Sports

Swimmers dive from the boards during the start of the second heat of the boys 10 and under 25-yard freestyle. The Muirfins where able to top the Stingray boy’s team to help them win the meet. (Journal...

A Fairbanks U15 baseball team capped off a perfect 14-0 season in the Midwest Buckeye League with a 7-5 win against the London Red team recently to earn the league championship. The team posed for a p...

The Heart of Ohio Junior Golf Association made their fourth stop on the tour at Pine Lakes in Mt. Gilead. Local golfer Justin Breckenridge of Fairbanks took second place in a field of 20 golfers in th...

Reese Cordonnier chips onto the hole 4 green at Marysville Golf Club during a round of the Union County Junior Golf Academy-Tour match. Cordonnier finished with a 68 in the Academy Disvion. (Journal-T...

Ohio Hawks 05 Gold won the 2018 Sheer Madness USA National Qualifier and Showcase recently. The Hawks went a perfect 7-0 to win the title, outscoring their opponents 48-6. The player and coaches are l...

Berkley Behrens of the Marysville Stingrays leaps from the platform during a 100-yard-freestyle race at a tri-meet between the Stingrays, Plain Township and Sycamore Hills. The Stingrays took first pl...

The North Union varsity boy’s basketball team participated in a summer camp Saturday and Sunday at the University of Findley. The Wildcats won the bronze bracket of the tournament. The team from the l...

The Union County YMCA gymnastics team is preparing for the 2018 National meet next week in Toledo. A total of 33 local girls ages 7-17 in Levels 3-8 will compete in various events against gymnasts fro...

SONDERS –––– Life has been pretty busy for Marysville High School graduate Holly (Niederkohr) Sonders. It’s going to become even more so during the coming months. Sonders, a 2005 MHS graduate, recentl...

Triad High School’s Cati Levan dribbles the ball against Fairbanks during a game from the 2017-18 season. Levan is one of only seven players in the Lady Cardinal hoop program this summer. (Journal-Tri...

The Marysville Stingrays swimming teams dropped recent meets to the Delaware Darts. Delaware’s boys beat the Rays 1,261-909, while the Dart girls defeated the Lady Stingrays 2,118-1,294. The top score...

The fifth annual “Tee It Up to End Alzheimer’s” golf fundraiser will be held next month. The event will be held on Sunday, July 15 at Blues Creek Golf Course. It will begin at noon. Slightly more than...

Brady Adams, 10, practices his putting at The Ridge on Thursday. He played in the fourth tournament of the Union County Junior Golf Academy-Tour. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) –––– The Union C...

Brooke Young, Marysville High School’s new girls basketball head coach, is pictured at center court. Young has coached in the Marysville girls hoop program for 10 years. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim ...

Fairbanks High School graduate Emily Wilson prepares to drive the ball at Marysville Golf Club on Wednesday. She was one of several local linksmen who competed in the Heart of Ohio Junior Golf Associa...

Lydia Cunningham follows through on her tee shot at Rolling Meadows on Tuesday. The Union County Jr. Golf Academy-Tour held its third tournament of the season. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) ––...

These Marysville High School softball players earned special awards for the 2018 season. They are from left, front row, Lexi Williams, honorable mention Ohio Capital Conference (OCC);  Airyanna Maurer...

Jeff Moeller is the new owner of Marysville Lanes. The facility will remain the home base for the high school bowling teams from Marysville, Fairbanks and North Union. It has been renamed “Dragon Lane...

Jarod Yoakam, center, Marysville’s 17U Elite baseball coach, makes a visit to the mound during a recent game against Benjamin Logan. Also pictured are from left, infielders Blake Storr and Trey Storr,...

Grady Wisecup, 10, practices his putting at Blues Creek Golf Club Thursday morning. Wisecup, who has played golf for the past four years, was getting in some extra work prior to his round of the Union...

Marysville Elite second baseman Garret Lobdell is a bit late with the tag as a Benjamin Logan runner swipes second on Thursday. The Monarchs, though, run-ruled the Raiders, 10-0, in six innings. (Jour...

Fairbanks’ Natalie Parker follows the flight of her shot during the girls’ Division II 2016 state golf tournament in Columbus. Parker is just one of the many golfers who played in the Union County Jun...

Marysville and Dublin swimmers dive into the water at the Marysville Municipal Pool on Wednesday. It was the beginning of the 18 and under butterfly event. The Marysville Stingrays split matches with ...

Jonathan Alder second baseman Angela Brandel makes the throw to first base for the out during JA’s Division II district championship victory. The Lady Pioneers will begin work soon to prepare for the ...

Avery Clark of North Union rounds the bases after hitting a home run during the Division III state semifinals game at Firestone Stadium in Akron. Clark earned the division’s All-State Player of the Ye...

Fairbanks’ Bella Rowland (14) guards against a shot during a game from the 2017-18 basketball season. Rowland and the other Lady Panthers will have a new head coach next winter. School officials are i...

Fairbanks senior Beau Sloan, far right, sprints down the track Saturday morning at The Ohio State University’s Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. Sloan placed fourth during the boys’ Division III 100-meter...

In the photo to the left, Jonathan Alder’s Lexi Thorpe leads this group of runners during the Division II girls 4 x 800 relay final on Friday at The Ohio State University’s Jesse Owens Memorial Stadiu...

Avery Clark makes contact with the ball during the Division III state semifinals softball game at Firestone Stadium in Akron against Warren Champion. Clark sparked the Lady Cats’ only offense of the d...

Jonathan Alder shorstop Emily Walker, left, can’t come up with the tag on this stolen base by West Branch’s Grace Heath on Thursday. The Lady Pioneers dropped the Division II state semifinal game, 5-4...