High school news, features and notes
- High school baseball: Starting pitching leads Hoban, Tallmadge to district semifinals wins
- High school sports roundup — May 20
- Ellet gains early edge on Firestone to win 12-3
- Track and field: Area standouts seek standout postseason performances
- Ellet, Firestone to compete for title
- Nordonia boys, Green girls win Suburban League track and field team titles
- High school sports roundup — May 18
- High school track/City Series Meet: Buchtel boys, Firestone girls take titles
- High school sports roundup — May 17
- OHSAA announces competitive balance proposal failed, transfer rules softened
- High school softball Division I sectional/Barberton 11, Ellet 1: Magics rally around mourning teammates in victory over Orangemen
- OHSAA Board of Directors Meeting Highlights - 05/16-13
- OHSAA announces competitive balance proposal for high school sports fails in close vote
- High School Spotlight — May 15
- St. V-M advances to sectional final in softball
- High school notebook: Walsh Jesuit’s Conzaman to retire
- High school sports roundup — May 15
- Grant Conzaman set to retire as Walsh Jesuit Athletic Director in June
- Track and field league championship meets galore this week
- Lake’s Tyler Straley signs to play baseball at Malone
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Akron men's soccer earns No. 1 national ranking
The University of Akron men’s soccer team is No. 1 in the country just in time for the postseason.
Zips coach Caleb Porter found out Tuesday that his players have earned the No. 1 ranking in the national coaches poll. Maryland, North Carolina, Georgetown and UCLA are ranked second through fifth.
UA (15-1-2, 7-0-0) won the Mid-American Conference regular season championship and will host the MAC Tournament this weekend. The Zips also have several victories against nationally ranked opponents.
The top-seeded Zips will meet the fourth-seeded Bowling Green Falcons (8-8-3, 3-3-1) at 7:30 p.m. Friday in one semifinal. The second-seeded the Northern Illinois Huskies (6-9-3) will play the third-seeded West Virginia Mountaineers (9-5-2, 4-2-1) in the other semifinal at 4 p.m. Friday.
The semifinal winners will meet in the championship match at 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
The Zips are No. 1 for the third time in the past four seasons (2009, 2010 and 2012) and fourth time overall (2005).
Junior forward Reinaldo Brenes is the Zips top goal scorer with 10 goals.
Senior midfielder Scott Caldwell has nine goals and six assists, and senior goalkeeper David Meves has 14 shutouts.
