AKRON – Standing at just 5-foot-6 and weighing 160 pounds, Akron East junior running back Emmanuel Jefferson may not look like the most imposing figure on the football field. But size doesn’t matter to Jefferson, who lives by one simple three-word phrase:

Heart over height.

That heart was on full display at Ellet’s Joseph B. Yost Stadium on Friday night as No. 6 East defeated No. 11 Benedictine, 19-7 , in the first round of the OHSAA Division III, Region 9 playoffs.

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