Beaver Local 59, Minerva 36 CALCUTTA — Beaver Local’s boys basketball team is a different beast with senior Owen Hill in the lineup. Using Hill’s 19 points, the No. 4 seeded Beavers rolled past No. 8 Minerva 59-36 on Friday. Hill was back in the lineup after resting a foot injury ...
CANTON — Salem High School senior Ryan Folger ended his prep swimming career on the podium at the Division II state swimming meet on Friday at C.T. Branin Natatorium. Folger swam the 100-yard butterfly championship final in 50.52 seconds to take seventh. Oak Harbor senior Austin Sorg won the event in 47.68. Paul Mooney of University School was second in 48.45. Folger’s preliminary time was 50.44. Beaver Local junior Cole Long grabbed 10th in the 200 individual medley (1:58.63). Jackson Swiatek of Ontario won the consolation final in 1:58.32. In the 100 backstroke, Long ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Penn State junior Kaleb Nastari did not get to the finals in Big Ten Indoor Championships at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Nastari, a United graduate who holds Ohio’s high school record in the half mile, finished 16th out of 27 runners in the men’s 800-meter preliminaries Friday. His time of 1:49.91 was sixth in his heat. The top two each of three heats plus the next two fastest times qualify for the finals Saturday. Nastari had a career-best 1:47.19 earlier this year. Penn State senior Allon Clay had the top time in 1:46.31. Penn State runners posted four ...
Big MAC rules state bowling COLUMBUS — The Midwest Athletic Conference ruled the Ohio Division II boys high school bowling tournament Friday. Three MAC schools reached the semifinals at H.P. Lanes with St. Henry beating Coldwater in a match that went five baker games. St. Henry had games of 169-212-188-165-180, while Coldwater had had games of 174-179-164-167-168, while Coldwater led at the end of the individual series with 3,081 pins. Those two teams share the same home bowling alley, Pla-Mor Lanes, and finished as the top two teams in the state. Mentor Lake Catholic ...
NEW MANCHESTER, W.Va. — Oak Glen’s wrestling team didn’t see the typical success it has been used to this season but it did manage eight state tournament qualifiers and the team believes everything is in place for some good results on Thursday through Saturday at Mountain Health Arena in Huntington. “Even though we had some down tournaments, we wanted to peak at the right time, and that’s really what I’ve been trying to preach to the kids and what I’ve been trying to do in practice is prepare us for the regional and state tournament,” Oak Glen wrestling coach Josh ...
United 60, Mogadore 55 HANOVERTON — A United boys basketball sectional title was four decades in the making. The 21st-seeded Eagles beat 23rd-seeded Mogadore, 60-55, Thursday for its first sectional championship since 1985. United improves to 12-10 and will play at third-seeded ...
