2011 Schedule Presents New Challenges For Keystone Oaks' Football Team

The Keystone Oaks’ varsity football schedule has been released, and it once again looks to present quite a few challenges for the Golden Eagles.

Keystone Oaks will open up the season at home against the Ambridge Bridgers, who will be looking to rebound from a dismal 2-7 record in the WPIAL AAA Parkway League. Keystone Oaks opened the season at Ambridge a year ago, beating them 34-7.

From there, the Golden Eagles’ schedule scatters between home and away games, with the team seeing no more than two consecutive contests away from their home field.

The toughest stretch for Coach Nick Kamberis and his team appears to be the latter part of the season, where the Golden Eagles will face opponents who defeated them a year ago in three of their final four games.

They will host a South Fayette Lions team Oct. 7, before traveling to Steel Valley to face the Ironmen the following weekend. The Golden Eagles fell to both teams a season ago, and both are predicted to be League powerhouses once again.

After hosting Burgettstown on Oct. 21 for their senior night celebration, Keystone Oaks will head to Seton LaSalle for the regular season finale. The Rebels defeated the Golden Eagles a year ago, 32-22. 

Keystone Oaks is coming off a 7-4 2010 season, including a 4-3 mark against WPIAL AA Century opponents. The Golden Eagles will look to continue their winning ways on the road, having gone 4-1 a season ago. After defeating Greensburg Central Catholic in the first round of the WPIAL playoffs, Keystone Oaks’s season ended with a 28-0 defeat to the Beaver Falls Tigers.

The Golden Eagles finished fourth in the WPIAL AA Century League last year. Their last league championship came in 2008, winning their first eight games to open the season to claim a share of the title.