Timeout with Tim: To the North Union football team…. You’ve come a long way!
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November 20, 2025
North Union’s Nick VanHoose flips for joy as Carlisle’s Ashton Pelfry (12) walks off in dejection. The Wildcats rallied for a victory over Carlisle and will face Indian Lake on Friday for the Division V, Region 20 championship. The game will be played at Marysville High School, beginning at 7 p.m. (Journal-Tribune photo by Chad Williamson)

Timeout with Tim: To the North Union football team…. You’ve come a long way!

By Tim Miller 

Back in what many people today would consider the dark ages of television, there was a commercial product that had a slogan of “You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby.”

Nothing could be more true than in the case of  North Union’s football program since I started in this business in…. well, the dark...

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