High school news, features and notes
- 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
- Cuyahoga Falls names Sean Flaherty new football coach
- High school sports roundup — May 21
- 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
Firestone Park Sox win F League state title
The Firestone Park Sox won the Hot Stove State Baseball Championship this past Sunday in the F League division (13-14 year olds) at Butler-Rodman Fields in Alliance, OH.
The Sox compiled a 28-1 overall record and defeated the Ravenna Braves 4-3 in the championship game.
The 13 players on the Sox team are: Andrew Agner, Jacob Bumgarner, Devin Elekes, Adam Gray, Logan Johnson, Jacob Mazak, J.J. Morrison, Tyler Needham, Michael Riegger, Nate Rogers, Jake Samulak, Ryan Testa and Vince Woicehovich.
Joe Rogers served as Sox head coach and his assistant coaches were John Testa, Steve Gray, Joey Rogers and Shawn Needham (scorekeeper).
Bumgarner, a right-handed pitcher, was named the Most Valuable Player of the tournament.
"I have had these young men for two years," Joe Rogers said. "We practiced starting in January and our season went all the way into the beginning of August. We practiced on the weekends at first, conditioning and running. These kids are all hard workers and they were not quitters."