COLUMBUS — The 2024 Ohio high school football regular season is 60-percent in the books.

Let’s take a look at some of the biggest performances from around the state — with the Ohio Prep Sports Media Association High School Football Notebook.

* Nelsonville-York’s Landen Inman was 5-of-6 passing for 68 yards with three touchdown passes, carried eight times for 81 yards and one touchdown, made a 10-yard touchdown reception, and had nine tackles on defense with one interception in the Buckeyes’ 42-14 win over Meigs. Alec Thompson tacked on three receptions —all touchdowns —for 86 yards with one interception and three pass break-ups on defense.

*Athens’ Anthony Sutton rushed for 195 yards and two touchdowns on a massive 36 carries in the Bulldogs’ 27-14 victory over Vincent Warren on Saturday. The Bulldogs are now 6-0 for the first time since 2014 — Joe Burrow’s senior season at Athens.

* Coal Grove’s Kaden Murphy rushed 13 times for 232 yards with two touchdowns, and Caden Turner tacked on 10 carries for 124 yards and four two-point conversions, in the Hornets’ 46-8 Ohio Valley Conference victory over Gallia Academy.

* Portsmouth senior running back Chase Heiland rushed for 125 yards and two touchdowns on nine carries in the Trojans’ 45-8 Ohio Valley Conference win at Chesapeake on Saturday. Heiland has rushed for at least 111 yards and two touchdowns in each of the Trojans’ six games this season. Portsmouth (5-1, 3-0 OVC) played host to undefeated Fairland (6-0, 3-0 OVC) on Friday night (Oct. 4) for outright first-place in the OVC.

* Portsmouth West sophomore Anthony Bishop amassed 227 rushing yards and four touchdowns on a hefty 30 carries — in the Senators’ 24-0 win at Minford on Saturday night in Southern Ohio Conference Division II play. Bishop had all four of the Senators’ touchdowns for all 24 team points, as the game was played on a muddy grass field at Minford High School. The week before, Bishop rushed for 260 yards and four TDs on 39 carries in West’s 35-28 win over Waverly.

* Lucasville Valley’s Jaylen Bender kicked a game-winning 46-yard field goal as time expired on Friday night, lifting the host Indians to a thrilling 38-35 victory over McDermott Northwest in Southern Ohio Conference Division II play. It was the Indians’ first win of the season, as Bender broke his own school record with his game-winning 46-yarder. He was also a perfect 5-of-5 on extra-point kicks. Valley’s Anthony Aaron added 139 rushing yards and one touchdown on 22 carries —with 133 of those yards and 21 carries in the second half. Aidan Waughtel, the junior quarterback, threw two touchdown passes and rushed for two more — as Braxten Conaway caught those two TDs, part of his five receptions for 105 yards. For Northwest in a hard-fought losing effort, senior running back Carter Runyon rushed for a massive 273 yards and four touchdowns on 27 carries. Maddix Spriggs made all five of his extra-point kicks. The game was tied five times (7-7, 14-14, 21-21, 28-28 and 35-35), before Bender booted his walkoff winner. The Mohawks have won only once against Valley since 2000, which was two years ago.

* Piketon senior running back Buddy Wilson accounted for more than two-thirds of his team’s yardage in the Redstreaks’ 21-12 loss to the Unioto Shermans. Wilson used 14 carries to cover 184 yards and scored both of Piketon’s touchdowns. His longest came on an 80-yard run to the house. Wilson also caught one pass from quarterback Luke Gullion for 13 yards, bringing Wilson’s total yardage for the day to 197.

* Waverly senior wide receiver Mason Pollard had another big week for the Tigers. In Saturday’s 41-0 win against Oak Hill, Pollard had two receptions from quarterback Mason Kelly to cover 118 yards. That follows up a 171-yard day from the previous week at Portsmouth West.

* Hillsboro senior fullback Ryan Burns finished the Indians’ Week 6 game against Miami Trace with 17 carries for 181 yards and two touchdowns, averaging 10.6 yards per carry. Defensively for Hillsboro, senior Nic Burns had two interceptions, giving him a total of four interceptions in six games thus far in this season.

* Vanlue, the smallest school in the state still playing 11-man football, has just 15 players on its roster and is not having a banner season (0-6). But that hasn’t kept senior running back/linebacker Landon Saltzman from etching his name in the state record books. In a Sept. 20 game against Northwood, Saltzman tied a state record by blocking three kicks. All were PAT kicks, one in the third quarter and two in the fourth, of the Wildcats’ 67-8 loss to the Rangers. For an encore, Saltzman blocked two more PAT kicks in Friday’s game with Pioneer North Central.

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The Ohio Prep Sports Media Association is an organization of 233 high school sports media members from all over the state. This list is compiled by those members.