Occasionally, one of my readers will pass along information that is so good it needs to be shared.

Last week, I received an e-mail from Gary West advising that the Wildcats are not the only Oak Harbor team playing a semifinal football game.

Are you ready for this?

The Oak Harbor Rockets, from Oak Harbor, Ohio, met Jonathan Alder High School in the Division IV state semifinal playoff game last Friday night.

Talk about deja vu!

West said in his e-mail that he has a nephew playing for the Rockets.

Even though I grew up in the Midwest I had no idea where the town was, so I went to the ever-faithful Internet seeking information.

In doing so, I discovered Oak Harbor, Ohio, has a population of 2,800 and is located in Ottawa County, approximately 30 miles from Toledo.

The school has just over 650 students and the Rockets finished the regular season ranked fourth in the state in Division IV with a perfect 10-0 record.

My curiosity now really piqued, I gleaned the school’s telephone number and who should I get when I called but Rockets’ athletic director, Drew Grahl.

There was a moment of silence when I told him who I was and where I was from and the reason for me telephoning the school.

The silence was followed by an “Oh, wow!” — my exact reaction when I found out there was another Oak Harbor in the country that had a football team in a similar competitive situation.

Mr. Grahl informed me the Rockets were Sandusky Bay Conference champions and beat defending state champion Coldwater to get into the quarterfinals where they knocked off West Milton Union 26-20 on Nov. 20.

He said they were playing Jonathan Alder in Lima, Ohio, and if they won that one, they would be playing for the state title in Massillon at Paul Brown Tiger Stadium on Dec. 1.

Jonathan Alder was ranked sixth in the final regular season Division IV poll with a 9-1 record.

I told him I knew where Lima was, having been through the city a couple of times on vacation, and he asked where and who we were playing in our semifinal game.

He was surprised when I told him it was a trek of nearly 400 miles one way across the state to Spokane for the Wildcats’ game against Gonzaga Prep.

I told him we had hosted the first two rounds of the playoffs, so now it was our turn to travel.

We had a nice chat and wished each other luck in our weekend playoff endeavors.

Some people think everyone has a twin somewhere in the world and that twin lives a similar life — but twin schools has to be even more unusual.

As Master Po was always telling Cain in Kung Fu: “The world is a circle, Grasshopper.”

However, things turned out differently and the Oak Harbor Rockets’ run at the Ohio state championship is over.

The Jonathan Alder Pioneers from Plain City scored 21 points in the last 7:44 of the game, two of the touchdowns coming on long interception returns, and defeated the other Oak Harbor 24-7.

Here’s hoping that history does not repeat itself.