All games archived here
Monday January 21, 6:05 p.m. - Clearview vs. Open Door Christian
Monday, January 28, 6:05 p.m. - Elyria vs. Vermilion
Monday, February 4, 6:05 p.m. - Avon vs. Columbia
Tuesday, February 12, 6:05 p.m. - Avon Lake vs. Lake Ridge Academy
Monday, February 18, 3:05 p.m. - Firelands vs. Oberlin (Presidents Day)
Monday, February 25, 6:05 p.m. - Brookside vs. Midview
Monday, March 3, 6:05 p.m. - Amherst Steele vs. Admiral King
Wednesday, March 12, 6:05 p.m. - North Ridgeville vs. Southview
Tuesday, March 18, 6:05 p.m. - Keystone vs. Elyria Catholic
Monday, March 24, 6:05 p.m. - Amherst vs. Avon Lake
Monday, March 31, 6:05 p.m. - Open Door vs. Midview (after Indians)
Monday, April 7, 6:05 p.m. - Quarterfinal: Lake Ridge Academy vs Amherst
Monday, April 14, 6:00 p.m. - Quarterfinal: Open Door vs Keystone
Monday, April 21, 6:05 p.m. - Quarterfinal: Oberlin vs Vermilion
Monday, April 28, 6:00 p.m. - Quarterfinal: Avon vs Southview
Monday, May 5, 6:05 p.m. - Semifinal #1
Monday, May 12, 6:05 p.m. - Semifinal #2
Monday, May 19, 6:05 p.m. - Championship
A quiz program featuring academic teams from 18 area high schools begins another season of weekly programs on WEOL (AM 930) with weekday evening broadcasts (from 6:05 to 7:00 p. m.) beginning on January 21, 2007. The High School Scholastic Games of Lorain County, is sponsored by the Educational Service Center of Lorain County with foundation support. The program’s producer, Jim Mehrling, is beginning his twenty-fifth year as a high school quizmaster in northern Ohio.
Last spring, Vermilion High School defeated Columbia High School in the seventeenth annual Schlastic Games championship, becoming the ninth school to win the honors over the history of the program. It was particularly exciting in that both schools had reached the championship for the first time after many years of participation, another demonstration of the wide distribution of academic talent in our community.
Team members are selected by various means from student bodies of the respective schools. They are guided by faculty advisors. The season of weekly Monday, 6-7 p.m., programs (sometimes moving to other nights of the week to accommodate sports broadcasts) will end with this year's county championship to be broadcast in May. Again this year, most programs will be followed by a talk feature, "Dialogues in Education," highlighting school success stories and hosted by award-winning journalist Bob Tayek.
All county public and private high schools are invited to participate. Outstanding individual students are recognized through the show's "Standout Scholar" award which includes a cash award of $50 each week. Awards also include a tuition credit program supported by area colleges and universities. Each participating school receives a $500 credit to be given to a deserving student, with many additional credits awarded to schools as they win and compete in playoff eliminations. Contributing institutions include Ashland University, Baldwin-Wallace, Case Western Reserve, Heidelberg, John Carroll, Lorain County Community, Oberlin, Ohio Wesleyan, and Tiffin University. Foundation sponsorship is from the Nordson Corporation Foundation, the program's charter sponsor, the Majic Foundation (a supporting organization of the Community Foundation of Lorain County), the Nord Family Foundation, the Stocker Foundation, and the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation.
The Elyria-Lorain Holiday Inn is in its thiteenth season providing recording venues, and broadcast time is provided by WEOL-AM for an eighteenth year.
The series has twice won "Achievement in Radio" (A.I.R.) awards from the Greater Cleveland March of Dimes. The producer, Jim Mehrling, began producing high school quiz programs in 1983 with "High School Whiz Quiz," which ran for nine years on WERE-AM in Cleveland. In addition to 15 consecutive years producing Scholastic Games of Lorain County, Mehrling produced two seasons of Cleveland-area programs for WCLV-FM, where he is in his thirteenth year as Production Manager.
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