The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced today that the Kenyon College volleyball team was one of a record 233 NCAA Division III programs that earned the AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2020-21 season.
Don White State Farm scored a pair of runs in each the second and third innings to get by Overhead Door to capture the Mount Vernon Girls Softball League 10U tournament championship with a 5-3 win on June 27, at Memorial Park.
Will Streby of Mount Vernon finished fifth out of 42 total golfers at the Stymie Golf Supply Challenge on Tuesday and Wednesday at Turnberry Golf Course in Pickerington.
Team Hope got all the runs it needed with a three-run first inning. But they rolled from there to a 13-2 victory to capture the Mount Vernon Girls Softball League 16U championship on June 27, at Memorial Park.
Wigal Orthodontics took the lead with a five-run third inning and blew it open with nine runs in the fourth on its way to capturing the Mount Vernon Girls Softball League 12U tournament championship with a 22-9 win over Charlie’s Body Shop on June 27, at Memorial Park.
Nick Mitchell got the win on the mound and scored two runs, including the game-winner to lead KB Tire to a 3-2 walk-off win over Fredericktown Chevrolet to capture the Knox County Babe Ruth League championship on Saturday, at Memorial Park.
Jeld-Wen took control with a six-run first inning and never trailed on its way to winning the Mount Vernon Girls Softball League 8U tournament championship with a 16-14 win over Dugan on June 27.
Top-seeded KB Tire took the lead with three runs in the third inning and held off fifth-seeded Rotary 14-8 on Thursday, at Memorial Park to advance to the championship game in the Knox County Babe Ruth League.
Fredericktown’s TT Crouch and Mount Vernon’s Charlie Phillips each finished tied for eighth out of 234 golfers at the Ohio Open on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 29-30, at Westfield Country Club in Westfield Center.
Park National Bank defeated Team Sports 9-7 on June 24 at Phillips Park to capture the Mount Vernon Baseball Association championship in the coach-pitch division.
Mount Vernon’s Ben Bridges fired a 3-under par 69 on the second day of the two-day Battle at Chapel Hill to finish 1-under for the tournament, which took place on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 29-30 at Chapel Hill Golf Course.
There are no changes for the seven area football teams after the Ohio High School Athletic Association released the football region information on Tuesday.