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Lions pounce on Kidron CC to win first district championship

SMITHVILLE – The goal was to make school history. And that is exactly what the Heartland Christian Lions boys’ basketball team accomplished. The third-seeded Lions continued their hot shooting and ferocious defense to throttle the seventh-seeded Kidron Central Christian Comets 82-52, ...

Every angler’s love for fishing started somewhere

Consider the fact that you’re either an angler or you’re not. Even if you have only a foggy memory of a day long ago when someone took you to a pond and handed you a fishing rod, you are a fisher. So, the way I see it, everybody started somewhere or they simply never took the bait. ...

Ursuline falls to Hawken for second straight year

WARREN — The Ursuline boys basketball team’s postseason fate was determined by a familiar foe on Saturday. The Fighting Irish had their season derailed for the second year in a row by Gates Mills Hawken, as Ursuline fell to the Hawks 72-59 in the Division III, Northeast 2, district final ...

McDonald can’t complete comeback vs. Hillsdale

WEATHERSFIELD — McDonald, after going down 22 points in the third quarter of Saturday’s Division VII, Northeast 1, district final, needed everything to go right in the fourth to complete its improbable comeback. A lot did go right for the Blue Devils, but just not everything, and, as a ...

No. 19 Miami (Ohio) caps a 31-0 regular season with an overtime win at Ohio

ATHENS — Miami (Ohio) finished the regular season as the only unbeaten team in Division I men's basketball, with Eian Elmer scoring a career-high 32 points and grabbing 12 rebounds in a gritty 110-108 overtime victory over Ohio on Friday night. Peter Suder scored five of his 13 points in ...

Buckeyes beat Minnesota in Big Ten tourney

INDIANAPOLIS — Elsa Lemmila had 17 points and 11 rebounds, Jaloni Cambridge also scored 17, and No. 11 Ohio State beat No. 19 Minnesota 60-55 on Friday in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament. Fourth-seeded Ohio State (26-6) plays No. 1 seed and second-ranked UCLA — which beat the ...