A 35-point first-half gave the Highland Scots girls team a 35-18 lead over the Fredericktown Freddies Wednesday, and the Scots continued their solid offense to march to a Knox-Morrow Athletic Conference win, 60-38.
The Highland Scots boys basketball team put the clamps down on the Centerburg Trojans Tuesday to pick up a Knox-Morrow Athletic Conference win in a low-scoring affair, 38-29.
The Mount Vernon Yellow Jackets girls basketball team played a strong opening quarter Monday at home against Tri-Valley, but hit a dry spell in the second and came out on the losing end, 52-40.
The East Knox Bulldogs wrestling team had four wrestlers Saturday at the Kilted Klassic hosted by Highland, and the Bulldogs racked up 35 team points to finish 15th.
The Highland Scots wrestling team captured sixth as a team, led by two runners-up and three third-place finishes, at their competitive home tournament, the Jeremy Ammons Kilted Klassic Saturday.
The Mount Vernon Yellow Jackets boys basketball team increased their scoring output in every quarter to stave off the Lexington Minutemen, a regional championship team a year ago, in the Jackets’ home and Ohio Cardinal Conference opener Friday, 55-48.
In a battle for canine supremacy, the East Knox Bulldogs hosted Bloom-Carroll and Heath for the third-annual Bulldog Brawl Thursday, with wrestling action from the youth, junior high and high school levels, including senior night for the older Bulldogs.
The East Knox Bulldogs boys basketball team put on a commanding defensive effort Wednesday, limiting the visiting Northridge Vikings to 12 points in the first half and cruising up the 39-25 home win.
After only scoring 21 points in the first half, the Utica Redskins girls basketball team turned on the jets and netted 28 points in the second half, but it came up just short Tuesday, falling to Licking Valley, 55-49.
The Mount Vernon Yellow Jackets bowling team’s varsity ranks ran in to a tough opponent in a home match against Lexington Monday, while the JV boys picked up an 18-pin win.
The East Knox Bulldogs wrestling team had three competitors place Saturday at the Bad Apple Brawl in Mount Vernon on its way to a ninth-place finish as a team with 106 points.
The Mount Vernon Yellow Jackets wrestling team won its first tournament since the Ohio Cardinal Conference tournament in the 2014-15 season, powered by four individual champions.
A 3-pointer by Mount Vernon’s Trey Grohe with 22.2 seconds left on the clock proved to be the difference in a 39-35 Yellow Jacket win on the road Friday against the Highland Scots in both teams’ season opener.
After holding a seven-point lead after the first quarter of the season, the Utica Redskins went into the locker room down 19-16 and went on to fall to the Cardington Pirates 41-30 in both teams’ season-opener Thursday in Utica.
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