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From the GAZETTE: By Rick Noland, Assistant Sports Editor
YORK TWP. — Buckeye's football team still has a perfect record. The hungry Bucks are now going in search of the perfect game.
The Bucks completely dominated Vermilion on both sides of the ball in registering an impressive 16-0 non-league victory Friday, but no one seemed overly interested in talking about the program's first 4-0 start since 1954.
Rather, first-year coach Chris Medaglia and his players were concerned with a pair of fumbles in Sailors territory, a few careless penalties and some errors in the kicking game.
"It feels great (to be 4-0), but we should be doing a lot better than we are," 6-foot-4, 300-pound offensive tackle Jason Reutter said. "We had too many penalties."
Chad Collins, a 6-2, 265-pound guard, was even more succinct.
"It feels OK (to be 4-0)," he said, "but I'm not much for words."
Despite a few glitches — the biggest a fumble at the Vermilion 1-yard line on their first possession of the game — the Bucks' actions spoke plenty loud:
Buckeye ran 72 plays to Vermilion's 33, had a 21-4 edge in first downs and held the ball for 33:19 of the game's 48 minutes.
The Bucks ran the ball 63 times for 245 yards and lost yardage on just two plays, one when a backup
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