It's been a great season for football in Central Ohio. Not only are my Ohio State Buckeyes headed to Arizona to play for the National Championship next month after defeating two No. 2 ranked teams - Texas and Michigan - during the season and securing an outright Big Ten conference title, and quarterback Troy Smith looks to be a shoe-in for the Heisman Trophy (Ohio State's seventh, by the way), but also last night my high school alma mater, Hilliard Davidson, won an astounding 2OT victory to win the Ohio Division I-A State Championship 36-35 over Mentor in the first I-A overtime game in history. Since 1972, only one other Central Ohio team has won the I-A championship, which is usually dominated by the mammoth play-for-hire teams from Cincinnati and Cleveland (Mentor has double the enrollment of Hilliard Davidson). In their first trip to the state championship (falling last year in the semi-finals to the eventual winner), the Wildcats clawled their way back from a 14-0 deficit, intercepted a pass in the closing seconds of regulation to push the game into overtime, and in the last overtime went for gutsy a 2-point conversion to win the game, exhibiting Coach Brian White's philosophy - GO FOR THE WIN! Last week, the Wildcats had to beat the USA Today 12th nationally ranked Cincinnati Colerain to get into the title game to play against Mentor.
Congrats to my Hilliard Davidson Wildcats - Ohio Division I-A State Champions!
Next up, Glendale, AZ. Go Bucks!
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