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HILLSBORO — The Hillsboro Indians guaranteed themselves a spot in the state playoffs, according to several reports, with a 14-13 victory Friday over the Miami Trace Panthers in a Frontier Athletic Conference football contest at Richards Memorial Field.

The Ohio High School Athletic Association has released the official weekly football computer ratings.

DIVISION I

GREENFIELD — On one of the colder evenings of this fall so far, the Washington Blue Lions traveled to take on the McClain Tigers in a Frontier Athletic Conference football contest with the hosts posting a 49-25 victory.

There were 278 runners that toed the starting line Saturday and it was full of the best runners in the district and also Lancaster High School, which yielded the third best team in Division I last year. The favorite to win though was Whiteoak junior Landen Eyre, who entered the race undefeated in the Southeast District and as one of the premier runners in the state.

In a must-win game for Cincinnati against the Cardinals on the road Sunday, Ja’Marr Chase put the city on his back and had a historic performance to get this team back on track. Everything was clicking between No. 9 and No. 1 and you could tell that it was going to be a special game from the dynamic duo early in the game. Burrow was finally mobile enough to escape the pocket and it immediately led to an opening of the playbook.

Welcome to my Week 5 Start/Sit Advice Article. This week we have Bye Weeks (Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Chargers, Seattle Seahawks Tampa Bay Buccaneers). Also Cooper Kupp and Jonathan Taylor are coming back this week. Listen to practice reports before forcing them into your lineup. Hopefully you followed my advice last week and it was helpful to you. Let’s get going on Week 5.

The Highland County Chamber of Commerce hosted its 33rd annual golf outing Sept. 22, at Buckeye Hills Country Club near Greenfield. Thirty-six teams and more than 40 volunteers took to the course for a day full of golf, networking and fun.

Hillsboro junior Corbin Winkle took first place among 101 runners and Lady Indian sophomore Jailyn Williams took second place out of 36 female runners last Saturday at the Washington Club Lions Invitational Cross Country Meet held at the Fayette County Family YMCA.

The Ohio High School Athletic Association released the official weekly football computer ratings. The computer ratings are released every Tuesday beginning in the fifth week of the season, leading up to the final report on Sunday, Oct. 22, when 448 schools – the top 16 in each region – will qualify for the playoffs.