Northwestern vaults to top of CBC stats after opening win

»RELATED: Week 2 football power ratings

»RELATED: Ohio Supreme Court sides with OHSAA

And there’s more. Sophomore Ben VanNoord’s 113 yards receiving on four catches is just three yards shy of CBC leader Ben Whitten, a senior from Benjamin Logan.

Northwestern (1-0) is at Northeastern (0-1) of the Ohio Heritage Conference on Friday. The Jets opened with a 20-13 setback at Worthington Christian. Last season Northwestern mounted a 15-point lead and held on to edge Northeastern, 21-18.

»RELATED: OHSAA goes on the defensive over lawsuit

• Springfield (1-0) was one of only nine – there’s 20 - Greater Western Ohio Conference teams to post a Week 1 win, defeating visiting Lancaster 20-14. Springfield also won 55-21 at Lancaster to open the 2017 season.

On Friday Springfield faces a mighty challenge at Fairfield (1-0). The Indians mauled GWOC National East defending champ Centerville 49-21 last week and appear to have a shot at challenging perennial power Cincinnati Colerain for a Greater Miami Conference title.

»FOOTBALL: Week 2 schedule

Springfield regularly plays GMC teams, but this is the first meeting with Fairfield since the North/South merger.

• Tecumseh (1-0) will host its second straight GWOC opponent in Butler (0-1) before heading on the road for four straight games at Bellbrook, Northwestern, Urbana and Shawnee. The back half of the Arrows’ schedule is more home friending, with three of its final four games at Spitzer Stadium

»FACEBOOK: For more sports you should like Marc Pendleton

The Arrows’ 31-0 Week 1 defeat of Fairborn is its lone regular-season game against another Division II, Region 8 team. They’ll play D-III and D-VI schools the rest of the way. Butler took out Tecumseh 42-0 last season.

»TWITTER: You should like @MarcPendleton

• It didn’t take long for Mechanicsburg (1-0) and Greeneview (1-0) to separate themselves from Ohio Heritage Conference contenders. Mechanicsburg blitzed host Kenton Ridge 54-14 and Greeneview won at Cross County Conference member Arcanum, 49-27.

»WEEK 1 REWIND: Observations and other big hits

Both these OHC powers should remain unbeaten heading into a Week 4 showdown at Jamestown. Greeneview hosts Waynesville (1-0) on Friday and Riverside (0-1) visits Mechanicsburg.

»RELATED: ‘Playing up’ should be rewarded

• Email game information as soon as possible to sports@coxohio.com.