High school news, features and notes
- 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
- Barberton hires Greg Whitmer as girls basketball coach
- Division II district final softball/Fairless 2, Springfield 1: Falcons advance to regional
- High school sports roundup — May 23
- 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
- St. V-M alumni say goodbye to old gym, set to be gutted Wednesday
- 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
Division I state golf tournament scouting report
What: Division I boys, Division I girls state golf tournament.
When: Friday and Saturday.
Where: Ohio State University. The boys will play on the Scarlet Course, and the girls will play on the Gray Course.
Local boys qualifying teams: Walsh Jesuit — junior Chase Johnson, junior Luke Libertatore, senior David Lobeck, sophomore Sam Gibson, sophomore Michael Furey and coach Joe Denton. Medina — senior Patrick Luth, senior Sean Sherman, sophomore Spencer Koch, junior Grant Morgan, sophomore Evan Schreck and coach Jeanne Pritchard. Aurora — senior Andrew Hinton, senior Scott Schroeder, junior Alex Avalon, junior Sam Nowak, junior Conor O’Callaghan and coach Gus Mehallis.
Local boys qualifying individuals: Stow junior Ian Holt, Lake senior Jake McBride, GlenOak senior Trevor Stan and Tallmadge junior Zach Mosholder.
Local girls qualifying teams: Jackson — junior Cassie Pantelas, sophomore Landrie Grace, senior Kelsey Schutt, junior Louisa Englehardt, junior Jessica Cassidy and coach Teal Harvey. Highland — senior Jessica Porvasnik, senior Jessica McRae, sophomore Chloe McKinzie, junior Rachel Horvath, junior Karly Alexander and coach Mary Becker. North Canton Hoover — senior MacKenzie DiPietro, senior Katie Casey, sophomore Gabby Minor, junior Danica Steiner, senior Kaitlyn Shaffer and coach Scott Snyder.
Local girls qualifying individuals: Wadsworth junior Alice Ho, Kent Roosevelt sophomore Kasey Nielsen and Kent Roosevelt sophomore Kelly Nielsen.