FAIRBORN – The Highland Scots made history in 2019. They just came up one game short of the ultimate prize. The Scots fell to top-ranked Middletown Bishop Fenwick on Saturday in the Div. II state championship, 3-1. Highland won the first set before dropping the next three by a combined eight points. It was Highland’s […]
Grant Pepper, Staff Reporter
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Highland advances to state title game in five-set thriller
FAIRBORN – Hold the rope. It’s been the go-to saying all year for the Highland volleyball team, introduced by coach Rob Terrill as a metaphor for maintaining trust and unity, even when the going gets rough. ‘When things aren’t going our way, hold the rope,’ he’d say. ‘Pull each other through it.’ The metaphor was […]
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Tygers use hot start, big plays to outpace Yellow Jackets
MOUNT VERNON – Coming into Friday night’s game against Mansfield Senior, Mount Vernon head coach Mike Kerr said his team would need to limit the Tygers’ big plays if it wished to be successful. Easier said than done against a team of Mansfield Senior’s caliber. The first two times Mansfield Senior touched the ball on […]
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Game of the Week: Mount Vernon vs. Mansfield Senior
MOUNT VERNON – Mount Vernon (5-3, 2-2 OCC) will look to send its 17 seniors off in style when it hosts Mansfield Senior (7-1, 3-1) on Friday night. It will be Senior Night for the Yellow Jackets, but it will also be an opportunity to record a signature win against one of the area’s top […]
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Woodward Opera House collects prestigious state award
MOUNT VERNON – The Woodward Opera House earned statewide recognition on Saturday as a symbol of first-class historical preservation. The Woodward was among five projects to receive the Preservation Merit Award from the Ohio History Connection’s State Historic Preservation Office. According to the Ohio History Connection’s website, the award is “for preserving Ohio’s prehistory, history, […]
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‘They can’t tell you no’: An interview with Riley Kemmer, Highland’s kicker and Homecoming Queen
SPARTA – As far as statistics go, Highland senior Riley Kemmer is an anomaly. Girls made up less than one percent of all high school football players in the U.S. last year, according to data from the National Federation of State High Schools Association. In Ohio, only 45 girls played high school football in 2018, […]
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Grand jury indicts longtime MVNU volleyball coach for alleged sex crime
MOUNT VERNON — A Knox County grand jury Monday indicted a longtime Mount Vernon Nazarene University volleyball coach, charging him with sexually victimizing an 88-year-old nursing home resident. Paul Swanson, 67, of 208 E. Vine St. was indicted for gross sexual imposition, a fourth-degree felony. Swanson is accused of holding an elderly woman’s hand and […]