MANSFIELD — Ellie Nickoli had a dual purpose coming into Wednesday night’s 2017 Miss Ohio Outstanding Teen Program. “As I was preparing for the pageant, I set two goals for myself; to place in the top five and win talent. I’m thrilled that I was able to achieve both,” said Nickoli, daughter of Greg and […]
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Mansfield Motor Speedway races against Mother Nature
MANSFIELD — Suffice to say Mansfield Motor Speedway track president Cody Sommer is not a fan of Mother Nature right now. With just the two main events left to race on Sunday at the All-Star Memorial Classic, a severe thunderstorm roared even louder than the cars, forcing a postponement. “We had two more races and […]
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Lexington boys win Division II regional track title in final event
LEXINGTON — Outfielder Hunter Biddle watched his Lexington baseball team lose a regional title Friday night in Bowling Green. Sprinter Hunter Biddle was not about to see it happen again in the Division II track & field meet at Lexington on Saturday. The senior anchored the final leg on Lexington’s 4×400 winning relay team in […]
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Mansfield Christian boys bow out to Wynford in sectional
LEXINGTON — Mansfield Christian, a generally slow-starting team this season, actually jumped out to a 7-0 lead midway through the first quarter Wednesday against Wynford. An upset seemed in the offing in the Division IV boys sectional basketball tournament at Lexington High School. Unfortunately for the 9th-seeded Flames (8-15), that’s where the momentum ended as […]
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Ontario eliminates Mansfield Sr. in girls tourney
BUCYRUS — Ontario coach Sarah Kirchbaum wants a third shot at Bellevue. Her Warriors earned that opportunity on Saturday night with a convincing 61-37 win against Mansfield Senior in a Division II sectional title game at Bucyrus High School. The two Northern Ohio League foes will collide Thursday at 6:15 p.m. in a district semifinal game […]
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Late triple lifts Mansfield Sr. past Lexington in OCC thriller
MANSFIELD — His team had just won its third in a row with a 56-53 victory against Lexington on Friday night. But Mansfield Senior coach J.T. Reese didn’t want to talk about a winning streak. “Let’s not look at it that way,” Reese said. “Let’s call it one in a row … again.” It’s been […]
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Hillsdale pulls away from Clear Fork
BELLVILLE — Trey Williams is Hillsdale’s leading scorer. And the 6-foot-1 junior knocked in 20 points Tuesday night. But the Falcons relied on the team’s only two seniors in the fourth quarter to pull away from Clear Fork, 72-62, in a non-league boys basketball game. Crunch time is when senior point guard Andrew Wolf and […]
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Fast start leads Ontario past Mansfield Christian
ONTARIO — When Mansfield Christian gets the first quarter figured out, the young Flames may be hard to beat. But a sluggish first quarter was again a show-stopper for Mansfield Christian during a 45-28 loss at Ontario in a non-league boys basketball game Saturday night. The lack of a green flag start has been a […]
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Campbell nets 1,000th point in St. Peter’s win over Mansfield Christian
MANSFIELD — Joe Jakubick is not one to celebrate individual scoring. In fact, the Mansfield St. Peter’s veteran coach doesn’t even report player scoring averages to local media outlets. So it must be a big deal when a game is stopped to honor a player’s scoring. Such was the case Friday night when junior Mason […]
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NOL: Ontario hits clutch triple in regulation, beats Shelby in OT
SHELBY — If Joe Balogh and Troy Schwemley went to dinner together, chances are one could order for the both of them. That’s how well the veteran Ontario and Shelby basketball coaches know one another. That knowledge played out in yet another white-knuckle Northern Ohio League basketball game on Friday night with Ontario escaping with […]