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WELLINGTON — Sometimes a big hit doesn’t have to be well-struck. Daryn Broadwater’s one-out infield single went about 20 feet, but it was enough to drive home JuJuan Howard and give Wellington a 5-4 win in eight innings over Oberlin in a sectional opener of the Division III Parma District. Brock Waltz had a pair [...]
The Wellington man who robbed Sun Center Federal Credit Union last year was sentenced Tuesday to six years in federal prison. Aaron Fortier pleaded guilty earlier this year to a federal bank robbery charge in connection with the Oct. 23 robbery of the Wellington bank in which he stole around $11,118. According to an FBI [...]
VERMILION — Last year was great. This year was better. A year ago, the Vermilion girls won their annual track and field invitational for the first time. Friday, even without the services of their graduated star Emily Cunningham, the Sailors made it two in a row. Dominating the event from the get-go and buoyed by [...]
LAGRANGE — Sinister forces in the cosmos were notably unkind to Elyria on Saturday. The Pioneers (13-4) lost twice to top-ranked teams as the eighth annual Prebis Memorial Classic wound down at LaGrange Community Park. They surrendered five unearned runs in the eighth inning of a 7-2 morning loss to North Canton Hoover (19-0), the [...]
The Prebis Memorial Classic is in its eighth year and keeps getting better with age. This year’s edition will feature 40 games played over two days on nine fields at LaGrange Community Park and Wellington Recreation Park. The 30-team field includes seven teams that played in the state tournament last year in Akron and seven [...]
HENRIETTA TWP. — It’s early in the high school track season, but the North Ridgeville boys are already in midseason form. Sophomore Jonah Bowden won the shot put and finished second in the discus, while also anchoring a second-place relay as the Rangers took first place at the Nelson Howe Invitational at Firelands High School. [...]
AMHERST — Nothing cute intended, but the Amherst battery put a charge in the Comets that sparked their 10-0 non-conference, mercy-rule win over Wellington on Wednesday. Amherst’s Mallory Harrell, a junior making her first varsity pitching start, allowed a single to Dukes leadoff batter Erin Reisinger. Harrell didn’t allow another hit the rest of the [...]
WELLINGTON — Wellington firefighters were called to two unrelated incidents involving CSX trains within 18 hours Tuesday night and Wednesday. The first occurred about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday when fire broke out in a locomotive of a CSX freight train at the Webster Road crossing, according to Wellington Fire Chief Mike Weatherbee. The fire was confined [...]
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