Local diamond report – Season comes to end for FHS softball team with tourney setback at Centerburg

By Tim Miller

Lady Panther pitcher Sarah Writesel prepares to release the ball in this file photo. FHS fell to Centerburg on Monday in a Division III tournament game. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller)

Fairbanks’ softball team saw its season come to an end on Monday.
The Lady Panthers (8-12) dropped a Division...

Many Monarch mistakes lead to loss at Olentangy Orange

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Marysville defensive back JJ Henry (24) breaks up an Olentangy Orange pass Friday evening. The Monarchs dropped their season opener to the Pioneers. (Journal-Tribune photo by Aleksei Pavloff)

Many Monarch mistakes lead to loss at Olentangy Orange

By Chad Williamson

August 24, 2024

Months of lifting weights, film sessions and playbook study culminate when a high school grid squad gets to step on the field under the Friday night lights. Those lights can sometimes be blinding. Jus...

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Cardinals fall to Mt. Gilead

By Aleksei Pavloff

August 24, 2024

Triad’s varsity football team suffered a week one loss at Mount Gilead, 46-19. “We suffered more injuries to key players,” Triad coach Mike Braun said. Awsom Mitchell was credited with one touchdown r...

North Union Wildcats’ offense silenced during setback to Marion Pleasant

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Tyler Krebehenne (22) of North Union gets through a hole in Pleasant’s defense. The Wildcats fell in their season opener. (Photo submitted)

North Union Wildcats’ offense silenced during setback to Marion Pleasant

By Bob Putman

August 24, 2024

The opening week of the football season does not necessarily have a bearing on what the rest of the campaign will be like. North Union head coach Nick Hajjar and his Wildcat players, however, do have ...

Alder’s “Pick 6’s” spell difference in 35-21 victory over Panthers

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Jonathan Alder’s Mason Curtis (33) goes into the end zone for a score as Fairbanks’ Holtz Maine bears down on the Pioneer ball carrier. Also pictured in JA’s Jace Schrock (5). (Journal-Tribune photo by Aleksei Pavloff)

Alder’s “Pick 6’s” spell difference in 35-21 victory over Panthers

By Tim Miller

August 24, 2024

The football teams from Fairbanks and Jonathan Alder kicked off the 2024 season with a good, old-fashioned backyard slugfest Friday evening. Fairbanks coach David Carroll and his Pioneer counterpart N...

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Finding answers in case of toilet cash a tankless job

By Mac Cordell

August 23, 2024

City officials say they still have very few answers about how more than $30,000 in cash ended up in a series of local toilets and what will happen to it now. Earlier this year, officials took possessi...

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Triad wraps projects just in time for school

By Kyle Meddles

August 23, 2024

Triad finished a series of summer projects just ahead of the start of the 2024-2025 school year. At the first board of education meeting of this school year Thursday, Neil Laughbaum, director of opera...