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High School Sports

Crilley continues climb: Ursuline thrower has best day at state meet

COLUMBUS — Weightlifting and throwing is what Connor Crilley just basks in. After previously making the state meet in junior high, he envisioned what the high school meet had in store. As a sophomore, he now has some hardware to take back to Ursuline. Crilley earned the state runner-up in ...

Reserve’s Becka rises to the occasion

COLUMBUS — The leap from not even making it out of the regional round to having a silver medal as the state runner-up is an extremely difficult accomplishment. Western Reserve sophomore Addison Becka did just that. On the third day of the OHSAA Jesse Owens Track and Field Championships, ...

Salem’s Murray runs to state title in the 200-meter dash

COLUMBUS — Following two weather delays on Saturday at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in Columbus, the OHSAA state track and field meet was perhaps the quickest it has ever been run. It was so efficiently run that Chaya Murray was still standing atop the podium with her gold medal when the ...

Missed opportunities cost South Range in state semi loss to Liberty Union

AKRON — For five innings, South Range hung tough with Division V's top-ranked team. But the Raiders’ season unraveled in the sixth inning. Baltimore Liberty Union capitalized on several South Range errors, and the Raiders’ missed opportunities finally caught up to them, as the Lions ...

Maplewood falls in Division VII state championship

AKRON — In front of what was possibly the entire population of Mecca Township, the Maplewood Rockets did what they have done in each of their last 30 trips to the diamond: Battle. Unfortunately for the Rockets, they couldn't get the hits they needed, falling 3-0, to Portsmouth Notre Dame, ...