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LORAIN — Holy Name might want to consider sending thank you cards to Firelands after the gifts the Falcons handed the Green Wave on Monday. Firelands committed five errors and uncorked three wild pitches to hand Holy Name six unearned runs in the Green Wave’s 7-4 Division II district semifinal win over the Falcons at [...]
LORAIN — All Vermilion had to do was get through one final inning and it would still be playing baseball today. But the top-seeded Sailors couldn’t do that, losing 7-6 to third-seeded Cleveland Benedictine in a Division II district semifinal game at The Pipe Yard. The Sailors concluded their season with a 13-15 record, while [...]
ROCKY RIVER — After a rocky start, Vermilion senior Chaz Hansen settled down and lived up to his No. 1 seeding with a 1-6, 6-1, 6-4 win over Lake Ridge junior Caleb Mayer in the Division II sectional singles final Saturday at Tri-City Park. “He was playing very well at the beginning,” Hansen said of [...]
OBERLIN — It’s the one thing most freshmen need to become a championship tennis player: the mental aspect of the game. It was definitely a factor in why Avon’s Nico Mostardi fell 6-1, 6-0 to top-seeded Nathan Griffin of St. Ignatius in Saturday morning’s Division I sectional final at the Don Hunsinger Courts at Oberlin [...]
AVON — Revenge can be sweet, even if it comes against a relative. North Ridgeville’s Paul Sonego defended his 400-meter title at the West Shore Conference championships Friday. It could have been a three-peat were it not for Bay’s Nathan Baumgard, who won the 400 by .001 in 2011. Sonego gave Nathan’s younger brother, Zach, [...]
EATON TWP. — Amazing. Awesome. Almost perfect. Midview senior southpaw Eric Lauer was his usual unhittable self Friday in a 1-0 victory over North Ridgeville as the Middies won a Division I sectional title on a gorgeous afternoon before a large crowd of about 200. Midview (19-6) advanced to the district tournament to meet Lakewood [...]
ELYRIA — Alexis Roseboro’s second-inning home run was enough for Elyria to nip Medina on Friday and win the Northeast Ohio Conference Valley Division title. But to Pioneers fans, it didn’t seem like enough, given that Bees pitcher Megan Paradise was holding her own in a tense pitchers battle with Elyria’s Caitlyn Minney. So Roseboro’s [...]
AVON LAKE — Looking for a little extra incentive at Friday’s Southwestern Conference track and field championships, the Amherst girls found the perfect motivator: the meet record for team points. The magic number was 157, set by Amherst in 2000. And, just like magic, the Comets made that number disappear, winning 11 of 17 events [...]
ELYRIA — KJ Allgood didn’t know he was going to start Elyria’s Division I sectional tournament opener until batting practice. He responded with his first win of the season. It was a big one. Allgood threw a five-inning no-hitter in Thursday’s 10-0 win over North Olmsted at George Day Field, redemption for a recent 15-5 [...]
VERMILION — Firelands used a six-run fourth inning Thursday to knock off backyard rival Vermilion 8-2 and win its second straight Division II sectional softball title. The Falcons got 14 strikeouts from senior Sam Dostall, and her batterymate, junior catcher Nicole Rainey, had three hits for the second straight game as Firelands improved to 13-11 [...]
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