CANTON — At Mount Union, Mike Elder just missed.

His last year on head coach Larry Kehres’ offensive line was 1992. He was gone the next year when Mount Union won the first of its now numerous small-college national championships.

Elder isn’t missing now. His Avon Eagles won their second straight Ohio high school state championship in bitter cold Thursday night, subduing the Cincinnati Anderson Raptors 37-20 in the OHSAA Division II finals . Watch Ohio High School Football Live on the NFHS Network all season

It was the first of seven state championship games in Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium.

Elder is a former Warren JFK player; his high school alma mater won a Division IV state title when he was playing for Mount Union. In his 19th year as Avon’s head coach, he views Kehre

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