Curt Conrad

LEXINGTON — The road to Durham, N.C., evidently runs through Lexington. Brandon Leynaud became the most recent Lex wrestler to sign with Duke University, officially inking with the Blue Devils during the early signing period last week.

LUCAS — The knuckles on both hands were bloodied and there was noticeable bruising on one leg, but the physical pain Lucas running back Mason Galco may have been feeling took a backseat to the emotional sting of Saturday’s season-ending 42-21 loss to Western Reserve in the Division VII, Region 23 semifinals. The junior sensation […]

ORRVILLE — Before they left Heartland Field on a frosty Saturday night, the Lucas Cubs wanted to show their appreciation one final time. The 35 bruised and bloodied players summoned what energy they had left to do their traditional Cub Jacks for their hearty fans, who braved temperatures in the mid- to lower-20s and were […]

LUCAS — When the high school football season kicked off in late August, there were 723 teams dreaming of a state championship. For more than two-thirds of those teams, the dream withered on the vine when playoff pairings were announced after Week 10. Only 224 teams qualified for the postseason, and half of those teams […]

LUCAS — The lights at Bob Wine Field blazed overhead as Rueben Luna booted one football after another deep into the evening. For Luna, Lucas’ jack-of-all-trades, there aren’t enough daylight hours to prepare for Saturday’s Division VII, Region 23 semifinal against second-seeded Berlin Center Western Reserve (10-1) at Orrville’s Red Rider Stadium. But since the […]

LUCAS — Richland County’s lone remaining football team is one not many people outside of Lucas expected to be playing in Week 12. The sixth-seeded Cubs (7-4), thanks to Saturday’s wild 37-34 road win over No. 3 seed Plymouth, will play No. 2 seed Berlin Center Western Reserve at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in a Division […]

MANSFIELD — It’s a set piece Sammy Paul and Stevie Brown have worked on for as long as either of them could remember. Brown will send the ball into the box. Paul will approach from his outside midfield spot and, well, hope for the best. “As soon as he’s hitting it, I know exactly where […]