The Kenton Times

Times photo/Kendrick Jesionowski
Sprinting to the finish
Upper Scioto Valley’s Breanna Boecher, Ridgemont’s Taylor Gaukin, Kenton’s Shaylee Sexton, USV’s Rachel Jeffers and Riverdale’s Christy Fox run toward the finish line during the 100 meter dash at the Hardin County track meet on Monday night. Sexton tied the meet record with a time of 12.8 seconds to win the race.
Kenton boys, Riverdale girls claim Hardin County titles
The Kenton boys and Riverdale girls won eight events each to claim Hardin County Track Meet Titles on Monday night.
Kenton got 1-2 finishes in three races, on the way to winning the boys meet.
The Wildcats, who scored 169 points, outdistanced second place Riverdale, which had 112 5/6 points and third place Hardin Northern, which finished with 89 points.
Ada was fourth with 62 points, followed by Ridgemont with 48 1/3 points and USV with 41 5/6 points.
Dailyn Campbell led Kenton with victories in the 100 meter dash (11.2 seconds) and the long jump (20-7 1/2) and a second place effort in the 200 meter dash in which he finished behind teammate Corey Manns.
Manns’ time in the 200 was 23.1 seconds. In addition to that victory Manns finished second in the 100 dash and was on the Wildcats’ winning 400 and 800 meter relay teams.
(Refer to page 6 of the Kenton Times)

Ada’s loses despite Fullom’s no-hitter
SPENCERVILLE — Ada’s Amanda Fullom threw a no-hitter on Monday night, but it was still not good enough to earn a win as Spencerville took advantage of her wildness to squeak out a 1-0 win in Northwest Conference softball action.
The host Bearcats plated the only run of the game after two batters reached on walks, advanced on a wild pitch and the lead runner scored on an infield sacrifice.
Fullom walked six batters and struck out two as Ada fell to 3-13 overall and 0-9 in NWC play.
Ada left four runners in scoring position in the game, including two in the first.
Sam Ring had a double and Evanne Klopfenstein, Megan Sybert, Ashley Wagner and Ashleigh Hays all had singles to lead the Bulldog hitting attack.
(Refer to page 6 of the Kenton Times)

MONDAY MAY 5, 2008

Times photo/Brandon Drake

On the straightaway
Riverdale's Jon Thompson tries to keep
pace with Carey's Matt Messmer during the 400 run during a preliminary heat at the Liberty-Benton Invitational on Saturday.
Riverdale, HN fare well at L-B Invite
FINDLAY - Riverdale and Hardin Northern competed in the Liberty-Benton Invitational on Saturday, with the highest finish between the two schools coming from the Riverdale boys, which tied for ninth out of the 16 schools.
The Falcons tied with Van Buren with 22 points while Hardin Northern's boys scored 15. On the girls side, Riverdale tied again with Van Buren for 11th place with 25 points and Hardin Northern finished in 15th place with 15 points.
Dan Hoag accounted for the best finishes among the Falcon boys, placing second in the discus (160-2) and third in the shot put (45-6 1/2). Jacob Keller placed fifth in the 800 run (2:17.3).
(Refer to page 6 of the Kenton Times)

Kenton tennis comes up a point short
The Kenton tennis team got wins from its top two singles players, but couldn't pull out a win elsewhere as Defiance edged the Wildcats 3-2 on Friday.
Picking up wins for the Wildcats were Jordy Martin, who was a 6-0, 6-0 victor over Ashit Karppinen at No. 1 singles and Greg Newland, who posted a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Nick Lieswyn at No. 2 singles.
At No. 3 singles, Kenton's Graham Watkins took the Bulldogs' Dustin Peio to three sets, but couldn't pull out the win, falling 6-2, 2-6, 4-6.
Kenton ‘s top doubles pair of Nick Ulmer and Andrew Shepherd also took their match three sets, winning set one 6-4, before dropping the final two 3-6, 2-6 to Defiance's Nick Witten and Andy Call.
In No. 2 singles, Russ Katterheinrich and Tien Charoonchaikanakit defeated Kenton's Jon Byal and Adam Beverly 6-0, 6-1.
(Refer to page 6 of the Kenton Times)

Lady Raiders second at Urbana Classic
URBANA - The Ben Logan girls track and field team had a strong showing Saturday at the Urbana Classic as the Raiders placed second out of seven teams.
The Raiders' 112 points were behind only West Liberty-Salem's 116.5. Placing third was Miami East with 104.75, fourth London with 101.75, fifth Urbana with 88, sixth Bellefontaine with 79 and last Cedarville with 31.
Ben Logan's Anissa Tevis and Lauren Anderson earned first place finishes in the pole vault and 300 hurdles, respectively. Tevis had a height a 7-6 while Anderson finished the low hurdles in 49.83 seconds.
Second place finishes included Jordan Millsap in the high jump (4-10), Anderson in the long jump (14-9 1/2), Keri Stafford in the 100 high hurdles (17.12) and 100m dash (13.90), Lynn Holden in the 800 run (2:43.53) and the 4x400 relay team of Scarlet Tevis, Holden, Catty Orr and Anderson, finishing with a time of 4:33.41.
Placing third for the Raiders was Brianne Britton in the high jump (4-10) and Anderson in the 100 high hurdles (17.42).
(Refer to page 6 of the Kenton Times)