(11-7-26) Six teams that entered the tournament below .500 reached the regional quarterfinals Friday night. All six lost, and no losing-record team will play in next Friday’s regional semifinals.

The six went 0-6 on Nov. 6, and two of them came within a single score of surviving. No. 12 Beavercreek lost 35-34 at No. 4 Huber Heights Wayne, and No. 12 Parma Padua Franciscan lost 14-12 at No. 4 Wapakoneta.

All six entered the tournament below .500; the records above are entering Nov. 6, after their first-round wins. Five of the six got here as first-round upset winners — Fairmont over Grove City, Beavercreek over Hilliard Bradley, Hoban over Villa Angela-St. Joseph, Padua over Copley and Fort Recovery over Waynesfield-Goshen. Dalton was the exception: the No. 7 seed won its first-round home game over Monroeville 38-6.
The two closest calls both came on the road against No. 4 seeds. Beavercreek, which had stunned No. 5 Hilliard Bradley 24-21 in the first round, fell by a single point at Wayne. Padua, which had rolled No. 5 Copley 35-13 a week earlier, fell by two at Wapakoneta.

The other four were decided by more comfortable margins: Springfield shut out Fairmont, Walsh Jesuit handled Hoban by 13, Cuyahoga Heights beat Dalton by 15, and Minster routed Fort Recovery by 42.

What’s next

The regional semifinals are Friday, Nov. 13. The teams that ended the losing-record runs move on: Springfield faces No. 3 Perrysburg and Wayne faces No. 1 Whitmer in Division I, Region 2; Walsh Jesuit faces No. 3 Nordonia in Division II, Region 5; Wapakoneta goes to No. 1 Celina in Division III, Region 10; Cuyahoga Heights faces No. 3 Mogadore in Division VII, Region 25; and Minster goes to No. 1 Marion Local in Division VII, Region 28.

Score flag: The Beacon Journal’s box-score header reads “Walsh Jesuit 20, Hoban 0,” but its own quarter-by-quarter lines show Hoban scoring 7 in the fourth quarter, and both its score list and the Mansfield News Journal statewide scoreboard say Walsh Jesuit 20, Hoban 7. This story uses 20-7.

Sources: OHSAA regional quarterfinal pairings release, Mansfield News Journal statewide scoreboard, Columbus Dispatch, Akron Beacon Journal, High School On SI Ohio scores, MaxPreps.

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