MADISON TOWNSHIP — Sometimes Sean Conway can’t believe his good fortune, even when more than 100 yards of good fortune is staring him between the eyes. Sitting in the home stands at dazzling new Ram Field at STARTEK Stadium as personnel from the Cincinnati-headquartered Motz Group install the synthetic surface in the north end zone, […]
Curt Conrad, Correspondent
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Car show draws a crowd at Mid-Ohio, Pinney shines
LEXINGTON — They flooded the infield on a steamy Sunday afternoon, snapping photos and loitering among the eye candy. The thousands of automobile enthusiasts who turned out for the final day of the Mechanics Bank Vintage Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio didn’t go home disappointed. There was something for everyone at the car show and Concours […]
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Lex native happy to be back at Mid-Ohio
LEXINGTON — Michael Pinney used to mow the lawn at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course back in the early 1970s. He won his first race at Mid-Ohio in 1976 and won the Sports Car Club of America Runoffs F Production class national championship at the 2.4 mile, 15 turn permanent road course in 2003. The 1975 […]
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Mechanics Bank Vintage Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio jump starts racing season
LEXINGTON — The green flag will fly over Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course beginning today. The racing season speeds into action with the Mechanics Bank Vintage Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio. It is the first of five race weekends at the venerable 2.4-mile, 15-turn permanent road course on Steam Corners Road. “(It’s a) wonderful start to our […]
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Galion-Mansfield Legion team beginning to heat up
MADISON TOWNSHIP — Ray Peterson has been around baseball long enough to know you don’t tinker with a team on a hot streak. And Peterson’s Galion-Mansfield American Legion team is on just such a streak. The Legionnaires won their seventh straight game Wednesday evening at Madison High School, rallying for a 6-5 win over Prospect […]
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Madison grad Shannon Kurek returns to multisport roots
PERRYSVILLE — Shannon Kurek has staged more multisport events than he can remember — thousands across the country in the 25 years he’s been in the race directing business — but none of them was quite like Sunday’s Mohican Endurance Festival. The inaugural event, which featured duathlon (run/bike/run) and triathlon (swim/bike/run) competitions, snaked its way […]
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Crash Course: Senior High product Jon Avery offers basketball academy
MANSFIELD — The air inside Mansfield Senior’s auxiliary gym is oppressively hot and heavy as Jon Avery rearranges a series of plastic orange practice cones. The workout is still in its infancy but you’d never know it by looking at Avery, a 2005 Senior High graduate who led the Tygers to an unlikely Final Four […]
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Lex product Brooks commits to Ole Miss
LEXINGTON — For Rasheed Brooks, the road to a major college basketball program ran through rural Tennessee. A 2012 Lexington High School graduate, Brooks verbally committed to the University of Mississippi of the Southeastern Conference on Monday. He chose Ole Miss over Memphis, UNLV and La Salle. Other suitors included Auburn and Missouri. The 6-foot-6 […]
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North football stars outshine South
LEXINGTON — Lukas Ousley’s surgically repaired knee isn’t as good as new. It’s even better. After missing his entire senior season at Shelby with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, Ousley helped the North build a 17-0 halftime lead and hold on for an entertaining 24-20 win over the South in the […]
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Kline, Sgro headline All-Richland Source softball team
BELLVILLE — She batted .571, broke the state record for career stolen bases and was selected to the All-Ohio first team for a third consecutive year. So what didn’t Richland Source Player of the Year Taylor Kline do for Clear Fork this spring? “Drive the bus,” Colts coach Jeff Gottfried joked, “and she probably would […]