DIVISION II FOOTBALL Avon Lake pounces on opportunity to beat Trenton Edgewood

Swirling wind and blowing snow negated passing downfield.
MASSILLON (AP) -- Jon Schroeder scored on a 1-yard run following a botched trick play, providing the decisive score in No. 1 Avon Lake's 10-7 win over No. 4 Trenton Edgewood in the Division II state final Friday night.
Matt Kostelnik recovered an Edgewood (14-1) fumble inside the 5 and took it to the 1, where Schroeder scored on the next play to give Avon Lake (15-0) a 10-0 lead with 9:41 remaining.
On second-and-12 at the 5, Matt Root completed a short pass to James Wright, who then tried to lateral the ball to a teammate. The Edgewood player couldn't handle the pitch, and Kostelnik pounced on it.
Early heroics
Kostelnik, a first-team All-Ohio defensive back, also intercepted a pass on the third play of the game, preventing a possible touchdown.
After both teams exchanged fumbles in the fourth quarter, Edgewood made it 10-7 on Josh Glancy's 1-yard run with 6:13 to play.
Glancy, a first-team All-Ohio selection, got all 50 yards on the five-play drive, breaking several tackles for 37 yards with his first run.
Edgewood then forced a punt -- Avon Lake's Trey Stross barely got it off because of a bad snap -- but couldn't do anything with the ball.
Avon Lake stopped Edgewood on fourth down three times in the second half.
Before the fourth quarter scoring, John Lyons' 26-yard field goal with 6:47 left in the second -- and the weather -- provided the difference in a matchup of two teams that had never played in a state title game.
The swirling wind and blowing snow negated passing downfield, forcing both teams to dump throws just over the line of scrimmage or run the ball straight ahead on the slick artificial turf.
Avon Lake used the formula for the only points of the first half. After Andrew Means' 24-yard catch and run, four runs and two short completions set up Lyons' field goal.
Stross' blocked punt and a pass interference call enabled the Shoremen to move to the Edgewood 21-yard line in the opening half's final minute, but the drive stalled with a fourth-down incompletion.
Kostelnik's interception at the Avon Lake 3 ended Edgewood's only scoring chance in the first half.
Stealth
Derek Melton slipped behind the defense on the game's first play and took a pass from Root 50 yards to Avon Lake's 28. Root tried to throw long on the next two plays -- both passes fluttered in the wind and Kostelnik picked off the second one.