• PHIL MASTURZO - AKRON BEACON JOURNAL
  High school baseball: Starting pitching leads Hoban, Tallmadge to district semifinals wins

  When Travis Pero and Scott Noel took the mound in separate baseball games Monday they felt nervous.

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• 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 track/City Series Meet: Buchtel boys, Firestone girls take titles
• OHSAA announces competitive balance proposal failed, transfer rules softened
• OHSAA announces competitive balance proposal for high school sports fails in close vote
• High school notebook: Walsh Jesuit’s Conzaman to retire
• High school baseball: Hoban beats Streetsboro 11-1 in Division II sectional
• OHSAA competitive balance referendum draws varying opinions
• Woodridge Wrap-Up: Copley boys, Stow girls win team track and field titles
• High school track: Host Blue Streaks fare well at Rock ‘Em Relays
• East baseball retires No. 11 in honor of Marine Cpl. Derek A. Wyatt
• Akron set to compete in Hawaii men's basketball event
• North Canton Hoover senior athlete Dom Iero is a man for all seasons
• High school notebook: Revere’s Stephen Suglio set to wrestle close to home at Kent State
• High school softball/North Canton Hoover 14, Lake 2: Top-ranked Vikings flex muscles in rout of Blue Streaks
• Zips soccer: New coach Jared Embick adds 10 players in first recruiting class
• Nordonia hosts and wins inaugural Summit County Track and Field Invitational
• High school softball/St. Vincent-St. Mary defeats Hoban, 6-3
• Senior Quartni Whited aspires to lead Springfield to 10th softball state title in June