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Riordin Stauffer (24) looks to get past a Mechanicsburg defender in this file photo. The Fairbanks running back will help lead the team into a Division VI playoff game at Paint Valley on Saturday. (Jo...

North Union’s Nolan Draper (11) prepares to stop a Kenton Ridge ball carrier. Also pictured for the Wildcats is Trey Bossaller (14). NU will host Genoa Area in the Division V state playoffs on Saturda...

Panther senior Cade Ziegler, right, goes up for possession of the ball during Wednesday’s Division III soccer district semifinal match. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) FHS senior Cade Ziegler is...

North Union’s Owen Davis (1) attempts to avoid a tackle against Kenton Ridge. Also pictured for NU is Lincoln Harrah (15). Davis has been named as the Central Buckeye Conference’s Mad River Division o...

These Marysville High School cross-country runners earned Division I disrict honors and/or advanced to Saturday’s regional meet that will be held at Pickerington North High School. Preston Herring (ce...

Anna Higbee of FHS (15) sends the ball over the net past Africentric blockers. Also pictured for the Lady Panthers is Kaelynn Sphapmixay (center). Fairbanks’ season ended with a Division III district ...

North Union’s Journey Blevins (11) blasts the ball over the net in this 2020 file photo. Blevins, who is a freshman player at the University of Findlay, has earned conference player of the week honors...

Marysville’s Matt Krutowskis picks up yardage through a hole created by the offensive line against Olentangy. The Monarchs will host Delaware Hayes on Friday for the opening round of the Division I st...

We now have a tie at the top of the Pigskin Pickers. Reporter Mac Cordell got lucky and won seven of last week’s nine games, while publisher Kevin Behrens did the customer golf thing and slipped to 5-...

Tree of Life keeper Adam Pugsley (1) goes up for a save Wednesday evening. Fairbanks’ Cade Ziegler (2) and Cade Feller (background) crash toward the goal. The Panthers beat TOL, 3-2, in sudden victory...

JA’s Alex Shaw (12) attempts to sift past a Lady Warrior defender. Also pictured is Alder’s Ava Ater (24). The Lady Pioneers ended their season Wednesday in the second round of the OHSAA district brac...

Who ever said soccer wasn’t a contact sport? The players from Fairbanks and Columbus School for Girls would have disagreed Tuesday evening. In the above photo, FHS’ Elaina Lahmers (5) falls to the gro...

Wyatt Kaizer of Jonathan Alder leaps to catch a ball behind his head at the Springfield Shawnee one-yard-line. The Pioneers will play at Columbus Eastmoor Academy on Friday during the first round of t...

Fairbanks senior Dylan Tobe attempts to score against Viking defenders. Tobe recorded a hat trick (three goals) in the team’s 6-2 tournament win over Columbus Academy Monday evening. (Journal-Tribune ...

The Bunsold Middle School boys cross-country team recently placed third in the OHSAA state meet. Members of the squad are from left, Adam DeSutter, Keaton Sanford, Mack Weithman, Trey Greenbaum, Luke ...

The high school football playoffs mark an extremely exciting time of year. It’s a reward for the hard work that successful teams have put in since practice began in late July. The Journal-Tribune’s co...

The Marysville sixth-grade football team defeated West Jefferson, 16-14, on Saturday at Lewis Field. In the above photo, Gage Henry tries to stay inbounds while Griffey Beery looks to block downfield....

A block by Gavin Rohrs, right, springs Colton Powers (32) for yardage against Olentangy on Friday. The Monarchs will open the Division I playoffs at home this Friday against Delaware Hayes. (Journal-T...

First-round state playoff opponents have been announced for regions involving Union County-area football teams. Games for Division I (Marysville) and Division III (Jonathan Alder) will be played on Fr...

Kaelynn Sphapmixay (20) of Fairbanks sets the ball for Caydee Breneman’s (17) kill Saturday afternoon. The Lady Panthers won the Division III sectional title with a three-set sweep over Africentric. (...

Elaina Lahmers (5) of Fairbanks controls the ball against a Tree of Life opponent. FHS won the tournament match, 4-0. (Photo submitted) The second-seeded Fairbanks girls soccer team opened Division II...

Bailey Gross, left, and Bryn Hothem of Marysville are pictured competing in the Division I district meet on Saturday. They helped the Lady Monarchs to a spot in this Saturday’s regional meet. (Photo s...

Marysville linebacker Gabe Powers (36) bats down a pass at Olentangy on Friday. The Monarchs won 35-13 to finish the regular season at 9-0. (Journal-Tribune photo by Chad Williamson) In Friday night’s...

North Union’s Body Wilson (5) covers on this play as an Urbana receiver catches a pass. (Photo submitted) North Union did what it had to do Friday during its regular-season finale at home against Urba...

This Springfield Shawnee player breaks up a pass in the end zone to Jonathan Alder’s Gibby Wilson. The Braves, though, were called for pass interference. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) Springfi...

Fairbanks’ Riordin Stauffer (24) angles his way towards the sideline, breaking a few arm tackles for a decent gain. (Journal-Tribune photo by Aleksei Pavloff) Another road loss has left a claw of Fair...

Triad’s Hunter Thompson (24) tackles a West Liberty ball carrier. Also pictured for the Cardinals is Cam Burden (23). (Photo submitted) Triad concluded the 2021 football season on Friday with a 61-20 ...

Above, Marysville running back Griffin Johnson stretches the ball over the goal line for a 4-yard touchdown in the second quarter of Friday’s game against Olentangy. (Journal-Tribune photo by Chad Wil...

Marysville’s Jared Boomstra attempts to clear the ball from the Monarchs’ net in the second half of the match against Pickerington North. Marysville lost Thursday night 1-0, ending their 2021 season. ...

Lady Pioneer keeper Sophie Schaefer (left) clears the ball in this file photo. Jonathan Alder beat Licking Valley, 1-0, on Thursday during a Division II tournament game. (Journal-Tribune photo by Alek...