MOUNT BLANCHARD — The 2016 Mark Gillfillan 5K Memorial Run/Walk will be June 24 at Riverdale School.

DEFIANCE — Kenton junior Austin Buroker felt as if he had something to prove Friday during the final day of the Division II Northwest District track and field meet at Defiance College after a performance that wasn’t up to his standards on the first day of the district meet.

DUNKIRK — There has been a lot of good-natured talk between the players on the Hardin Northern baseball and softball teams about which sport is easier and who would win if the teams played each other on the field. The two Polar Bears squads decided to settle the matter on Friday as they met on the softball field at the Dunkirk Park.

FINDLAY — When Riverdale senior Aubreah Manns was trying to decide which college to attend, there were three main factors. She wanted to study nursing, she wanted to stay close to home and she wanted to run.

TOLEDO — Riverdale overcame an early three-run deficit to defeat Carey 5-4 in a season-ending baseball game Friday at Fifth Third Field in Toledo. The Blue Devils scored three runs in the bottom of the first when Trey Bame hit a two-run triple and then scored.

ST. PARIS — Benjamin Logan’s Coreen Crosby and Logan Cox are moving on to the Division II track and field regionals next week following their performances at the district competition in Graham on Thursday. Aside from the other competitors in the high jump, Crosby was also battling an illness, but she was determined not to let it get her down.

FINDLAY — Last weekend at the Northwest Conference track and field meet, Ada senior Carlee Marshall felt a little twinge in the back of her leg. She wondered how it would hold up when the Division III Northwest District meet started at Findlay on Thursday.

FINDLAY — Things went about as well as they could have Thursday at Day 1 of a Division III Northwest District track and field meet for the Riverdale trio of Joe Lauck, Kyle Evans and Josh Hunter. They started their day by teaming with Ben Gannon to win the district title in the 3,200-meter relay.

DEFIANCE — The Kenton track and field team had a pair of athletes advance to regionals based on their performance on the first day of district track Wednesday at Defiance College.

BOWLING GREEN — The first 15 minutes of Division II Northwest District tennis didn’t go very well for Ada sophomore Zach Beaschler on Wednesday. The rest of the day was great.