ORRVILLE – The Hillsdale football players ruined their Thanksgiving meals. It’s hard to load up on turkey and stuffing when you have a Final Four game to play the next night. Dealt frigid, misty and sometimes windy conditions Friday night, Coach Trevor Cline’s club ripped off 21 first-quarter points on the way to throttling Cuyahoga […]
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TD in final seconds lifts Perkins over Ontario; Northmor reaches Final Four
TIFFIN — Sandusky Perkins’ Isaac Bunts scored on an 18-yard run with 39 seconds remaining to lift his team to a 28-21 victory over third-seeded Ontario in Friday night’s Division IV regional championship game. That score overshadowed a valiant rally by the Warriors. Sandusky Perkins opened with a 14-7 advantage over Ontario through the first […]
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Hillsdale faces experienced Elite Eight foe in Cuyahoga Heights
JEROMESVILLE — From here on out, everything is a “first” for the Hillsdale football team. It’s just a reality for the Falcons (12-1), who have set the program record for wins in a season and this Friday will play a 14th game for the first time in team history at Orrville High School. The last area […]
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Hillsdale staff reflects on ‘Hail Mary’ game for the ages
JEROMESVILLE – The Falcons became mythical in what must have felt like milliseconds. When the Hillsdale football team took the field for its Division VII Region 25 semifinal Friday against Malvern, it was looking to stay alive in the playoffs and set a single-season program record for wins. What the Falcons instead took away from […]
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Ontario prepares for 1st Elite 8 matchup in Tiffin vs. No. 1-seed Sandusky Perkins
COLUMBUS — And then there was one. We’ve reached the Elite Eight round of the Ohio high school football playoffs. That means the best of the best are still in pads. Only one high school football team remains in action from each of the three counties covered by Source Media Properties. Danville is the sole […]
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Big Walnut RB slams door on Ashland’s historic season
MARION – Squeezing his way through the line and slithering out of tackles all game long, Big Walnut’s Nolan Buirley looked like the most slippery running back on the planet Friday night. The sophomore put together a game for the ages and, in the process, Ashland’s season of perfection slipped away. Buirley ran for 318 […]
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Record-setting stars fueling Hillsdale’s historic run
JEROMESVILLE – For years there have been whispers about what the 2024 Hillsdale football team could become. Led by an offensive core that has assembled a full-blown assault on the program’s record books, those whispers have turned to roars this fall. The Falcons (11-1) are headed into the regional semifinals for the sixth time since […]
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Caudill’s 7 TDs fuel Lexington’s 2nd straight playoff upset
ROCKY RIVER, Ohio — Lexington junior Joe Caudill is having himself quite a postseason party, and so is the Lexington football team. The Minutemen simply refuse to let their season end, no matter where the schedule takes them. For the second consecutive week, Lex upset a higher-seeded team on the road to advance in the […]
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Col. Crawford pushes top-seeded Grandview Heights to the brink before falling just short
GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS — Oh so close. That’s the way the Colonel Crawford football season ended on Friday night. The ninth-seeded Eagles pushed undefeated Grandview Heights to the very brink, but the top-seeded Bobcats leaned on a stout defense to stand tall. Top-seeded Grandview Heights (11-0) threw up a couple of goal-line stands, one in each […]
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Lewis throws for 351 yards in Hillsdale’s blowout of 7th-seeded Windham
JEROMESVILLE — Hillsdale sophomore Kael Lewis turned in a dynamite passing performance to help his Falcons remain in flight in the Division VII, Region 25 football playoffs. The 6-foot-2, 170-pound sophomore completed 13-of-17 passes for a whopping 351 yards and four touchdowns in a 43-14 beating of seventh-seeded Windham on Friday night. His favorite target […]