High school news, features and notes
- High school notebook: St. V-M basketball player VJ King helps U.S. U16 team to gold medal
- VJ King earns gold medal with USA U-16 men's basketball team
- Lake's Chaese Vaudrin signs with Geneva
- Perry's Stefano Millin pledges to KSU for football
- WRA student nabs lacrosse honor
- Aurora athlete selects Mount Union for tennis
- Hoban tennis players set to play at Mount Union
- Mount Union football gains Ryan Ross, a OSU transfer & Hoban graduate
- Manchester's Richie Ashley commits to Heidelberg for football
- High school football: OHSAA approves seventh division; several schools drop into lower divisions
- Hudson Junior Invitational: Stow senior Ian Holt takes charge, leads by 6 strokes
- High school baseball: Team Summit tops Team Akron in all-star game
- Hudson Junior Invitational: Kent Roosevelt’s Kory Nielsen tackles first major tournament; Stow’s Ian Holt leads boys with opening 69
- High school all-star softball: Field’s Kerrie Trautman takes one for the team, then scores winning run
- High school notebook: Canal Park to host all-star baseball game Wednesday
- Canal Park set to host all-star baseball game Wednesday
- Hoban baseball players decide on college futures
- Hudson athletes make college decisions
- High school notebook: All-star softball games at Firestone Stadium
- All-Star softball players set to converge on Firestone Stadium
Walsh Jesuit baseball garners national ranking
Walsh Jesuit baseball coach Chris Kaczmar recently announced that the Warriors are nationally ranked for the fifth time in the past six years.
The Warriors are ranked in three pre-season polls, No. 22 in the ESPN Rise Pre-Season Fab 50 Poll, No. 26 in the Collegiate Baseball News Pre-Season Poll and No. 66 in the Perfect Game Cross Checker Top 100 pre-season high school baseball teams of 2009.
Walsh was nationally ranked for three consecutive years from 2004 through 2006, peaking in the USA Today poll at No. 6 nationally in 2006 as the Warriors collected their third state title.
The Warriors won their fourth state title in 2008 and returned to the national rankings.
Kaczmar also said junior 3B/SS/RHP Johnny Fasola is ranked 260th nationally in the Perfect Game Cross Checker Nation Top 500 of the class of 2010.
Walsh opens the 2009 season against visiting Amherst on March 30.
- Michael Beaven