STATE FOOTBALL FINALS Brookhaven gets first title

Roberts, Daniels ran wild for Columbus school in Division II victory.
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MASSILLON -- Antoine Roberts ran for 155 yards and a touchdown and Alex Daniels added two rushing scores to lead Columbus Brookhaven over Avon Lake 42-21 Friday night for its first Division II state championship.
The loss ended a 29-game win streak for the Shoremen, who were seeking their second straight state championship.
The Bearcats (15-0) led from the opening kickoff, scoring on a forced fumble. They used a solid ground attack and a few well-placed passes and trick plays to dominate Avon Lake (14-1).
Brookhaven allowed Bobby Doyle, the Division II offensive player of the year, to rush for 182 yards and a TD, but managed to slow an Avon Lake offense that entered averaging nearly 40 points a game.
Avon Lake's Mike Tift was 11-for-27 for 144 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.
On the opening kickoff, Idris Lawrence poked the ball loose from Andrew Means and Marvin Jones scooped up the fumble, taking it 4 yards into the end zone.
Dola Hardin Northern 20, Norwalk St. Paul 8
MASSILLON -- Michael Ridgeway rushed for 113 yards and two touchdowns and Dola Hardin Northern stayed on the ground to beat Norwalk St. Paul and capture the Division VI state championship.
Wyatt Thames led Hardin Northern with 130 yards on 21 carries -- and had three huge gains on the go-ahead drive late in the second quarter.
Ridgeway, who came in with 1,574 yards rushing, scored on runs of 1 and 3 yards as the Polar Bears ran on 55 of their 60 plays.
The Polar Bears totaled 235 yards rushing. Quarterback Justin Crossman completed just 2 of 5 passes for 62 yards with two interceptions.
They led 14-8 after a turnover-filled first half.
St. Paul took an 8-0 lead just three plays after Brad Marcum intercepted a pass at the Hardin Northern 4 and returned it to the 31. Quarterback Trevor Strohm overthrew a receiver on first down, but then hit Josh McFadden with a perfectly thrown spiral to the Polar Bears 32, with McFadden racing all the way to the 1 before he was pulled down from behind by Matt Kindle.
Corey Spaar then scored on the next play, with Strohm hitting tight end Adam Schaffer on the two-point conversion pass.
Hardin Northern, which intercepted two passes early in the game, took over at the St. Paul 47 after a wind-blown punt at the outset of the second quarter.
On first down, Crossman threw deep for Damien Plaugher who pulled the ball away from McFadden, defending on the play, for a 38-yard gain.
Ridgeway advanced the ball inside the 1 and then bulled in up the middle. Ridgeway came up just short on the conversion run.
The Flyers threatened on their next possession, but Strohm's pass for Justin Nickoli in the end zone was tipped away by Crossman.
Taking over at its own 3, Hardin Northern mustered a lengthy drive capped by Crossman's 1-yard keeper. Key plays included Thames' 18-yard run on double reverse, Crossman's 24-yard completion to Thames and Thames' 35-yard gain on a fake reverse.
Ridgeway muscled in on the two-point conversion for the six-point halftime lead.
The Polar Bears stuck to the ground on all 29 plays in the second half.