By ADAM FERRISE
Special to The Gazette
ORRVILLE — Jake Boettner, Josh Varney and Kyle Miller all had difficulties at the beginning of the boys track season.
Now, all three are going to the Lexington Regional.
Varney qualified Thursday in the shot put, while Miller and Boettner qualified Saturday during the final day of the Orrville Division II […]

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By ADAM FERRISE
Special to The Gazette
LAKEWOOD — The sign that hangs in Highland’s field house reminded its boys track team every day what its mission was.
The sign, which had a target on it, demanded a win at the Lakewood Division I District. The Hornets accomplished that mission Friday.
Highland scored 130 points and qualified 10 individuals […]

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By BOB DANIELS
Staff Writer
ELYRIA — It was one of those situations the bat-and-ball sports do so well in a game between two state-ranked softball teams with a league championship on the line Saturday.
Top-ranked Elyria defeated No. 8 Brunswick 2-0 to capture the Northeast Ohio Conference Valley Division crown.
In doing so, the Pioneers (25-1, 9-1) avenged […]

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By BRIAN DULIK
Staff Writer
CLEVELAND — The Indians got some good news and some bad news Sunday regarding the status of starting pitcher Fausto Carmona.
An MRI taken the day before revealed that the lanky right-hander does not have a severe left hip injury. He does, however, have an articular muscle strain that will keep him on […]

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By BRIAN DULIK
Staff Writer
CLEVELAND — Indians pitcher Masa Kobayashi set the table and right fielder Ben Francisco knocked all the plates off it.
Kobayashi’s two-out walk to Jarrod Saltalamacchia in the 10th inning turned into the decisive run Sunday when Francisco committed a cringe-worthy error on the next play, giving the Texas Rangers a 2-1 win […]

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By DAN COUGHLIN
Too bad Buddy Schultz can’t speak at every high school graduation. Too bad he can’t share his philosophy with everybody who ever played baseball.
Buddy pitched Shaw to the state championship in 1968 and he organized its 40th reunion.
From his home in Phoenix, Schultz contacted every teammate, coach and even the sportswriters who wrote […]

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By BRAD BOURNIVAL
Staff Writer
CLEVELAND — Ben Francisco left no doubt this time and Cliff Lee returned to form on Saturday, snapping a seven-game losing streak by the Indians and erasing the memories of an ugly performance a week ago by Lee.
Francisco hit a three-run home run in the third and Lee looked the part of […]

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By HANNAH SCHAEFER

Staff Writer
RITTMAN — The bright granite monuments marking the graves of veterans stood in tidy rows, mostly undecorated, in the bright morning sun. At the center of the field, a huge American flag flanked by flags representing the branches of the U.S. military silently waved in the breeze.
A chattering crowd of hundreds of […]

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Jessica “Savanna” Holloway, 25, passed away Thursday, May 1, 2008, in Sydney, Australia, in a boating accident in Sydney Harbor.
She was born May 13, 1982, in Texas. She graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and earned an anthropology degree. She was employed as a youth worker at Melaleuca Refugee Center in […]

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Sonya Lynne (nee Harris) Perz, 45, of Medina, passed away Saturday, May 24, 2008, in Strongsville.
She was born July 17, 1962, in Medina. Sonya worked at Kmart in Brunswick for 18 years. She enjoyed her family, friends and cat, Penny.
She is survived by her parents, Robert and Priscilla (nee Tingler) Harris of Brunswick; grandmother, Bernice […]

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