PLYMOUTH — Jay Follett wasn’t ready to make any bold predictions, but Plymouth’s girls cross country coach couldn’t help but be excited. The Big Red are finally feeling better. Plymouth qualified for this weekend’s Division III regional meet at Youngstown Boardman High School by virtue of a third-place finish at last week’s district meet at […]
Curt Conrad, Correspondent
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Tygers soccer falls short in tourney, ties school wins record
Mansfield Senior, put a scare in Anthony Wayne before falling 3-0 in a Division I district semifinal match Wednesday at Findlay. The Tygers and Generals were tied 0-0 with about 27 minutes left in the game. Anthony Wayne (14-0-4), ranked No. 2 in Division I in the final Ohio Scholastic Soccer Coaches Association state poll, […]
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Colts rally past Port Clinton
CLYDE — Port Clinton provided a second-half wake-up call and Clear Fork answered. The Colts let a halftime lead slip away before rallying for a 5-3 win over the Redskins in a boys varsity soccer Division II district semifinal match Wednesday evening at Clyde High School. The Colts (14-2-3) will play Norwalk for a district […]
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Flames blank Bluffton
The Flames couldn’t be much hotter. Brendan Ernsberger scored a hat trick and Mansfield Christian ran its winning streak to 15 games with a resounding 5-0 win over Bluffton in a Division III district semifinal at Tiffin Columbian on Tuesday. Mansfield Christian (17-1) will play Findlay Liberty-Benton (17-0-1) at 7 p.m. Saturday in Tiffin for […]
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Fanning the Flames: First-year MCS coach carrying on tradition
MANSFIELD — The game is five-man indoor soccer and when played within the cramped confines of the Mansfield Christian elementary school gym, it’s soccer after three doubleshot espressos from Starbucks. It is fast, loud and chaotic. The pace is furious as members of Mansfield Christian’s state-ranked boys soccer team race from end to end and […]
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Flash Flood: MCS opens tourney with 13-0 win
MANSFIELD — As relentless as Mother Nature was Saturday afternoon, her downpour couldn’t hold water to the scoring deluge courtesy of Mansfield Christian. The Flames, ranked second in Division III in the final Ohio Scholastic Soccer Coaches Association state poll, were brutally efficient in a 13-0 win over Tiffin Calvert in a Division III sectional […]
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Tygers find footing, rough up Generals
It may have taken a while for Tyquan Vickers and the Mansfield Senior offense to find its footing on the natural grass at Wooster’s Follis Field, but the Tygers looked right at home during the second half on a crisp Friday night. A powerfully-built 5-foot-10, 170-pound sophomore, Vickers rushed for 224 yards and three touchdowns […]
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Butler’s Ohio Dreams sports camp goes viral
He’s known professionally as Devin Super Tramp and he is the action sports community’s Michael Moore. Devin Graham is a documentarian of the extreme. The 30-year-old cinematographer has filmed wingsuit racers and BASE jumpers, cliff divers and water flyboarders. He has shot from Africa to New Zealand and everywhere in between and when he uploads […]
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Blackstone more than just a kicker
The defense is as good as it has been in more than a decade and the offense boasts once-in-a-generation talent, but the reason Mansfield Senior is still unbeaten is because of the powerful right leg of its kicker. To call Hutch Blackstone just a kicker, however, is to sell him short. There is far more […]
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Tygers top West Holmes
Hutch Blackstone started the game in head coach Chioke Bradley’s doghouse. When time expired Friday at Arlin Field, Mansfield Senior’s kicker was in the penthouse. Blackstone booted field goals of 24, 34 and 25 yards as the Tygers remained unbeaten with a 23-17 Ohio Cardinal Conference win over West Holmes. An athletic 6-foot-3 senior and […]