COLDWATER — A young Kenton team got a lesson from the Coldwater School of Hard Knocks after the Cavaliers dominated the Wildcats, 42-0, Friday night in the season opener for both squads. Kenton head coach Brent Fackler said Coldwater, the three-time defending state champions, is a team full of weapons on both sides of the ball and he knew his young squad would had a rough time handling the veteran Cavaliers.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — The Carey football team got off to a quick start against Riverdale on Friday night, scoring its first touchdown of the season on a 35-yard run by quarterback Gavin Woods on the Blue Devils first offensive play from scrimmage. Although there were a few hiccups along the way, the Blue Devils cruised from there to a 48-14 win over the host Falcons on the opening night of high school football action.

BELLEFONTAINE — Trey Wilson threw six touchdown passes, including four to Jarret Matthews, as Ben Logan overwhelmed Fairbanks 50-27 in a season-opening football contest Friday night. Wilson, who had scoring tosses of 65, 16, 54 and 75 yards to Matthews, added touchdown passes to Josh Whitten and Cole Waugh.

Both the Ada and Kenton girls soccer teams are built to be defensively solid first. When the two teams met Wednesday night, there weren’t a lot of offensive fireworks.

After months of preparation, the Kenton football team will kick off the 2015 season when the Wildcats travel to Coldwater for the annual clash on Friday night. Kickoff is at 7:30 p.m.

ADA — It didn’t take Kenton long Wednesday night to establish control in the Battle of the 309 Cup. Drew Hoppe scored twice in the first 10:30 to lead the Wildcats to a 6-0 boys soccer victory over Ada.

DOLA — Hardin Northern started and finished strong on the way to a four-set 25-15, 17-25, 25-18, 25-19 victory over Riverdale in nonconference volleyball on Wednesday night.

With the team score tied at two, it all came down to first doubles on Wednesday when the Kenton girls tennis team hosted Marysville. The pair of Calynn Morris and Lauren Rush came through for the Wildcats, defeating Emily McDonald and Kiya Miller 7-6(2), 6-4 to seal a 3-2 win.

LEWISTOWN — Kenton was swept on the road by Indian Lake in nonconference volleyball Wednesday night. The Wildcats (0-2) lost to a Central Buckeye Conference opponent for the second straight match.

BELLEFONTAINE — Ben Logan remained unbeaten in Central Buckeye Conference boys golf Wednesday with a 170-204 win over Indian Lake. Grant Ricketts shot 36 to lead the Raiders.