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 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
- High school sports roundup — May 15
Copley's Aregeros Turner decommits from Cincinnati
Copley senior running back Aregeros Turner has reportedly decommitted from the University of Cincinnati, according to Rivals.com.
Turner originally made an oral commitment to the Bearcats in October, choosing Cincinnati over Purdue and Illinois among other offers.
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Massillon's Kyle Kempt decommits from Cincinnati
Massillon senior QB Kyle Kempt has reportedly decommitted from the University of Cincinnati, according to multiple reports including Scout.com and ScoutingOhio.com.
"I have decommitted from Cinci," Kempt tweeted tonight.
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Firestone's Mark Belanger signs to swim at Ohio State
Firestone High School senior Mark Belanger has signed with Ohio State University to continue his academic and swimming careers on scholarship.
“I’m excited to swim in college,” Belanger said. “I’m looking forward to swimming faster and I’m excited that I get to keep doing the sport I love.”
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Canton McKinley's Eric Glover-Williams nabs offers
Canton McKinley High School quarterback Eric Glover-Williams is just a sophomore, but he is already on the radar of big college football programs.
The Canton Repository reported that Glover-Williams has scholarship offers from Ohio State, Nebraska and Illinois.
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Massillon's Gareon Conley changes mind, commits to Ohio State
The Massillon Independent reported that Massillon senior football player Gareon Conley has reconsidered his oral commitment to the University of Michigan, and has pledged to play for rival Ohio State on scholarship.
Massillon coach Jason Hall confirmed Conley was in Columbus on Friday to finish up his official visit to the school and gave coach Urban Meyer a commitment.
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Keith Wakefield returns to Perry as football coach
Keith Wakefield is returning to Perry High School to coach the Panthers football team.
Perry announced the hiring of Wakefield as its head football coach today.
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Hoban's Jimmy Martter reportedly commits to Harvard
Hoban senior tight end Jimmy Martter has reportedly made a commitment to play football at Harvard, according to ScoutingOhio.com.
Martter, who is 6 feet 3 and 236 pounds, also had an offer from Yale.
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Boedicker resigns as Perry football coach
Perry High School is looking for a new varsity head football coach.
Keith Boedicker turned in his resignation to the Perry Local Schools on Monday.
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Triway spearheading effort for separate state tournaments
There appears to be another competitive balance vote for high school athletics coming in the near future.
Triway Local School District Superintendent David W. Rice said Monday that he and other superintendents in Wayne County have collected around 110 signatures from high school principals in the state of Ohio to submit to the Ohio High School Athletic Association and Commissioner Daniel B. Ross for a vote.
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St. V-M is Division III state football champion
CANTON: St. Vincent-St. Mary is the top high school football team in Ohio in Division III in 2012.
St. V-M defeated Bellevue 42-21 Saturday at Fawcett Stadium in Canton to win the Division III state championship before a crowd of 9,109.
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STVM set to play Bellevue for Division III state football title
St. Vincent-St. Mary (12-2) vs. Bellevue (13-1)
What: Division III state championship football game.
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Norton's Matt McGlone returns to basketball
Norton senior Matt McGlone enjoyed his return to the basketball court..
McGlone joined his Panthers teammates Friday night at Waterloo to open the boys basketball season after a brain aneurysm sidelined him for most of the football season.
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Short-handed Irish basketball team
The St. Vincent-St. Mary boys basketball team will open its season against University High School of Normal, Ill. at 11 a.m. Saturday at the University of Illinois-Chicago a little short-handed.
The Fighting Irish football team, which features several athletes who also play basketball, will meet Bellevue at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Division III state championship game at Fawcett Stadium in Canton.
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A Knights debut
Archbishop Hoban 6-foot-2 freshman Anthony Christian impressed Friday night in his debut varsity game, a victory over Kenmore.
Knights coach T.K. Griffith also returns talented seniors DeAllen Jackson, Jaelen Hollinger and Saadiq Muhammad.
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Gym excitement at Wadsworth
Wadsworth is enjoying its new high school and new gymnasium, "Main Gym."
The Wadsworth girls basketball team won their opener this past Saturday 84-33 over Manchester. Firestone defeated Wadsworth 76-72 in the opening boys basketball game Friday night
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