Central Ohio high school football scores and Week 7 recaps
Marysville 49, Dublin Jerome 28
Marysville knocked visiting Jerome from the ranks of the unbeaten Sept. 30 behind the tandem of running backs Colton Powers and Griffin Johnson.
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Powers rushed for 175 yards and six touchdowns on 24 carries, and Johnson added 125 yards on 16 carries as Marysville rushed for 420 yards. Johnson also had three receptions for 92 yards and a touchdown as the Monarchs improved to 5-2 overall and 2-0 in the OCC-Cardinal Division. Marysville won the league title last season at 5-0.
Jerome dropped to 6-1 overall and 1-1 in the league.
“I thought our kids were really physical,” Marysville coach Brent Johnson said. “We stayed the course offensively. I thought we threw the ball very effectively. Defensively, we gave up some points, but we got stops when we needed them.”
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Marysville opened a 21-7 lead in the second quarter on touchdown runs of 9 and 19 yards by Powers and Brady Seger’s 45-yard touchdown pass to Johnson.
Zakk Tschirhart threw touchdown passes of 69 and 8 yards to Marek Tzagournis for Jerome in the first half, with the second making it 21-14.
The Monarchs’ Trace Heminger intercepted Tschirhart early in the second half, however, and Powers followed with two more touchdowns in the third quarter to make it 35-14.
“We were pretty confident going into the game,” Powers said. “We’re a lot different than we were at the start of the season. Our offense is looking good. We’re moving the ball, and we’re getting progressively better.”
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Tschirhart completed 22 of 34 passes for 342 yards and four touchdowns for the Celtics, and Tzagournis had five catches for 106 yards and two touchdowns.
Jerome was playing without running backs Luke McLoughlin (ankle) and Cael Abdul Haqq (leg) and two-way lineman Kyler LaRosa (knee).
“It’s tough to replicate (Marysville’s offense) in practice,” Jerome coach Brett Glass said. “They’re physical and they have good backs. We just didn’t have any answers. We had a couple of times where we could have stopped them and they were able to break some tackles. Our kids fought. They played hard, but we couldn’t get them off the field on defense.”
—Frank DiRenna
DUBLIN JEROME: 0-14-0-14–28
MARYSVILLE: 7-14-14-14–49
M—Powers 9 run (Heller kick)
DJ—Tzagournis 69 pass from Tschirhart (Holden kick)
M—Johnson 45 pass from Seger (Heller kick)
M—Powers 19 run (Heller kick)
DJ—Tzagournis 8 pass from Tschirhart kick (Heller kick)
M—Powers 24 run (kick blocked)
M—Powers 2 run (Johnson pass from Seger)
DJ—Lowery 9 pass from Tschirhart (Holden kick)
M—Powers 2 run (Heller kick)
DJ—Lowery 5 pass from Tschirhart (Holden kick)
M—Powers 1 run (Heller kick)
Dublin Coffman 35, Olentangy Orange 7
Carson Cox rushed for 75 yards and two touchdowns on nine carries, and he also blocked a punt that was recovered for a score as the host Shamrocks improved to 5-2 overall and 2-0 in the OCC-Central.
Coffman led 14-0 at halftime, scoring with 15 seconds left in the second quarter when quarterback Quinn Hart connected with tight end Braden Dougherty on a 14-yard pass.
The Shamrocks had appeared to be stopped short at the Orange 15-yard line on a fourth-and-11 from the 25. Coffman was called for holding on the play, however, and the Pioneers accepted the penalty to set up a fourth-and-21 from the 35.
Hart then connected with wide receiver Amari Valerio-Hudson for 21 yards to the 14, and the Shamrocks scored one play later.
“That was a big play, to go up 14-0 with them getting the ball to start the second half,” Coffman coach Geron Stokes said. “Then they go down and score. It was 14-7 instead of 7-7. That was a big play.”
Orange coach Zebb Schroeder said he accepted the penalty because the officials told him the Shamrocks had a first down.
“They said (Coffman) crossed for the first down, so I took the penalty,” said Schroeder, whose team dropped to 3-4 overall and 0-2 in the league. “No matter, we have to do better on situational football. It was fourth-and-21. We have to do better at knowing what can beat you and what can’t (on that play).”
Orange opened the third with a 10-play, 72-yard drive, capped by Jakivion Calip’s 4-yard touchdown run with 7:54 left in the quarter.
But Coffman answered with touchdown runs of 9 and 7 yards by Cox and the blocked punt, which was recovered in the end zone by Luke Sopko with 5:48 remaining in the game.
“We played well, and everyone just went out and did their jobs,” Cox said. “We just went at it.”
Hart was 12-for-15 passing for 157 yards, and wide receiver Valerio-Hudson finished with seven receptions for 84 yards. Running back Daven White had 72 yards rushing and one score on 21 carries for Coffman.
“At halftime, the coaches told us we needed to come out and play more physically and we did that,” Hart said.
Orange running back Bobby Ogles had 55 yards on 12 carries, and Calip added 42 yards on 10 attempts. Quarterback Levi Davis was 18-for-23 passing for 154 yards, and wide receiver Jacob Lattig had five catches for 48 yards.
—Scott Hennen
OLENTANGY ORANGE: 0-0-7-0--7
DUBLIN COFFMAN: 7-7-7-14--35
DC—White 10 run (Schramm kick)
DC—Dougherty 14 pass from Hart (Schramm kick)
OO—Calip 4 run (Musgrove kick)
DC—Cox 9 run (Schramm kick)
DC—Cox 7 run (Schramm kick)
DC—Sopko recovered blocked punt in end zone (Schramm kick)
Westerville South 27, Delaware Hayes 7
Playing without Ethan Hanna impacts both the offense and the defense for South. But both sides rose to the occasion in a key OCC-Capital win for the Wildcats at Delaware.
Carrying the load instead of sharing it with Hanna (RB/LB), who was out with a leg injury, Nasir Phillips ran for 250 yards and three touchdowns on 33 carries. The South defense hassled Delaware quarterback Jake Lowman to the tune of five sacks, led by Drew Goff, who had 2.5.
“It was very tough (without Hanna),” said Phillips, whose team improved to 6-1 overall and 4-0 in league play. “I just took it as I got to step up. Ethan going down as my backup, I just knew that I was going to get the majority of the carries. I just knew coming into this game that I had to be mentally and physically prepared.”
Lowman, who found Austin Koslow on a 32-yard post route to give the Pacers a 7-0 lead on their first possession, had a chance to add to their lead after an Andon Wheeler interception.
But a pair of holding penalties and a sack by Craig Horton forced a punt, and Delaware’s offense was stymied most of the rest of the night.
“I think they’re playing really hard as a group defensively,” South coach Matthew Christ said. “We’ve got guys that have speed and they’re hungry. (Goff has) just been consistent and doing what he’s coached to do. And when the plays are there to be made, he’s making them.”
The Pacers, who fell to 5-2 overall and 2-2 in league play, went 11 plays and 78 yards on their first drive. Lowman converted a fourth-and-inches with a sneak before finding Koslow for the score on the next play. But Delaware finished with 178 yards of total offense.
“We kind of shot ourselves in the foot there on the first holding penalty (on our second series) because Jaliq Wilson makes a great catch giving us a first down at about the 15-yard line and then we compounded that,” Delaware coach Ryan Montgomery said. “We didn’t play a clean game (and) that’s something we’ve got to fix in practice. That was an opportunity for us to create a little separation.”
It was a roughing the kicker penalty by the Pacers late in the third quarter that was ultimately the back-breaker as Quentin Sheets’ 22-yard field goal attempt missed wide left. Phillips scored three players later to give the Wildcats their first lead.
Phillips added a 26-yard scoring run on the next possession, and Jaelen Wheeler returned a punt 34 yards to set up Phillips’ final scoring run from 3 yards out.
“It was a dogfight,” Phillips said. “I just knew if I was patient, if I just kept running, running, running – eventually I was going to break one. I trust (my line) with everything in me and I knew if they kept doing their job and I did my job, we would be successful.”
Lowman finished 14-for-29 passing for 158 yards, Koslow had four catches for 56 yards and Logan Frye had 7.5 tackles to lead the Pacers.
“Our defense did a great job into the third quarter of keeping it within striking distance,” Montgomery said. “Our guys battled and played and we had great support out here tonight. It’s obviously not the outcome we wanted, but it’s something that we can build off of as a program.”
—Michael Rich
WESTERVILLE SOUTH: 0-7-6-14--27
DELAWARE HAYES: 7-0-0-0--7
DH—Koslow 32 pass from Lowman (Goble kick)
WS—Kirtland II 15 pass from Birth (Sheets kick)
WS—Phillips 2 run (kick blocked)
WS—Phillips 26 run (Sheets kick)
WS—Phillips 3 run (Sheets kick)
Canal Winchester 24, Westerville North 0
The Indians’ defensive line dominated, holding the visiting Warriors to minus-3 rushing yards and recording 11 plays for negative yardage in OCC-Capital play.
Eli Cassady had two sacks, Davonte Courtney added 1.5 and Myles McKee returned a fumble 10 yards for a touchdown as Canal Winchester won its third consecutive game and extended North’s losing streak to three.
“As long as we run our defense to perfection like we’re coached, we can be unstoppable. I really believe that,” said Courtney, a senior defensive end. “The way their offense lined up, we were able to key on our man and we could just run our defense based on that.”
The Indians, who improved to 5-2 overall and 3-1 in the league, set the tone by running 20 of the game’s first 24 plays. Camden Roush capped the first drive with a 34-yard field goal and caught a 22-yard touchdown pass from Maxton Brunner on the next possession to make it 10-0.
Canal Winchester’s other touchdowns came on consecutive plays midway through the third quarter.
Kaseem Wade scored from 4 yards, then on North’s first play from scrimmage after the kickoff, McKee scooped up a fumble caused by Eli Spruill and sprinted into the end zone for a 24-0 lead.
Corey Howard’s 63 yards on 14 carries paced the Indians.
“Our guys are playing hot right now and that’s what we need heading toward the end of the (regular) season,” Canal Winchester coach Jake Kuhner said. “Our biggest thing is I wanted our guys to complement each other on offense and defense and we did that. We fed off this defense. They did a heck of a job.”
North earned 80 of its 135 yards on its final possession in the fourth quarter, which ended in a T.J. Cook interception.
“We struggled to maintain drives with a few three-and-outs in the beginning, then we’d get a couple positive plays and we’d have either a bad snap or a fumbled snap or a penalty,” said Warriors coach Bryan Johnson, whose team fell to 3-4 overall and 1-3 in the OCC-Capital. “They love that four-man front, and when their backs are against the wall or we made a play, they went to that six-man pressure. They didn’t do anything we hadn’t seen. They just executed better.”
—Dave Purpura
WESTERVILLE NORTH: 0-0-0-0–0
CANAL WINCHESTER: 10-0-14-0–24
CW—Roush 34 FG
CW—Roush 22 pass from Brunner (Roush kick)
CW—Wade 4 run (Roush kick)
CW—McKee 10 fumble recovery (Roush kick)
Watterson 25, Granville 24
Trailing by seven points late in the fourth quarter, the Eagles went 60 yards in 60 seconds, ending the drive with a 26-yard touchdown throw from A.J. McAninch to Ryan Rudzinksi with 8 seconds left.
But instead of kicking the extra point to send the game into overtime, Watterson coach Brian Kennedy went for the win and got it, as McAninch connected with Tommy Haley on a crossing route for the two-point conversion.
“You know what? Our guys went all the way down, and I wanted to give them an opportunity,” said Kennedy, whose team lost to Granville during the regular season and again in the playoffs a year ago. “I trust them, and I said, ‘Let’s go for two.’ ”
McAninch led a 10-play drive, finding open receivers on the sideline to help stop the clock on the final possession. He finished 9-for-21 passing for 129 yards.
“I trusted my team,” McAninch said. “We talked to coach after the game and he just said he believed in us. All the 6 a.m. practices … he had to trust in us. That’s what we practice for.”
The road victory improved the Eagles to 6-1 and should give them a big boost in the postseason computer ratings. Going into the game, Watterson was sixth in Division III, Region 11 and Granville was seventh.
Granville, which dropped to 5-2, held a 14-10 halftime lead and made it 24-17 when Mathew Chaykowski scored on a 9-yard run with 1:08 left.
Granville coach Wes Schroeder said it was hard for his team to overcome mistakes.
“They scored two touchdowns on short fields, they got a big play on a field goal, and we’re not good enough to make multiple mistakes and beat good teams,” he said.
—Scott Gerfen
WATTERSON: 7-3-7-8–25
GRANVILLE: 0-14-0-10–24
W—Ford 7 pass from Rudzinski (Kessinger kick)
G—Kirby 8 pass from Emsberger (Musick kick)
G—Kirby 16 pass from Emsberger (Musick kick)
W—Kessinger 38 FG
W—Mercer 1 run (Kessinger kick)
G—Musick 37 FG
G—Chaykowski 9 run (Musick kick)
W—Rudzinski 26 pass from McAninch (Haley pass from McAninch)
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