Lucas scored four times in the second quarter and kept themselves in playoff contention with a (45-8) win over Upper Scioto Valley in non-conference play on Friday night. Mason Galco ran for 171 yards on 23 carries and two touchdowns and Logan Spohn added 120 yards on 16 carries and […]
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Rams run over Lex
Lexington celebrated 50 years of football on Friday night, but the Madison Rams ruined the party. Juwan Howrad ran for 229 yards and two first half touchdowns as the Rams defeated the Minutemen 21-8 in Ohio Cardinal Conference (OCC) action. Starting the season with solid wins over Shelby (34-0), and Galion (37-3), the Rams were […]
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Lady Colts rally over Edison
If Clear Fork shortstop Taylor Kline doesn’t have a nickname, she does now. She is “White Lightning,” as in the movie of the same name where you couldn’t comprehend how fast Burt Reynolds was driving, opponents can’t comprehend how fast Kline runs the bases. Kline’s inside the park home run in the seventh inning was […]
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Swank on Sports: getting out the vote on competitive balance
Another competitive balance proposal is front of high school principals in Ohio and the deadline to cast their respective votes is next Thursday, May 15. Without getting into the specifics of the proposal, which includes a lot of legal jargon, it would basically have the potential to force a particular school up a division in […]
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Lady Colts open with Gottfried’s 300th win
Clear Fork scored five times in the first two innings and Morgan Arnett and freshman Darien Gottfried combined on a shut out as the Lady Colts blanked Lucas 11-0 in five innings on Monday in non-conference play. The win was coach Jeff Gottfried’s 300th as Clear Fork’s softball coach. And in signature fashion, the veteran […]
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Swank on Sports: High school sports brings us together
I am not suggesting to you that high schools sports are the savior of everything in our lives, but they maybe used as a good example. In an era when our nation seems to be hopelessly divided in many ways, the United States Congress being the poster child, high school sports are inclusive rather than […]
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The merits of the red, white and blue ball
There are always people coming up with ways to improve the game of basketball, which make it no different than many of aspects of life. Remember the last time you washed dishes by hand? Okay, remember when there were only three TV channels to choose from and not every pro baseball and basketball game was […]
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Swank on Sports: My favorite time of year
The next six weeks are my favorite time of year and it has nothing to do with snow, although I do like that a lot, sweeps month, shamrock shakes or even the Olympics. It boils down to five words: The High School Basketball Tournament. It all started for me in March of 1979 when I […]
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Swank on Sports: Winter sports should be embraced
With the Winter Olympics starting in Russia on Friday, it brings to mind the exciting opportunities that we have to enjoy winter sports in Richland County. I have always been a winter sports enthusiast and have followed competitive ski racing since the mid 1970’s. My grandfather Eugene Smith was a skier and he lived right […]
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The good, the bad, the new
I am all for new things and bigger, better things, but sometimes, just sometimes, do you miss the old? The new gym at Madison Junior High is magnificent. The whole project is much needed, as many of the facilities in the district were aging and not serving students as well as they used too. I […]