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Leadbetter learns her lesson, shoots 67
It’s a given that Hally Leadbetter would be weaned on short irons and develop a deft putting touch at an early age. Such is the destiny of a girl whose father is among the best golf instructors in the world. Whoops; think again. “I was a horseback (show jumping) rider ...
WWGA National Am fits Graham grad Jordan’s game, plan
The rush to play tournament golf is on for Jessie Jordan. Facing yet another idle year after transferring from the University of Wisconsin to Iowa, it’s game on this summer. “I’m trying to find as many tournaments as I can just because I know that I have to sit out ...
Powell succeeds Lacking at Dunbar
Darran Powell has been named to succeed James Lacking as the Dunbar High School varsity football head coach. Powell, 25, has no head coaching experience, but his Wolverines roots run deep. He has been a Dunbar assistant in both football and basketball since graduating from the University of Cincinnati, where ...
Most area prep football teams move down a division
It was moving day on Thursday for many area high school football teams. Among the proposals that the Ohio High School Athletic Association board of directors approved during their monthly meeting was the division each varsity football program is assigned this coming season. What made this different from all other ...
3-point specialist Derenbecker leaves UD
Matt Derenbecker, one of the first recruits to be signed by University of Dayton men’s basketball coach Archie Miller, has left the program. The 6-foot-7 forward played just this past season with the Flyers. He played as a freshman at LSU and sat out the 2011-12 season following a transfer ...
Palmer to go from Piqua to Troy
It’s not often that rivals Piqua and Troy exchange transfers. But that’s what happened at Monday night’s Troy City Schools Board of Education meeting. Dave Palmer, Piqua’s athletic director the last eight years, was approved as Troy’s new athletic director. He succeeds Jeff Sakal, who reportedly will retire from the ...
East’s Heath adds third, fifth at state
Autumn Heath of Lakota East High School is still chasing that elusive state championship. And she’s closing fast on doing just that. “Next year I’ll come back hungry and a little stronger,” she said after placing in both the 100- and 200-meter dashes during Saturday’s season-ending state track and field ...
Marshall closes Middies career with second, sixth at state
Jalin Marshall doesn’t take defeat well. That’s why going from a returning state long jump champion to sixth during Saturday’s state track and field meet didn’t sit well with the Middletown High School senior. “It hit me hard,” he admitted. Marshall made up for that by placing second in the ...
Wayne’s Latimer goes from 9th to first in final jump
Nothing that Wayne High School long jumper Jordan Latimer tried was going right at Saturday’s state track and field meet. Plagued by fouls, he listed into the finals with just one good jump of 21 feet, six inches. That was his shortest recorded effort of the season and he made ...
Versailles wins, Meadowdale second at state
There was only one goal that Oksana Lawrence sought to accomplish this track and field season. “I wanted to step up my game,” the Meadowdale junior speedster said at Saturday’s final day of the state meet. She did, finishing off a spectacular breakout season on the sport’s grandest stage at ...
Oakwood saves its best for last
The Oakwood girls 4x800-meter relay was a work in progress all season. The Jills went six deep and didn’t decide on a final lineup until the district two weeks ago. Look at them now. “I didn’t even think that we would get here,” said senior Mackie Keller after Oakwood knocked ...
Success fuels momentum for Braves
Lumped in a loaded field, the Shawnee boys 4x800-meter relay was hoping for the best during Friday’s first day of the state track and field meet. They placed fifth in the Division II event. “If you had told me before the race that we’d run 7:54 and place fifth, I’d ...
Fenwick’s Rossi hoping to rebound in shot put
Jenni Rossi was counting on extra incentive to carry her through today’s state track and field shot put. She just didn’t figure it would be a blowout in the discus.“It’ll definitely boost something in me,” the Fenwick High School junior said after failing to make Friday’s finals in the discus. ...
Stewart takes over Edgewood boys program
Joe Stewart has cemented his long and diverse boys high school basketball coaching career by reinventing downtrodden programs. Next season he’ll get the opportunity to enhance that legacy.Stewart, 56, has been confirmed as the boys varsity coach at Edgewood. He succeeds Aaron Horne, who lasted just two seasons as the ...
Winston leaves Jefferson for Belmont
Hampered by a financially fractured school district and an enrollment in constant free fall, Art Winston maintained a source of community pride at Jefferson Township by often fielding a dominant small-school boys high school basketball program that won two state titles. Resurrecting Belmont’s program will be even more difficult. Dayton ...
Fairmont entices DeSales coach
Blair Albright is expected to leave Columbus DeSales to become Fairmont High School’s new boys varsity basketball coach. Albright, DeSales’ head coach since 2004, is expected to be approved at this month’s school board meeting, Firebirds athletic director Chris Weaver announced on Monday. That would end some drama that has ...
Moeller batters Northmont in regional final
There was only one way that Northmont could top its historic program-defining defeat of previously unbeaten Mason: Beat mighty Moeller. No chance. Moeller scored nine runs in the bottom of the third inning to break open a tight game and cruise to an 11-3 rain-delayed defeat of Northmont in a ...
Mason bunches 3 in seventh to derail Northmont
As usual, Northmont’s softball players applied their favorite verses in rub-off ink to their forearms as they prepped for Thursday’s Division I regional semifinal showdown with Mason. For Thunderbolts senior pitcher Jordan Stoltz, nothing beats: “You’re a player; you were born for this; you were meant to be here.” Perhaps ...
Lebanon dispatches Colerain with workman-like effort
Last year was a breakout season for Lebanon High School softball. As the wins mounted, so did the pinch-me giddiness that accompanies a historic run.This season? The Warriors used workman-like play to win their final game.Lebanon passed yet another postseason test in its march to achieve that goal on Wednesday, ...
Hickman brothers fuel Northmont runners
It’s easy to distinguish DJ Hickman from his brother Drew. They’re the Northmont speedsters who are in front. Both qualified for four events in this week’s Division I regional track and field meet at Welcome Stadium. They’re just part of a possible program-defining week for the Thunderbolts. On Thursday, both ...
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