to watch the contest — easily the most fans gathered at the intersection of Bunts Road and Madison Avenue all year long.
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St. Edward hosts St. Ignatius in basketball showdown.
What is a rivalry without lots of excitement? Where there is St. Edward and St. Ignatius athletes (and fans) in the same building you get both. And it was a thriller. The gym at St. Edward was packed — crowds of people huddled in the corner of the gym trying to get a peek at the game. Some even stood in the lobby. The Eagles — led by Elijah Brown with 20 points — had control throughout most of the game. And pulled away in the end. The victory gave St. Edward the season sweep over arch-rival St. Ignatius. The Eagles won the first contest on Jan 28 by a much larger mark of 62-46. Before a standing-room-only crowd, the Eagles won the contest 73-65. Lakewood Patch was there to capture some of the best moments of the game.
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St. Edward travels to Sullivan Gym to play St. Ignatius in a rivalry that never gets old.
When the St. Edward High School basketball team walked off the court at halftime of the last game they played in Sullivan Gym, almost all of the players hung their heads. When they reached the locker room, they dropped their eyes to the floor, to the walls, to each other — anything to avoid looking at their coach. They were afraid they had disappointed him. That was when Eric Flannery walked in, looked around and said in a relatively quiet voice — especially considering the circumstances of another raucous St. Edward-St. Ignatius game — that the Eagles were going to walk out of the locker room and turn in the biggest comeback in the history of the rivalry. And they did. Guard Delbert Love, then a junior, hit a half-court shot at the end of…
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Tom Janesz
10:42 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
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