By BRIAN DULIK
Staff Writer
INDEPENDENCE — Forgive the Boston Celtics for feeling a bit anxious entering Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals tonight at TD Banknorth Garden.
Though their best-of-seven matchup with the Cavaliers is tied at 2-2, Cleveland has taken over the series’ statistical lead in points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocked shots, field goal percentage […]

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LeBron James now has a chance to tell the Boston Celtics the same thing he told his mother Mon-day night at Quicken Loans Arena: “Sit your (behind) down.”
Having beaten the Celtics two straight times to even their best-of-seven Eastern Con-ference semifinal series, James and the Cavaliers have a golden opportu-nity to steal Game 5 tonight […]

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By BRAD BOURNIVAL
Staff Writer
WADSWORTH — With Wadsworth’s battery needing a little juice, catcher Melissa Adams put a two-out charge into the ball, preserving a gem by pitcher Stacey Ladd and lifting the Grizzlies softball team to victory Tuesday afternoon.
Fifth-seeded Wadsworth stranded runners through seven innings against an upstart ninth-seeded Akron Firestone team, but when […]

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By ALBERT GRINDLE
Staff Writer
WESTFIELD TWP. — Speed and aggression kills in more way than one and Nordonia’s softball team used them Tuesday to perfection.
Putting the ball in play and running wild, the eighth-seeded Knights pressured seventh-seeded Cloverleaf all afternoon to take a 7-2 victory in a Akron Division I Sectional opener.
All told, Nordonia (11-11) […]

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By ADAM FERRISE
Special to The Gazette
BROOKLYN — With two laps around the track, Kyle Miller put a turbulent season, and the rest of the Patriot Athletic Conference Stars Division, behind him. 
Miller was behind both Wellington and Lutheran West’s 4×800 relay anchors by eight seconds when he took the baton on Tuesday. He then cruised […]

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By CHRIS ASSENHEIMER
Staff Writer
CLEVELAND — Jeremy Sowers is coming next Friday. Who’s going is still undecided.
With the Indians in need of an extra starter, Indians manager Eric Wedge confirmed that Sowers would be promoted from Triple-A Buffalo to go in the first of a three-game series in Cincinnati on May 16. When that happens, Cleveland […]

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By ALLISON WOOD

Staff Writer
GRANGER TWP. — Before Courtney Kobak was born, her mother Jody had been on bed rest and was unable to ride her horse.
“When she came home from the hospital two days later, she rode first thing, and there I was,” Kobak said. “It’s in my blood.”
Like her mother, Courtney, now 19, has […]

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By CASSANDRA SHOFAR

Staff Writer
MEDINA — Squirrels playfully scampering about Nottingham Court followed by incessantly chirping birds are just a few signs of recovery at the site of a fire Thursday night that left 12 residents without homes.
While neighbors and victims of the retirement community are still shaken up by the fire, which destroyed eight units […]

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By MARIA KACIK

Staff Writer
David Holdridge is one of the few 8-year-olds in the world who has a portfolio for his inventions.
Sitting in his Medina living room, David picked up his blue plastic folder, which is labeled “David’s Portfolio” in an 8-year-old’s scribble — and withdrew plans for his newest invention. This one, he said, is […]

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By HANNAH SCHAEFER
Staff Writer
BRUNSWICK — In spite of an uncertain political and economic climate, city council decided to extend its contract with advocacy and lobbying company LNE Group through the end of 2008.
During the committee-of-the-whole meeting Monday night, council members debated whether continuing to pursue state and federal funding through the company was a “gamble” […]

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