Scholastic Games of Lorain County-2024's Quarterfinal 1: Amherst vs Black River
Scholastic Games H.S. Quiz Podcast
Release Date: 08/11/2025
Scholastic Games H.S. Quiz Podcast
This is quarterfinal #3, continuing the final series of programs in our 36th season of “Scholastic Games,” the weekly high school quiz program featuring the schools of Lorain County, Ohio. The show is produced from January through May of each year. The teams in this playoff are Elyria Catholic High School, the only Catholic high school in the county and Firelands High School. located in Oberlin, Ohio, which serves a large mostly rural area in the county. Both of these schools have top academic teams this year and high hopes to reach our championship for the first...
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“Dialogues on Education” is a weekly companion program to “Scholastic Games,” an interview feature focusing on success stories in the area of education. It is produced and hosted by broadcast veteran Bob Tayek. The guest on this week’s offering is Tim Bulware, coordinator of online learning programs at Tiffin University, located in Seneca county, to the west of Cleveland and Lorain County. He describes how the campus is growing, even as the university’s online access is expanding exponentially, as this institution which has served the region since the nineteenth...
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This is quarterfinal #2, continuing the final series of programs in our 36th season of “Scholastic Games,” the weekly high school quiz program featuring the schools of Lorain County, Ohio. The show is produced from January through May of each year. The teams in this playoff are Brookside High School of Sheffield Village and Olmsted Falls High School. Olmsted Falls is one of our five-time championship winners, but their success has been spotty in the last decade. Brookside, on the other hand, has been on the upswing, making our playoffs in recent years. ...
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The playoffs begin! This is quarterfinal #1 between two of the highest-scoring schools in our first rounds of competition! This begins the final series of programs in our 36th season of “Scholastic Games,” the weekly high school quiz program featuring the schools of Lorain County, Ohio. The show is produced from January through May of each year. The teams in this playoff are Vermilion High School, and Avon High School. Avon is our defending champion, the team that, last spring, became only the fifth area school to have won the championship five...
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This is the last of three preview programs leading up to our quarterfinal playoffs which begin next week, in this, our 36th season of “Scholastic Games,” our weekly high school quiz program featuring the schools of Lorain County, Ohio. The show is produced from January through May of each year. This program features representative moments from earlier competitions from Keystone High School, Elyria Catholic High School and Avon Lake High School. Only Avon Lake has won our championship in past years, but the other schools have strong teams this year, so...
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This is another of three preview programs leading up to our quarterfinal playoffs in this, our 36th season of “Scholastic Games,” our weekly high school quiz program featuring the schools of Lorain County, Ohio. The show is produced from January through May of each year. This program features representative moments from earlier competitions from Vermilion High School, Sheffield Village’s Brookside High School and Olmsted Falls High School. Vermilion and Olmsted Falls are both past championship winners, and Brookside, though reaching the...
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Applications are now open for Elyria Rotary Club Scholarships but the deadline is coming! The top scholarship is a staggering $24,000, which will be awarded to a local student who is actively involved in community service. This scholarship is available to graduating high school seniors from , , , and who are committed to making a positive impact in their communities.
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This is the first of three preview programs leading up to our quarterfinal playoffs in this, our 36th season of “Scholastic Games,” our weekly high school quiz program featuring the schools of Lorain County, Ohio. The show is produced from January through May of each year. This program, which spotlights two of our quarterfinalists, is a rebroadcast of our highest-scoring program of the year, when the two teams achieved not only the highest winning score but also the highest losing score at the end of the contest. The schools are Avon High School from the northern...
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John Carroll University in the Cleveland, Ohio, area, is one of the institutions supporting the Scholastic Games Tuition Credit Award Program. We periodically interview individuals at our supporting institutions for an update on programs and opportunities offered to students. Bob Tayek's guest is the Associate Dean of Admissions, Ryan Mann, who details not only some aspects of its history, but a number of the current activities at this dynamic, growing university.
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This is the seventh program of our 2026 season of “Scholastic Games,” our weekly high school quiz program featuring the schools of Lorain County, Ohio. The show is produced from January through May of each year. This week represents the last of our first-round competitions, as Elyria Catholic High School makes its debut visit to the program. Weather and other factors have caused scheduling difficulties this year, delaying the team’s appearance, so its opposing team is a second visit to the program from Avon Lake High School, which defeated North Ridgeville High...
info_outlineThis is the first quarterfinal contest of our 2024 season as we continue our summer reruns of “Scholastic Games,” our weekly high school quiz program featuring the schools of Lorain County, Ohio. The show is produced from January through May of each year. In this week’s offering we continue the playoffs leading up to our 34th annual county championship. The winner here will advance to the program’s semi finals to be heard in September..
The teams are from Marion L. Steele High School in Amherst, Ohio, and Black River High School from Sullivan, Ohio. Both schools won in their first outings of the season. River is a relative newcomer to the program; Steele is a past championship-winning school in our earlier years of competition.
Incidentally, following the rebroadcast of last year’s semifinals and championship this September, we will re-release the 2025 program series which was first presented between January and May of this year.