MASON — Columbiana County has its first state tennis champion. Heartland Christian junior Cooper Grim won two matches on Friday at the Lindner Family Tennis Center to win the Div. II state singles championship. After a marathon 7-5, 6-7, 6-1 win over Pepper Pike Orange junior Ilya ...
MASON — Heartland Christian's Cooper Grim is two wins away from a state title. The highly ranked junior won his first two matches on Thursday to advance to the Div. II state semifinals at the Lindner Family Tennis Center. In the first round, the East Palestine resident knocked off ...
AUSTINTOWN — Salem junior Madolyn Gorby already wrapped up another state berth. She had to wait to see if junior teammate Peyton Colbert would join her in Columbus again. “It was nerve-wracking because she wasn’t doing that well,” Gorby said. Gorby won the regional title, ...
CUYAHOGA HEIGHTS — Heartland Christian senior Rebecca Geiss advanced to the state track meet for the fourth straight year, while Wellsville senior Clayten Murray in making it two in a row. Both earned runner-up finishes at the Cuyahoga Heights Division V regional meet Thursday. Geiss was second in the girls 3200-meter run in a season-best time of 10 minutes, 54.77 seconds. Defending state champion Kaitlyn Carr of Smithville won in 10:38.88. Kersey was second in the long jump at 21-8 3/4. Mogadore’s Jason Garvin won at 21-11 1/2. The top five finishers in each event advance to ...
AUSTINTOWN — Southern Local senior Maddy Jones qualified for the state track and field meet with a third-place showing in the shot put on Wednesday with a best throw of 38 feet, 6 1/2 inches at the Div. IV regional meet at Austintown Fitch. Jones hit that mark on her second throw. She fouled on the last three attempts. Norwayne's Haley Bittinger was first (40-1 1/4) and her teammate Hannah Froelich was second (39-11 3/4). The top five finishers advance to the state meet set for June 4 through 7 at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in Columbus. In the girls high jump United's Taylor ...
UNITY — No. 13 seed Bristol rallied for five runs in the seventh to force extras and scored two in the eighth to dump No. 9 Heartland 8-6 on Wednesday in a Div. VII district semifinal. Heartland led 6-1 going into the seventh and could not get out of trouble. In the eighth, an RBI double by Jonas Miller and a Kaden Garcia RBI single allowed the Panthers to take a two run lead. Heartland went down in order in the bottom of the eighth. For Heartland (11-15), Jack Morgan had a double, triple and three RBIs. Hudson Miller added two hits, while Paul Bender had two hits. Brennan ...
