WEST UNITY — Despite outscoring state-ranked Toledo Christian in the second half, the Hilltop girls basketball team couldn’t overcome the Eagles’ blistering start and Madison Royal-Davis’ 41 points, eventually falling 64-48 to the Eagles on Saturday.
Despite holding a 16-7 lead over Fayette after a dominant first-half defensive performance, the Edon girls basketball team was outscored 26-16 in the second half, including 14-6 in the fourth quarter, and lost 33-32 on Friday night.
The Bryan boys basketball team stumbled to a 63-46 loss at home against the Wauseon Indians on Friday.
Montpelier 53, North Central 33
Edon 46, Fayette 27
The Bryan wrestling team placed third in a tri-meet on Thursday, losing to Swanton (33-24) and Delta (75-6). Full results are as follows:
WAUSEON — The Bryan girls basketball team came out on fire during the third quarter of a road game against the Wauseon Indians on Thursday.
PIONEER — After averaging 40.8 points per game over its first 11 contests, the Montpelier boys basketball team’s offense broke out of its shell to lead the Locomotives to a 61-55 road win over North Central on Thursday night.
Holgate remains in the Green Meadows Conference (GMC) after the league’s executive board took no action to remove the district during its meeting Wednesday.
EDGERTON — After a storied playing career where he earned all-Ohio honors in three different sports, supplemented by a few years of preparation assistant coaching the Bulldogs’ boys basketball and football teams, Brody Flegal is taking another step up the Edgerton coaching ranks, as he was n…
PETTISVILLE — The Bryan girls basketball team kept the roll to its 2019-20 season going by cruising to a lopsided 48-22 victory on the road against the Pettisville Blackbirds on Tuesday.
The Bryan girls swim team won a competitive swim meet at Napoleon on Tuesday, edging the Wildcats 96-76 for first place. Fairview was third with six points, Tinora was fourth with five points and Defiance was fifth with three points.
LIBERTY CENTER — Liberty Center girls basketball coach Tim Davis said he knew his team needed a big performance Tuesday night to shake off back-to-back losses.
EDGERTON — A 20-7 third-quarter advantage for the Edgerton girls basketball team led the Bulldogs to coast to a 58-32 nonconference win over visiting North Central on Tuesday night.
The Montpelier wrestling team edged out Bryan 30-27 in a Northwest Ohio Athletic League dual match on Tuesday in Montpelier.
Fairview 76, Hilltop 27
The Bryan boys and girls bowling teams each earned victories over the visiting Wauseon Indians at Bryan Lanes on Monday.
PIONEER — North Central senior point guard Jack Bailey has been through ups and downs in his Eagles career. This season has seen peaks and valleys too, but Bailey believes with his experience, plus the experience of the team’s five other seniors, North Central can pick itself back up out of …
MONTPELIER — She’s only been golfing two years, but in that short time, Montpelier senior Sarah Higbie improved enough to play at the next level after officially committing to continue her career at the University of Mary Washington, an NCAA Division III school in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
The Edon Northwest Local Schools Board of Education has hired Bob Olwin Jr. as head varsity football coach for the 2020-21 school year.
The Bryan boys basketball team let victory slip through its fingers during its past couple of matchups with the Sylvania Northview Wildcats.
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EDGERTON — In a battle of two of the most prolific big men in the area, it was Logan Showalter’s 27 points that led Edgerton to pick up a 52-38 win over Graeme Jacoby’s visiting Pettisville Blackbirds on Saturday night.
Hilltop 44, Stryker 31
Both the Bryan boys (2,274-1,918) and girls (2,641-1,881) bowling teams picked up dominant wins over Evergreen in an NWOAL match on Friday.
PIONEER — On a night where North Central’s leading scorer, Madison Brown, was all but neutralized due to foul trouble, the Edon girls basketball team took full advantage, holding the Eagles to two points in the first half to coast to a 45-17 road win on Friday night.
As the Bryan girls basketball team has played through the first half of the 2019-20 basketball season, a running theme has started to develop among the group, and it’s the fact that on any given night, it’s someone different leading the charge.
Bryan 50, Swanton 34
EDON — The Edon boys basketball team put together its best all-around performance of the season on Thursday night to stave off a struggling North Central team by a score of 50-44, inching the Bombers closer to the top of the Buckeye Border Conference in the process.
EDGERTON — The Fairview and Edgerton boys basketball teams know each other well.
Bryan coach Todd Grosjean did everything he could to keep his team close with Napoleon, including calling three timeouts in the first quarter. However, the Cats, who were ranked second in the first Ohio girls basketball poll of the season, were just too much for the Bears and pulled away for…
STRYKER — Before the Stryker girls basketball team was able to rally for a 36-30 victory at home against the Tinora Rams on Tuesday, the Panthers had gotten off to a slow start.
WEST UNITY — The Montpelier girls basketball team saw its two starting forwards, Ariel Page and Chelsea McCord, put in big scoring performances in the fourth quarter, enough to keep a Hilltop comeback at bay and earn a 65-55 road win on Tuesday night.
The Fairview wrestling team won both of its duals on Tuesday against Ayersville (37-33) and Edgerton (48-29) to finish the day with a perfect 2-0 record. Edgerton dropped both of its team matches on the day. Results for each dual match are as follows:
The Bryan swimming and diving teams competed against Wauseon and Oregon Clay on Tuesday, with mostly positive results. The boys team went 2-0 on the day, beating Wauseon 51.5-45.5 and Oregon Clay 62-36. The girls team beat Oregon Clay 75-17, but fell to Wauseon 57-35.
North Central 45, Fayette 28
MONTPELIER — Brayden Custer sees the potential in Montpelier’s wrestling program.
The Bryan girls and boys bowling teams began the second half of the season with a pair of victories on the road against Delta on Monday.
Bryan seniors Meggie Voigt and Taylor Peters, along with sophomore Kellen Rigg, all captured individual crowns at the Oak Harbor Invitational swim and dive meet over the weekend.
EDON — If you ask Pettisville boys basketball coach Brian Leppelmeier, there’s something about the long bus ride to Edon that causes his team’s shooting percentages to fall every year. Saturday night’s game was no different, which is all the more reason Leppelmeier was thrilled with his team…
Caleb Zuver scored a game-high 14 points, while Reese Jackson netted 11, and the Bryan boys basketball team ran away with a 50-26 victory at home against Celina on Saturday.
Bryan girls basketball coach Todd Grosjean knows his team’s slate of games in Northwest Ohio Athletic League play is going to be a gauntlet this year.
EDGERTON — Despite an uneven offensive performance and some very late drama, the Holgate girls basketball team’s defense clamped up just enough down the stretch for the Tigers to earn their first win of the season, 33-31 over Edgerton on Friday night.
The Bryan boys and girls swim teams picked up dominant victories against the likes of Toledo Bowsher, Miller City, Kalida and Pandora-Gilboa on Thursday, but split competitive contests against Ottawa-Glandorf.
The Fairview boys basketball team ran into a buzzsaw Thursday night, falling 72-36 on the road at Antwerp to begin the conference schedule with a loss.
HOLGATE — Logan Showalter ran down the floor at the back of the pack, caught a pass while wide-open at the top of the key and fired a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give Edgerton a 9-6 lead over Holgate after one quarter.
WEST UNITY — The Edon boys basketball team stifled Hilltop on Thursday night, holding the Cadets to five second-half points to pull away and cruise to a 42-18 road win.
STRYKER — Montpelier junior Tylor Yahraus scored 21 points as the Locomotive boys basketball team earned a 43-37 road victory over Stryker for its first Buckeye Border Conference win of the season on Thursday.
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