ASHLAND – While the Ashland boys basketball team is still searching for its first home win of the season, Mansfield Senior is starting to make every gym look like a home away from home. The Tygers shrugged off a brief second-quarter scare Friday night at Arrow Arena and sprinted away with a 72-49 victory. The […]
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Lexington dominates the lane to dismantle Wooster
WOOSTER — Lexington flexed its size and muscle inside on Friday night for a 63-36 win in a resounding road romp at Wooster. The third-ranked Minutemen used every bit of their size in carving out a 53-24 rebounding bulge. Offensively, coach Scott Hamilton’s team used a balance approach to subdue the Generals. Elijah Hudson paced […]
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Mansfield Sr. rallies to beat Madison in OCC action
MANSFIELD — Records don’t matter much when crosstown rivals Mansfield Senior and Madison collide. The Rams proved that yet again on Tuesday night. Senior High’s Kyevi Roane scored 23 of his game-high 25 points in the second half as the Tygers rallied for a 56-49 win in an Ohio Cardinal Conference clash at Pete Henry […]
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Unbeaten Lexington survives battle with Mount Vernon
LEXINGTON — Scott Hamilton is not a fan of early January, the time that statewide basketball polls come out for the first time during the season. The veteran Lexington basketball coach is even less fond of initial rankings that come out right before a game — especially with team that starts three sophomores and has […]
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Lexington ranked No. 3 in 1st state basketball poll
Ohio’s first Associated Press high school boys basketball poll has moved with a few north central Ohio teams earning rankings. In Division II, Lexington grabbed a first-place vote and checks in at No. 3. The Minutemen earned 93 points in the poll, just a point behind No. 2 Kettering Alter and six points behind No. […]
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Lexington dismantles West Holmes
LEXINGTON — The beat goes on for the Lexington boys basketball team, which put a beating on visiting West Holmes on Friday night. The Minutemen hammered the Knights 63-20 to reach the halfway point of the regular season with a perfect 11-0 mark, 6-0 and alone atop the Ohio Cardinal Conference. Coach Scott Hamilton’s squad […]
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Lexington cranks up offense to overwhelm Ashland
ASHLAND – It’s not easy for a basketball team to find new ways to win after starting a season 6-0. The Lexington boys did it anyway Friday night at Ashland High School. Punishingly successful inside the paint through six games, the Minutemen hit four of their first five tries from 3-point land against the Arrows […]
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Tygers chop down Little Giants for weekend sweep
FREMONT — The Mansfield Senior boys basketball team completed a strong weekend by collecting its second road win in as many nights. Fremont Ross was the victim on Saturday night, as the Tygers pocketed a 52-45 victory. That decision came 24 hours after Senior High edged Mount Vernon 53-50 in an Ohio Cardinal Conference road […]
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Col. Crawford’s Myers selected area’s Girls Golfer of the Year
NORTH ROBINSON — When it came to postseason golf, Lucy Myers just kept getting better. A Colonel Crawford senior and the area’s Player of the Year, Myers tied for 29th at the Division II state tournament at Ohio State’s Gray Course. She carded a two-day total of 179, leading the Eagles to a seventh-place finish […]
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Lexington’s lone senior leads Minutemen past Madison
LEXINGTON — Elijah Hudson showed the youngsters Friday night the old man can still play a little basketball. The 6-foot-8 forward — the only senior on an unbeaten Lexington basketball team that starts three sophomores — scored 18 points, pulled down eight rebounds and blocked five shots in a 60-49 win at home against Madison. […]