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Coming off one of the best boys basketball seasons in Wilmington High School history, the Hurricane will play in three national-level tournaments during the 2009-2010 season.
On a beautiful night for softball at Blanchester’s Legion Field, three teams picked up doubleheader sweeps in week 3 of the Blanchester Summer League.
The league’s lone remaining unbeaten team is Batavia. The Clermont County squad defeated East Clinton 9-1 in the opener Tuesday night. They had to withstand a furious Astro rally in Game 2 to post a 9-6 victory and remain unbeaten at 6-0.
The only other unbeaten team entering Tuesday’s play was Eastern Brown, but they now find themselves with two losses after two close defeats at the hands of Wilmington.
The Southern Ohio Volleyball Officials Association will be offering an instructional class for new volleyball officials beginning July 18 at Holy Trinity Fellowship Church in Williamsburg.
Class will meet at 5 p.m. and will last about three hours each evening. Saturday classes will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday and Thursday the class will meet from 7 to 9 p.m.
The final test will be given Aug. 27. Students will meet all the requirements (25 hours classroom and on floor instruction) to become a licensed OHSAA (Ohio High School Athletic Association) official after passing the test.
PARKERSBURG, Iowa (AP) — Police say a 24-year-old man charged with murdering a prominent Iowa high school football coach was supposed to have been taken to a hospital psychiatric ward after leading police on a car chase.
Cedar Falls Police Chief Jeff Olson says he was told Butler County Sheriff’s deputies would take Mark Becker to the ward after taking a baseball bat to a Cedar Falls home and leading police on a chase Saturday night.
The Sheriff’s Office declined to comment on whether deputies took Becker to the ward.
The team of Alex Nedved, Zach Mineer, Ben Boris, Chas Halloran and Michael Percy posted an 8-under par to earn league champion honors at the Majestic Springs junior golf camp.
The second place team shot 5-under par and consisted of Will Asher, Austin Purkey, Scott McFarlane, Cade Kienle, Dylan Rose and Steve Marvin.
The camp staff consisted of Andy Copeland, Dave Liffick, Randall Davis and Randy Morgan.
Sabina basketball legend Phil Snow was a guest speaker at the boys basketball camp at East Clinton High School. Snow is the second all-time leading scorer in Clinton County basketball history with 1,830 points. Snow also had 275 assists during the 1962-63 season. East Clinton boys basketball coach Ryan Briggs and members of his coaching staff and players conducted the camp last week.
Pre-season athletic screenings for area student athletes in grades 3 through 12 are now being scheduled at the CMH Regional Health System Family Health Center, 825 W. Locust Street, Wilmington.
Cost is $10, which will be donated back to the athlete’s school.
Dates and times are: Thursday, July 16, 5-8 p.m.; Monday, July 27, 5-8 p.m.; Tuesday, August 18, 5-8 p.m.; Tuesday, October 20, 5-7 p.m.
The Wilmington eighth grade football team will begin voluntary conditioning practices July 6 in the field behind the Wilmington High School.
The first conditioning session will run from 6 to 7:30 p.m. July 6.
Interested players should have running shoes, rather than football cleats, coach Bryan Siebenaller said. Also, players should bring water bottles to the conditioning sessions.
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Josh Jewett is very much in tune with the economic problems in this country. However, for five years now Jewett has been running the “Dare To Be Different (D2BD) football camp with a monetary disclaimer.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — High school football teams should eliminate two-a-day practices during the first week of August drills when heat stroke has proven particularly deadly, a leading trainers’ group said Thursday in a report issued less than two months before the sweltering rite of passage begins at thousands of schools.
The National Athletic Trainers’ Association said its recommendations, which include longer breaks between practice and more time for players to ease into contact drills, are not radical changes and closely mirror policies already in place at the Division I college level.
They also pointed to the death of a 15-year-old Kentucky boy last August after he collapsed on the first day of practice. Prosecutors charged his coach with reckless homicide in an unusual case of a coach being held criminally responsible for a player’s death.
