East Knox High School

Shanda Melick is a three-sport star at East Knox High School, who excels in softball. She has signed to play college ball for the MVNU Lady Cougars.

On Tuesday, Jan. 17, the alleys were alive at Galion’s Victory Lanes. The Northmor Golden Knights bowling teams hosted the East Knox Bulldogs in a KMAC battle.

Indiana University (IU) golfer Drew Salyers appears poised for a monster senior campaign next year, based on his late-season form.

Nathan Streby of East Knox recently held his college signing day, where the Bulldog runner announced he will be taking his talents to Ohio State University.

The Mount Vernon wrestling team is coming off a season in which they went 5-3 in dual meet action and Coach Corey Firebaugh hopes that with a solid core of 13 returning letter winners they can put together a strong 2022-23 campaign. The team started the season strong, with a second-place finish at the John Brown Invitational.

In a low-scoring contest, the Northmor Lady Knights survived a third quarter comeback by East Knox (2-3, 1-1) to take a 36-24 win, improving their record to (3-2, 2-1).

The Lady Bulldogs must overcome obstacles on their way to success this basketball season.

The 66th annual Devil-Dog game, an annual battle between the Danville Blue Devils and the East Knox Bulldogs turn, Friday night, as the Danville Blue Devils (8-2) earned a statement win over the East Knox Bulldogs (2-8), who had won in each of the past four years.

Friday night at Howard, two local football rivals fought it out in the Knox County version of Army-Navy or Ohio State-Michigan.

Digging hard on the court and on the course

Coming off a year in which the Lady Bulldogs finished 2-19 and were 0-12 in KMAC matches, winning only six of 64 sets, the East Knox volleyball team has a new coach and the rally call to “Be aggressive.”

The East Knox football team is coming off a solid 10-3 season in which the team went 5-1 in KMAC play, going to the regional semifinals before losing to state finalist Newark Christian, and Coach Andy Beatty is hoping this success will continue in the 2022 season.

The Mount Vernon News sports department’s 33rd ATHLETE OF THE WEEK nominations continues the established procedure of spotlighting student-athletes’ skills and performances on the fields and courts of action. This week we have a pitcher who was perfect and a batter who was nearly perfect and who came up big all game.

The Mount Vernon News sports department’s 32nd ATHLETE OF THE WEEK nominations continues the established procedure of spotlighting student-athletes’ skills and performances on the fields and courts of action. This week we have a track star who ran away from the field in a record-breaking performance and a softball phenom who does it game after game at bat and in the circle.

Nathan Streby of East Knox ran away from the men in the 800-meter run and Mount Vernon’s Sophie Zoldak did the same to the women in the 3200, as 16 local teams squared off at the Fredericktown track meet, on the Freddies’ track, April 29.

Four members of the East Knox FFA recently competed in the State FFA Milk Quality & Products Career Development Event on March 26 at the Ohio Exposition Center in Columbus.

The Mount Vernon News sports department’s 31st ATHLETE OF THE WEEK nominations continues the established procedure of spotlighting student-athletes’ skills and performances on the fields and courts of action. Based on performances, we ask ADs, coaches and the community to nominate one boy and one girl from their athletic programs to compete against other schools’ nominations. This week we have two diamond stars who are run-production RBI machines for their school teams.

East Knox FFA recently competed in the State Wildlife Management Career Development Event April 2 at Hocking College in Nelsonville where they placed eighth out of a field of teams from across Ohio.

The East Knox baseball team is coming off what Coach Randy Baugher calls a “historic season,” as the the Bulldogs had three tournament wins leading to their first Division IV district championship in school history and a 15-13 overall record, as well as 8-6 in the Knox Morrow Athletic Conference.

The East Knox softball team is coming off a tough season where the Bulldogs went 8-14 overall and 5-9 in the Knox Morrow Athletic Conference (KMAC), and Coach Jake Ulrey hopes that his team can turn things around this spring through mental discipline and hard work.