MaxPreps/JJHuddle Ohio Football Honor Roll: Vote for this week

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You vote, you decide...who had Ohio’s best individual performance this past week? Who had the best team performance?

MaxPreps and JJHuddle are proud to announce that they will sponsor an athlete of the week and team of the week award in football during the 2016-2017 school year.

Each week during the season (regular and post), there will be a fan-generated contest to tab weekly winners. Each weekly winner will receive awards: a banner, bracelets and certificates.

How does it work?

Fans will nominate top performances (email efrantz@maxpreps.com) and nominees will also be selected from those schools that report stats on MaxPreps. We will announce the weekly finalists (up to 10) on MaxPreps and JJHuddle every Tuesday and voting will be conducted in a special poll. Voting will cease at noon on Monday. The winners will be announced the next day along with the next week's nominees.

Vote as many times as you want. It's a competition. You can vote below.

Week 1 Football Athlete of the Week nominees

* Mitch Davidson, Columbiana
The senior quarterback accounted for seven touchdowns in a 63-52 win over Berlin Center Western Reserve. He ran for 153 yards and four touchdowns and threw for 164 yards and three scores.

* Marcellus Hunt, Woodward (Toledo)
Hunt had 495 all-purpose yards, including a Toledo City League record 441 yards on 16 carries in a 58-29 win over Cardinal Stritch. He scored five touchdowns – all in the second half – on a 99-yard kickoff return and runs of 63, 96, 80 and 56 yards. He also had a 74-yard non-touchdown run. The City League record of 377 was set by Bowsher’s Aeric Clay in 2006.

* Brandon Allen, Champion (Warren)
The quarterback threw for 344 yards and five touchdowns and ran for 62 yards and a touchdown in a 42-27 win over Atwater Waterloo.

* Andrew Bench, Genoa Area
The sophomore defensive end and tight end had 4.5 sacks, two of which resulted in safeties, and had a 37-yard touchdown reception in a 52-12 victory over Toledo Scott.

* AJ Marks, Alexander (Albany)
The senior quarterback and defensive back had two interceptions (one returned for a touchdown), carried the ball seven times for 153 yards and two touchdowns, completed 5 of 7 passes for 58 yards and had 211 all-purpose yards in a 39-0 win over Federal Hocking.

* Luke Mccarrell, Cardington-Lincoln
McCarrell ran for five touchdowns and threw for another in a 49-13 win over Worthington Christian.

* Kyle Varney, Liberty Union (Baltimore)
The quarterback threw for four touchdown passes (40, 20, 75 and 49 yards) and ran for two more (12 and 42 yards) in a 53-6 win over Liberty Union.

* Isaiah Gullick, Mentor
The senior running back ran for 238 yards on 20 carries and scored five touchdowns in a 57-31 win over Massillon Washington.

* Weston Bridges, Copley
The senior and Michigan State recruit ran for five touchdowns and 195 yards in a 35-28 win over Twinsburg.

* Danny Clark, Archbishop Hoban (Akron)
The senior quarterback and Ohio State commit ran for three touchdowns and threw for two more in a 42-14 win over Canton McKinley.


 

Week 1 Football Team of the Week nominees

* Newark
The Wildcats snapped a 13-game losing streak, won at home for the first time since 2012 and snapped a nine-year losing streak to rival Zanesville with a convincing 41-0 win. Newark owns a 57-50-4 edge in the 111-year old rivalry.

* Troy
For the second-straight season, the Trojans shocked Trotwood-Madison. This time 10-6. The Troy defense held Raveion Hargrove, who had over 3,000 yards last year, to 75 yards on 18 carries.

* Logan Elm (Circleville)
Aided by quarterback Logan Holbert, who accounted for four touchdowns and broke the program record for most all-purpose yards in a game (389), the Braves beat Zane Trace 26-24 by scoring three touchdowns in the final 2:56. The last touchdown – a 27-yard touchdown pass from Holbert to Terry Willison - came as time expired. 

* Whitehall-Yearling
The Rams scored 32 fourth-quarter points to beat Ready, 39-25.

* Central Catholic (Toledo)
The Irish rallied to beat Columbus Hartley 28-24 in a meeting of returning state finalists. After the Hawks took a 28-24 lead with 3:28 left, the Irish put together the game-winning drive capped by a 16-yard touchdown pass from Torrin Campbell to Michael Warren on fourth down with 27 seconds to play.

* Mariemont (Cincinnati)
Down seven with seven seconds left, the Warriors rallied for the win as Wally Renie scored on a 13-yard touchdown run and then on the ensuing 2-point conversion. Mariemont opted not to tie.

* Mason
The Comets had three backs go over 100 yards each – Matt Sora (169 yards), Cameron Buford (111) and Michael Kopaygorodsky (103) – as they ran for 420 yards in a 28-14 win over Springboro.

* Cuyahoga Falls
CFHS snapped an 11-game losing streak with a 13-0 win over Kent Roosevelt.