Local softball squad puts in summer off-season work to maintain success

Jude Rauh, an eighth-grade camper, punts a football during a skills drill at Volunteer field during the last day of Jonathan Alder’s football youth camp Wednesday morning. Approximately 130 campers participated in this summer’s youth camp.

City officials held the unveiling of a new mural at Lewis Park Thursday morning. The mural shows members of the 1958 Marysville High School football team including: Jerry Brown (40), Dick Wilson (31), Jerry DeGood (50), Jerry “Ox” Yoakum (70), Jim Walker (64), Jim Burson (11), Herb Ross (71), Bill Helmick (16) and Dave Behrens (35). The team in the photo finished the season with a 4-4-1 record. Pictured above at the unveiling are, from left to right, Terry Emery, Brandon Moore, Alexis Hill, Jennifer Brock, Donald Boerger, Mark Reams, Katrena Sautlers, Sam Zwolle, Michael Zwolle, Chad Clarridge, Henk Berbee, Maggie Berbee and Leo Berbee. (Journal-Tribune photo by Kevin Behrens)

Fairbanks’ Carson Shope (left) looks in an incoming pass after finding an opening in Urbana’s defense on the first play from scrimmage. The Panthers hosted the Hillclimbers earlier this week for the team’s first offseason scrimmage. (Journal-Tribune photo by Aleksei Pavloff)

These former Marysville Mitts baseball players are the recipients of the 2025 Blake Gorton Memorial Scholarship. They are pictured from left, front row, Jack Widmer, Brandon Dunn, Ethan Heckel, Braydan Hoffman, Allison Gorton, Todd Gorton (Blake’s parents), Isaiah Brooks,  Mason Luke, Max Freeman and  Hayden Beery; back row, Blake Adkins, Nate Schiffer, Jackson Sloan, Jackson Dempsey,  Braiden McMahan, Ashtin Haubiel,  Adler Perry, Carson Mize, Rocco Marchetti, Aiden Tillman, Jake Fisher, Logan Landry and Jacob Schiffer. (Photo submitted)