BELLVILLE — Brinley Barnett and her Clear Fork teammates owned the third quarter Thursday at the Colt Corral. Barnett made two of her three 3-pointers in the third quarter as the Colts pulled away for a 56-40 win over Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference nemesis Shelby. Clear Fork (6-0, 4-0) beat Shelby for the first time since […]
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Rickert takes over Madison girls basketball program
MADISON TOWNSHIP — Doug Rickert has worn just about every hat there is to wear at Madison, but he’ll add one more to his collection next winter. Madison’s former baseball, boys basketball coach and current athletic director will take over as the girls basketball coach for the 2025-26 season. He succeeds Phil Schmook, who stepped […]
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Shelby’s Schwemley is MVP of girls all-star basketball game
LEXINGTON — Shelby’s Eve Schwemley enjoyed a superb girls basketball career at Shelby High School. On Friday night, she concluded it in fine fashion. The Whippets’ standout, who cracked 1,000 points as part of her prep resume, earned MVP honors at the Telegraph-Forum Girls Basketball Showcase at Lexington High School. Schwemley scored 20 points, grabbed […]
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Ashland’s Holt, a Crestview grad, tabbed Ohio’s Division III Coach of the Year
COLUMBUS — She was one of the greatest players in north central Ohio girls basketball history and Ashland’s Renee Holt is a rising star in coaching circles, too. Holt was selected the Division III Coach of the Year when the Division I-III All-Ohio teams were announced Tuesday. Ashland (20-6) won its first Ohio Cardinal Conference […]
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Shelby’s Schwemley, Lex’s Chapman, CF’s Blubaugh selected to All-Ohio first team
COLUMBUS — Richland County’s top girls basketball players padded their résumés Monday afternoon. Shelby’s Eve Schwemley and Lexington’s Makaree Chapman were selected to the Division IV first team and Clear Fork’s Mel Blubaugh was a Division V first-teamer when the Division IV-VII All-Ohio teams were unveiled. The Ohio Dominican-bound Schwemley averaged 21.4 points a game […]
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Shelby senior Schwemley caps career in style
SHELBY — Numbers don’t lie and Eve Schwemley’s numbers tell the story of a historic season. The North Central Ohio Girls Basketball Player of the Year, Schwemley averaged an area-best 21.4 points a game and became just the seventh player in Shelby history to top the 1,000-point plateau. But that only tells part of the […]
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Purcell Marian’s Alexander is Ohio Ms. Basketball for 3rd time
COLUMBUS – Cincinnati Purcell Marian senior Dee Alexander was announced as 2025 Ohio Ms. Basketball Thursday by a statewide media panel. She is the second girls basketball player to win the award three times, joining Canton McKinley’s Kierstan Bell, who won the award in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The only player to win the Ohio Mr. […]
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Shelby’s Schwemley, CF’s Blubaugh claim POY honors on All-NW District teams
MANSFIELD — Shelby’s Eve Schwemley and Clear Fork’s Mel Blubaugh added to already impressive résumés when the All-Northwest District girls basketball team was unveiled Wednesday evening. So did their coaches. Schwemley and Blubaugh were selected All-NW District Players of the Year and Shelby coach Natalie Lantz and Clear Fork’s Scott Sellers were Coaches of the […]
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Beyond basketball: Colts’ historic season deeper than wins & losses
The success produced on the court by the Colts this season is no secret. But the program also strives to make an impact in its community.
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Party like it’s 1989: Colts win first district title in nearly four decades
Clear Fork soared to a 61-39 win over Willard in a Division V district final Saturday, claiming the Colts’ first district crown since 1989.