MANSFIELD — North central Ohio football fans got their wish.
Shelby (12-0) and Clear Fork (10-2) will play for the Region 14 title and a berth in the Division IV state semifinals at Mansfield’s Arlin Field on Friday, a rematch from earlier this season.
The official announcement came Sunday, when the Ohio High School Athletic Association released sites for regional championship games in all seven divisions across the state.
The Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference rivals met in Week 7 of the regular season, a game Shelby won 28-21 at Clear Fork in a contest that saw the teams combine for 26 penalties totaling 281 yards.
The Whippets will visit Arlin Field for a third straight year after rallying for a 20-14 win over previously unbeaten Sandusky Perkins on Friday night.
Shelby fell to Ontario in an epic regional semifinal game two years ago and beat Galion in last year’s regional final on its way to a state runner-up finish.
The Colts will play in a regional championship game for the first time since 2018. Clear Fork dispatched top-seeded Ottawa-Glandorf 35-9 on Friday.
Shelby is the No. 2-seed in region and will be considered the home team. Clear Fork is the No. 4 seed and will be on the visitors’ side.
“Shelby is a great team and they’ve done a lot of really good things in the last four or five years,” Clear Fork coach Aaron Brokaw said Friday.
“They’ve got a tremendous team and I feel like we’ve got a tremendous team.
“It’s going to be a good, old cross-county rivalry and, I don’t know, but I’m guessing Arlin Field is going to be packed for that.”
After Shelby’s win, senior wide receiver Brady Bowman told the Mansfield News Journal the Whippets would be ready.
“It is similar to the last two years,” Bowman said. “We have another MOAC opponent for a regional championship. We just have to do what we do at a neutral site and take care of business.”
OHSAA Football Regional Final Pairings
All games on Friday, Nov. 20, at 7 p.m.
Home team listed first. Pairings shown with regional seed and record.
Division I
Region 1
No. 1 Lakewood St. Edward (11-1) vs. No. 3 Mentor (10-2) at Parma Byers Field
Region 2
No. 2 Springfield (10-2) vs. No. 4 Huber Heights Wayne (8-4) at Piqua High School
Region 3
No. 4 Powell Olentangy Liberty (8-4) vs. No. 6 Pickerington North (10-3) at Columbus St. Francis DeSales High School
Region 4
No. 1 Cincinnati Princeton (12-0) vs. No. 2 Cincinnati Elder (10-2) at Paycor Stadium, Cincinnati
Division II
Region 5
No. 1 Medina Highland (11-1) vs. No. 3 Macedonia Nordonia (11-1) at Twinsburg High School
Region 6
No. 1 Toledo Central Catholic (10-2) vs. No. 3 Avon (10-2) at Clyde High School
Region 7
No. 1 Columbus Bishop Watterson (11-0) vs. No. 3 Massillon Washington (11-1) at Zanesville High School
Region 8
No. 1 Cincinnati Anderson (11-1) vs. No. 2 Harrison (10-2) at Mason High School
Division III
Region 9
No. 2 Chardon Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin (11-1) vs. No. 8 Youngstown Ursuline (9-4) at Ravenna High School
Region 10
No. 2 Ontario (11-1) vs. No. 4 Wapakoneta (9-3) at Ohio Health Field at Harding Stadium, Marion
Region 11
No. 1 Steubenville (10-2) vs. No. 3 Columbus East (11-1) at New Philadelphia High School
Region 12
No. 1 Bellbrook (12-0) vs. No. 2 Tipp City Tippecanoe (11-1) at Xenia High School
Division IV
Region 13
No. 3 Beloit West Branch (11-1) vs. No. 5 Chesterland West Geauga (11-2) at Stow-Munroe Falls High School
Region 14
No. 2 Shelby (12-0) vs. No. 4 Bellville Clear Fork (10-2) at Mansfield Arlin Field
Region 15
No. 1 Gnadenhutten Indian Valley (11-0) vs. No. 2 New Lexington (11-1) at Coshocton High School
Region 16
No. 2 London (10-2) vs. No. 5 Urbana (10-3) at Marysville High School
Division V
Region 17
No. 1 Perry (12-0) vs. No. 3 Girard (12-0) at Ashtabula Lakeside High School
Region 18
No. 4 Archbold (11-1) vs. No. 10 Coldwater (9-4) at Findlay Donnell Stadium
Region 19
No. 1 Ironton (11-1) vs. No. 2 Beverly Fort Frye (11-1) at Jackson High School
Region 20
No. 4 Waynesville (10-2) vs. No. 6 Middletown Bishop Fenwick (8-5) at Lakota East High School
Division VI
Region 21
No. 1 Kirtland (11-1) vs. No. 2 Canfield South Range (11-1) at Uniontown Lake High School
Region 22
No. 1 Liberty Center (12-0) vs. No. 7 Carey (9-4) at Lima Senior High School
Region 23
No. 4 Woodsfield Monroe Central (9-3) vs. No. 7 Sugarcreek Garaway (10-3) at Meadowbrook High School
Region 24
No. 2 Cincinnati Deer Park (11-1) vs. No. 9 St. Henry (10-3) at Northmont High School
Division VII
Region 25
No. 2 Cuyahoga Heights (11-1) vs. No. 4 New Middletown Springfield (9-3) at Louisville High School
Region 26
No. 1 Leipsic (12-0) vs. No. 2 Bascom Hopewell-Loudon (12-0) at Millbury Lake High School
Region 27
No. 1 Willow Wood Symmes Valley (12-0) vs. No. 2 Danville (12-0) at Logan High School
Region 28
No. 1 Maria Stein Marion Local (12-0) vs. No. 7 New Bremen (8-5) at Sidney High School