COLUMBIA STATION — The Columbia Board of Education on Friday accepted the resignation of former head boys basketball Coach Matt Sheets, who was on paid administrative leave pending a criminal investigation into allegations he was providing beer and marijuana to a 19-year-old former student at the school. Sheets, who was also a social studies teacher [...]
Girls basketball: Columbia senior trio riding the wave after upset of EC last season
The official Ohio High School Athletic Association calendar said the 2012-13 basketball season started Nov. 23, but don’t tell that to Columbia. For the Raiders it really started back on Feb. 25. That was the date that a Columbia team that ended the regular season with a 2-18 record pulled off a shocker, upsetting No. [...]
Girls basketball: EC avenges tournament loss to Columbia
ELYRIA — It wasn’t exactly like revenge. Was it more like déjà vu? Elyria Catholic fans can remember last season when the Panthers split two basketball games with the Columbia girls. EC won the regular-season meeting by a wide margin. Columbia ended the Panthers’ season with a close victory in the district tournament. On Wednesday [...]
High school football: Six honored for Columbia, including 1st-teamer Banyasz
COLUMBIA STATION — Columbia’s football team had a fantastic season on the field. As a result, the Raiders are getting some accolades off it. Columbia went 9-1 in the regular season, winning the outright Patriot Athletic Conference championship, hosting and winning its first-ever playoff game (39-34 over Archbold) and winning more games (10) and advancing [...]
Girls basketball: Columbia rides fast start to season-opening win over North Ridgeville
COLUMBIA STATION — If every game can be as easy as Saturday night’s season opener for the Columbia Raiders, first-year head coach Ken Marlette will end up looking like a defensive wizard. But even Marlette is quick to point out that his team is still a work in progress. Behind the double-digit scoring of Kaley [...]
Turkey farmers keep family and national tradition alive
COLUMBIA STATION — Glancing over the approximately 15 turkeys plucking grain from the ground of her 50-acre family farm, Kathy Breychak told visitors what they’d missed. “If you’d been here last week you would have seen the whole group,” Breychak said of the 15-year-old Blue Egg Farm run by the family of four, which typically [...]
High school football: Elyria’s Tracy Sprinkle, Midview’s Cody Callaway and Clearview’s Chad Anderson district players of the year
Every high school football player puts together a handful of goals before the season. Midview junior Cody Callaway trimmed his list to three. “One was to get all-state recognition,” Callaway said. “The others were to get to the playoffs and win a state title.” Two out of three ain’t bad. Callaway will earn his All-Ohio [...]
High school soccer: Wellington’s Grace Dooley, Oberlin’s Sam Weiss make first team All-Ohio
Grace Dooley and Sam Weiss have something in common besides being first-team Division III All-Ohio soccer players. Dooley never really wanted to play defense and pretty much no defense this season really wanted to play Weiss. Dooley, a senior sweeper from Wellington, and Weiss, a senior striker from Oberlin, were the lone Lorain County players [...]
High school football: National recognition nice, but Raiders’ QB really just wants wins
As a football program, the Columbia Raiders take great pride in playing as a unit, with 11 players on the field working together toward a common goal. Last Saturday, in the Raiders’ 39-34 first-round playoff victory over Archbold, there were times when it looked as if Columbia was a bit out of sorts … in [...]
Columbia football finding success due to consistent message
The Columbia Raiders have bought in. For years, dating back to well before coach Jason Ward made the scene on the sideline in Columbia Station, the Raiders program was never considered one of the power programs in the area. They’d manage a good season here or there, but they were never a team that put [...]
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