CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ohio high school football scores from the third week of the OHSAA playoffs, as provided by The Associated Press.

OHSAA Playoffs=

Regional Semifinal=

Division I=

Region 1=

Mentor 31, Can. McKinley 0

St. Edward (OH) 40, Perrysburg 24

Region 2=

Centerville 42, Dublin Coffman 7

Huber Hts. Wayne 31, Hilliard Davidson 7

Region 3=

Pickerington N. 10, Delaware Olentangy Berlin 7

Powell Olentangy Liberty 17, Cols. Upper Arlington 13

Region 4=

Cin. Moeller 28, Cin. Princeton 10

St. Xavier (OH) 16, W. Chester Lakota W. 13

Division II=

Region 5=

Akr. Hoban 48, Macedonia Nordonia 13

Cuyahoga Falls Walsh Jesuit 42, Austintown-Fitch 28

Region 6=

Avon 41, Wadsworth 10

Medina Highland 38, Whitehouse Anthony Wayne 14

Region 7=

Massillon Washington 48, Ashville Teays Valley 14

Sunbury Big Walnut 28, Ashland 10

Region 8=

Cin. Anderson 42, Cin. Mt Healthy 0

Cin. La Salle 37, Harrison 0

Division III=

Region 9=

Gates Mills Gilmour 35, Cuyahoga Falls CVCA 28

Youngs. Ursuline 29, Aurora 10

Region 10=

Parma Padua 42, Cle. Benedictine 28

Tol. Cent. Cath. 35, Lexington 7

Region 11=

Bishop Watterson 30, Newark Licking Valley 0

Steubenville 42, Dover 14

Region 12=

Bellbrook 24, Wapakoneta 21

London 30, St Marys 7

Division IV=

Region 13=

Cle. Glenville 28, Mentor Lake Cath. 0

Perry 45, Streetsboro 21

Region 14=

Ontario 49, Shelby 48

Sandusky Perkins 35, Napoleon 21

Region 15=

Gnadenhutten Indian Valley 42, New Lexington 23

St Clairsville 35, Millersburg W. Holmes 21

Region 16=

Cin. Taft 30, Cin. Indian Hill 14

Kettering Alter 37, N. Bend (Cleves) Taylor 13

Division V=

Region 17=

Canfield S. Range 42, Sugarcreek Garaway 14

Poland Seminary 24, New Franklin Manchester 13

Region 18=

Liberty Center 24, Oak Harbor 21

Milan Edison 49, Pemberville Eastwood 28

Region 19=

Ironton 41, Canal Winchester Harvest 13

Wheelersburg 30, Zanesville W. Muskingum 14

Region 20=

Lewistown Indian Lake 28, Jamestown Greeneview 13

W. Liberty-Salem 45, Waynesville 42

Division VI=

Region 21=

Dalton 25, New Middletown Spring. 0

Kirtland 41, Columbia Station Columbia 7

Region 22=

Bluffton 61, Tol. Ottawa Hills 22

Hamler Patrick Henry 35, Bascom Hopewell-Loudon 7

Region 23=

Cols. Grandview Hts. 27, Beverly Ft. Frye 0

Galion Northmor 21, W. Lafayette Ridgewood 7

Region 24=

Anna 56, Cin. Country Day 14

Coldwater 56, St Bernard-Elmwood Place 0

Division VII=

Region 25=

Cuyahoga Hts. 21, Warren JFK 19

Jeromesville Hillsdale 50, Malvern 48

Region 26=

Columbus Grove 35, Sycamore Mohawk 13

Delphos St John’s 21, Leipsic 13

Region 27=

Beaver Eastern 29, Bowerston Conotton Valley 22

Danville 46, Corning Miller 6

Region 28=

Maria Stein Marion Local 61, Ansonia 0

Minster 42, Cin. College Prep. 0

Cleveland, OH – The Cleveland Guardians today announced changes to the Cleveland Guardians jersey set for the 2025 season. Refinements will be made to the Guardians four uniforms, injecting energy into the set while honoring the club’s 124-year history. The four jerseys will join Cleveland’s City Connect uniforms to complete the 2025 on-field look. 

 Blue Alternative Road Uniform

Cleveland’s biggest change for the 2025 season will be seen in its blue alternative uniform set. The jersey will continue to have a navy base but will move away from ‘Cleveland’ across the chest and instead feature the Guardians ‘Diamond C’ logo. The new look gives a nod to the franchise’s jerseys that also had a ‘C’ on the chest from 1901-1945, including the 1920 World Series team jersey, while elevating the Guardians’ primary logo.

The piping on the blue jersey will differ from the other uniforms. It will have red-white-red piping to match the navy base. 

Red Alternative Home Uniform

The Guardians red home alternative uniform will feature a new look across the chest, as the script Guardians from 2024 will change to the club’s Bridge Print font with ‘Guardians’ across the chest. Piping on the red jersey will showcase a blue-white-blue look.

The new look allows the club to continue to incorporate the Guardians brand into the jersey set, featuring the same font that can be seen in the number set on the back of all Cleveland jerseys.

 White Home Uniform

Cleveland’s white home uniform will continue to carry on its primary historic look with the script ‘Guardians’ across the chest. The logo will shift from being on a slant to horizontal. New piping will be on the jersey with a red-blue-red design on the neckline and arms.

A new home hat will make its debut in 2025, solely with the white uniform set, as the main color of the hat will change to red with a blue bill. All hats will continue to feature the ‘Diamond C’, and the club’s blue cap with red bill will be worn with all other jerseys (home red, road blue, road gray).

 Gray Road Uniform

Cleveland’s gray road jersey will stay the same, featuring ‘Cleveland’ across the chest in Bridge Print font. 

 Piping on the gray jersey will be the same red-blue-red color scheme that can be found on the white home uniform set.

Fans can learn more about the 2025 uniform set by visiting, CLEGuardians.com/uniforms.

Team Store & Merchandise

The new 2025 uniform set will be made available for fans to purchase before the start of the 2025 season and will be announced at a later date.

Although he’s remained involved on the periphery of Democratic politics since losing a 2022 bid for the U.S. Senate, Tim Ryan publicly had ruled out running for office again in 2026.

He’s re-evaluating that position following last week’s election.

“I said I wasn’t,” Ryan said in an interview on Tuesday. “People have been calling me and saying, ‘Keep your options open.’ So I’m keeping my options open right now.”

The former Youngstown-area congressman gained currency among national Democrats when he ran for U.S. Senate two years ago against Republican JD Vance, who won and is now the vice president-elect. Ryan lost by 7 percentage points, not an especially close result. But thanks to energetic campaigning and his big “Ohio guy” energy – think Ohio State sweatshirts and football tossing – Ryan managed to raise tens of millions of dollars and get widespread media attention in a race that wasn’t expected to be competitive. A grandiose headline in the New York Times sums up the national perception of the race ahead of that year’s election: “Tim Ryan is Winning the War for the Soul of the Democratic Party.” 

After leaving office at the end of 2022, Ryan’s now living in suburban Columbus and has been doing consulting work with natural gas and cryptocurrency industry groups and took a job selling clean-energy credits. A former high school star quarterback, he’s also been coaching his young son’s football and basketball teams. 

But Ryan said he’s been in touch with Democratic leaders since last Tuesday, including James Carville and David Axelrod, key strategists for Bill Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. He said he thinks 2026 could end up being a good national political environment for Democrats, depending on what President-elect Donald Trump does. 

2026 could see other top Democratic names

If Ryan runs, he could fill the Democratic slot for the governor’s race. There also continues to be buzz that Sen. Sherrod Brown may run again in 2026 after losing last week – for governor or the U.S. Senate. Amy Acton, the former state health department director, and Allison Russo, who’s the top Democrat in the Ohio House, also have said publicly they’re considering running for statewide office.

Regardless of what he decides, Ryan said he would like to be part of the conversation to push the Democrats toward “the Democratic Party that we all grew up with.” That vision includes moving away from the “old-school redistribution” and “woke elements” that he said voters rejected this month and moving toward emphasizing economic growth.

“I hope this is a wake-up call to, if you aren’t speaking directly to working-class people of all colors, shapes and sizes, you can’t win,” Ryan said. “Until you get a message that appeals to them where they trust you, you’re just not gonna get ‘em.” 

Vivek Ramaswamy’s new job and Ohio calculation

Vivek Ramaswamy, the Columbus-area billionaire and MAGA personality, has a new job in the Trump Administration. On Wednesday night, Trump announced that Ramaswamy and mega-billionaire Elon Musk will oversee a Department of Government Efficiency, a not-yet-clearly-defined outside-of-government initiative to slash federal spending. (But its title is surely ripe for memes on Musk’s X media platform.)

A Trump statement said their work will end on July 4, 2026, just before the home stretch of that year’s November election, which means Ramaswamy could still be a candidate in Ohio. While Ramaswamy withdrew his name from consideration for Ohio’s U.S. Senate appointment – although it didn’t seem likely that Gov. Mike DeWine would pick him – his role with Trump as described didn’t seem to close the door on a run for governor in 2026.

A few Republican operatives, including those with ties to Ramaswamy, said they viewed it the same way. Raswamy’s maneuvering has gotten the attention of other Republicans, given his ability to self-fund a campaign and ride his Trump-adjacent celebrity.

Ramaswamy sure sounded like a potential Ohio candidate when he spoke at an Ohio Chamber of Commerce event last Thursday. He deployed tried-and-true Ohio talking points, praising the state’s history of pioneering and innovation and its logistically convenient location. But, he said, the state also has declined economically over the past 60 years. 

Ramaswamy told reporters after his speech that Ohio needs to improve its business climate if it wants to compete economically with states such as Texas. That’s where an investment company Ramaswamy founded recently moved, although Ramaswamy said the decision wasn’t his and that he’s personally rooted in Columbus, in part because his wife is a top physician at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center.

“Is that critical of the leadership of this state? No, it’s not,” said Ramaswamy, who is friendly with Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, who has spent years preparing to run for governor in 2026. “I think they’ve done a great job of getting the state to where it is. But when we think about, ‘How do we take this state and this country to the next level?’ that’s what I care about.”

House speaker vote coming up and more 

Ohio House Republicans are scheduled to meet next Wednesday to informally choose who will lead the chamber going into next year’s new legislative session. 

Senate President Matt Huffman, a Lima Republican who was elected to the Ohio House last week, is widely favored over current House Speaker Jason Stephens. That’s because Stephens has been unable to unite the GOP caucus after he surprisingly won the job in January 2023 by making a deal with Democrats.

A dark-horse candidate is stalking the speaker job

Steubenville-area Republican Rep. Ron Ferguson wants the job, too. And he has ideas.

Ferguson made his case in an interview with Signal Statewide. He said he’s campaigning on a platform of weakening the speaker’s job, in part by taking away its ability to unilaterally pick committee chairs, jobs that come with influence, prestige and a pay bump. Instead, Ferguson said House Republicans should elect an internal committee that would pick committee chairs. 

Another distinguishing factor is how many years both candidates will be able to remain in their jobs, thanks to term limits. 

If Huffman gets the job, he could keep it through 2033, providing stability but boxing out other ambitious legislators. If Ferguson gets it, the longest he could keep it is through 2029, giving a glimmer of hope to officials who look in the mirror and see themselves as a future House speaker. Huffman and Ferguson share a signature issue – support for wide expansions of private school vouchers, which Democrats and some rural Republicans oppose.

Ferguson said both he and Huffman may draw votes from the faction of House Republicans that previously backed Stephens. 

“It’s not black and white,” he said, adding there’s a “0% chance” that anyone will make another deal with Democrats, which triggered an intense backlash from GOP activists and sanctions from the state Republican Party. “We need to pick the person to turn around this fractured caucus and lead it in the best interest of Ohioans.”

A sure-fire lame duck prediction

State lawmakers have returned from their pre-election break and are holding their final legislative sessions before the end of the year. This period is called the “lame duck” session, known for late-night legislative huddles and a flurry of activity, which includes unfinished business but also controversial topics that lawmakers are more likely to stick their neck out for when they’re in their final days of elected office or if they don’t have to run for reelection for another two years.

State Rep. Bill Seitz, a longtime Cincinnati-area Republican who’s leaving office at the end of the year due to term limits, predicted one tried-and-true lame duck topic could come up for a vote – giving raises to elected officials.

Seitz said county elected officials haven’t gotten one since 2018, thanks to another lame duck vote, and are arguing they need one now due to inflation. Paying elected officials more may not play well politically, but Seitz said they “have a good case to make.” He and other lawmakers have argued in the past that good pay is needed to attract quality candidates.

Other subjects potentially could get a vote, include a bill banning Delta 8, a THC product derived from hemp that occupies a legal gray area, and a bill that would require schools to make a policy allowing students to leave during the school day for religious instruction. On Wednesday, Ohio Senate Republicans over Democratic objections, approved a bill restricting the use of common bathrooms and other similar facilities by transgender people at K-12 schools and universities. The measure now heads to DeWine’s desk for his approval.

Lame duck sessions are notoriously hard to predict, especially with the looming speaker vote. But Seitz made another lame duck prediction that seems like a stone-cold lock.

“We have 27 or 28 members that are leaving,” Seitz said, “so you can expect to hear farewell speeches until you puke.”