“Our team chemistry has gone pretty well, and we’ve got a group of kids that have bought in tremendously,” Rangers coach Tennyson Varney said. Hamilton Township earned a Region 11 runner-up finish in 2016 and won its playoff opener in 2020, but its only other postseason win came in 1989 when it opened with a 2-0 victory over Urbana that remains the lowest-scoring game in playoff history. Last season, the Rangers went 4-4 and didn’t qualify for the playoffs while Watterson got the 16th seed and opened with a 36-14 loss to eventual regional champion and top-seeded Granville. Super 7: Gahanna Lincoln captures central Ohio high school football poll championship Then in 2020 when every team was eligible for the postseason, the sixth-seeded Eagles won the second-round game 39-21 when the Rangers were seeded 11th. It also began the Region 9 playoffs in 2015 by beating the Rangers 28-3.

Watterson opened the 2002 Region 11 playoffs with a 20-0 win over Hamilton Township on its way to winning the state championship. Hamilton Township had a shot at its first MSL-Buckeye Division title since 2016 heading into its regular-season finale, which it lost 48-0 to Bloom-Carroll on Oct.

The Eagles also shared the league title in 2012.Ĭentral Ohio high school football: Here are 10 questions entering the OHSAA playoffs 21 to snap an 11-game losing streak in that series as it finished 3-0 in the CCL to wrap up its first outright league title since its state championship season in 2010. … These are all programs that always win a lot of games.” (Fifth-seeded) Bloom-Carroll's good, (seventh-seeded) Granville’s good and you’ve got London and (13th-seeded) Jonathan Alder. “I know (top-seeded Thornville) Sheridan just beat (fourth-seeded Dresden) Tri-Valley (in Week 9), and (10th-seeded) Bellefontaine has got a quarterback who’s dangerous. “Seriously there are at least eight schools that could win the region,” Watterson coach Brian Kennedy said. 4 in a regional quarterfinal at the home of the better seed. The winner plays sixth-seeded London or 11th-seeded Chillicothe on Nov.

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