Danville High School

The Mount Vernon News sports department’s MVN ATHLETE of the WEEK is a weekly feature that spotlights local student-athletes and their schools.Our ATHLETE of the WEEK WINNERS for this week are Kameron Stover (Highland volleyball) and Levi Lyons (Danville football).

The Danville baseball team is coming off a tough season in which the Blue Devils went 2-14 and were 0-10 in the Knox Morrow Athletic Conference (KMAC). And while the school has historically known for its football team, Coach Brian Bratton said that with a team full of hungry players, this could be a good chance to make their own history.

There’s a real sense of community support for the Danville High School drama department’s upcoming presentation of “School of Rock.” More than 50 students are involved on stage or behind the scenes.

The Danville High School band and choir are headed to St. Louis for a spring break,  

A put-back basket a fraction of a second late ended Danville’s basketball season at the boys Division IV Central District Semifinal at Johnstown-Monroe High School. In a game that featured scoring runs, scoring table issues, a smothering trapping defense and a shot a hair after the buzzer sounded, the Blue Devils came out on the short end of a 53-52 loss at the hands of the Grove City Christian Eagles.

The 2021 Danville Lady Blue Devils won their sixth consecutive District title, finishing 20-8 and scoring at 270-103 run differential. They return only two seniors, but optimism runs high that they can continue business as usual and go even further in post season play..

Lady Pirates upset by Johnnies in bid to move on in play-offs. The dream season sloganed as “The Last Dance,” by head coach Jamie Edwards, for the Cardington-Lincoln Lady Pirates, is over. In mid-January, few would have figured that C-L would go one-and-done in the play-offs, but that was before a struggling three-week stretch of a half-dozen games, beginning with a January 17 loss to River Valley, which ended C-L’s 51-game regular season unbeaten streak. The Lady Pirates went 3-3 over those six games.

Keaura Shilling, a four-year letterman for the Danville Blue Deville’s softball team, signed a letter of intent to play her college ball at Capital University in Bexley, Ohio (near Columbus). Shilling will join the Comets after playing her senior year at Danville.

This week, a female basketball leader calmly won an OT game from the foul stripe, and a male hoops star made 3-pointers seem like lay-ups.

Can a recent graduate of East Knox High School find happiness as the vocational agriculture teacher at archrival Danville High School? For Rebecca McCarty, the answer is yes, yes, yes.

Lady Trojans fight valiantly but fall to Danville’s huge second half. In a tale of two halves, the Centerburg Lady Trojans gave all the fight the favored Danville Lady Blue Devils could handle at home, Jan. 26, but Danville’s huge second half was enough to win the game. The first half was won by Centerburg, 28-24, but the Blue Devils ran away with the second half 36-14 to take a 60-42 victory at home, for their seventh win in a row.

Mount Vernon area girls' basketball roundup

Knox County boys' high school basketball roundup. Centerburg sits atop the KMAC with win over Northmor.

Mount Vernon wins a pair on the road over West Holmes and Olentangy Berlin. Mount Vernon’s boys basketball teams won two games on back-to-back nights on the road, to run their record to 8-7 (4-2 Ohio Cardinal Conference). On Jan. 14, the Yellow Jackets topped West Holmes, 56-54 and the next evening, the Jackets got the better of Olentangy Berlin, 60-43

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.

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.

The numbers show Brooklynn Hess as the top scorer for the Danville Blue Devils. What the numbers don’t show are her defensive skills. And they were on full display against East Knox on Wednesday.

The Danville Blue Devils are returning much of last year’s talented core to their 2021-2022 girls basketball squad. The team’s continuity and athleticism provide plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the team’s direction.

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.