High school news, features and notes
- Division I baseball district semifinals: Explorers, Blue Devils advance to district final
- Division I district track and field: Cuyahoga Falls’ Nicole Waibel, Nicole Rozsa go 1-2 in girls pole vault, Firestone’s Thomas tops the girls 400
- High school sports roundup — May 24
- GlenOak and Perry girls tie for district title; GlenOak boys victorious
- Ohio State recruiting: St. V-M’s Dante Booker commits to Buckeyes
- Division II district final softball/Walsh Jesuit 4, Field 2: Lexi Noonan, Taylor Rahach lead Warriors to district title
- High school sports roundup — May 23
- Division II district final softball/Fairless 2, Springfield 1: Falcons advance to regional
- Barberton hires Greg Whitmer as girls basketball coach
- St. Vincent-St. Mary junior linebacker Dante Booker Jr. commits to Ohio State; 9th Buckeyes recruit
- High school sports roundup — May 22
- Walsh Jesuit, Field set to meet in Akron Division II softball district final Thursday
- Softball Division II district semifinals: Fairless, Springfield advance
- High School Spotlight — May 22
- High school notebook: Twinsburg confident after defeating Walsh Jesuit in sectional for second year in a row
- High school baseball/Firestone 8, Ellet 6: Falcons win, set up showdown in City Series championship game
- Division II district baseball final/Archbishop Hoban 8, Tallmadge 1: Knights click to advance to regional
- Division I district softball/Medina 5, Barberton 2: Megan Paradise pitches Bees into district final
- High school sports roundup — May 21
- Cuyahoga Falls names Sean Flaherty new football coach
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Canton McKinley's Joe Morgan signs with the New Orleans Saints
The NFL lockout is over and Joe Morgan is ready to play some football.
Morgan, 23, signed a contract Tuesday with the New Orleans Saints as an undrafted free agent and is overjoyed at the opportunity that awaits him.
“It is like surreal,” Morgan said by telephone. “I don’t really think it has hit me for real. Everyone is telling me congratulations. I was kind of shocked. I was hoping this day would come, but I never really thought it would.”
Morgan, a 6-foot-1 and 189 pound wide receiver played the past two seasons at Walsh University after starting his collegiate career at Illinois. He was a Division I All-Ohio performer in high school at Canton McKinley.
Morgan caught a team-high 41 passes last season for 653 yards and five touchdowns despite battling a high ankle sprain from the third game on. He closed the year healthy and tied a team mark with ten receptions in the season finale at Marian.
“I am a fan of the game first,” Morgan said. “It was exciting to meet a lot of guys at the Scouting Combine, and I look forward to meeting Saints players such as Drew Brees, Reggie Bush and Mark Ingram. I admire and respect them and it will be exciting to be on the field with them, but at the same time I feel like I belong. I have the confidence to know that I belong.”
