Curt Conrad, Correspondent

 Mansfield Senior’s Jesse Palser and Lexington’s Bailey Faust will take a little added incentive with them to Columbus on Thursday for the start of the state wrestling tournament. Richland County’s final two remaining unbeaten wrestlers both suffered their first losses over the weekend, but still punched their tickets to Columbus. They headline a contingent of […]

CANTON — Considering everything he has been through in the past five days, Hutch Blackstone couldn’t be any happier. Blackstone capped his All-Ohio swimming career with a third-place finish in the 100 yard breaststroke at the 87th state swimming and diving tournament at Canton’s C.T. Branin Natatorium. The Mansfield Senior standout also finished 11th in […]

CANTON — Hannah Stevens added some more hardware to an already overcrowded trophy shelf Friday evening. For the second year in a row, Stevens won state championships in the 100-yard freestyle and 100-yard backstroke and for the second year in a row, the Lexington senior was selected the Division II girls MVP at the 38th […]

MANSFIELD — Perhaps the only thing that can keep Hutch Blackstone off the podium at this weekend’s swimming and diving state tournament is an illness. Mansfield Senior’s three-time state qualifier isn’t taking any chances. The Richland Source Athlete of the Week, Blackstone spent part of Tuesday at the doctor’s office. He was diagnosed with a […]

MANSFIELD — Richland County will be well represented when the swimming and diving state tournament splashes down at Canton’s C.T. Branin Natatorium later this week. Athletes from Mansfield Senior, Lexington, Ontario and St. Peter’s will be in action beginning Wednesday after strong showings at last weekend’s district tournament at Cleveland State University. Mansfield Senior’s Hutch […]

If he isn’t careful, Mansfield Senior’s Jesse Palser is going to blow his cover. A junior and two-time J.C. Gorman Invitational champ, Palser ran his record to 35-0 with a 13-6 win over Ashland’s Trent Newlan in the 170-pound finals of the Division I Mansfield Senior sectional tournament at Pete Henry Gym on Saturday evening. […]

MANSFIELD — Marquez Cobb posed for a few photos with family and friends in the commons at Mansfield Senior High School, a look of disbelief slowly creeping across his youthful face. “I remember walking through those doors for the first time my freshman year,” Cobb said as he motioned to the front entrance of the […]

MANSFIELD — The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference raided Richland County. Several area seniors gave their commitments to GLIAC football programs in the wake of national signing day (Feb. 5).  The GLIAC is widely regarded as one of the premier NCAA Division II football conferences in the nation. Four GLIAC teams qualified for the Division […]

MANSFIELD — All that soul searching and rumination Mansfield Senior did overnight paid off Saturday at Pete Henry Gym. A day after playing perhaps its worst game of the year in a home loss to Orrville, the Tygers responded with their best 32 minutes of the season in a 59-57 win over highly-regarded Akron St. […]