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Five Ohio Catholic schools form football scheduling alliance, end plans for new conference
Five Catholic high schools from central and northeast Ohio will partner on football scheduling rather than move forward with a plan to create a new conference, DeSales assistant principal Jim Jones told The Dispatch on Monday.
The scheduling alliance between DeSales, Hartley, Watterson, Cuyahoga Falls Walsh Jesuit and Youngstown Ursuline will begin in 2026, which was the original plan for the Ohio Catholic Athletic Conference.
The OCAC was announced last July between those five schools, Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary, Cleveland Villa Angela-St. Joseph and Youngstown Mooney. The goal was to alleviate scheduling issues and strengthen competition among several of the state’s strongest Catholic programs.
Mooney, St. Vincent-St. Mary and VASJ later backed out because of cost and travel concerns.
In February, Jones told The Dispatch the OCAC was forging ahead, but the remaining schools would have to make sure the new league would be “sustainable.” The original OCAC plans called for a football-only conference with potential expansion into other sports at a later date.
“At this point, we want to get things off to a great start with the alliance and see what takes shape from there,” Jones said Monday. “It’s something that we want to keep building and hopefully things will happen, and maybe even more teams will want to get involved, but right now we just have to work with what we have.”
DeSales, Hartley, Watterson and St. Charles will continue to play a CCL schedule, according to Jones, who has been the CCL commissioner since 2017. St. Charles was not involved with the OCAC.
With only three league contests, CCL teams are used to playing out-of-town teams and traveling to games.
“(The OCAC) just unraveled,” said Watterson coach Brian Kennedy, whose team won the Division III state title last fall. “We’ll play Ursuline and Walsh forever. We need games. For nothing other than scheduling, this was going to be nice. We already travel. Getting on a bus and driving for two or three hours to play a game doesn’t bother me. It’s trying to find games when everybody else is in league play.”
This isn’t the first time CCL members have partnered with out-of-area programs. They formed an alliance with the southwest Ohio-based Greater Catholic League in 2019 to alleviate issues with scheduling, but that lasted for one season.
“I’m slightly disappointed, but I’m not surprised,” Watterson athletic director Doug Etgen said. “I don’t mean that in a negative way towards any of the schools who backed out. We’ve been down this road before, so I’m very skeptical when these things start formulating. … I’m disappointed because I was looking forward to some other opportunities in some other sports to do some neat things to tie our teams together.”
High school sports reporter Frank DiRenna can be reached at fdirenna@dispatch.com and at @DispatchFrank on X.
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BOARDMAN, Ohio (WKBN) — Multiple police departments were responding to the report of a large fight at Boardman Park Sunday evening.
Police told our crew on the scene that they received a call around 8:30 p.m. for a large fight at the park involving over 100 people. Boardman Police Chief Todd Werth said the caller reported someone at the park may have a gun.
Due to the nature of the call, mutual aid was requested for multiple surrounding departments.
Chief Werth said officers determined an argument occurred, but there was no physical altercation. He confirmed there was no gun present.
No arrests were made and no one was injured.
People were being ushered out of the park and the park director shut down the park for the night.
Boardman Township officials say they appreciate the quick response of local law enforcement.
Dominic O’Brien contributed to this report.
Bob Chesney has done a good job at recruiting players from the 2027 high school class.
The 2027 class is Chesney’s first real recruiting class and has so far brought in one of the best in the country, ranking eighth according to 247Sports.
With 19 total commits, Chesney has brought in seven 4-star recruits, with 12 being 3-star, and some being borderline 4-star-caliber recruits who can see a rise in their rankings with a good senior season.
While Chesney has done a good job recruiting players on both the offense and defense, the quarterback has eluded him, and he is still searching for a top quarterback prospect to commit to the Bruins.
Luckily for the Bruins, they have had some success in recruiting top players. Recently, the Bruins will get a visit from Colton Nussmeier this weekend, and are now linked to one of the top committed prospects in Brady Edmunds.
Edmunds As a Prospect
Edmunds is a 4-star prospect and, according to 247Sports, the 16th-ranked quarterback and the 17th-ranked player in the state of California.
247Sports Director of Scouting Andrew Ivins describes the 6’5 “quarterback as an experienced pocket passer with a prototypical build that can drive the ball around the field. Edmunds is also capable of escaping from the pocket to pick up a first down with his legs, and is even compared to Tyler Van Dyke from SMU.
Coming from Huntington Beach, California, during his junior season, he led Huntington Beach to an 8-3 record while throwing for 2,724 yards, 32 TDs, and only two INTs on 196-for-288 passing. He also ran the ball 54 times for 147 yards and four TDs.
Ivins does think that while he is very talented, he might need a year to sit behind an experienced quarterback to learn the speed and physicality of the game. If he were to commit to UCLA, he would already have that covered, as Nico Iamaleava would have one more year of eligibility after next season.
Edmunds and UCLA
Edmunds has been off the market since 2024, when he committed to Ohio State under Chip Kelly. Since Kelley’s departure after the Buckeyes championship season, Edmunds has kept his recruitment open while still committed to Ohio State.
UCLA first offered him back in early 2024, when Deshaun Foster was the head coach, and, with Chesney as the new head coach, he has been active in Edmunds’ recruitment.
If Chesney is able to steal away a top quarterback prospect from an elite school within the same conference, it would be a massive win for the program.
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