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High school football: Rinard, Meacham serve as linemen Hunters for Hornets
One is a late-blooming, shoot-from-the-hip jokester who has great footwork and enough self-confidence to proudly rock his on-point “Dad Bod.” The other is a naturally big-boned, polished-speaking...
View ArticleHigh school football: Highland meets Avon in playoffs — again
AVON — The Highland football team will play its fifth playoff game in the last three years tonight, and Avon is the opponent for the third time. The old Inland Conference members have developed plenty...
View ArticleHigh school football: Playoffs return to ‘Buck-O-Dome’ for first time in 10...
YORK TWP. — The largest party in Medina County tonight will be inside the gates of the “The Buck-O-Dome.” That’s the quirky local nickname for Edwin Steingass Field, where the undefeated, third-seeded...
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High school football playoffs: Hard-fought battle for Buckeye; losing in...
YORK TWP. — Guard Jalin Brock flipped off his helmet and buried his head into the cold, damp grass at Edwin Steingass Field. Quarterback Nathan Polidori did the same just feet away with helmet still...
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UPDATED: Wadsworth’s Dennison resigns
WADSWORTH — A model of stability and sustained success has hung up his whistle — for now. Greg Dennison Wadsworth’s Greg Dennison, the third-winningest football coach in Medina County history,...
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Gazette golf MVP: Highland’s Butler traded ballet shoes for spikes, hasn’t...
Madison Butler remembers the day vividly, when only one thought popped to mind after she shot 77 for “technically” the second time in her life. “I was like, ‘Wow, I shot that for nine holes a few years...
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The strongest link: Dubiel’s play, sense of humor makes him Gazette boys golf...
The running gag of the Highland boys golf season involved ace Chad Dubiel and coach Andrew Dutt. The scenario: Dubiel joked with his boys in the van en route to the course, shot around 76 or 77 and...
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Johnson scores 1,000th career point in Wadsworth victory
Wadsworth’s Jodi Johnson goes up for a shot against Eastmoor Academy’s Ovian Whitlow-Moore during the second quarter. (RON SCHWANE / GAZETTE) Albert Grindle The Gazette WADSWORTH — It was that awkward...
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Nine area players named first-team all district; in line for state honors
Medina County will have nine All-Ohio football players in 2015. That was the number of first-team selections when the All-Northeast Inland District teams were released by The Associated Press on Monday...
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Girls basketball: Refueled, refocused Colts beat spunky Bucks
YORK TWP. — Caught completely off-guard by scrappy and much-improved Buckeye on Monday, Lexi Civittolo, Jillian Miglich and the rest of the Cloverleaf girls basketball team woke up just in time....
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High school basketball: Disastrous loss for Cloverleaf in season-opener
WESTFIELD TWP. — Little things that went right were undone by a disastrous finish, but what encouraged Cloverleaf boys basketball coach Marty Ryan after a 67-44 season-opening loss to Rittman was the...
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High school basketball: Medina girls rally for non-league win over Highland
MEDINA — The bumps, bruises and floor burns may become deranged badges of honor for the Medina girls basketball team. Winning in heart-palpitating fashion is euphoric like that. Medina’s Amanda Holzman...
View ArticleHigh school basketball: Revere cleans up on glass in win over Cloverleaf
WESTFIELD TWP. — The two most obvious casual observations of the extremely young 2015-16 Medina County boys basketball season are this: Medina has a super duper tall kid (7-foot Michigan recruit Jon...
View ArticleHigh school football: Buckeye trio receives state honors
Trevor Thome’s record-smashing statistics, Hunter Gray’s ability to do the dirty work and Nathan Polidori’s dual-threat skills have officially garnered statewide attention. The Buckeye standout...
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High school basketball: Brunswick boys escape pesky Highland
GRANGER TWP. — The best-players-on-the-court effect saved Brunswick’s boys basketball team. Behind another mistake-free performance from All-Gazette point guard Michael Quiring and a huge second...
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High school basketball: Peterlin, Profitt lead Hornet girls to win
GRANGER TWP. — Ladies and gentlemen, there now is irrefutable proof that karma is real. Highland’s Veronica Peterlin shoots over Revere’s Abby Brock during the first quarter. (RON SCHWANE / GAZETTE)...
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High school golf: Highland’s Butler picks Cleveland State
GRANGER TWP. — The premier girls golf program in Medina County has produced another Division I talent, as Highland standout Madison Butler verbally committed to Cleveland State on Tuesday. Madison...
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Boys high school basketball: Buckeye survives season opener, beating Columbia
COLUMBIA STATION — Reigning Patriot Athletic Conference MVP David Delahunty had gaudy statistics, but Nathan Polidori and the rest of the Buckeye boys basketball team had guts. The Bucks survived...
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Cattle-tested: Farming values shaped Thome into Bucks’ leader
And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker.” So God made a farmer. — Paul Harvey, 1978 The farming life is the only life Trevor Thome has known....
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High school basketball: Buckeye boys use fast start, defense to cruise to win
YORK TWP. — This performance was much better. The Buckeye boys basketball team used a fast start, pressure defense and offensive balance Tuesday to easily take down Fairview 66-43 in Patriot Athletic...
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