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  HUDSON, Ohio – It was a tough way to see the season end for the Tallmadge Blue Devils. The Lake Catholic Cougars scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to defeat the Blue Devils 5-4 in the Division II Hudson Regional semifinal on Thursday afternoon.  Tallmadge fans thought that with ...

  AKRON, Ohio – The Medina Bees rode the pitching arm of senior Bobbi Langlois in defeating Aurora 6-0 in the Division I Akron Regional on Thursday afternoon at the University of Akron’s Lee Jackson Field. Langlois allowed the Greenmen only two hits: a single by senior center fielder Ashlee Ling in the ...

  KENT, Ohio – No hits, no problem. Our Lady of the Elms’ softball team (19-5) gave new meaning to the term “small ball” Thursday as the Panthers beat the Crestline Bulldogs 2-1 with not one hit during the Kent Division IV Regional Semifinal. “They had us on edge for the whole game,” said ...

  CANTON, Ohio – The expression that baseball is a game of inches is a cliché that’s as old as America’s favorite pastime itself, but a phrase doesn’t last that long without some truth behind it. The Hudson Explorers found that out the hard way in a 2-1 regional semifinal loss to the ...

  AUSTINTOWN -- Standing 6-foot-5 and a chiseled 205 pounds, Green senior Andrew Pratt certainly looks like Superman. And based on his performance Wednesday at the Austintown-Fitch Division I Regional, the three-sport standout might actually be the Man of Steel. Just 12 days after undergoing an emergency appendectomy, Pratt ran strong legs on the ...

      There are three area high school baseball teams still alive in the Regional round of the state playoffs.  Hudson, Tallmadge and Mogadore are representing SportsInk.com in the Ohio High School Athletic Association Tournament. HUDSON – Division I – Canton Regional – vs. Massillon Perry, Thursday 5 p.m. at Thurman Munson Stadium. To some, ...

  AMHERST, Ohio — It might have been the idea of running for a chance to compete in the state meet next weekend. Or maybe the bright green surface of the Richard S. Cooley Track at Amherst High. Whatever the reason, Brunswick’s boys 4x800-meter team rose to the challenge Wednesday afternoon at the ...

  MASSILLON, Ohio – The Black River softball team had a plan for its first Regional Semifinal appearance, and the Pirates executed it almost to perfection in an 11-6 win over Canton Central Catholic in the Massillon Division III Regional. Before their first time up to bat in the top of the first ...

  AKRON, Ohio – Archbishop Hoban made big play after big play and advanced to the Division II Akron regional softball finals at Firestone Stadium following an exciting 2-1 victory over Lake Catholic on Wednesday afternoon. The game ended on a big play.  Hoban junior left fielder Emma Horning threw out Lake Catholic’s ...

Copley senior track and field standout Nick Pupino is the SportsInk.com Athlete of the Week for May 13-19. Last weekend at the Nordonia Division I District meet Pupino ran a personal best and meet record with a 4:14.26 mile and then followed that with an impressive run in the two mile in ...

  For a while it looked like Ellet senior third baseman Tyler Simcox would get carried off the field by his Orangemen teammates Monday night after making a game-saving stop defensively in the top of the sixth inning.  Instead, Simcox was carried out of Canal Park on a stretcher by medical personnel ...

  It has been a while since the Mogadore Wildcats have won a district championship in baseball.  In fact, for freshman infielder Danny Sentelik it’s practically been a lifetime since Mogadore last played in the regional semifinals in 1997. "I don’t think I can describe it.  It is beyond anything I’ve been a ...

  SALEM, Ohio – I am madder than a wet hen. Having been a high school basketball official for 20 seasons and a soccer official for 14, I never once disqualified an athlete from competition because of an illegal uniform. I once asked a soccer player to change his game shoes. I once forced a ...

  AKRON, Ohio – As excited as the Ellet baseball team was following its 7-6 victory over the Firestone Falcons in the City Series Championship game, something – or rather someone – was missing from the Orangemen’s celebration at Canal Park on Monday evening. Moments after making a defensive game-saving play in the ...

  AKRON, Ohio – The Ellet Orangemen weren’t ready to let go -- and it showed. Ellet’s three seniors –catcher Marissa Calise, first baseman Amanda Donaldson and center fielder Courtney Wright – were emphatic about wanting to win the program’s 12th straight City Series Championship game, and that’s exactly what they did in a 10-6 victory ...

  North Canton Division I District Track & Field Regional Qualifiers Girls 200- 4. Charnae Coleman (Kenmore) 25.92 400- 1. Anne Kramer (Hoban) 57.09, 4. Allie Griffith (Hoban) 59.85 1,600- 1. Krista Roehlig (Green) 5:14.00 3,200- 1. Krista Roehlig (Green) 11:18.22 100H- 2. Lanytra Glover (Kenmore) 15.52, 4. Lauren Pannell (Hoban) 16.62 4x100- 3. Green (Pinheiro, Likely, Rector, Hooker) 49.59 4x200- ...

  AKRON, Ohio -- Woodridge softball coach Dan Schneider said he’ll be very happy to call Firestone Stadium the Bulldogs’ home field for the remainder of the season.  Woodridge won the Division II Akron District final edging Walsh Jesuit 8-7 in 12 innings Saturday at Firestone Stadium. The Bulldogs advance to the  regionals ...

  SALEM, Ohio – And they don’t even have track. The boys and girls track & field teams from St. Vincent-St. Mary do not have a home track. No track, no problem. Both teams dominated the competition at the Salem Division II District meet on Thursday and Saturday, winning a combined 17 of 34 events ...

  MACEDONIA, Ohio -- Ask any coach or athlete at the Nordonia Division I District track and field meet and they will tell you that the newly formed postseason meet is stacked in just about every event. “It’s like a mini state meet,” Highland senior Natalie Zidd said. “There are a lot of ...

  AKRON, Ohio – Every player in the Tallmadge baseball dugout was eager for a second chance against Archbishop Hoban and it showed in the Blue Devils' 4-0 championship win over the Knights to win the Akron Division II District. One year ago Hoban (18-9) ousted Tallmadge (20-8) in the Regional Semifinals 7-2, ...