MADISON TOWNSHIP — The year’s biggest basketball story took place in the heart of football season. St. Peter’s three-year starting forward Mason Campbell, a two-time All-Ohioan, enrolled Thursday at Madison and will play his senior year for the Rams, according to high school principal Rob Peterson. The 6-foot-4 Campbell confirmed Friday night that he began […]
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Madison honors longtime football coach Matt Godsil
MADISON TOWNSHIP — Matt Godsil may be the most interesting football coach to ever patrol a north central Ohio sideline. The combination art teacher and gridiron boss was honored with a plaque midway through the first half of Friday night’s game with Lexington, recognizing 34 years of service in the Madison program, nine years as […]
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Stroud’s big 2nd half leads Lexington past Madison
MADISON TOWNSHIP — Devon Stroud took Friday night’s football game at Madison into his own capable hands, and especially legs. Lexington’s senior running back ripped off 166 yards and 2 TDs in the second half, and 216 yards for the game, to help the Minutemen pull away from a scoreless halftime tie for a 14-6 […]
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Shelby, Clear Fork, Ashland & Lucas eye home playoff games
COLUMBUS — Just two games remain in the regular season but north central Ohio teams are running various scenarios in their respective playoff quests. The top eight teams in each region advance to the postseason, with the top four hosting first-round games. Were the playoffs to begin today, four area teams would be hosting postseason […]
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Barrett’s epic night fuels Buckeyes’ blowout of Nebraska
LINCOLN, Nebraska — Ohio State has played football for 127 seasons and in all that time a Buckeye starting quarterback has never authored a better game than J.T. Barrett fashioned on Saturday night in Lincoln, Nebraska. How do we know this? Simple, really. Barrett played for eight series in ninth-ranked Ohio State’s 56-14 pounding of […]
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Buckeyes’ blowout of Maryland is far from special
COLUMBUS — The photo at the top of this story, via Pixabay, is of a train wreck. That may seem an odd image paired with Saturday’s 62-14 victory over Maryland. Yet Ohio State coach Urban Meyer would probably agree with it. He was appalled by one aspect of his team’s performance. The 10th-ranked Buckeyes’ special […]
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St. Charles rallies in 2nd half to knock off Madison
MADISON TOWNSHIP — The Madison football team grabbed momentum, perhaps for the first time in the second half of a game all season on Friday night. But no sooner did senior Shawn Roper complete a 60-yard pick-six to give the Rams a 13-10 edge with 7:08 remaining in the third period than that slippery element […]
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Numbers don’t lie, Rutgers is no match for OSU
Ohio State’s 56-0 Piscataway pantsing at Rutgers Saturday night held the interest of hardcore statisticians for less than a half. Even they were probably guilty of drifting off to other games, other records, something, anything with a more compelling storyline. Unfortunately, that’s nothing new in this series. Last season Ohio State pounded the Scarlet Knights […]
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St. Paul punishes Crestview 38-7
OLIVESBURG — The Crestview football team ran through a banner Friday night that stated: “Pucker up Flyers, kiss your winning streak goodbye.” But it was the Cougars who got smacked. St. Paul administered a 38-7 paddling in a Firelands Conference clash that brought coach Dan Mager’s team back to earth after a three-game winning streak […]
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Buckeyes get well in rout of UNLV
COLUMBUS — Thirteen receivers caught passes, seven of them touchdowns. Six runners registered a carry. Three quarterbacks attempted an aerial. When it was done, 10th-ranked Ohio State netted 664 yards of offense and a 54-21 win over UNLV. It was over way before that. The Buckeyes had a 37-0 bulge in the second quarter when […]