OTTAWA — Trey Sellers and his Clear Fork teammates earned the rematch they wanted.

Sellers ran for 104 yards and two touchdowns as the fourth-seeded Colts roughed up top-seed Ottawa-Glandorf 35-9 Friday at Titan Stadium in the Division IV, Region IV semfinal.

Clear Fork (10-2) will play Richland County and Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference rival Shelby for the regional championship and a berth in the state semifinals Nov. 20. The site will be announced on Sunday by the Ohio High School Athletic Association.

The second-seeded Whippets rallied for a 20-14 win over No 3-Sandusky Perkins (11-1). The Whippets beat the Colts 28-21 in Week 7 of the regular season and have been on a collision course ever since.

“I’m pumped up for a rematch,” Sellers said. “Shelby has a good program and good coaches, but I’m fired up for the rematch and ready to go.”

Offensive Explosion

The Colts scored on their first three possessions, building a 21-3 halftime lead. 

Sellers got things going with a twisting, 33-yard run with 8:52 to play in the first quarter. Five minutes later, quarterback Marcus Hoeflich found Nash Evans all alone behind the O-G defense for a 33-yard score to make it 14-0.

“We like to pound the ball down teams’ throats,” Evans said. “We do a good job of running the ball and our RPO (run-pass option) off that. Marcus has been great for us all year. The kid’s a beast.”

The Titans (11-1) got on the board on Larson Kreinbrink’s 28-yard field goal with 9:38 to play in the half, but the Colts went back to work immediately.

Rugged fullback Alex Schlosser capped Clear Fork’s third scoring drive with a 1-yard plunge with 3:20 showing.

“That’s who we are. We’re going to find different ways to run the ball,” Clear Fork coach Aaron Brokaw said. “It’s easy to call that stuff when they are going out and executing the way they are.”

De-fense

Ottawa-Glandorf scored on a 69-yard touchdown pass from Tanner Vogt to Deegan Miller on the second play of the third quarter, but couldn’t sustain anything after that.

It was the first touchdown allowed by Clear Fork’s suffocating defense since Week 8 of the regular season — more than a month ago.

“We’ve got a lot of guys who like to play aggressive football,” Brokaw said. “Defense is fun. It’s not just one guy. Everybody is flying around.

“That’s the way we teach it, that’s the way we do it and the kids love it.”

Clear Fork answered on Sellers’ second TD run of the day, a 5-yarder with 4:04 remaining in the third period. The Colts put it out of reach when Hoeflich again hooked up with Evans on a 29-yard scoring strike with 4:57 remaining in the game.

Schlosser backed Sellers with 93 rushing yards on 14 carries. Hoeflich ran for 43 yards and completed 6-of-9 passes for 107 yards, all to Evans.

Rivalry Renewed

Clear Fork and Shelby will meet for the 13th time next week. The Whippets are 8-4 in the series and have won four straight.

“Shelby is a great team and they’ve done a lot of really good things here the last four or five years,” Brokaw said. “They’ve got a tremendous team and I feel like we’ve got a tremendous team, so it’s going to be a good old cross-county rivalry.”