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The Marysville Elite 16U baseball team won the Pickerington Tournament over the weekend. Members of the team are from left, coach Jarod Yoakam, Garrett Lobdell, Lucas Schultze, Matthew Belt, Noah Brow...

Beau Sloan of Fairbanks sprints down the track during Saturday’s finals in the state Division III 100 meter dash. Sloan, running in the ninth lane, was the state runner-up. (Journal-Tribune photo by S...

Emily Walker of Jonathan Alder attempts to apply a tag on Brenna Brownfield of Lakewood during the Division II state semifinals game at Firestone Stadium in Akron. The Lady Lancers defeated the Lady P...

Fairbanks’ Jack Herbst clears a hurdle during the Division III state semifinals on Friday at OSU. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) –––– Friday’s opening day of the Ohio High School Athletic Assoc...

David Lingmerth follows through after his drive from the tee box on hole one of Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin while Vijay Singh watches on. Lingmerth is tied for the lead at seven under par af...

Jonathan Alder freshman Jillian Jaske (33) rips a base hit during a game from earlier in the 2017 season. Jaske has 48 RBIs for the campaign. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) –––– It will be a ba...

Fairbanks High School will be represented by, from left, Jack Herbst (110 and 300 meter hurdles), Kayla Green (300 hurdles) and Beau Sloan (100 meter dash) during the Division III state track and fiel...

Kevin Kisner opens up his Memorial Tournament play on the 10th hole at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin today. Kisner was last week’s winner at the Dean & Deluca Invitational, making it only his ...

The schedule has been announced for the 2017 season of the Union County Junior Golf Academy-Tour.

Jonathan Alder junior Preston Eisnaugle rips a base hit in this photo. Eisnaugle has been named to the Division II All-Ohio first team. (Journal-Tribune photo by Sam Dillon) –––– The Jonathan Alder Pi...

The Marysville Monarch Elite varsity baseball team tallied seven runs in the fourth inning en route to a 13-3 victory over the Ohio Punishers on Tuesday.

Triad’s Kristin Bailey shoots the ball, while Makenzie Cauley, right, awaits a possible rebound during a game from the 2016-17 season. The Lady Cardinals will be competing in a summer league in Wester...

F REDENDALL, RUSSELL, DAVIS, CLARK –––– The state Final Four-bound Lady Pioneers of Jonathan Alder are represented by several athletes on the All-Ohio and Central District softball teams for the 2017 ...

Lauren Colopy, left, and Kelsey Strahm are the last two standing during a ball-handling drill Tuesday morning at the Marysville Lady Monarch youth basketball camp. Colopy eventually won the competitio...

ROSS –––– Marysville High School senior Michael Ross was today named to the Division I honorable mention All-Ohio list for baseball.

Fairbanks hurdler Jack Herbst, left, is pictured in this file photo. Herbst has qualified to the Division III state meet in both the 110 and 300 hurdles for the fourth consecutive year. (Journal-Tribu...

Jonathan Alder catcher Evan Martin leaps to receive a throw from centerfield while a Lexington runner slides into the plate during the Division II regional semifinals in Bowling Green. The Pioneers st...

Jonathan Alder’s Aziza Ayoub, right, is pictured winning the 800 meter run during the 2016 Division II state track meet. Ayoub will compete in the regional finals in the event on Saturday. (Journal-Tr...

Fairbanks High School senior Alyx Wulff signs a letter of intent to play softball for Capital University. She is pictured in the front row with her parents Kevin Wulff and Krys Buyer. Pictured in the ...

Marysville’s Celia Soller, left, takes the handoff from Jenna Rioch during the girls 4 x 800 relay at the Division I regional meet Wednesday evening. The Lady Monarchs placed seventh during the event ...

Jonathan Alder first baseman Jillian Jakse receives a throw from third baseman Chloe Grove to record an out, while Emily Walker watches. The Lady Pioneers downed Springfield Shawnee, 11-2, Wednesday t...

Brad Schick, of Westerville, talks to a group of Marysville disc golfers during a clinic at Mill Valley South Disc Golf course on Tuesday. Schick is a professional disc golfer who plays for Team Discr...

Luke Couchman, left, prepares to receive the handoff from Emmanuel Belville during Marysville’s track practice on Tuesday. The pair will be part of the MHS 4 x 400 relay team that will compete in the ...

The Marysville Lady Monarch tennis team will conduct its annual summer youth clinic. Sessions will be held from 9 a.m. until noon at the MHS tennis courts July 18-20.

The softball and baseball teams from Jonathan Alder are the only local ball clubs still alive in high school tournament competition. In the above photo, the Lady Pioneers’ Chloe Grove (right) awaits a...

Marysville catcher Katelyn Russell (left) applies a late tag to a sliding Gahanna base runner on Saturday. The Lady Monarchs fell in the Division I district championship game, 11-1. (Journal-Tribune p...

When the competition gets to the district championship level in any sport, a team needs to bring what it calls its “A” game to the table.

Marysville’s boys 4 x 400 relay team of from left, Jarret Braun, Chris Lambert, Luke Couchman and Emmanuel Belville won the Division I district title on Saturday. (Photo submitted) –––– The Marysville...

In its two regular-season meetings against River Valley this spring, Jonathan Alder finished on the short end of the softball score both times.

North Union and Jonathan Alder will be sending runners on to the next level after they qualified for the Lexington regional track meet with solid times at the sectional track meet finals on Saturday.