Cardington-Lincoln High School

No. 2-ranked Lady Pirates continue to roll, 57-35 over Trojans. The Cardington-Lincoln Lady Pirates are ranked No. 2 in the AP poll for Ohio Div. III schools, and they played like it, Wednesday night at Centerburg, with a 57-35 victory. The win was the 51st consecutive regular-season win and 65th-straight KMAC victory for Cardington-Lincoln, which is 13-0 this season and 9-0 in KMAC. Centerburg fell to 1-11 on the season and 0-8 in KMAC.

Cardington-Lincoln rolls on with 73-48 win over East Knox. The Cardington-Lincoln Lady Pirates victory train continues as C-L romped over East Knox, 73-48 on Jan. 8. The 25-point victory added to the Lady Pirates win streaks, which now sit at 12-0 this season and 8-0 in KMAC play, and run the C-L locomotive to 50 consecutive regular-season wins and 64 straight victories in KMAC.

The first Ohio Associated Press high school girls basketball poll of the 2021-22 season was announced Tuesday afternoon, January 4, and the Cardington-Lincoln Lady Pirates have been voted in at No. 3 among Div. III teams. MaxPreps has also conducted its rakings and has Cardington-Lincoln as No. 4 in Division III and No. 21 among all Ohio schools.

Cardington-Lincoln barely keeps streaks alive with 56-53 win at Northmor.The Cardington-Lincoln Lady Pirates entered play Wednesday night at Northmor, with a 10-0 season record, 48 straight regular season wins, 62 KMAC wins in a row and a No. 3 ranking in the current AP Division III poll. The dream season almost came crashing down, as a tough Northmor team kept plugging away before C-L prevailed, 56-53 to keep its streaks alive.

The Cardington-Lincoln girls basketball team continued its dominance with a 54-37 win over Mount Gilead on Dec. 22 to improve to 9-0 on the season. Getting douible-figures scoring from four players, C-L led from start to finish to keep this perfect season alive. The Lady Pirates led 15-10 lead one frame thanks to Kambry Edwards putting up five of her 12 points including a three pointer. After one half it was 32-16 Pirates, with Beth Hardwick hitting a pair of threes on her way to 10 total points. The Pirates went into the second half with confidence outscoring Mount Gilead 13-9, with Karsyn Edwards scoring five points. The final frame saw an Indians advantage of 11-9, but it was too little too late.

Beth Hardwick, Cardington-Lincoln’s top-scoring Lady Pirates basketball senior, conducted her college signing last Saturday before C-L’s match-up with Fredericktown. at Cardington-Lincoln High School. The senior student-athlete has signed to play her college basketball at Kentucky Christian University.

Pirates unbeaten streak continues with 56-28 win over Freddies. Cardington-Lincoln won their 61st consecutive KMAC contest and 46th consecutive regular-season win, by trouncing Fredericktown 56-28 last week. Cardington-Lincoln moved to 8-0 and 5-0 in KMAC as they took a 15-point first quarter lead and coasted to victory. They played methodically and took care of the ball, committing only nine turnovers to 26 by the Freddies.

With six games played and one win logged against Pleasant High School, the Cardington-Lincoln boys basketball season is off to a tough start as the team looks toward the Knox Morrow Athletic Conference (KMAC) this year.

Cardington-Lincoln head girls basketball coach Jamie Edwards wants to make his final season at the helm a season to remember. His dream season was nearly derailed by a solid Danville team, and it took a solid run at the end of Saturday’s game to preserve the longest winning streak in the Knox-Morrow Athletic Conference.The Cardington-Lincoln Pirates girls basketball team outscored host Danville, 11-3, in the final minutes Saturday to escape with a 55-47 victory.

Lady Pirates remain undefeated by routing Lady Trojans 61-34. Scoring early and often and playing a suffocating defense, the Cardington-Lincoln Lady Pirates (6-0, 3-0 KMAC) kept their unbeaten season on course, and dominated the Centerburg Lady Trojans (1-4, 0-2 KMAC) 61-34, Wednesday evening.

Wenger scores 1000th career point but Northmor falls to Danville. Danville took an insurmountable 21-point lead in the first and rained on a milestone evening by Northmor senior shooting guard Lexi Wenger in finishing off a 67-52 victory, Saturday. Wenger scored 20 points in reaching and surpassing the 1000-point mark in her high school career.

The Cardington-Lincoln girls basketball season has kicked off as the team looks toward competing for its eighth straight conference title this year.

Freddies pull away from Utica, despite 21 from Dickson, then down Danville. In a girls high school basketball game, Nov. 29, that saw Fredericktown slowly and methodically edge away, the Freddies (2-1) defeated Utica (0-1) in their home opener, 53-34. The Freddies led 10-8 after one and 21-14 at the half.

Lady Pirates sink Vikings 66-35, tame Tigers 56-51The Cardington-Lincoln Lady Pirates upped their early-season record to 2-0, with a 66-35 drubbing of the Columbus Academy Vikings (0-1), last Tuesday.The Pirates jumped out to a 22-6 lead in the first quarter and increased the advantage to 39-18 at halftime.

The Mount Vernon News sports department’s 10th ATHLETE OF THE WEEK nominations continues the established procedure of spotlighting student-athletes’ skills and performances on the fields and courts of action. In the season opener for the Cardington-Lincoln Girls Basketball team, the Lady Pirates took on the Ridgedale Rockets, and after a 10-10 first quarter, senior Beth Hardwick took control.

Pirate girls run and gun away from Rockets 58-26. The Cardington-Lincoln Pirates and Ridgedale Rockets girls basketball squads were tied 10-10 at the quarter, but C-L dominated the rest of the way, leading 27-17 at the half and allowed only 3 points in the third quarter to take a 37-20 lead, then romped to a 21-6 fourth quarter to win it 58-26.

Cardington’s run of state final-fours came to an end with an 11-1 loss in five innings to Sherwood Fairview on Saturday, May 29, at Elida Middle School.

Riley Burchett had three hits with two RBIs and two runs to lead host Cardington to an 11-0 win in five innings over Centerburg on Friday, April 30.

There is only one goal for Tod Brininger and the Cardington softball team: Win a state championship.