A look at the top performances from Week 8 in high school football

WEEK 8 PREP NOTESCOLUMBUS — Week 8 of the 2025 high school football season is in the books.Football players from all over Ohio put up some amazing performances in the eighth week of the season. Here, the Ohio Prep Sports Media Association compiles the best of the best with the OPSMA High School Football Notebook.Let's take a look. - (Bloomdale) Elmwood's Mitchel Oliver had 158 yards and two touchdowns rushing, threw for 33 yards and two more scores and intercepted four passes on defense as the Royals beat (Mount Blanchard) Riverdale 28-14 on Friday in a matchup of two teams both looking for their first win of the season.- Micah Williams carried 32 times for 147 yards and two TDs in Vanlue's 32-28 win over Dayton Jefferson Township. The win ended the Wildcats' 24-game losing streak dating back Aug. 25 of 2023.- It was a matchup of unbeaten teams but Liberty-Benton, a Division V school that is switching to the Cardinal Division of the Northern Lakes League next year, flexed its muscles in a 52-0 win over Leipsic. The No. 4-ranked Eagles have won all eight of their games by 35 points or more.- North Baltimore quarterback Luke Long threw for 182 yards and ran for 107 in a 49-21 win over Ridgemont that earned the Tigers their first-ever Northwest Central Conference championship and first football title of any kind since 1995.- Van Buren's Brody Scoles rushed for 228 yards and four touchdowns in the Black Knights' 42-3 win over Ada.-Woodmore's Landon Rich rushed 35 times for a school-record 465 yards and a school-record seven touchdowns in a 61-34 win at Northwood. He had scoring runs of 11, 2, 25, 49, 29, 70 and 63 yards.-Van Wert's Griffin McCracken kicked a school record 51-yard field goal on the final play of the first half of Friday's homecoming game vs. Ottawa-Glandorf. The field goal gave Van Wert a 31-0 lead and the Cougars went on to win 38-20. McCracken is a four sport athlete at Van Wert - football, golf, basketball and baseball. - Marion Local needed a goal-line stand on a potential game winning two-point conversion to hold off Anna 28-27 in double overtime and extend the nation's best active win streak to 72 games.-Aidan Eastham kicked three field goals (16, 37, 34 yards) to go along with a Gavin Quellhorst 22-yard touchdown reception to help New Bremen defeat Coldwater 16-7. It was the Cardinals' first win over Coldwater since 1997.-Sandusky Perkins senior quarterback Sam Schweinfurth completed 17 of 20 passes for 340 yards and three touchdowns in the Pirates' 48-3 Sandusky Bay Conference Lake Division win over Norwalk. Schweinfurth also had a rushing touchdown.-Vermilion senior running back Evan Kuhns carried 25 times for 259 yards and three touchdowns, including the go-ahead score with 47 seconds to play, in the Sailors' 28-21 Sandusky Bay Conference Bay Division win over Huron.-Antwerp standout lineman Keegan Gray-Wyckoff, a 6-6, 276-pound junior, found the end zone for the third time this season, hauling in a 30-yard touchdown pass wearing a No. 9 jersey in the Archers' 20-13 win over county rival Wayne Trace.-For the third time in the last four weeks and second straight week, Defiance senior Kelten Gibbs eclipsed the 200-yard mark, most recently with 265 yards and five TDs on 35 carries as the Bulldogs beat Elida 42-21.-Paulding moved one win away from its first-ever Green Meadows Conference football title and first grid league title of any kind since winning the Northwest Conference in 1988 by blanking Hicksville 50-0. The 8-0 Panthers can clinch that GMC title Friday with a win over Tinora (4-1 GMC). -Trailing 21-7 at half against fellow one-loss NWOAL foe Patrick Henry, Archbold pitched a second-half shutout and Morgan Harris nabbed a go-ahead one-handed 21-yard TD reception late in the third quarter as the Blue Streaks won 22-21 for their sixth straight victory.-Fairview QB William Zeedyk continued to put up gaudy scoring numbers in another Apache win, completing 18-of-27 passes for 350 yards and three TDs while rushing for two scores in a 54-19 win at Edgerton.-Shelby's Brayden DeVito passed Joe Burrow on Ohio high school football's all-time career passing yards list when he threw for 305 yards in a 42-0 win over Ontario.-The Wapakoneta Redskins capped off Senior Night with a dominant 37-6 win over Kenton, improving to 8-0 on the season. Senior quarterback Caleb Moyer led the way with 188 passing yards and 3 touchdowns, while defensive-end Braylen Walter made history recording sack number eleven on the year for a new school record. -Highland's Kane Stover set a school record with 25 tackles, including three tackles for loss, and also ran for 100 yards and scored both of his team's touchdowns in a 13-10 overtime upset victory over Clear Fork.-North Union's Griffin Osborne picked off three passes in a 28-20 win over Springfield Northwestern.-Deaunte White continued to put his name in the record books at Xenia. His five touchdowns in a 54-20 win over Fairborn earned him the school record for career TDs, one week after he became the all-time leading rusher in school history. In the 54-20 win on Friday, White ran for 346 yards on 39 carries.-New London snapped a 22-game Firelands Conference losing streak with a bizarre 6-4 victory over Ashland Mapleton that featured a 68-yard touchdown pass involving three players possessing the ball. Jayden Bracken threw a quick screen and the receiver gained 30 yards before fumbling. A trailing Jackson Mitchell then scooped the ball on the run to cover the remaining 38 to the end zone. Mapleton got sacks for safeties from Ryan Morris and Garet Garwood but turned over the ball on downs at the New London 17-, 21-, 35-, 5-, 28- and 34-yard lines, as well as on its own 26 on the second-to-last play from scrimmage. New London's last FC win was 33-21 over Monroeville on Sept. 27, 2019. The Wildcats disbanded the program due to low numbers for the 2021 season, brought it back by playing two seasons of hybrid eight-man/junior varsity schedules and rejoined the circuit in 2024.-Brysen Hall completed 13-of-19 passes for 318 yards and five touchdowns as Wadsworth scored 35 unanswered points to defeat Macedonia Nordonia 62-21 in a battle for first place in the Suburban League National Conference. In Wadsworth's 41-point first half, the sophomore was 11-for-16 for 297 yards and TDs of, in order, 11, 35, 57, 73 and 28 yards. Hall finished the second quarter that featured a combined 49 points — all seven TDs were scored in a span of 22 plays from scrimmage — by completing his last seven passes for 235 yards and four touchdowns. Air Force recruit Calix Lemp hauled in five catches for 173 yards and three TDs, while Army recruit Gavin Madigan added four scores on the ground.-Casey Myser broke the Medina County career record for total touchdowns with his 83rd and tied the rushing TD mark with his 72nd as Medina Highland cruised past Kent Roosevelt 58-7 in Suburban League American Conference action. Myser scored from 15, 10, 5 and 24 yards on the ground and from 14 through the air.-In Ironton's 70-13 win over Fairland, the Fighting Tigers scored three of their touchdowns in non-traditional ways: returning a fumble on a punt return for a score, returning a fumble on a kickoff return for another TD, and recovering a fumbled kickoff in the end zone.-Springboro's Max Miller completed a 25-yard touchdown pass to Brady Guttman with no time left to lift the Panthers to a come-from-behind 16-12 win over Fairmont.-The Eastern Eagles of Pike County won their 30th straight regular season game, defeating the Portsmouth Notre Dame Titans 42-7 in historic Spartan Municipal Stadium, the original home of the NFL's Portsmouth Spartans, which later became the Detroit Lions. Both teams came into the game 7-0.-Lakota East standout Ryder Hooks continued to showcase his remarkable skills in a 44-24 win over Cincinnati Colerain. Hooks rushed for 321 yards to break the long-standing single-game rushing record of 308 yards, previously held by Jay Boyd for 28 years. Hooks also recorded 27 receiving yards, a pick six for 85 yards, and five total touchdowns, culminating in an impressive total of 488 all-purpose yards.