The Parents' Night crowd at Covington's Smith Field did not get a sweet taste of the Buccaneers, but Springfield Shawnee is still picking Pirates out of their teeth after chewing up coach Larrie Tisdale's crew, 42-8, in Mad River Valley League action Friday night.

When coach Larrie Tisdale carted his Covington Buccaneer gridiron crew off to Greenon Friday night for a Mad River Valley League encounter with the Knights, the Buccs must have felt that a victory over the winless Knights was in the bag.

A mistake riddled second half nearly turned victory into defeat for the Covington Buccaneers, but coach Larrie Tisdale's crew, behind a two-touchdown production by junior scatback, Denny Cain, hung on to record their second straight Mad River Valley League win over Northwestern, 18-6.

Coach Larrie Tisdale's Buccs, behind the hard-nosed running of junior halfback Denny Cain, the quarterbacking of Rex Huffman and a couple of good breaks, de-feathered the Falcons, 30-19 Friday night in the Mad River Valley League opener for both squads.

Everything in the book, from injuries to high blood pressure to the flu to one Denny Cain, has hit Bradford this past week, but chances are the Pennsylvania Railroad boys will tell you that nothing hit them harder then Cain did Friday night.

It was a long Friday night for the Covington Buccaneers in their opening encounter with Tipp City and Bucc coach Larrie Tisdale is probably still awake, wondering what hit his Buccs. Tipp City handed Covington a 48-22 drubbing, a beating Covington teams have not taken in quite a spell.

Thanks to a stingy defense, the Covington Buccaneers pulled out a 6-0 win over a dangerous Greenville team to complete the 1968 season with a perfect 10-0 record.

Covington clinched the MRVL championship with a 48-18 win over Graham and is one game away from recording the third perfect season in school history.

Covington dominated Northeastern on Friday en route to a 42-0 win - and in the process took one more step toward capturing an outright MRVL title.

Larrie Tisdale's Buccaneer football team put together a methodical beat down of Miami East to remain unbeaten on the 1968 campaign.