High school news, features and notes
- High school baseball: Starting pitching leads Hoban, Tallmadge to district semifinals wins
- Ellet gains early edge on Firestone to win 12-3
- High school sports roundup — May 20
- 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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Rittman football attempts to win and snap streak
Rittman returns 10 starters and looks to snap a 27-game losing streak.
"Obviously the goal is to just get the monkey off our back," Indians first-year coach Brent Besancon said. "That is a quote I am using with the team. We want
to change the mindset and get them playing with confidence."
Seniors Levi Swisher, David Lloyd, Travis Vanderhoof, Sly Lloyd, Orey Wiggans, Mike Walls and Barrett Gasser will be counted on to lead a turn around for Rittman. Juniors Tim Fargo, Brandon Bauman and Kevin Dotterer should also play pivotal roles.
Besancon, a dairy farmer, previously was head coach at New London in
2007 and 2008, and prior to that was an assistant coach at Smithville for 14 years. New London posted a 14-56 record the seven years before Besancon arrived, and led to a 6-4 mark in 2008. Rittman last made the playoffs in 2005.
Check Thursday’s Akron Beacon Journal for a special section in the newspaper that previews the 2009 season.
