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These Fairbanks High School baseball lettermen will lead the team into today’s scheduled season-opener at home against River Valley. Panther lettermen are from left, Alex Blumenschein, Mason Cushman, ...

Marysville High School’s girls softball team is scheduled to host New Albany today for a doubleheader. Returning lettermen for the Lady Monarchs are from left, Abri Schmutz, Abbie Gindlesberger, Lexi ...

Marysville High School senior Brynn Rychlik (front) recently signed to continue her pole vault career at the University of Akron. Pictured in the back row from left are MHS head track and field coach ...

Stephen DeRoades, a graduate of Fairbanks High School, works the boys Division III state championship game last weekend at the University of Dayton. (Photo submitted) Fairbanks High School graduate St...

These youth wrestlers finished in the top seven of a recent OHWAY state tournament. Included in the photo second from left is Berkley Behrens of Marysville, who placed fourth in his weight class. (Jou...

A Jonathan Alder junior high wrestler recently earned state honors. Anthony Kroninger, who is an eighth-grade student at JA, placed seventh during the state junior high championship. Kronginger, who c...

Danielle Robbins of Jonathan Alder rips a base hit during a 2019 tournament game. The Lady Pioneers, who won the Division II state title that year, are preparing for 2021 after the COVID shutdown of t...

Marysville High School basketball players Garrett Taylor, left, and Jack Christian have been honored by the Ohio Capital Conference Cardinal Divsion. Christian was named to the first team, while Taylo...

Lady Panther pitcher Julia Cheney prepares to release the ball toward the plate during a 2019 game. The FHS team is in quarantine until Sunday due to COVID. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) The c...

Fairbanks High School’s Mason Sines (32) makes a stop in the goal for the Hilliard hockey team. Sines recently completed his second season with the squad. (File photo) Alex Kerr of Jonathan Alder (8) ...

Marysville girls basketball coach Klarke Ransome walks back to his team with the Division II district runner-up trophy. The 2020-21 campaign marked the first time the Lady Monarchs had played in the d...

The search is on for a new head football coach at Jonathan Alder High School. Pioneer boss Brett Glass announced this week he is leaving, pending board of education approval, to take over as the new h...

Marysville High School officials have announced, pending approval by the district’s board of education, the hiring of a new head girls soccer coach. The position became vacant with the resignation of ...

Jonathan Alder head football coach Brett Glass, right, gives sideline instructions in this file photo. Pending approval by the Dublin Jerome board of education, Glass will become the Celtics’ new coac...

In the photo to the left, Triad’s Frani LeVan (23) goes up for a shot in this file photo. She finished her senior season with more than 1,000 career points. At the right, Cati LeVan of Triad (13) driv...

The position hasn’t been officially posted, but Jonathan Alder officials are looking for a new girls head basketball coach. Steve Cawley stepped down this week from the position he’s held for the past...

JA senior Jackson Izzard puts the ball in the basket during a 2020-21 game. Izzard has been named the player of the year in the Central Buckeye Conference’s Kenton Trail Division. (Journal-Tribune pho...

These Marysville High School wrestlers earned medals for the 2020-21 Division I state tournament. They are from left, Colton Powers (170), eighth; and Erryl Will (152) and Lincoln Heard (138), seventh...

Billy Reed-Bodey, left, of Fairbanks bear hugs Brodie Stevens of Swanton during the heavyweight consolation semifinals of the Division III Ohio High School Athletic Association State Wrestling Tournam...

Marysville’s Erryl Will (top photo) and Lincoln Heard (bottom) have control over their opponents during the matches for seventh/eighth place at Hilliard Darby High School on Sunday. Will and Heard cla...

Aiden Spriggs (30) of triad attmepts to split a pair of Fairbanks defenders during his drive to the basket. (Journal-Tribune photo by Sam Dillon) Left: Batati Lease (22) of Triad drives to the basket ...

In the top photo, Fairbanks senior Braylon Green (right) goes up for a basket. Green was named the Ohio Heritage Conference’s North Division player of the year and first team for the 2020-21 campaign....

These Marysville High School wrestlers will compete this weekend during the Division I state wrestling tournament. They are from left, front row, Erryl Will, Lincoln Heard and Jack Golla; back row, Co...

Fairbanks High School wrestler Billy Reed-Bodey, left, works on a single-leg takedown against Marysville’s Zach McMinn. Both heavyweight grapplers will compete in their respective state tournaments th...

Marysville sophomore Ava Wilkerson drives to the basket during a game from the 2020-21 season. Wilkerson has been named the Ohio Capital Conference Cardinal Division player of the year. (Journal-Tribu...

Jonathan Alder 120-pound wrestler Josh Proper has control of an opponent’s leg during a 2020-21 match. Proper is one of three Pioneer grapplers who will compete during the Division II state tournament...

Pictured from left are local high school basketball players who have earned first-team Central District honors for the 2020-21 season. They are Jackson Izzard (Jonathan Alder), Preston Crabtree (North...

The Hot Shots 16 American volleyball team took top honors at the recent Terry Miller All-American Classic. The 36-team Ohio Valley Region (OVR) tournament was held at the Columbus Convention Center.  ...

Billy Reed-Bodey, top, of Fairbanks rides Drew Harris of Alexander during the second period of the district semifinals heavyweight match. Reed-Bodey beat Harris by a 4-1 decsion to advance to the fina...

In the photo above, Monarch heavyweight Zach McMinn (left) fights off a two-on-one hold against Hilliard Bradley’s Robert Snyder. McMinn won the match, 7-6. Below, Marysville’s Lincoln Heard (138) pre...