Archive for December, 2011
Girls basketball: Elyria Catholic thinks inside the box, uses special defense to slow North Ridgeville star, get win
ELYRIA — Elyria Catholic defeated North Ridgeville 57-46 for a big West Shore Conference win Saturday afternoon at the Coliseum. The victory was decisive enough, but a couple of questions will hang over it for some time to come. The Panthers won in part by limiting Ashley Montgomery, Ridgeville’s career scoring leader, to 19 points, [...]
Girls basketball: New gym but no win as Elyria falls to Medina
ELYRIA — Medina spoiled Elyria’s girls debut in its brand new gym Saturday night but it didn’t take Mike Walsh long to dissect the reasons. “That’s a good basketball team,” the Elyria coach said. “They’re the defending champs. They made some key threes in the first half. If they were open, they knocked it down.” [...]
High school wrestling: North Ridgeville earns four individual titles, third place as a team at J.B. Firestone Invitational
SULLIVAN TWP. — North Ridgeville’s lightweight wrestlers reached the finals in four of the first five weight classes at the 38th Annual Black River J.B. Firestone Invitational on Saturday. Better still for the Rangers, all four were victorious, giving North Ridgeville a tournament-best four individual champions en route to a third-place finish in the team [...]
High school hockey: Avon Lake scores late goal to salvage tie with Avon in Lorain County Tournament
ELYRIA — Zach Little said he never saw the pass that gave him the chance to give Avon Lake its first point of the Lorain County Tournament. “I just crashed the net and put it in,” Little said. “I didn’t see who passed it. I just saw the puck out front and buried it.” It [...]
High school wrestling notes: An early season rivalry begins
Amherst junior Bryan DeRuchie and North Ridgeville senior Mark Carosella have developed an early season rivalry after facing each other during the first two weekends of the wrestling season. DeRuchie used a late reversal to tie their match and a takedown in overtime to win at the Bob Bailey Invitational in Bellevue last weekend, and [...]
Lorain calls snow parking ban
Lorain has put a snow parking ban on all designated snow streets. The ban is in effect until 3 p.m. Sunday. A full list of the designated streets can be found at www.cityoflorain.org.
Ronald “Ron” Simpkins, Sr.
Ronald “Ron” Simpkins, Sr., 65, died suddenly Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at his residence. Ron was born October 13, 1946 in Delbarton, West Virginia, living most of his life in Lorain. He was a 1966 graduate of Elyria High School. Ron was employed for 31 years as a technician at General Motors, retiring in 2006. [...]
Robert Mervyn Nicholls
Robert Mervyn Nicholls, 83, of Elyria, died Thursday, December 15, 2011 at the Wesleyan Village, Elyria. Arrangements entrusted to the Walter A. Frey Funeral Home, 700 West Erie Avenue, Lorain, Ohio 44052.
Loreen H. Montague Little
Loreen H. Montague Little, 61, of Elyria, died Thursday, December 15, 2011, at EMH Healthcare, after a lengthy illness. Dicken Funeral Home, Elyria, will be announcing arrangements.
Sandra L. Sycz
Sandra L. Sycz (nee Schumacher), 68, of North Ridgeville, passed away Thursday, December 15, 2011 at Fairview General Hospital, following a long illness. She was born in Cleveland and had been a resident of North Ridgeville for the past 33 years.Sandra worked as a manager at Burger King in North Ridgeville for 25 years. She [...]
Geneva M. Knechtges
Geneva M. Knechtges, 97, of Grafton, passed away Thursday, December 15, 2011, at the Renaissance in Olmsted Falls, after a long illness. She was born March 24, 1914 in Apple Creek, living in Grafton since 1940. She was a member of Our Lady Queen of Peace, formerly Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, for many years and [...]
Elsie K. Showalter
Elsie K. Showalter (nee McGuire), 92, died Thursday, December 15, 2011, at Avon Oaks Hills Nursing Facility, following a six year illness. She was born October 18, 1919, in Lorain, to the late Sarah Margaret (nee King) and Michael McGuire. Mrs. Showalter lived in Sheffield Lake before moving in 1937 to Sheffield Village, where she [...]
Eddie Scott
Eddie Scott, 80, of Elyria, passed away peacefully, in the Wesleyan Village of Elyria, Wednesday, December 14, 2011, following a long illness. Mr. Scott was born in Selma, Alabama, lived in Cleveland for many years then Boston, Massachusetts, and had been living in Elyria for the past nine years.He was a chipper for Cleveland Foundry [...]
Boys basketball: Elyria Catholic hits free throws when they count, downs Avon
AVON — Elyria Catholic sophomore Jeremy Holley was part of a group that had struggled from the free throw line Friday night. Shooting a dismal 4-of-13 right into the teeth of the rabid Avon student section, the Panthers saw a six-point halftime lead dwindle all the way to one with 5.6 seconds remaining. Then Holley, [...]
Boys basketball: Elyria catches Brunswick but falls in overtime
ELYRIA — There’s something about Elyria that just seems to bring the best out in Brunswick. Coach Joe Mackey, author of 228 career wins in his 16-year career, has made a habit of beating the Pioneers. Friday, Brunswick escaped with a 59-53 overtime verdict to open Northeast Ohio Conference Valley Division play. It marked the [...]
Boys basketball: Wellington turns close game into rout with 31-0 run against Clearview
SHEFFIELD TWP. — Two games were played last night in the Clearview gym. One was a back-and-forth affair that promised to turn into a nail-biter, the other was a wide-open, take-no-prisoners blowout. The strange thing was both were played in a total of four quarters as the Wellington Dukes blasted the Clippers over the last [...]
Ben Watson done for year: Third concussion in five months lands Browns tight end on injured reserve
BEREA — After suffering three concussions in the last five months, Browns tight end Benjamin Watson’s season is over. Cleveland placed the eighth-year pro on injured reserve Friday, ending any possibility that he could return in the team’s final three games. Watson had consulted with a specialist earlier in the week after being injured again [...]
Browns notes: GM Tom Heckert still waiting to see the Montario Hardesty he drafted
BEREA — General manager Tom Heckert has yet to see the Montario Hardesty he saw at Tennessee, then traded up to draft in the second round in 2010. That’s not likely to change in the final three weeks of the season. Hardesty, a running back, remained limited in practice Friday with a calf injury originally [...]
Kyrie Irving has solid debut as Cavaliers beat Pistons in preseason opener
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Kyrie Irving’s first exhibition game was a success. Irving scored 21 points — including five free throws in the final minute — in the Cleveland Cavaliers’ 91-87 victory over Detroit on Friday night. The Pistons nearly rallied from an 11-point deficit, but they turned the ball over with a chance to [...]
Deputy in counseling after shooting
ELYRIA — Lorain County sheriff’s Deputy Steve Fuller began counseling sessions Friday to help him cope with having shot a fellow deputy Monday during a shootout with a suspect who later took his own life, Sheriff’s Capt. Jim Drozdowski said. The friendly fire incident that injured Deputy Charles Crausaz remains under investigation by the Elyria [...]
Not-Forgotten Box donations far exceed goal
The two were neck-and-neck when it came to votes and spending, but it was actually the candidate who spent the least who would become the next Avon Lake mayor. Mayor-elect Greg Zilka spent about $2,100 less than incumbent Karl “K.C.” Zuber in his successful bid to unseat the one-term executive. According to unofficial election results, [...]
Avon Lake mayoral race was county’s costliest
The two were neck-and-neck when it came to votes and spending, but it was actually the candidate who spent the least who would become the next Avon Lake mayor. Mayor-elect Greg Zilka spent about $2,100 less than incumbent Karl “K.C.” Zuber in his successful bid to unseat the one-term executive. According to unofficial election results, [...]
State jobless rate takes deep drop
COLUMBUS — Ohio’s unemployment rate saw its largest one-month decline in nearly 30 years during November amid improvement in the state’s job market and overall economy, and as thousands of the state’s jobless stopped searching for work, officials said Friday. Gov. John Kasich called the report “encouraging.” Joblessness dropped to 8.5 percent last month, from [...]
Bad start: Man robbed when meeting online date
LORAIN — A Lorain man who was supposed to meet a woman he met online told police he instead was met by two men wearing ski masks who robbed him. The man told police he met a woman named JAZMINE440 through an online dating site, www.datehookup.com, and the two decided to meet. The two planned [...]
BLOTTER: Dec. 17, 2011
Elyria police Tuesday, Dec. 13 11:43 a.m. — 200 block Harrison St., Jeremiah Harvan, 34, 800 block Baldwin Ave., charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. 1:09 p.m. — 100 block Delaware Court, a woman reported someone entered her home and stole medication. 1:42 p.m. — Leo Bullocks Parkway and South Gateway Boulevard, Richard Dojcak, 51, [...]