{"id":199818,"date":"2025-11-23T18:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T23:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=199818"},"modified":"2025-11-23T18:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T23:48:13","slug":"ohsaa-announces-state-semifinal-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/11\/23\/ohsaa-announces-state-semifinal-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"OHSAA announces state semifinal sites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VW independent sports\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

COLUMBUS —\u00a0The Ohio High School Athletic Association has announced the pairings and host sites for the football state semifinals on Friday, November 28. All games kick off at 7 p.m. The state championship games will be hosted at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton December 4-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The regional playoffs followed bracket format before the OHSAA conducted rebracketing for the state semifinals, which are based on the geography of the schools involved. A team\u2019s regional seed, state rank and won-lost record do not factor into the state semifinal bracket pairings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OHSAA Football State Semifinal Playoff Pairings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Designated home team listed first. Winner of first game listed in pairings will be designated home team in state championship game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division I<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Middletown (11-2) vs. Cincinnati St. Xavier (10-2) at Dayton Welcome Stadium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lakewood St. Edward (11-2) vs. Lewis Center Olentangy Orange (13-0) at Mansfield Arlin Field<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State Championship: Friday, December 5, 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division II<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avon (12-1) vs. Cuyahoga Falls Walsh Jesuit (11-1) at University of Akron InfoCision Stadium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cincinnati Anderson (13-0) vs. Sunbury Big Walnut (12-1) at Historic Crew Stadium, Columbus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State Championship: Thursday, December 4, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Division III<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toledo Central Catholic (10-4) vs. Cuyahoga Falls CVCA (12-0) at Fostoria Memorial Stadium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tipp City Tippecanoe (13-0) vs. Columbus Bishop Watterson (12-0) at Mason Tri-Health\/Beacon Stadium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State Championship: Friday, December 5, 3 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division IV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gnadenhutten Indian Valley (12-0) vs. Cleveland Glenville (10-3) at Minerva High School<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shelby (13-0) vs. Cincinnati Indian Hill (13-0) at Sidney Memorial Stadium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State Championship: Friday, December 5, 10:30 a.m.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division V<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wheelersburg (13-0) vs. Youngstown Cardinal Mooney (10-2) at Westerville Central High School<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liberty Center (13-0) vs. Lewistown Indian Lake (11-2) at Lima Spartan Stadium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State Championship: Saturday, December 6, 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division VI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Robinson Colonel Crawford (13-1) vs. Kirtland (13-0) at Parma Byers Field at Robert Boulton Stadium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bascom Hopewell-Loudon (12-1) vs. Coldwater (10-4) at Wapakoneta Mercy Health Wapak VFW Field<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

State Championship: Saturday, December 6, 3 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division VII<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Columbus Grove (10-3) vs. St. Henry (12-1) at Troy Memorial Stadium<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

McDonald (13-0) vs. Jeromesville Hillsdale (12-1) at New Philadelphia Quaker Stadium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State Championship: Saturday, December 6, 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent sports\/submitted information COLUMBUS —\u00a0The Ohio High School Athletic Association has announced the pairings and host sites for the football state semifinals on Friday, November 28. All games kick off at 7 p.m. The state championship games will be hosted at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton December 4-6. The regional playoffs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 12:31:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199819,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199818\/revisions\/199819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}