Little league: May 8, 2018 The second farm Blue Jays defeated the Padres 5-0 in Kenton Little League action on Monday afternoon. Hitters for the Blue Jays were Izic Bixler with three hits, Slade Taylor with a double and a single, Abby Schlegel, Kellen Good and Zayden Kennedy with two hits each and Addy Hites and Gabe Mosley-Reed with singles. Read More
Kenton girls, Ada boys finish third at Ada Invitational ADA — The Kenton girls were third and the Wildcat boys were fourth to lead area teams at the 16-school Ada Invitational on Saturday. Led by Lauren Johnson’s first place throw of 131-1 in the discus, the Lady Wildcats finished with 75 points. Van Wert won the meet with 115 points. Read More
Gophers win regular season finale, 16-2 RIDGEWAY — Ridgemont scored nine runs in the first inning on the way to a 16-2 win over Delaware Christian in its final regular season baseball game on Saturday afternoon. Austin Elsasser led the way for the Gophers at the plate with three singles. Read More
Polar Bears suffer 13-2 setback to Lehman SIDNEY — Lehman Catholic broke open a tight game with nine runs in the bottom of the fourth inning on the way to a 13-2 win over Hardin Northern in a Northwest Central Conference baseball game on Saturday. Both team plated two runs in the first inning before Lehman scored single runs in the second and third inning to take the lead and then broke the game open in the fourth. Read More
KHS’s Bloom and Stephens 5th at WBL tennis tourney LIMA — The Kenton tennis team finished ninth at the Western Buckeye League tennis tournament over the weekend. The lone placer for the Wildcats was the No. 2 doubles team of Mason Bloom and Alex Stephens, which was fifth. Read More
HR lifts Lehman Cath. to softball win over HN SIDNEY — Lehman Catholic scored the only runs of the game on a two-run home run by Grace Monnin in the bottom of the fifth inning on the way to a 2-0 victory over Hardin Northern in a non-league softball contest on Saturday. The Polar Bears were held to just one hit in the game – a single by Cassidy Deckling – by Lehman pitcher Hailey Wick. Read More
Little league: May 7, 2018 The second farm White Sox defeated the Padres 10-0 in Kenton Little League play on Saturday. The White Sox were led at the plate by Aiden Brown who had three hits and 2 RBIs. Read More
Wildcats hold off Van Buren for 7-6 victory Facing a one-run deficit to Van Buren, Kenton rallied to put three runs on the board in the bottom of the sixth and held on for the 7-6 non-league baseball victory on Friday. The Black Knights took a 1-0 lead in the first, but the Wildcats evened things up two innings later. Read More
Elgin edges Riverdale in final inning, 6-5 MARION — After taking a 5-3 lead in the top of the fifth, Riverdale surrendered a run to Elgin in each of the next three innings, taking the 6-5 loss in Friday’s non-league baseball game. The Comets scored three in the first two innings, while holding the Falcons scoreless for the first three. Read More
McComb scores early, downs Polar Bears 13-2 DOLA — Hardin Northern surrendered seven runs in the opening inning against McComb on Friday and were never able to recover, falling 13-2 in the non-league contest. After putting up seven, McComb scored three more in each of the next two innings, with the Polar Bears plating just one run in the bottom of the second. Read More