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Tuesday, 17 June 2025 / Published in Features, Home Features

The Reader Speaks….June 17, 2025

Commentary from near and far on content posted since May…on seven divisions of OHSAA baseball…softball coverage…all-state baseball…Lou Brunswick…Ohio State baseball…and Memorial Day.
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Monday, 16 June 2025 / Published in Features, Home Features, MAC, MAC Feature

Tournament Wrap…Wiss, Minster Prove How ‘Less’ Is More

The expanded tournament proved to the knowledgeable that better baseball is more predictable when it comes from fundamentals and a culture of teaching them in the the old-fashioned way.  Minster and Mike Wiss proved (again) that hardly anyone does it better.
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Monday, 16 June 2025 / Published in Central Ohio, Central Ohio Feature, Features, Home Features

Birch, Tracy Combine For Pitching Gem As Olentangy Captures First State Title

After starting the season 8-6, Olentangy proved it was a team of destiny down the stretch, capping its incredible run with a 2-1 state championship win over high-powered Springboro. It was especially emotional for Columbus Clippers manager Andy Tracy, who was granted leave to watch his son's final game.
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Saturday, 14 June 2025 / Published in Features, Home Features, MAC, MAC Feature

McCoy: Wiss ‘Wiss-dom’ Leads Minster To Fourth State Baseball Championship

The OHSAA expanded the state high school baseball championships from four division to seven and Minster won the first Division VII title Saturday in Canal Park with an 8-0 destruction of Newark Catholic, a fourth state championship for Minster and veteran coach Mike Wiss. Ian Homan crosses home with the first of five runs in the first. (pictured)
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Saturday, 14 June 2025 / Published in Features, Home Features

Washed Out In Akron…Rain Puts A Damping On The Baseball Tournament

When it rains, it pours, and no one feels it more than the Graham Falcons, who were stuck between a rock and a wet place in Friday's Division V semi-final.