MANSFIELD — D’Vontae Johnson felt right at home at the free throw line Friday night. A junior guard and Mansfield Senior’s top free-throw shooter, Johnson made all four of his freebies in overtime as the Tygers held off Ashland 72-71 in Ohio Cardinal Conference action inside Pete Henry Gym. “I wanted to be at the […]
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Double tight-end formation: Lexington twin towers Fogle, Caudill taking flight
LEXINGTON — Lexington used its two tight-end offense to perfection Friday night. But it was on a basketball court. Juniors Brayden Fogle (6-foot-5, 225) and Joe Caudill (6-4, 220) will likely both play Division I college football as tight ends after high school. Caudill made a verbal commitment on Friday to Michigan State University. Fogle […]
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Gallery: Lexington gains revenge against Wooster in the OCC, 74-68
(Photos from Lexington’s 74-68 win at home on Friday night against Wooster in an Ohio Cardinal Conference basketball game. The victory avenged a loss at Wooster in December and kept the Minutemen atop the OCC at 13-2 overall and 8-1 in the league. The Generals slipped to 7-7/5-3.)
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Shelby rallies to overtake Galion in MOAC tilt
SHELBY — Junior point guard Brayden DeVito erupted for 26 points to bring Shelby back from a halftime deficit for a 70-66 Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference victory over Galion on Saturday night. DeVito scored 17 points in the second half to fuel the Whippets’ rally from a 32-28 deficit at the intermission. Karsen Homan contributed 16 […]
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2nd-half surge sends Mansfield Sr. past crosstown rival Madison
MANSFIELD — The Tygers returned to their winning ways Friday night. Kyevi Roane scored 23 points and swiped 11 rebounds as Mansfield Senior snapped a two-game losing streak with a 68-42 Ohio Cardinal Conference win over crosstown rival Madison inside Pete Henry Gym. On a night when former football coach Chioke Bradley was honored at […]
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Putting the band back together: Brayden Fogle rejoins Lexington teammates
LEXINGTON — Brayden Fogle was not yet born when the famous musical brothers Jake and Elwood put The Blues Brothers Band back together in the 1980 movie. But just like those brothers (played by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd), the 6-foot-5 junior Lexington forward is starting to remember what it’s like when the music is […]
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Gallery: Lexington holds off New Philadelphia in the OCC, 56-49
(Photos from Lexington’s 56-49 win over New Philadelphia on Friday night in an Ohio Cardinal Conference basketball game at LHS. The win improve the Minutemen to 12-2 overall and 7-1 in the league. The Quakers fell to 8-6/4-4 and saw their four game winning streak snapped.)
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Lima Sr. rallies in 4th quarter to trip Tygers
MANSFIELD — Lima Senior overcame a two-point deficit entering the fourth quarter to knock off Mansfield Senior 61-57 in a non-conference boys basketball encounter on Saturday night at Pete Henry Gym. There were 10 lead changes and seven ties in the tight tilt. (Photos by Tom Theodore) Mansfield Senior owned a 20-16 edge at the […]
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COLUMN: Prep hoops conference races begin to take shape
MANSFIELD — You can’t win a conference championship in January, but you can lose one. High school basketball’s conference races are beginning to heat up now that the calendar has flipped. Since several area schools postponed their games tonight because of Ohio State’s national semifinal game against Texas in the Cotton Bowl and an impending […]
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Milestone: Mansfield Sr.’s Kyevi Roane joins exclusive 1,000-point fraternity
MANSFIELD — Kyevi Roane has been described a lot of different ways during his illustrious career Mansfield Senior basketball career, but the newest descriptor is his favorite yet: 1,000-point scorer. Roane became just the ninth player in program history to eclipse the 1,000-point plateau in Tuesday’s 76-37 Ohio Cardinal Conference win over West Holmes inside […]