They nearly burned out all the scoreboard lights in the Wooster-Chagrin Falls game.

Chagrin Falls has been to the state semifinals three years in a row and is expected to contend for the Division III title this year, while Wooster was under .500 last year and last won a playoff game in 1986.

However, the Generals led 42-28 before the Tigers scored the game’s final four TDs to rally for a 56-42 win.

Wooster’s 6-foot-5 sophomore quarterback Cameron Daugherty passed for 439 yards and five touchdowns, but Chagrin Falls’ Tommy Iammarino threw a school-record seven TD strikes and passed for 445 yards. Tommy’s younger brother, Matt Iammarino, hauled in six passes for 188 yards and four TDs. The team is coached by the boys’ dad, Mark Iammarino.

“I’m not a moral-victory guy by any stretch of the imagination and this one hurts,” said Wooster coach Doug Haas, after a shootout that saw 98 combined points, 884 yards passing and 1,140 total yards. “We had a 40-4 team over the last three years on the ropes — up by two scores. I think we’re in that midst of getting over that hump of learning how to win.”

CHART-TOPPERS: Genoa’s Kyle Nutter established a program record with 4,320 career rushing yards, surpassing Cliff Whalen’s total of 4,168 yards; and Celina’s Braden Billger and Minster’s Adam Niemeyer have become the career leaders in passing yardage at their schools;

PASS-HAPPY: Mansfield Senior’s Jalen Reese completed 16 of 19 passes for 425 yards and four touchdowns (60, 52, 52, 39) in the first half of a 45-21 win over Marion Harding, breaking his own record of 388 yards set last season in a loss to Millersburg West Holmes; Archbold’s Evan Wyse threw for 279 yards, and rushed for 121 yds in a 37-14 win over Sherwood Fairview; Bryan’s Austin Schimmoeller threw for 260 yards and one score while carrying the ball 14 times for 118 yards and four TDs in a 47-3 victory over Delta; and Athens’ Joe Burrow was 17 for 23 passing for 413 yards and seven touchdown passes in a 66-14 victory over Vincent Warren, and through his first three varsity starts he’s thrown 14 touchdown passes with 964 yards passing.

CATCH THIS: Mansfield Senior’s Keon Johnson, an All-Ohio point guard in basketball who verbally committed to Division I Winthrop over the summer, caught five passes for 187 yards and two TDs in a 45-21 win over Marion Harding. He’s playing football for the first time since his freshman year. (He also had a 74-yard TD pass wiped out by penalty.)

MANY HAPPY RETURNS: Ironton’s Patrick Lewis christened Wheelersburg’s $3.1 million renovated stadium by returning the opening kickoff 94 yards for a touchdown. He then ran a punt back 68 yards in the second game when he also ran for 245 yards on 12 carries, and last week his 60-yard punt return for a touchdown beat Gallipolis.

OLD ACQUAINTANCES: Conneaut and Geneva played for the 109th time Friday night, with Geneva’s 69-0 triumph giving it a 53-52 edge in the series with 6 ties.

KAREEM OF THE CROP: Willoughby South’s Kareem Hunt had 21 carries for 240 yards and six touchdowns in a 41-7 win over West Geauga. For the season, Hunt has 673 yards rushing, 1,110 yards of total offense and has scored 14 touchdowns. In the season-opening win over Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin, Hunt had 460 yards of total offense — 190 yards in returns (two for touchdowns), 147 yards receiving and 123 yards rushing. He followed that up with 310 yards rushing and four touchdowns in a Week 2 win over Mayfield. As a junior, Hunt ran for 2,519 yards and 41 touchdowns.

RUSH WEEK: Napoleon’s Charlie Harris rushed for 302 yards on 8 carries in a 57-28 win over Defiance; Defiance Ayersville’s Justin Flory ran for 264 yards and 3 touchdowns on 32 carries and also threw a TD pass leading the Pilots to a 41-28 win over Lima Perry; Geneva’s Aaron Rossi had 260 yards rushing on 23 carries and scored 3 touchdowns in a 69-0 win against Conneaut; Ashtabula Lakeside’s Chase Knight ran for 230 yards on 26 carries and had 3 touchdowns, including a school-record 97-yarder in a 20-14 win vs. Ashtabula Edgewood; and Wauseon QB Ty Suntkin threw for 160 yards and one touchdown while rushing for 167 yards and five TDs in a 42-0 win over Swanton.

STREAKY: Painesville Riverside made it 20 straight wins vs. crosstown rival Painesville Harvey with a 42-0 victory; Granville defeated Jackson 28-14 to end the Ironmen’s 21-game regular season winning streak.

NOTABLE: Liberty Center coach Rex Lingruen earned his 223rd win, in a 56-14 win over Evergreen; after failing to score in the first quarter, Hicksville erupted for 37 points in the second en route to a 63-20 victory over previously unbeaten Edon; Fort Recovery QB Mason Evers, who played OL last season, has rushed for 746 yards in the first three games and is closing in on the school record for rushing yards in a season of 1,155; St. Henry, with six state titles, has rebounded after going 1-9 last season and is 2-1 after losing a close 21-17 game at Delphos St. John’s; Celina, leading Defiance 35-28 with 4:13 left in the fourth quarter when a storm suspended play on Friday, was forced to make the hour-plus trip back on Saturday to complete the victory; Caldwell has completed just one pass in 16 attempts in three games for a total of minus-4 yards; and Cambridge and Warsaw River View combined for 120 points, with the Bobcats winning 70-50.

FAST STARTS: Findlay has used fast starts to get off to a 3-0 record. Vance Settlemire raced 60 yards for a TD on the second snap of the game in a season-opening 55-8 win over Cleveland East Tech, then ran the opening kickoff back 85 yards in a Week 2 61-14 win over Reynoldsburg. This past Friday, Jimmy Orwick ran the opening kickoff back 95 yards in a 42-6 win over Holy Trinity Catholic Secondary School out of Courtice, Ontario, Canada. Settlemire’s opening kickoff return against Reynoldsburg was the start of a huge night. The senior back also rushed for 158 yards and five TDs, scoring on runs of 24, 1, 16, 9 and 9 yards.

BY THE NUMBERS: Ottawa-Glandorf’s Tristan Parker carried 34 times for 212 yards and four TDs in a 34-13 win over Lima Shawnee; North Baltimore’s Dalton Ishmael ran the ball 24 times for 244 yards and 3 TDs in a 32-17 win over Holgate; Patrick Henry’s Tobey Hernandez rushed 24 times for 256 yards and 3 TDs in a 40-28 win over Pemberville Eastwood; and Arcadia’s Casey Mock accounted for 371 total yards, rushing for 104 yards and passing for 267 yards and five TDs in a 41-27 win over Kansas Lakota.

TROPHY TIME: Byesville Meadowbrook defeated Shenandoah 49-6 to claim the Joe Kasper Miner’s Lunch Pail Memorial Award on the night the Colts retired the uniform number (22) of the late Kasper, a standout athlete and former coach at MHS; Barnesville picked up its second trophy win in as many weeks by defeating rival Union Local 21-7 to claim the “Milk Jug” award a week after taking the Bill Dowler Memorial Trophy by beating Meadowbrook.

FINALLY: Jefferson Area is off to its first 3-0 start since 2004; Jefferson Area’s 7-0 win vs. Lisbon Beaver was the Falcons’ first shutout since Week 10 of the 2007 season; and after winning just one game over the past two seasons, Kansas Lakota is off to a 2-1 start under first-year coach David Vodika.