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Christopher Bell won his way into NASCAR’s championship race, while Ross Chastain used a move more suited for a video game to also advance in Sunday’s thrilling regular-season finale at Martinsville Speedway.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Fabian Zetterland scored late in the first period, Nico Hischier and defenseman Ryan Graves scored 33 seconds apart early in the second and Vitek Vanecek made 20 saves as the surging New Jersey Devils routed the Columbus Blue Jackets 7-1 on Sunday.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio High School Athletic Association released the football regional quarterfinal playoff pairings Sunday afternoon. Unless otherwise noted, all second-round games will be played on Friday, November 4, with kickoffs set for 7 p.m.

CLEVELAND — Things are pretty frightful around Cleveland these days, and it’s got nothing to do with Halloween.

A grade card on Ohio State’s 44-31 win over Penn State:

KALIDA — Ottoville’s Kellen Schlagbaum was looking for an opening.

Another shutout.

ELIDA — St. Marys won a 4-3 shootout in Saturday’s Division II distict final after the match against Liberty-Benton was tied at 2 following the second overtime.

MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — Ty Gibbs wrecked teammate Brandon Jones out of the lead in the third overtime of Saturday’s Xfinity Series in a controversial victory that had the Martinsville Speedway crowd booing Gibbs.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — It was 8 minutes, 51 seconds Ohio State will remember for a long time and Penn State will have a hard time forgetting.