CLEVELAND — Justin Masterson has been getting his usual lack of run support this season, so he took matters into his own hands Wednesday night at Progressive Field. Working his finest outing of the year, Masterson required little assistance from his offense. He just so happened to get plenty in an 8-1 victory over the [...]
Lorain Lions to provide vision screenings at festival this weekend
The Lorain Lions, who have been champions for the blind and vision-related causes for nearly all of their 90 years, will be providing free vision screenings for young children this weekend at Lorain International Festival. Families can come to their booth, but screenings “will be sporadic because we’ve got our people that are trained on [...]
Lorain Lions in the spotlight at International Festival
The Lorain Lions formed 90 years ago, and it didn’t take them long to find a mission. “We were challenged by Hellen Keller in 1925,” Lions President Douglas Kayle said at a Wednesday-night open house held to highlight the Lions’ work. That challenge came “at the Lions’ international convention, which, at the time was held [...]
Country’s only blind marching band to march in parade Sunday
As the Lorain Lions prepare to take the International Festival spotlight and highlight their work for vision issues in Lorain County, a very special musical group will join the festival. The Ohio State School for the Blind marching band, the only blind marching band in the country, and possibly the world, will march Sunday in [...]
Indians notes: Kipnis sits for first time
CLEVELAND — For the first time all season, Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis was not on the field — getting a scheduled day off in the series finale with Cincinnati on Wednesday night. “We are all Kipnisses, but we do have to take care of him,” manager Manny Acta said of Kipnis, who was hitting [...]
VIDEO: International Heritage of Sacred Music concert
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H.S. Softball: Keystone’s Kenzie Conrad named Lorain County Miss Softball
LAGRANGE — They steamrolled to conference, sectional, district, regional and state championships. They were ranked the top Division II team in the state from start to finish. And two prominent national polls named the Keystone Wildcats America’s best high school softball team when the dust finally lifted earlier this month. On Tuesday night, with a [...]
Crushers fall behind early, can’t catch up
AVON — For the third straight game, the Lake Erie Crushers spotted the Florence Freedom a three-run lead in the early going. While the Crushers made some noise, even putting the potential tying run on base with two outs in the bottom of the ninth Tuesday, they could not come-from-behind for the second straight night [...]
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