LEXINGTON, Ohio – It took Taylor Gerhardt longer than usual to find his way to the coach’s office Friday night. Celebrating your first victory as a high school football coach, seeing your team snap an 18-game losing streak and enjoying your school’s first home win in almost two years made it an enjoyable walk back […]
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Defending state champ Mansfield Christian starts new chapter with win at Lexington
LEXINGTON, Ohio – Mansfield Christian boys soccer coach Stephen Armstrong hopes a new book on motivation will help his defending state champion Flames author another great season. MCS wrote chapter one of their own new book Friday night by opening the season with a 3-1 non-league win at Lexington before an overflow crowd estimated at […]
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Veteran NASCAR racer bumps his way to win at Mid-Ohio
LEXINGTON, Ohio – Regan Smith got ready for Bristol a week early. But he did it on a road course. The 31-year-old NASCAR veteran on Saturday afternoon used a move often seen at the famed eastern Tennessee “bull ring” to shove aside Alex Tagliani in the Carousel, one turn from the finish, to win the […]
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Lexington patient champion honored at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course during NASCAR event
LEXINGTON, Ohio – Will Schafer grew up listening to the roars at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course near his Troy Township home. The 14-year-old Lexington High School freshman never expected one day the cheers would be for him. But that was the case Saturday before the NASCAR Xfinity Series Nationwide Children’s Hospital 200 when he […]
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Galion Graders first home game spoiled by Southern Ohio Copperheads
GALION, Ohio–If not for a 4-2 loss, the home opener Saturday for the new Galion Graders baseball club was true “Field of Dreams” type stuff. An announced crowd of 526 people gathered in Heise Park to welcome the newest member of the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League on a picture-perfect early June evening. A color […]
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Nightmare inning ends Lexington bid in district baseball tournament
MADISON TOWNSHIP, Ohio – A dream of a spot in the Division II district baseball finals ended in a nightmarish fifth inning for Lexington on Thursday. Leading Bellevue 3-2 going into the bottom of the fifth inning, the Minutemen watched the Redmen use four walks, two hit batters and four hits to plate eight runs […]
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Lexington tops Clyde to win sectional baseball title
LEXINGTON, Ohio – Who said a baseball team needs momentum to succeed in the postseason? Coming off two straight losses by a combined score of 30-0, Lexington proved otherwise Thursday by earning a Division II sectional title with a 5-0 victory over Clyde. The Minutemen (15-10) lost last weekend to Division IV state powerhouse Berlin […]
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Lexington tops Madison to claim share of OCC baseball lead
MANSFIELD, Ohio – Lexington walked its way to the verge of an Ohio Cardinal Conference baseball title on Wednesday. The Minutemen (13-8, 9-2) claimed a 7-3 win at defending champion Madison (13-11, 9-2), earning a share of the conference lead with the two teams squaring off again today at Lexington. Madison starter Josh Smith issued […]
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Clear Fork warms up, knocks off rival in OCC baseball
LEXINGTON, Ohio – Rusty Staab has been waiting for a warm day like Wednesday. His Clear Fork Colts baseball team took advantage of it with a 9-3 win at Lexington in an Ohio Cardinal Conference game. The veteran coach sent ace Lee Snyder to the mound 24 hours after the Minutemen came to Bellville and […]
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Bank account established to help family of fatal van-train crash
A fund has been established at all local Richland Bank locations to assist members of an area family which lost a 9-year-old boy in a van-train accident March 21. The boy’s father remains hospitalized in Columbus with injuries sustained in the crash. Donations may be made at any Richland Bank branch to the “Berry Family […]