Malvern High School Playoff Football Information:
Let’s Pack Perry with Green! OHSAA Regional Semifinals- No. 3 Malvern Hornets(11-1) vs. No 2 Hillsdale (11-1) Tomorrow night is the football playoff game against Hillsdale at the Massillon Perry football field. Tickets may be purchased at the gate - $11.00 for adults and $5.00 for students. Game time is 7:00 pm. Come out and support our football team, our coaches, our cheerleaders and marching band.
PreSale Tickets- Congratulations on your football team making it to the OHSAA Regional Semi-Finals! To make it easy for your fans to get tickets, we’re providing purchase links that you can share with your students, families, and supporters through email, social media and any other way you connect.
Game Name: JEROMESVILLE HILLSDALE vs MALVERN
Date & Time: Friday, Nov, 15 at 7:00 PM
Location: Massillon Perry High School
Direct Ticket Link: https://ohsaa.hometownticketing.com/embed/event/31251
Perry media productions class are going to livestream the game if any of fans want to watch from home. Their link is: https://boxcast.tv/view/hillsdale-vs-malvern-ohsaa-football-dmumrdvwog2duhcnj4p6
What to watch: It’s hard to identify the favorite in this one. Hillsdale’s schedule may have been more difficult, and the Falcons may have a better “best win,” but Malvern has won seven straight since a disappointing second half against Garaway, and even in that loss, the Hornets showed an ability to hang with a great team at least for a while. This would be the signature win head coach Matt Chiurco hoped the Garaway game would be. Garaway is in the third round of the Division V playoffs against 12-0 South Range. … Malvern and Hillsdale both have prolific quarterbacks. Malvern's 6-5 senior Jared Witherow has a big edge in experience. Hillsdale’s 6-2 Kael Lewis is just a sophomore, but in his first start, he set a school record with six TD passes in a 42-14 rout of Black River, and he has built on that. … Hillsdale’s playoff wins, both at home, were 55-12 over Fairport and 43-14 over Windham. Malvern’s, also at home, were 40-26 over Lucas and 42-14 over Lowellville. Lewis went 13-for-17 for 351 yards against Windham. … Malvern and Hillsdale (near the Ashland County town of Jeromesville) are 64 miles apart. … Hillsdale’s only loss came in Week 10, 45-12 to Division V Norwayne, with the Wayne County League championship on the line. Hillsdale’s loss was similar to Malvern’s setback against Garaway, in that both teams lost the line-of-scrimmage battle. Both Malvern and Hillsdale are emphasizing physical play this week. … The Falcons’ best win was 35-30 over Dalton in Game 5. Dalton remains alive in the Division VI playoffs … Former Hillsdale QB Trevor Cline, 31, is in his seventh year as program’s head coach. He was 24 when he was hired in 2018. … The Falcons finished 2023 with a 28-14 loss to Lucas in the first round. In 2024, Lucas lost 26-8 at Hillsdale in the regular season and 40-26 at Malvern in the playoffs. … Hillsdale was 7-5 in 2022, falling 42-41 to Danville in the second round. … Chiurco sees Malvern’s run game as a key. He said the Hornets become “more dynamic” when they mix effective runs from Drake Hutchison and Julius Gore with their assorted pass-game weapons. … RB Owen Sloan has had some big games for Hillsdale. … The winner will advance to the Region 27 championship game against the winner of a game between Warren JFK (10-2) and Cuyahoga Heights (7-4).