CHESAPEAKE — Chesapeake's Jon-Cooper Barker accounted for all 4 touchdowns and the defense came up with 4 interceptions, as the Panthers stunned the Rock Hill Redmen with a 27-14 upset win on Friday night in an Ohio Valley Conference game. Barker had a superlative performance for the Panthers offensively, rushing for 131 yards and throwing for 179 yards. Barker also had a hand in every score the Panthers had — including an interception return in the fourth quarter. In the pas

GALLIPOLIS — Another game, another blowout. With a 56-7 romp of the Gallia Academy Blue Devils on Friday, Ironton improved to 8-1 on the season and the Fighting Tigers picked up their seventh running clock in nine games. It was an ominous start as Ironton scored on the first play of the game when Zayne “The Diesel” Williams slipped a tackle just past the line of scrimmage and bolted 80 for the touchdown and a 7-0 lead just 17 seconds into the game. Ironton forced a punt and i

WILLOW WOOD — Two high-powered offenses were on display on Friday night, as Symmes Valley and Notre Dame combined for 47 first downs and over 1,049 yards. But in the end, the Vikings came up with more plays on offense and made some key defensive stops to beat the Titans 63-47 in a Southern Ohio Conference game. But despite both teams piling up the numbers on nearly every play, Symmes Valley coach Ben Ferguson said afterwards he felt it was just a handful of plays that wound

COAL GROVE — The Coal Grove Hornets game plan was to run the ball. And run the ball, and run the ball, and run the ball. Throwing only one pass for a huge gain but was wiped out on a penalty, the Hornets did not throw a pass the rest of the game as they ran the ball 41 times for 322 yards and blanked the Fairland Dragons 30-0 on Friday, The win was not only the first by the Hornets over the Dragons since 2016, it enabled Coal Grove to clinch the Ohio Valley Conference champio

MINFORD — A dominant first quarter performance allowed the Wheelersburg Pirates to cruise their way to a 56-6 win over the Minford Falcons in a Southern Ohio Conference game on Friday night. The win keeps the Pirates a perfect 9-0 overall and 4-0 in the league. The win also clinches them at least a share of the SOC-2 title. The Falcons fall to 2-7 and 1-4 on the year. The Pirates rattled off five touchdowns in the first quarter to blow the game wide open. Senior running back

PORTSMOUTH — When the Portsmouth Trojans leave the Ohio Valley Conference after next season, the South Point Pointers won’t be shedding any tears. Ever since joining the OVC in 2015, the Trojans have never lost to the Pointers and it happened again on Friday as Portsmouth topped South Point 41-13. Portsmouth (6-3, 4-2) jumped out to a 21-0 first quarter lead as Marquez Locklear threw touchdown passes for 20 and 25 yards to Landon Malone and then kept the ball and scored on a

Friday, October 17 Fairland at Coal Grove, 7:00 P.M. Livestream: Coal Grove Tech Lab YouTube Channel Ironton at Gallia Academy, 7:00 P.M. Livestream: Gallia Academy Hudl *- will require you to subscribe & pay $10.60 Livestream: Total Media Sports YouTube Channel  (audio only) Radio: WIRO106.7 FM Radio: WBYG 99.5 FM Notre Dame at Symmes Valley, 7:00 P.M. Livestream: Symmes Valley YouTube Channel Rock Hill at Chesapeake, 7:00 P.M. Livestream: Chesapeake Hudl *- will require yo

SCIOTOVILLE — A committee of East running backs piled up 366 yards on the ground to give the Tartans their first win of the season over the Green Bobcats in a Southern Ohio Conference game at Allard Park/James "Snuffy" Smith Field on Thursday night. The win snapped East's 13-game losing skid and marked their first win league play since 2023 when they defeated the Bobcats. East coach Adam Bailey was elated to get a win for his kids. "It's a relief. Everyone shows up every day

WILLOW WOOD — There's no first place on the line, but there's plenty more at stake. With only an outside chance of a share of the Southern Ohio Conference title going to the winner, there's plenty more awaiting the victor of the Symmes Valley VIkings and Portsmouth Notre Dame Titans game on Friday night. Both teams are 7-1 on the season and 2-1 in the SOC. Both teams lost to unbeaten Beaver Eastern over the past two weeks. The only chance to share the title is to win and hope

IRONTON — In the movie Rio Bravo, there was a scene in which they played the El Deguello song which means "no mercy." Well, there was mercy in this game but only due to the rules as the St. Joseph Flyers blanked the Portsmouth Clay Panthers 8-0 in the Division 5 district quarter finals on Thursday. Mason Weber scored with 32:58 left in the game when he got a pass from Jack Whaley off a crossing pass from the right side to enact the mercy rule. The game started slow but picked

Bella ended up 2-3 on her picks last week. We're releasing this week's picks early because Bella is picking the special Thursday night game between Green and Sciotoville East. She now has an overall record of 17-18 this season. All season long, we'll been celebrating her 10th birthday along with her third season of picking high school football games.. well, I guess it's 21 years if we're going by dog years. The Bulldog-Cocker Spaniel mix will now go back to being hopped up

OHSAA Football Computer Ratings – Oct. 26, 2025 (Entering Week 9) Top 12 schools in each region in the final report on October 26 qualify for the playoffs. Top four seeds get a first-round bye. Top 16 schools in each region shown below. Division I Region 1 - 1. Mentor (8-0) 22.725, 2. Lakewood St. Edward (7-1) 22.3355, 3. Canton McKinley (7-1) 21.7152, 4. Tol. Whitmer (7-1) 18.4053, 5. Perrysburg (7-1) 17.55, 6. Massillon Jackson (5-3) 15.1418, 7. Strongsville (6-2) 14, 8. Be

Life is officially surreal when even Paul Finebaum admits a Big Ten team is the best in the nation. The defending national champion Ohio State Buckeyes, currently ranked #1 in the country, beat #17 Illinois 34-16 on Saturday and are 6-0. In the second quarter, with OSU up 20-0, the Illinois stadium speakers blared the song “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart.” Was that Illibuck channeling Captain and Tennille to say he’s tired of being in Columbus? Even though the Buckeyes looked a b

The Rock Hill Redmen and Fairland Lady Dragons were on the run. Both Rock Hill and Fairland ran their way to Ohio Valley Conference cross country championships on Saturday in the league meet. Rock Hill had just 34 points to win by just 6 points over the Gallia Academy Blue Devils. Nixon Snavely won the individual championship as the Ohio State Buckeyes commit ran a time of 16:02.61 ahead of J.J. Percell of Portsmouth with a time of 16:55.40. On the girls' side, Fairland had 2

PEDRO — There was no rain. Just lighting. Trailing 7-0, the Portsmouth Trojans scored with lightning quickness as they beat the Rock Hill Redmen 48-7 in an Ohio Valley Conference game on Friday. Rock Hill (6-2, 3-1) took a 7-0 lead on an 11-yard run by Brady Murrell with 5:12 left in the first quarter to cap a 62-yard drive in just 6 plays. But the Trojans (5-3, 3-2) answered in just 2 players and Marquez Locklear hit Camron Williams with a swing pass and Williams broke a cou

WILLOW WOOD — After suffering their first loss of the season, Symmes Valley needed to regroup and get back on track. Well, the Vikings got back on track in a big way on Friday night by shutting out the East Tartans 47-0 in a Southern Ohio Conference game on Friday night. Quarterback Bronx Carpenter piled up 196 yards through the air in just one half of play. His top target Jackson Fields caught a game-high 6 balls for 94 yards, and hooked up with Carpenter for a 42-yard touch

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