Week 9 notebook: Need a road win to wrap of regular season

Final game on road
Columbia's three wins this season have come at home. The Tide, who travels up Kinderhook Friday for a 7 p.m. kickoff with rival Donegal, has not won a road game since the last regular season of the 2008 season against Donegal by a 41-27 score.The Tide is 2-12 in its last 14 road games.

The points
The 48 points were the most the Tide scored in a game since week 10 of the 2008 season when they put 41 on the scoreboard against Donegal (see above). The Tide was shutout by Donegal last season 40-0, ending a 9-game Tide winning streak over the Indians.

Another streak ends
The win over the Braves ended a 1-game losing streak to PV, who stunned the Tide 27-12 last season. Since 1998, Columbia has scored 40 or more points against PV eight times.
More on the Braves
PV dressed 19 players for the game and had four others out with injuries. Columbia will play at West York in a junior varsity game Monday. One thing I took notice too was PV head coach  Curtis Waltman did very little coaching during the game, leaving a majority of the calls to assistant coaches, primarily d-coordinator Dino DiPaolo, the son of former Catholic coach Tony DiPaolo. Coaching change?

Parent's Night
Friday was Parent's Night for the football team, cheerleaders and band. I made note of this last week and I think it should be noted that two football players walked out with members of the Tide's football staff and not a parent.

The numbers
With a win over Donegal, the Tide will finish Section 3 play with a 3-3 record \and the possibility of finishing in a four-way tie for second place behind Lancaster Catholic.
Friday night, Dom Trout recorded three sacks. He entered the game tied with teammate Michael Burke for the Section 3 lead with four each.