Here is a recap of the second weekend of Ohio high school football and a look at some of the key games scheduled for the third weekend (all rankings are from the ONN/Ohio preseason Power Poll).
* Piqua downed Xenia 42-7 as OSU verbal Brandon Saine had 216 yards and three touchdowns on 20 carries. He had TD runs of 52, 3 and 74 yards.
* Cincinnati St. Xavier downed Indianapolis Cathedral 23-3. Junior RB Darius Ashley had carried 18 times for 139 yards and a touchdown.
* West Chester Lakota West got 103 yards rushing from senior Devin Favors and 102 yards and two touchdowns from junior Marc Brogden in a 27-7 victory over Winton Woods.
* Cincinnati Colerain blanked Columbus Brookhaven 70-0. Colerain backup QB Quentin Sims gained 120 yards on seven carries and scored two TDs. Eugene Clifford tallied on a 12-yard TD run and also had an 85-yard interception return for a score.
* Cincinnati Moeller junior QB Ross Oltorik had 13 carries for 148 yards and four touchdowns and was 14-of-19 for 177 yards and one touchdown in a 45-12 win over Middletown.
* Clayton Northmont pulled out an 11-6 win over Cincinnati LaSalle as QB Clay Belton hit Brad Herr for the game-winning 24-yard TD pass with 52 seconds left.
Coldwater QB Tony Slavic passed for one score and threw for another as the Cavs downed Maria Stein Marion Local 27-6 and won their 17th straight.
* Canton McKinley downed Hamilton (Ont.) Waterdown 56-0. Morgan Williams finished with 170 yards on 11 carries. He became the second Bulldog to eclipse 3,000 career yards. His 3,059 yards trail only Ryan Brinson’s 4,772.
* Canton South knocked off Canfield 27-17. Junior RB Devoe Torrence scored on runs of 11 and 21 yards in the second half for Canton South. South trailed 17-14 at halftime despite a pair of TD passes by Matt Trissel of 6 yards to Terrance Evans and 63 yards to Devon Torrence, who verbaled to Ohio State after the game.
Devoe Torrence rushed for 87 yards on just seven carries and two TDs, and caught four passes for 37 yards. Devon Torrence caught eight passes for 98 yards. Canfield was ranked No. 1 in Division II.
* Macedonia Nordonia defeated Massillon Jackson 39-18. Senior running back Jordan Mabin led the way for the winners, rushing for 203 yards on 25 carries, scoring the Knights’ first three touchdowns.
* Dover’s Perci Garner was 21 of 35 passing for 377 yards and five touchdowns with one interception as Dover defeated Orrville 55-27. Dover’s Daniel Ifft broke his own school record he set last season for catches in a game (12) with 13, good for 169 yards and three touchdowns.
* Massillon Washington scored on its first nine possessions en route to a 59-7 beating of Washington (D.C.) Woodson. Brian Gamble rushed for four touchdowns, K.J. Herring scored three times.
* Cleveland Glenville’s Jermale Hines rushed for three TDs and also threw for one in a 41-7 rout of Warren Harding. Cordale Scott caught a TD pass and had a pair of interceptions, returning one for a score.
* St. Henry downed Delphos St. John’s 27-14. Andy Puthoff had TD runs of 6, 46 and 2 yards for St. Henry.
* Newark Licking Valley sophomore Storm Klein had 156 yards and three touchdowns on 17 carries in a 30-0 win over Johnstown Northridge.
* Chillicothe’s Chris Givens caught five passes for 177 yards and a TD in a 31-21 win over Logan.
* Westerville South downed rival Westerville North 34-7 as Rocco Pentello had three touchdowns runs and Ryan Clark had two.
* Dublin Coffman stopped Findlay 41-21 as junior Jake Stoneburner caught TD passes of 20 and 60 yards from Zak Kristan and Steve Gardiner added TD runs of 2 and 47 yards.
* Toledo Central Catholic edged Hilliard Darby 14-7. OSU verbal WR Dane Sanzenbacher had 13 catches for 247 yards and TDs of 11 and 72 yards in the win for TCC.
* Lakewood St. Edward, ranked No. 1 in Division I, downed Shaker Heights 31-0.
Week 3: Games To Watch
Key games Friday: Clayton Northmont at Centerville (Centerville downed Northmont 20-7 in the regular season and 35-33 in the playoffs last year), Cleveland Glenville at Strongsville, Cleveland Benedictine at Euclid, Columbus Watterson at Westerville South, Canton McKinley at Uniontown Lake, Akron Hoban at Youngstown Mooney, Whitehouse Anthony Wayne at Toledo Central Catholic, Hilliard Darby at Massillon Perry, Indianapolis Broad Ripple at West Chester Lakota West, Cincinnati LaSalle at Xenia, Springfield North at Piqua, Canton South at Ravenna, Trotwood-Madison at Hamilton and Upper Arlington at Findlay.
ONN will televise Lancaster at Grove City at 9:30 p.m. Friday on tape delay. ONN has Mogadore at Newark Catholic at 9 p.m. Saturday on tape delay.
A big event Saturday is the Prep Classic quadrupleheader at Cincinnati’s Paul Brown Stadium. The schedule: Cincinnati Withrow-Cincinnati Taft, 10 a.m.; Fort Thomas (Ky.) Highlands-Louisville St. Xavier, 1 p.m.; Cincinnati Moeller-Massillon Washington, 4 p.m.; Cincinnati St. Xavier-Lakewood St. Edward, 7:30 p.m. Most or all of these game will be televised by Fox Sports Net Ohio. The St. X-St. Ed game is a match-up of two nationally ranked teams and the state’s top two teams in Division I.
Also Saturday: Akron Buchtel at Warren Harding and Cleveland St. Ignatius at Buffalo (N.Y.) Canisius.
OSU Verbals Outside Ohio
* Orchard Lake (Mich.) St. Mary’s, with OSU verbal WR Taurian Washington, defeated Grand Ledge 35-7. Quarterback Justin Siller completed 10-of-16 passes for 114 yards and a TD for St. Mary's.
* Monaca (Pa.) Center Area, with OSU verbal OL Evan Blankenship, dropped its season opener to Sto-Rox 34-14.