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Gallery: Clear Fork Swim Club in Lexington cuts ribbon on 65th year
(Photos from the 65th anniversary ribbon cutting and free community open house at the Clear Fork Swim Club in Lexington on Saturday afternoon. The pool, which opened in 1959, offered popcorn, cotton candy, slushies, dunk tank, bounce house and Battle Axe games for families to enjoy. It also conducted a raffle for a free family pool membership for the upcoming 2024 season. Miss Ontario Jaslyn Lopez sang the national anthem before the ribbon cutting and Lexington Mayor Bob Jarvis also spoke. Visit the pool website for more information about memberships.)
Loudonville makes three new hires in athletic department
Three new faces will be a part of the Loudonville athletic program going into the 2024-2025 academic/athletic school year. In a press release, the Loudonville-Perrysville Exempted Village School District introduced three new hires in the athletic department: Chad Spurlock as the athletic director; Daryl Young as the girls basketball head coach, and Ed Honabarger as the head football coach and Loudonville High School assistant principal.
Still ridin’ high: Lex boys win district track title as encore to OCC crown
LEXINGTON — In the end, the Lexington boys track team found the perfect way to make 10 hours on a school bus more tolerable. They parlayed those two five-hour round trips Wednesday and Friday into a team championship at the Division I district track and field meet at Oregon Clay High School. TRACK AND...
Bellville youth anglers headed to Junior World Championship in South Carolina
BELLVILLE — Two young Bellville fishermen will get a chance to strut their stuff on a national stage. Sloan McGhee and Anthony Oscar have qualified for a national tournament in July on Lake Hartwell in Anderson County, South Carolina. McGhee and Oscar earned the honor after competing with youth...
Ontario boys, Lex girls capture team titles at Division II district meet
ONTARIO — Bodpegn Miller’s aching hamstring may have been a blessing in disguise. Normally a 400 meter dash specialist, Miller claimed a Division II district championship in the 200 on a steamy Saturday afternoon on his home track. The Ontario junior won in 22.14 seconds, nearly four-tenths of...
Back on top: Lexington nets second district title in three years with win over Clear Fork
WILLARD — It was a familiar and unfamiliar feeling all wrapped into one moment. As Lexington's Kaylie Eichorn stepped forward with her fellow senior teammates to receive the Division II district championship trophy after a 7-1 victory over Clear Fork, the memories came flooding back. They were from her sophomore year when she helped Lex win its first softball district title in 11 years with a sac fly in the 12th inning. ...
Camryn Kiefer's one-hitter leads Tuslaw softball to district title win over Hillsdale
WELLINGTON — Camryn Kiefer and her Tuslaw softball team felt they had something to prove this season after exiting the postseason tournament earlier than anticipated a year ago. So, Kiefer struck out 13 batters and gave up only a first-inning hit in leading Tuslaw to a 4-0 win over...
Baseball: Lexington surprises Wapakoneta in sectional final
WAPAKONETA — Not many people gave Lexington, a No. 9 seed that finished sixth in its league, much of a chance against No. 2 seeded Wapakoneta, which shared the Western Buckeye League championship, in their Division II baseball sectional final Friday. Maybe they should have. The Minutemen looked the...
Ashland boys share district track title, 16 Arrow qualifiers headed to regional
FINDLAY – The Ashland High School boys track and field team is at it again. The Arrows piled up regional qualifiers in 11 different events Saturday when their Division I district meet wrapped up at Findlay High School’s Cooper Tire Track and Field Facility. The outing resulted in...
Title reign comes to an end: Crestview boys still produce five district track champs
NORTH ROBINSON — At this late stage of his high school career, Crestview senior Wade Bolin is left measuring himself against … himself. When you’re No. 1 in the state in the discus and shot put, it’s hard to be happy with winning district titles in both if you don’t hit the standards you’ve already set for yourself. ...
Loudonville tabs Danville legend Honabarger as new football coach
LOUDONVILLE — Ed Honabarger is returning to the Knox Morrow Athletic Conference, but he won’t be wearing the Blue and White of the Danville Blue Devils. A Danville coaching icon, Honabarger was introduced as Loudonville’s new football coach and assistant principal Friday afternoon. He succeeds John Battaglia, who recently stepped down after three seasons.
Anthony Wayne softball records 3rd straight tournament shutout
BOWLING GREEN — Stingy pitching and one big inning of offense were the main ingredients for Anthony Wayne on Friday night, as the third-ranked Generals captured their fourth straight Division I district softball title with a 7-0 victory over Mansfield Madison at Bowling Green State University's Meserve Field. Anthony Wayne (25-1), which had clinched a Northern Lakes League Buckeye Division championship with a resounding 15-5 win at Perrysburg on Monday, made it 3-for-3 with tournament shutouts so far by blanking the Rams (20-6) from the Ohio Cardinal Conference. Senior right-hander Kat Meyers, who will pitch next year for the University of Michigan, followed her seven-inning, 18-strikeout perfect game from the Generals 4-0 district semifinal win over Start on Tuesday with five innings of two-hit shutout pitching versus Madison. “I felt pretty good today in warm-ups,” Meyers said. “The field was a little wet, but that's all right. You've just kind of got to work with it and dig it out a little bit. “Our defense was great. I always have my full confidence in them. I had the same mindset as I did on Tuesday — one batter at a time.”
Brothers serve up history: Ontario duo joins five state-bound Lex players
PORT CLINTON — What do you do if you’ve just put your stamp on a historical achievement? If you’re brothers Pablo and Hector Sanchez Vidal you just keep going, looking for more. On Thursday, the Spanish siblings won both of their doubles matches in the opening session of the Division II district tennis tournament in Port Clinton to become the first state qualifiers in the history of the boys program at Ontario. ...
Mount Gilead makes it a three-peat at Saturday's district track and field championships
WESTERVILLE — At Mount Gilead, it's run-for-all and all-for run ... plus some all-for-jump and all-for-throw, too. For the third straight season and 12th time in program history, the Mount Gilead boys track and field team won the Division III Central District championship Saturday morning at Westerville North. "It’s...
Northmor defense stifles Madison Christian
Defense dominated as Northmor pitched a 1-0 shutout of Madison Christian for an Ohio high school baseball victory at Madison Christian High on May 16. In recent action on May 8, Northmor faced off against Central Crossing. We want your feedback on the accuracy and quality of this article. Take...
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