By Tom Nader

Publisher and Editor

Here we go!

Week 4!

For most of the area’s team, this is the week that kicks off league play.

For smaller conferences like the Portage Trail Conference, league play waits until later.

The start of league play, though, means the quest for a league championship starts tonight.

There are a lot of teams that enter with title aspirations.

Good luck to all!

TODAY’S THEME: ATTITUDE

There are winning attitudes and losing attitudes.

Both exist inside you and you get the choice on which to choose.

Every part of the game was an impossible task at some point.

Something as simple as throwing the ball 15 yards down the field is something you could not do.

So the part of the game that seems “impossible” now is only that way because there is still work to be done to get there.

A losing attitude will make the impossible always be the impossible.

A winning attitude will make the impossible a personal challenge to achieve.

Attitudes become a habit of thinking.

Players with a winning attitude are enthusiastic, uplifting, coachable and positive leaders on a team.

Players with a losing attitude are selfish, easily frustrated and are the first with poor body language.

Either way, every one of those things are based on personal choice.

And each one, and many more on an ever-important list of characteristic traits impacted by attitude, set the tone for a team’s locker room, establish a team culture or identity and set the path for where seasons will go.

All long before talent is measured between players and between teams.

TONIGHT’S FORECAST

Another beautiful night for high school football.

At kickoff, 78 degrees, no rain and only some clouds.

By the fourth quarter, 75 degrees and still no rain.

TONIGHT’S WEEK 4 SCHEDULE

Aurora at Copley

Painesville Harvey at Crestwood

Rootstown at Pymatuning Valley

Akron North at Southeast

Mogadore vs. Liberton Benton (at Ashland University)

Springfield at Field

Streetsboro at Norton

Ravenna at Cloverleaf

Garfield at LaBrae

Waterloo at Sebring McKinley

Windham at St. John

WEEK 3 SCORES

Aurora 42, Twinsburg 23

Ravenna 42, Kent Roosevelt 21

Streetsboro 42, Struthers 41 (OT)

Rootstown 27, Field 21

Champion 45, Southeast 14

Mogadore 37, Manchester 7

Malvern 28, Waterloo 20

Warren JFK 22, Garfield 21

Chippewa 40, Crestwood 7

Orrville 49, Springfield 8

Coventry 28, Cardinal 18

CVCA 35, Woodridge 27

Cloverleaf 36, Black River 6

Norton 39, Firestone 7

Carrollton 63, St. Thomas Aquinas 6

PORTAGE TRAIL CONFERENCE STANDINGS

Mogadore 3-0, 0-0

Rootstown 3-0, 0-0

Warren JFK 3-0, 0-0

Southeast 1-2, 0-0

St. Thomas Aquinas 0-3, 0-0

METRO ATHLETIC CONFERENCE STANDINGS

Coventry 3-0, 0-0

Cloverleaf 2-1, 0-0

Norton 2-1, 0-0

Ravenna 2-1, 0-0

Streetsboro 2-1, 0-0

Field 1-2, 0-0

Springfield 1-2, 0-0

Woodridge 1-2, 0-0

SUBURBAN LEAGUE AMERICAN CONFERENCE STANDINGS

Highland 3-0, 0-0

Tallmadge 3-0, 0-0

Aurora 2-1, 0-0

Barberton 1-2, 0-0

Copley 1-2, 0-0

Cuyahoga Falls 1-2, 0-0

Kent Roosevelt 1-2, 0-0

Revere 1-2, 0-0

MAHONING VALLEY ATHLETIC CONFERENCE GREY DIVISION

Brookfield 2-1, 0-0

Garfield 2-1, 0-0

Campbell Memorial 1-2, 0-0

Champion 1-2, 0-0

Newton Falls 1-2, 0-0

Crestview 0-3, 0-0

LaBrae 0-3, 0-0

Liberty 0-3, 0-0

MAHONING VALLEY ATHLETIC CONFERENCE SCARLET DIVISION

Jackson-Milton 3-0, 0-0

Lowellville 3-0, 0-0

Mineral Ridge 3-0, 0-0

McDonald 1-2, 0-0

Waterloo 1-2, 0-0

Western Reserve 1-2, 0-0

Sebring 0-3, 0-0

Springfield 0-3, 0-0

CHAGRIN VALLEY CONFERENCE VALLEY DIVISION STANDINGS

Hawken 2-1, 0-0

Beachwood 1-2, 0-0

Berkshire 1-2, 0-0

Cardinal 1-2, 0-0

Crestwood 1-2, 0-0

Grand Valley 1-2, 0-0

Harvey 1-2, 0-0

Wickliffe 1-2, 0-0

PLAYOFF RANKINGS

DIVISION III, REGION 9

9. Aurora

T19. Kent Roosevelt

DIVISION IV, REGION 13

4. Coventry

8. Streetsboro

9. Ravenna

15. Woodridge

17. Field

T21. Springfield

DIVISION V, REGION 17

10. Garfield

T17. Crestwood

DIVISION VI, REGION 21

2. Rootstown

4. Mogadore

T14. Southeast

22. Waterloo

DIVISION VI, REGION 25

T20. Windham

WEEK 5 SCHEDULE

Friday Sept. 16, 2022

Cuyahoga Falls at Aurora

Copley at Kent Roosevelt

Ravenna at Streetsboro

Cloverleaf at Field

Coventry at Springfield

Woodridge at Norton

Rootstown at Conneaut

Southeast at Minerva

Mogadore at Lucas

Windham at St. Thomas Aquinas

Warren JFK at Marlington

Berlin Center Western Reserve at Waterloo

Crestwood at Beachwood

Garfield at Newton Falls