High school news, features and notes
- Norwayne’s Kaleb Harris commits to Cincinnati for football
- Mount Union adds four local student-athletes
- High school notebook: St. V-M basketball player VJ King helps U.S. U16 team to gold medal
- VJ King earns gold medal with USA U-16 men's basketball team
- Lake's Chaese Vaudrin signs with Geneva
- Perry's Stefano Millin pledges to KSU for football
- WRA student nabs lacrosse honor
- Aurora athlete selects Mount Union for tennis
- Hoban tennis players set to play at Mount Union
- Mount Union football gains Ryan Ross, a OSU transfer & Hoban graduate
- Manchester's Richie Ashley commits to Heidelberg for football
- High school football: OHSAA approves seventh division; several schools drop into lower divisions
- Hudson Junior Invitational: Stow senior Ian Holt takes charge, leads by 6 strokes
- High school baseball: Team Summit tops Team Akron in all-star game
- Hudson Junior Invitational: Kent Roosevelt’s Kory Nielsen tackles first major tournament; Stow’s Ian Holt leads boys with opening 69
- High school all-star softball: Field’s Kerrie Trautman takes one for the team, then scores winning run
- High school notebook: Canal Park to host all-star baseball game Wednesday
- Canal Park set to host all-star baseball game Wednesday
- Hoban baseball players decide on college futures
- Hudson athletes make college decisions
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Bill Dies Memorial Wrestling Tournament starts Friday at Firestone
26thannual Bill Dies Memorial Wrestling Tournament scouting box
When: Friday and Saturday.
Where: Firestone High School.
Format: There will be 14 weight classes with wrestlers placing first through eighth in their respective class honored.
Schedule: Friday—Wrestling begins at 3 p.m. with two championship rounds and two consolation rounds. Saturday—Wrestling starts at 10 a.m. with two championship rounds, four consolation rounds. Seventh and eighth place matches will be held in the afternoon. A Parade of Champions will take place at 5:45 p.m. Wrestling for first through sixth places will begin at 6 p.m.
Notebook: Brecksville has won four team Dies championships in a row and has two No. 1 seeds, sophomore Austin Assad at 106 pounds and senior Aaron Assad at 113. . . . Barberton has two No. 1 seeds, seniors Aaron Tschantz (195) and Vernon Rowe (220). Tschantz and Rowe both won Dies titles last year and guided the Magics to second as a team. . . . There are six other area wrestlers seeded No. 1; Canton South senior D.J. Schoeppner (126), Woodridge senior Pat Dickinson (138), Norwayne sophomore Kollin Moore (152), Garrettsville junior Aaron Yonker (170), Revere senior Stephen Suglio (182) and Chippewa’s Zack Srock (285). . . . The 195-pound weight class figures to be a class to watch closely with Highland senior Adam Kluk and Cuyahoga Falls senior Joe Repasky seeded second and third, respectively, behind Tschantz. . . . Schoeppner, Kluk and Srock won Dies titles last year. . . . Other local wrestlers who are seeded second are Barberton senior Sonny Shump (132), Archbishop Hoban senior Michael Belknap (145), Norwayne senior Kurt Moore (160), Rootstown junior Travis Linton (170), Rootstown senior Jake Moore (220) and Manchester junior Jake Hanzel (285). . . . Brunswick, Buchtel, Buckeye, Copley, Coventry, Firestone, GlenOak, Green, Kenmore, Kent Roosevelt, Mogadore, Norton, Springfield, Stow, Tallmadge, Twinsburg will also have wrestlers competing.
– Michael Beaven
