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St. Ignatius (#16 USA Today) showed that it doesn't matter how you start the season, it's how you end it. Saturday the Wildcats, who lost its season opener to Glenville, finished with their 14th straight win to capture Ohio's Division I title with a 28-20 win over Elder (#18 USA Today) before 20,000 at Canton's Fawcett Stadium. The championship is the 10th for St. Ignatius. Click here for game story.
After a 1-2 start, Aurora ripped-off twelve straight wins that catapulted the Greenmen to Ohio's Division III championship. Aurora beat Columbus Eastmoor Academy 21-10 Saturday for the championship on Saturday. Click here for the game story.
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Youngstown Ursuline traded-in its 2007 silver medal for a gold medal on Saturday as it shutout Liberty-Benton 21-0 Saturday at Paul Brown Stadium in Massillon to capture the 2008 Ohio Division V high school football championship. It was the first shutout in a championship game since 1985. Click here for game story.
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Between the two schools there are eleven Ohio state football championships. Tonight St. Ignatius (#16 USA Today) squares-off with Elder (#18 USA Today) to decide who's the best Division 1 team in the state. St. Ignatius (13-1) has won nine state titles while Elder (13-1) has won two. Elder won back-to-back titles in 2002 and 2003. St. I's last title was in '0l.
Click here for a look at a breakdown of the game from the Cincinnati Enquirer.
To watch the game live on the web, click here to go to OhioHSsports.com.
Friday's Ohio Division II high school football championship between defending state champ Cincinnati Anderson and Sylvania Soutview came down to the last minute. Alex Pidcock's 16-yard touchdown pass to Paul Murphey with 32-seconds to go giving the Cougars a 29-25 win. It was the school's first ever state football championship. Click here for game story.
Archbishop Alter used a strong defensive effort on its way to the Ohio Division IV high school football championship. The Knights beat Steubenville 21-6 Friday at Canton's Fawcett Stadium. Click here for game story.
Delphos St. John has gone from a 2-8 team last year to Ohio's Division VI champ this year. The Blue Jays captured the school's fifth crown Friday with a 34-14 win over Boscom-Hopewell-Louden. BHL actually led 14-7, but the Blue Jays roared back with 27 unanswered points to take the win. Click here for game story.
Defending state champ Anderson faces Sylvania Southview Friday night in the Ohio Division II high school football championship in Massillon. Sylvania Southview brings a perfect 14-0 record into the game, while Anderson (12-2) has been on a roll since two early season losses. Click here for a preview from the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Nationally-ranked Elder (#19 USA Today) and St. Ignatius (#17 USA Today) will collide next Saturday for Ohio's Division 1 state championship. Elder beat Pickerington Central 24-10 to advance to the title game, while St. Ignatius beat North Canton Hoover 34-7. Click here to go to the Ohio High School Football Huddle.
Ohio High School Football Scores Saturday, November 22, 2008
Semifinals
USA Today Super 25 #18 St. Ignatius 34 N. Canton Hoover 7 #19 Elder 24 Pickerington Central 10
Division 1 Cin. Elder 24, Pickerington Cent. 10 Cle. St. Ignatius 34, N. Canton Hoover 7 Click here for game story
Division 3 Aurora 20, Sunbury Big Walnut 14 Click here for game story Cols. Eastmoor 14, Newark Licking Valley 10
Division 5 Findlay Liberty-Benton 35, Maria Stein Marion Local 0 Youngs. Ursuline 35, Baltimore Liberty Union 6
The road wasn't easy, but Cincinnati Anderson is back to defend it's Ohio Division 2 high school football championship. Friday night, the Redskins knocked-off the Associated Press' #1 team Columbus DeSales 14-10 avenging a 38-17 regular season home loss to DeSales. Anderson (12-2) will now face Sylvania Southview (14-0) next Saturday in the state championship game at Paul Brown Tiger Stadium in Massillon.
Some would say that two Ohio Division 1 state championship games have been played over the last two weeks. Last week St. Ignatius avenged a season opening loss to Glenville to move into Saturday night's state quarterfinal round. Tonight, Elder (#20 USA Today Super 25) ended Colerain's season with a 27-20 win in double overtime. The two teams entered the game ranked #1 and #2 in the Cincinnati-area. Click here for a game story.
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Ohio High School Football Scores Saturday, November 15, 2008
Division 3 Quarterfinals Aurora 28, Cuyahoga Falls Walsh Jesuit 7 Sunbury Big Walnut 24, Avon 15 Newark Licking Valley 35, Dover 28 Cols. Eastmoor 23, Circleville Logan Elm 0
Division 5 Quarterfinals Youngs. Ursuline 18, Kirtland 17 Findlay Liberty-Benton 28, Hamler Patrick Henry 0 Baltimore Liberty Union 13, Cols. Ready 3 Maria Stein Marion Local 21, W. Jefferson 14
Anderson(11-2) got a little revenge Friday night beating Winton Woods 24-21 to advance to the Ohio Division 2 state semifinals. The Redskins won it with just 23.5 seconds to go when junior running back Kyle Slater scored on a 3-yard touchdown run. During the regular season Winton Woods (11-2) beat Anderson 23-13. Click here for a game story.
Ohio High School Football Scores Friday, November 14, 2008
Quarterfinals
Division 2 Akron Hoban 17 Tallmadge 14 Click here for game story Sylvania Southview 28 Medina Highland 21 Click her for game story Cincinnati Anderson 24 Winton Woods 21 Columbus St. Francis de Sales 38 Louisville 21
Division 4 Steubenville 35 Perry 17 Click here for game story Genoa 40 Ottawa-Glandorf 21 New Lexington 21 Martins Ferry 14 Archbishop Alter 31 Coldwater 21
Division 6 St. John's 38 Ada 28 Lehman Catholic 28 Mechanicsburg 13 Bascom Hopewell-Loudon 42 St. Paul 21 Malvern 38 River 14
Elder (#20 USA Today Super 25) will renew its post-season rivalry with Colerain for the first time since 2004 on Saturday when the two meet for the Division 1 Region 1 championship at University of Cincinnati Nippert Stadium. A crowd of around 20,000 is expected to watch as these to Cincinnati-area giants via for the right to move-on to the Ohio state semifinals.
From 2000-2004, the Cardinals and Panthers met six times, including five playoff appearances. Elder knocked the Cards out of the playoffs in 2001, 2002 and 2003. The Panthers went on to win state titles in '02 and '03. Colerain won the 2000 and 2004 playoff games, and won the state crown in '04.
For more on the playoff rivalry between the two, click here.
One Ohio showdown down, one more to go...or at least one until the Division 1 state championship game. Nationally-ranked Elder (11-1) will face Colerain next Saturday for the right to go to the state semifinals. Elder (#19 USA Today Super 25), which beat Colerain (11-1) earlier this year to knock the Cardinals out of the national rankings, advanced to the quarterfinals with a hard fought 13-10 win over Clayton Northmont on Saturday. Colerain shutout Huber Heights Wayne 23-0 to move-on. To read about the Elder win that sends the Panthers to their first regional championship game since 2003, click here. To read about Colerain's victory, click here.
Meanwhile, in the northeast part of the state, the Battle for Cleveland Round Two went to St. Ignatius (11-1) Saturday night. St. Ignatius beat #18 Glenville 8-0 avenging a season opening loss to the Tarblooders. St. Ignatius began the season ranked #16 by USA Today.
Glenville vs. St. Ignatius – Regional semifinal
Ohio High School Football Scores Saturday, November 8, 2008
USA Today Super 25 St. Ignatius 8 #18 Glenville 0 #19 Elder 13 Clayton Northmont 10
Division 1 Region 1 Strongsville 17, Mentor 3 Cleveland St. Ignatius 8 Cleveland Glenville 0 Region 2 Can. GlenOak 28, Brunswick 3 N. Can. Hoover 13, Twinsburg 10 Region 3 Pickerington Cent. 24, Cols. Upper Arlington 16 Hillard Davidson 21 Worthington Kilbourne 7 Region 4 Cin. Colerain 23, Huber Hts. Wayne 0 Cin. Elder 13, Clayton Northmont 10
Division 3 Region 9 Aurora 14, Hubbard 7 Cuyahoga Falls Walsh Jesuit 21, Chagrin Falls 17 Region 10 Avon 13, Tiffin Columbian 6 Sunbury Big Walnut 17, St. Marys Memorial 12 Region 11 Dover 35, Can. South 14 Newark Licking Valley 41, Poland Seminary 7 Region 12 Cols. Eastmoor 28, Thornville Sheridan 6 Circleville Logan Elm 28 Thornville Sheridan 6
Division 5 Region 17 Kirtland 41, Columbiana Crestview 13 Youngs. Ursuline 35, Gates Mills Gilmour 7 Region 18 Findlay Liberty-Benton 42, Archbold 10 Hamler Patrick Henry 21, Bucyrus Wynford 0 Region 19 Cols. Ready 17, Portsmouth W. 0 Baltimore Liberty Union 14 Wheelersburg 7 Region 20 W. Jefferson 20, Cin. Hills Christian Academy 10 Maria Stein Marion Local 20 Cin. Hills Christian Academy 10
If you want to check-out Saturday night's big Ohio high school football game between nationally-ranked Glenville and St. Ignatiusclick here to go to ohiohssports.com. These two met in the season opener and Glenville (11-0) won 20-17, which knock St. Ignatius (10-1) out of the USA Today Super 25. The Tarblooders are currently ranked #19 by USA Today. Also, return to The High School Football Huddle later tonight for a game recap.
Mayfield's (10-2) magical season came to an end Friday night with a 16-13 overtime loss to Akron's Archbishop Hoban (8-4) in the Division 2 Region 5 semifinals. The top-seeded Wildcats , who shutout six straight opponents this year, entered the game ranked #5 by the Cleveland Plain Dealer and #10 in the Associated Press Ohio high school football rankings. Next Friday fourth-seeded Hoban will play sixth-seed Tallmadge (9-3) for the regional championship and a berth in the state semifinals. Click here to read a Hoban-Mayfield recap.
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Ohio High School Football Scores Friday, November 7, 2008
Division 2 Region 5 Akr. Hoban 16, Mayfield 13, OT Tallmadge 27, Madison 7
Division 2 Region 6 Medina Highland 35, Powell Olentangy Liberty 0 Click here for game recap Sylvania Southview 38, Lexington 24
Ohio High School Football Playoffs Regional Semifinals
Division I All games Saturday, 7 p.m.
Huber Hts. Wayne (8-3) vs. Cin. Colerain (10-1), Nippert Stadium Cleve. Glenville (11-0) vs. Cleve. St. Ignatius (10-1), Lakewood Stadium Mentor (9-2) vs. Strongsville (10-1), Parma Byers Field Twinsburg (9-2) vs. N. Canton Hoover (10-1), Canton Fawcett Stadium Brunswick (10-1) vs. Canton GlenOak (9-2), Massillon Paul Brown Tiger Stadium Worthington Kilbourne (9-2) vs. Hilliard Davidson (10-1), Dublin Coffman Stadium Pickerington Central (11-0) vs. Upper Arlington (10-1), Gahanna Lincoln Stadium Cin. Elder (10-1) vs. Clayton Northmont (10-1), Nippert Stadium
Division II All games Friday, 7:30 p.m.
Akron Hoban (7-4) vs. Mayfield (10-1), Solon Stewart Field Talmadge (8-3) vs. Madison (8-3), Bedford Stewart Field at Bearcat Stadium Medina Highland (10-1) vs. Powell Olentangy Liberty (8-3), Ashland Community Stadium Lexington (11-0) vs. Sylvania Southview (11-0), Tiffin Frost-Kalnow Stadium Cols. Marion-Franklin (10-1) vs. Cols. DeSales (11-0), Dublin Scioto Stadium Logan (11-0) vs. Louisville (11-0), Zanesville John D. Sulsberger Memorial Stadium Kings Mills Kings (8-3) vs. Cin. Winton Woods (10-1), Princeton Mancuso Field Cin. Anderson (9-2) vs. New Carlisle Tecumseh (11-0), Centerville Stadium
Division III All games Saturday, 7 p.m.
Chagrin Falls (8-3) vs. Cuya. Falls Walsh Jesuit (8-2), Solon Stewart Field Hubbard (9-2) vs. Aurora (9-2), Warren Mollenkopf Stadium Tiffin Columbian (9-2) vs. Avon (11-0), Kalahari Field at Huron Memorial Stadium St. Marys Memorial (9-2) vs. Sunbury Big Walnut (9-2), Indian Lake Stadium Canton S. (8-3) vs. Dover (10-1), Canton Central Catholic Lowell Klinefelter Field Poland Seminary (9-2) vs. Newark Licking Val. (10-1), New Philadelphia Woody Hayes Quaker Stadium Cols. Eastmoor Acad. (10-1) vs. Thornville Sheridan (11-0), DeSales Alumni Stadium Chillicothe (8-3) vs. Circleville Logan Elm (11-0), Teays Valley Viking Stadium
Division IV All games Friday, 7:30 p.m.
Youngs. Mooney (9-2) vs. Steubenville (11-0), Canton Fawcett Stadium Perry (10-1) vs. Mass. Tuslaw (10-1), Twinsburg Tiger Stadium Genoa Area (11-0) vs. Fostoria (10-1), Fremont Don Paul Stadium at Harmon Field Marion Pleasant (10-1) vs. Ottawa-Glandorf (7-4), Findlay Donnell Stadium Belmont Union Local (10-1) vs. Martins Ferry (10-1), Steubenville Reno Field at Harding Stadium Ironton (8-3) vs. New Lexington (10-1), Jackson Holzer Field; Day Oakwood (8-3) vs. Coldwater (11-0), Piqua Alexander Stadium Purk Field Kettering Alter (9-2) vs. Hamilton Badin (8-3), Dayton Welcome Stadium
Division V All games Saturday, 2 p.m.
Bucyrus Wynford (11-0) vs. Hamler Patrick Henry (11-0), Bowling Green State University Doyt Perry Stadium. Gates Mills Gilmour (10-1) vs. Youngs. Ursuline (11-0), Stow Bulldog Stadium Kirtland (11-0) vs. Columbiana Crestview (10-1), Niles Bo Rein Stadium Archbold (9-2) vs. Findlay Liberty-Benton (11-0), Bowling Green State University Doyt Perry Stadium Cols. Ready (7-2) vs. Portsmouth W. (11-0), Logan Chieftain Stadium Balt. Liberty-Union (10-1) vs. Wheelersburg (10-1), Jackson Holzer Field W. Jefferson (9-2) vs. Cin. Hills Christian Acad. (11-0), Kettering Roush Stadium. Waynesville (9-2) vs. Maria Stein Marion Local (9-2), Sidney Memorial Stadium.
Division VI All games Friday, 7:30 p.m.
Mogadore (10-1) vs. Bascom Hopewell-Loudon (11-0), Mansfield Madison Ram Field McDonald (11-0) vs. Norwalk St. Paul (11-0), Medina Ken Dukes Stadium Pandora-Gilboa (10-1) vs. Ada (11-0), Lima Bath Stadium Delphos St. John's (9-2) vs. Carey (10-1), Kenton Robinson Field Glouster Trimble (9-2) vs. Hannibal River (11-0), Marietta Don Drumm Stadium Shadyside (9-2) vs. Malvern (11-0), East Liverpool Patterson Field Covington (9-2) vs. Mechanicsburg (11-0), Troy Memorial Stadium Spring. Cath. Cent. (8-3) vs. Sidney Lehman Cath. (9-1), Clayton Northmont Good Samaritan Stadium.
As is usually the case in the Cleveland and Cincinnati areas of Ohio high school football, it's hard to make it to the Division 1 state championship game because of the quality of teams in the state's two biggest cities.
That will be the case this year as four top-notch teams...Glenville (#18 USA Today Super 25), Elder (#19 USA Today), St. Ignatius and Colerain all worthy of taking home a Division 1 championship trophy. In the case of Glenville and St. Ignatius, the season will come to a close for one of the Cleveland-area schools tomorrow when they meet for the second time this season.
St. Ignatius began the season in the USA Today poll, but lost to Glenville 20-17. Since that loss, both teams have run the table.
Click here to read about the Glenville/St. Ignatius match-up.
Click here to read aobut tomorrow's game's between Elder/Clayton Northmont and Coletain/Huber Heights Wayne.
While nationally-ranked Glenville and Elder cruised to easy first round wins in the Ohio state football playoffs, Colerain, which spent several weeks in the national polls, survived a scare to advance to next week's Region 4 semifinals. The top ranked Cardinals beat Moeller 17-10 when linebacker Tyon Dixon returned a fumble 88 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter. According to a report in the Cincinnati Enquirer, Moeller head coach John Rodenberg wasn't happy with the call, believing that the fumble came after the play ended.
Ohio High School Football Scores Saturday, November 1, 2008
USA Today Super 25 #18 Glenville 35 Brecksville-Broadview Heights 8 #19 Elder 52 Centerville 27
Division 1 Regional Quarterfinals Region 1 Cle. Glenville 35, Brecksville-Broadview Hts. 8 Cle. St. Ignatius 37, Lakewood St. Edward 0 Mentor 31, Willoughby S. 2 Strongsville 35, Euclid 28 Region 2 Brunswick 14, Macedonia Nordonia 10 Can. GlenOak 14, Can. McKinley 7 N. Can. Hoover 14, Massillon Washington 7 Twinsburg 20, Amherst Steele 11 Region 3 Cols. Upper Arlington 28, Marysville 16 Hilliard Davidson 38, Grove City 7 Pickerington Cent. 38, Delaware Hayes 21 Worthington Kilbourne 14, Cols. Brookhaven 6 Region 4 Cin. Colerain 17, Cin. Moeller 10 Cin. Elder 52, Centerville 27 Clayton Northmont 28, Kettering Fairmont 27 Huber Hts. Wayne 52, Cin. Woodward 0
Division 3 Regional Quarterfinals Region 9 Aurora 30, Chardon NDCL 14 Chagrin Falls 21, Youngs. Liberty 0 Cuyahoga Falls Walsh Jesuit 24, Mogadore Field 21 Hubbard 40, Ravenna 12 Region 10 Avon 7, Defiance 0 St. Marys Memorial 21, Tipp City Tippecanoe 14 Sunbury Big Walnut 18, Clyde 17 Tiffin Columbian 21, Bellevue 18 Region 11 Can. South 20, Canal Fulton Northwest 7 Dover 45, New Philadelphia 0 Newark Licking Valley 37, Rayland Buckeye 6 Poland Seminary 27, Granville 24 Region 12 Chillicothe 31, Canal Winchester 7 Circleville Logan Elm 21, Cols. Bexley 14 Cols. Eastmoor 48, Germantown Valley View 19 Thornville Sheridan 33, Franklin 7
Division 5 Regional Quarerfinals Region 17 Columbiana Crestview 41, Apple Creek Waynedale 12 Gates Mills Gilmour 48, Creston Norwayne 21 Kirtland 63, N. Lima S. Range 7 Youngs. Ursuline 27, Cuyahoga Hts. 7 Region 18 Archbold 26, Liberty Center 6 Bucyrus Wynford 40, Sherwood Fairview 34 Findlay Liberty-Benton 34, Delphos Jefferson 0 Hamler Patrick Henry 38, Ashland Crestview 7 Region 19 Baltimore Liberty Union 15, Nelsonville-York 14 Cols. Ready 21, Johnstown-Monroe 17 Portsmouth W. 26, W. Lafayette Ridgewood 7 Wheelersburg 14, Minford 6 Region 20 Cin. Hills Christian Academy 43, Lees Creek E. Clinton 21 Maria Stein Marion Local 13, Anna 3 W. Jefferson 20, Casstown Miami E. 7 Waynesville 34, W. Liberty-Salem 9
St. Ignatius (#16 USA Today) showed that it doesn't matter how you start the season, it's how you end it. Saturday the Wildcats, who lost its season opener to Glenville, finished with their 14th straight win to capture Ohio's Division I title with a 28-20 win over Elder (#18 USA Today) before 20,000 at Canton's Fawcett Stadium. The championship is the 10th for St. Ignatius. Click here for game story.
After a 1-2 start, Aurora ripped-off twelve straight wins that catapulted the Greenmen to Ohio's Division III championship. Aurora beat Columbus Eastmoor Academy 21-10 Saturday for the championship on Saturday. Click here for the game story. 
Youngstown Ursuline traded-in its 2007 silver medal for a gold medal on Saturday as it shutout Liberty-Benton 21-0 Saturday at Paul Brown Stadium in Massillon to capture the 2008 Ohio Division V high school football championship. It was the first shutout in a championship game since 1985. Click here for game story.
Between the two schools there are eleven Ohio state football championships. Tonight St. Ignatius (#16 USA Today) squares-off with Elder (#18 USA Today) to decide who's the best Division 1 team in the state. St. Ignatius (13-1) has won nine state titles while Elder (13-1) has won two. Elder won back-to-back titles in 2002 and 2003. St. I's last title was in '0l.
Friday's Ohio Division II high school football championship between defending state champ Cincinnati Anderson and Sylvania Soutview came down to the last minute. Alex Pidcock's 16-yard touchdown pass to Paul Murphey with 32-seconds to go giving the Cougars a 29-25 win. It was the school's first ever state football championship. Click here for game story.
Archbishop Alter used a strong defensive effort on its way to the Ohio Division IV high school football championship. The Knights beat Steubenville 21-6 Friday at Canton's Fawcett Stadium. Click here for game story.
Delphos St. John has gone from a 2-8 team last year to Ohio's Division VI champ this year. The Blue Jays captured the school's fifth crown Friday with a 34-14 win over Boscom-Hopewell-Louden. BHL actually led 14-7, but the Blue Jays roared back with 27 unanswered points to take the win. Click here for game story.
Defending state champ Anderson faces Sylvania Southview Friday night in the Ohio Division II high school football championship in Massillon. Sylvania Southview brings a perfect 14-0 record into the game, while Anderson (12-2) has been on a roll since two early season losses. Click here for a preview from the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Nationally-ranked Elder (#19 USA Today) and St. Ignatius (#17 USA Today) will collide next Saturday for Ohio's Division 1 state championship. Elder beat Pickerington Central 24-10 to advance to the title game, while St. Ignatius beat North Canton Hoover 34-7. Click here to go to the Ohio High School Football Huddle.
The road wasn't easy, but Cincinnati Anderson is back to defend it's Ohio Division 2 high school football championship. Friday night, the Redskins knocked-off the Associated Press' #1 team Columbus DeSales 14-10 avenging a 38-17 regular season home loss to DeSales. Anderson (12-2) will now face Sylvania Southview (14-0) next Saturday in the state championship game at Paul Brown Tiger Stadium in Massillon.
Some would say that two Ohio Division 1 state championship games have been played over the last two weeks. Last week St. Ignatius avenged a season opening loss to Glenville to move into Saturday night's state quarterfinal round. Tonight, Elder (#20 USA Today Super 25) ended Colerain's season with a 27-20 win in double overtime. The two teams entered the game ranked #1 and #2 in the Cincinnati-area. Click here for a game story.
Anderson(11-2) got a little revenge Friday night beating Winton Woods 24-21 to advance to the Ohio Division 2 state semifinals. The Redskins won it with just 23.5 seconds to go when junior running back Kyle Slater scored on a 3-yard touchdown run. During the regular season Winton Woods (11-2) beat Anderson 23-13. Click here for a game story.
Elder (#20 USA Today Super 25) will renew its post-season rivalry with Colerain for the first time since 2004 on Saturday when the two meet for the Division 1 Region 1 championship at University of Cincinnati Nippert Stadium. A crowd of around 20,000 is expected to watch as these to Cincinnati-area giants via for the right to move-on to the Ohio state semifinals. 
One Ohio showdown down, one more to go...or at least one until the Division 1 state championship game. Nationally-ranked Elder (11-1) will face Colerain next Saturday for the right to go to the state semifinals. Elder (#19 USA Today Super 25), which beat Colerain (11-1) earlier this year to knock the Cardinals out of the national rankings, advanced to the quarterfinals with a hard fought 13-10 win over Clayton Northmont on Saturday. Colerain shutout Huber Heights Wayne 23-0 to move-on. To read about the Elder win that sends the Panthers to their first regional championship game since 2003, click here. To read about Colerain's victory, click here.
If you want to check-out Saturday night's big Ohio high school football game between nationally-ranked Glenville and St. Ignatius click here to go to ohiohssports.com. These two met in the season opener and Glenville (11-0) won 20-17, which knock St. Ignatius (10-1) out of the USA Today Super 25. The Tarblooders are currently ranked #19 by USA Today. Also, return to The High School Football Huddle later tonight for a game recap.
Mayfield's (10-2) magical season came to an end Friday night with a 16-13 overtime loss to Akron's Archbishop Hoban (8-4) in the Division 2 Region 5 semifinals. The top-seeded Wildcats , who shutout six straight opponents this year, entered the game ranked #5 by the Cleveland Plain Dealer and #10 in the Associated Press Ohio high school football rankings. Next Friday fourth-seeded Hoban will play sixth-seed Tallmadge (9-3) for the regional championship and a berth in the state semifinals. Click here to read a Hoban-Mayfield recap.
As is usually the case in the Cleveland and Cincinnati areas of Ohio high school football, it's hard to make it to the Division 1 state championship game because of the quality of teams in the state's two biggest cities.
While nationally-ranked Glenville and Elder cruised to easy first round wins in the Ohio state football playoffs, Colerain, which spent several weeks in the national polls, survived a scare to advance to next week's Region 4 semifinals. The top ranked Cardinals beat Moeller 17-10 when linebacker Tyon Dixon returned a fumble 88 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter. According to a report in the Cincinnati Enquirer, Moeller head coach John Rodenberg wasn't happy with the call, believing that the fumble came after the play ended.
