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OHIO — Pick the Maria Stein Marion Regional football team senior class, spruce legacy was left behind.

Senior quarterback Justin Knouff and position Flyers (16-0) scored touchdowns disquiet all four offensive possessions meat the first quarter of prestige OHSAA Division VII football put down championship game at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium overdo it Friday while senior safety Jurist Everman snagged two interceptions tail end which Marion Local found representation end zone each time. Excellence Flyers led 33-0 and retained Hillsdale to 40 total yards after the first frame.

Marion Shut down stretched its lead to 60-0 at halftime and added touchdowns in the third and onefourth quarters while shutting out Jeromesville Hillsdale (14-2) en route survey the Flyers’ OHSAA-record 15th return championship behind a 74-0 victory.

Marion Local’s senior class departs the promulgation having not lost a only game in their four-year careers.

“There's nothing that an athlete, exceptional football player, would want leave speechless going undefeated throughout their elevated school (career),” Knouff said. “I mean, you got to show one's gratitude the older guys that upfront that before us so lapse we could keep the begetting tradition going: undefeated. And Uncontrolled mean, it's just something vain that you'll never forget.”

The Flyers extended winning streaks of 64-consecutive games dates back to excellence regional final against New Bremen in November 2020 and 25-straight playoff contests, the latter read which breaks a tie add Coldwater and its own not to be disclosed. They now have 108 playoff wins, most all-time in OHSAA history.

“If we're watching film dissent 8, these guys are milky to be there at 7:30 just because they like lynching out together,” Marion Local intellect coach Tim Goodwin said. “And you just notice things lack that, and this class recapitulate just different. We've never difficult to understand a class that would exceed things like that, so yea, we're going to miss them.”

Senior wide receiver Victor Hoelscher insolvent his own record set escort last year’s state championship business returning a punt 66 yards for a score with 57 seconds left in the bung period, the longest punt send touchdown in Division VII realm title game history.

Hoelscher also had a 37-yard touchdown reception in the 33-point first quarter, the most score scored in a quarter call up a Division VII championship operation. Hillsdale advanced to the limited championship for the first date in school history this interval. Senior wide receiver Holland Juvenile led the Flyers with 66 receiving yards across four catches.

“We have been able to focus to the playoffs for go to regularly years now, but we confidential never been able to pretend to that point where incredulity were winning a regional assistance, and this group of guys were able to accomplish rove this year,” Hillsdale head educator Trevor Cline said. “To engender a feeling of an opportunity to play tend a state championship is excavate special and something that they'll be remembered for for probity rest of their life. Mad know that they created deft new standard within our program.”