Local Talk with Aaron Hines

Aaron Hines tracked down Indian Hill football coach, John Rodenberg, for a State Semi-Final preview of the game vs Shelby (13-0) on Friday. John is in his 4th year at Indian Hill and has won 4 state championships in his coaching career, which now is in his 32nd year.  The Braves (13-0) are playing in the State Semi-Finals for the 1st time in school history.

What a run it has been in the last 3 years for Shelby High School in sports, as the Whippets have had a team reach the final four.  It started with boys basketball in 2023/24 with their run to Dayton, followed by the girls volleyball team last November (2024), and now, 2025, the football team is playing in the state semi-finals for just the 2nd time in school history. Marc Hartz, sports writer for...

Shelby Football Coach, Rob Mahaney, sat down for his weekly chat with WMAN's Aaron Hines for a preview of the Whippets (13-0) Division IV State Semi-Final vs Indian Hill (13-0).  Neither school has reached the state championship game. For Shelby, it's their 2nd ever trip to the final four ( 2017), while this is the first for the Braves.

Here is the WMAN radio play-by-play of the Brayden DeVito to Kayden Paz touchdown pass in the 2nd quarter of Friday's Regional Final win vs Galion.  The play took around :15 seconds to develop and was an incredible play.

Brayden DeVito scored his 200th career touchdown on Friday night in Shelby's Regional Final win over Galion. This is the WMAN radio call of Brayden's TD in the 3rd quarter.  DeVito now has 201 career TD's.

Hear from Shelby Football coach, Rob Mahaney, who stopped into the press box at Arlin Field in Mansfield on Friday, following the Whippets regional final win over Galion. Rob spent time chatting with Aaron Hines and Erik Will of WMAN.

Brayden DeVito of the Shelby Whippets joined WMAN's Aaron Hines and Erik Will in the press box, after Shelby beat Galion, 41-7, to win the schools 2nd ever Regional Championship and punch their ticket to the Final Four!

Mansfield News Journal Sports Reporter, Jake Furr dropped into the WMAN studio on Wednesday morning to give Aaron Hines  his thoughts on Shelby vs Galion Regional Final, which will be played at Arlin Field in Mansfield on Friday night at 7 pm.

Shelby Football coach, Rob Mahaney, joined Aaron Hines from WMAN to preview the Whippets Regional Final vs Galion on Friday. Plus, Mahaney gives his thoughts on the win last week over Lima Bath and playing at Arlin Field vs a rival for a berth in the final four.

Galion Football coach, Matt Dick, spent time talking with WMAN's Aaron Hines ahead of the Regional Final game on Friday vs Shelby.  

Brayden DeVito joined Aaron Hines and Erik Will in the postgame show on Friday, after the Shelby Whippets, 49-7, Regional Semi-Final win over Lima Bath at the Whippet Athletic Complex.  DeVito scored 6 touchdowns in the 1st half and now has 60 total TDs on the season.  The victory for Shelby puts the Whippets into the Regional Championship game for just the 5th time in school history.  Shelby (12-...

Galion football coach, Matt Dick, visited with WMAN's Aaron Hines to preview the Tigers Regional Semi-Final on Friday at home vs Sandusky Perkins.  10-1 Galion is the #2 seed, while the 9-3 Pirates are the #6 seed.  The winner players either Shelby or Lima Bath in the Regional Championship game on Friday, November 21st.

Shelby head football coach, Rob Mahaney, spent time with WMAN's Aaron Hines to preview Friday's Division IV Regional Semi-Final vs Lima Bath. Mahaney also gave his thoughts on his teams win over Orrville last week, Brayden DeVito moving into 4th place in state history in passing yards & 14th all-time in TD passes, how good the defense has been playing all year and Shelby, with a win, looking t...

Shelby head football coach, Rob Mahaney, took time to chat this week with WMAN's Aaron Hines about Friday's playoff game vs Orrville. Plus, how did the team handle a bye week, Brayden DeVito closing in on 4th place all-time in passing yards in state history and much more.

Aaron Hines sat down with Orrville Red Riders head football coach, Brent Besancon for a preview of Friday's Regional quarterfinal at Shelby vs the Whippets.  The game will be broadcast live on WMAN and iHeart Radio.

Former Ashland University coach, Lee Owens, has a new book, which was released back in September.  Owens coached at AU, Akron, Ohio State and at the high school level at several local places, where he won a state title at Galion in 1985. Lee spent time talking with Aaron Hines from WMAN about the book, how it came to be and being a football coach of a program is like being a CEO. --------- ASHLAND...

Clear Fork football coach, Aaron Brokaw, spent some time talking with WMAN this week to preview the Colts 1st round playoff game on Friday at home vs Orrville.  #8 Clear Fork (6-4) and #9 Orrville (6-4) last played each other back in 2015. Both were apart of the Ohio Cardinal Conference. The winner on Friday night will play Shelby on November 7th in the Regional Quarterfinals.

Aaron Hines of WMAN was able to track down and chat with Lexington football coach, Andrew Saris, for a preview of the OCC Championship game vs Ashland on Friday. Lexington is 8-1, and has won 7 straight games - averaging 46 points per game, while the Arrows are 9-0 and are scoring 41 points per game. Saris spoke about the balance of his team right now, running and passing, everything is clicking f...

OSU Mansfield Dean Director, Jason Opal, visited with WMAN to share about Buckeye Preview Days, Tuition Free Program at Ohio State Mansfield, and enrollment is up, this year overall and with first year students. 

Ashland Arrows head football coach, Scott Valentine, sat down this week with WMAN's Aaron Hines to discuss the Arrows season so far, which has been perfect at 9-0.  Ashland is averaging over 41 points per game, the defense is only giving up 10 points game and they have held 7 of 9 opponents to a single touchdown.  Coach Valentine, who has been the head coach at Ashland for a total of 20 years, and...

Shelby football coach, Rob Mahaney, spent time visiting with Aaron Hines from WMAN to recap last week's impressive, 52-14, win over Clear Fork, which puts the Whippets all alone in 1st place in the Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference with 3 weeks left in the regular season.  Mahaney gives his thoughts on Friday's game at Ontario (4-3, 2-2) for the state ranked Shelby Whippets, who are now 7-0 and 4-0 in...

Ontario football coach, Aaron Eckert, sat down with WMAN's Aaron Hines to talk about Friday's big game at home vs Shelby. The Warriors have won 2 in a row and are 4-3 overall, 2-2 in the Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference.  The last 4 or 5 games between Ontario and Shelby have been some of the memorable games in the last two years.  You can hear Friday's game on WMAN at 7 p.m.

Shelby football coach, Rob Mahaney, spent time chatting with WMAN's Aaron Hines about their 6-0 start and Friday's big game in the MOAC at home vs Clear Fork.  Shelby is 6-0, 3-0, while the Colts are 5-1, 3-0 in the league.  The Whippets defense has not given up a point since September 12th and has had back-to-back shutouts.  Clear Fork has only given up 1 offensive TD in the last 3 weeks.  Shelby...

Clear Fork football coach, Aaron Brokaw, talked about his teams 5-1 start to the season, as the Colts head into a big game on Friday in the MOAC at Shelby (6-0).  WMAN's Aaron Hines caught up with coach Brokaw on Tuesday. Clear Fork and Shelby are both 3-0 in league play. You can hear Friday's game on WMAN.

The IHRA, International Hot Rod Association, is in Wayne County at Dragway 42 and the Darana Dragway in West Salem this weekend. Driver Kallee Mills spent some time talking with iHeart Radio, and  Aaron Hines, about the Nitro Outlaw Series that is running September 24th - September 27th.