YORK TWP. — Jake Thomas had three hits and knocked in three runs Tuesday as Buckeye’s baseball team pulled off an 8-5 upset of state-ranked Keystone.
Thomas also had two runs as the Bucks (7-8, 5-5) scored their biggest victory of the season and made a winner out of starting pitcher Rob Stanek.
Brad Oddo added two […]

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WADSWORTH — Alli Beery’s run-scoring RBI single in the bottom of the sixth inning Tuesday lifted Wadsworth’s softball team to a 4-1 Suburban League win over Revere.
The Grizzlies’ Nicki Eshelman had tied the game at 1-1 in the fifth with an RBI single.
Beery finished the warm afternoon with two singles and two RBI, while Katie […]

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WESTFIELD TWP. —Singles standouts Ethan Dunbar, Parker Hewit and Jarred Gable continued their season-long domination Tuesday in leading Cloverleaf’s boys tennis team to a 3-2 non-league victory over Norton.
Dunbar, Hewit and Gable all won their matches by 6-0, 6-0 scores one day after each claimed Suburban League individual titles — and propelled the Colts to […]

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By RICK NOLAND
Assistant Sports Editor
BOSTON — Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant collected 82 first-place votes in winning the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award Tuesday, but he would have gotten 83 if Cavaliers small forward LeBron James had cast a ballot.
“I’ve always said since two or three years ago that Kobe Bryant is the best […]

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By RICK NOLAND

Assistant Sports Editor

BOSTON — The Cavaliers like to get LeBron James a little rest at the defensive end early in games by matching him up against a player who’s not real active offensively, but that won’t be easy in Cleveland’s second-round series against the Boston Celtics.

“No matter who you put LeBron on, he’s […]

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BRUNSWICK — The annual Blue Devils Boys Basketball Camps return to Brunswick High this summer.

Campers in grades 3-5 will take the court from June 9-12, while grades 6-8 compete from July 14-17.

Blue Devils head coach Joe Mackey is the camp director, while Tom Harrington and Kevin Braaten from the high school staff will serve as […]

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By BRAD BOURNIVAL

Staff Writer

MEDINA — Sometimes you just have to stuff it in your back pocket and move on.

In a contest no one on either side was happy with, Brunswick’s baseball team beat up on Medina to split the season series with a 16-8 Northeast Ohio Conference River Division win on Tuesday.

Not that Blue […]

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By RICK NOLAND

Assistant Sports Editor

BOSTON — In a totally new way, LeBron James was more unbelievable than he’s been at any point in his five-year NBA career.

So was this game, but not in the way the Cavaliers wanted it to be.

With their superstar doing a lot of everything, much of it bad, the Cavaliers lost […]

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By CASSANDRA SHOFAR
Staff Writer

MEDINA — Taking old cream soda bottles in cardboard cases and a bunch of plastic rings, fifth-grader Paige Eckenrode and her teammates created a recyclable game called “Ring Toss.”

As part of a recycling project in their science class, Garfield Elementary School fifth-graders are constructing games out of recyclable and reusable materials for […]

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By MARIA KACIK
Staff Writer

Jean-Charles Van Der Wielen, 26, of Liege, Belgium, spent the month of April soaring through the skies above Medina County and accruing training hours for his private pilot’s license.

Thanks to a new deal SkyPark airport in Guilford Township has with a Japanese-based company, pilots from around the world will soon be doing […]

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