Mount Vernon High School

The competition season for the Yellow Jacket Swim team is ending, with Districts coming up this Saturday Feb. 19. Last weekend, the Yellow Jackets competed in the Sectionals, and after the waves had settled, Bre McCluskey, Rylee Jarosz, Anna Rhodebeck, and Julie King will move on in their 200 freestyle relay, and 200 medley relay. Jarosz qualified in her individual 100 breaststroke event.

Logan Meyer, a 2018 graduate of Mount Vernon High School, was a four-year letter-winner in both track and cross country and a three-year team MVP in both sports.

Three Mount Vernon wrestlers struck gold at last weekend’s Ron Thomas Senior Invitational at Jonathan Alder High School in. Plain City, Ohio, and finished second among 21 teams. The Jackets were edged out of first by Licking Valley, 170-169. Grove City finished third with 154 points and host Jonathan Alder was fourth with 146.

Girls Softball Registration set for February-MarchMount Vernon Girls Softball will be holding registration for the 2022 Spring Season.

Despite huge game by Payne, Trojans beat Danville by 23. Spencer Payne had a career night for Danville, but it wasn’t enough for the Blue Devils to derail undefeated (in KMAC) Centerburg, Monday night. The Trojans countered with six players in double figures to dominate the Devils for a, 88-65 victory, Jan. 18. Centerburg improved to 12-1 on the season and 8-0 in KMAC and Danville fell to 4-10 and 2-8 in KMAC)

Mount Vernon Wrestling: Yellow Jackets place 6th at Boardman Spartan Meet. The Mount Vernon wrestling team competed in the Boardman Spartan meet last weekend at Boardman High School, and the Yellow Jackets finished sixth of 17 teams.

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

Trojans remain unbeaten in KMAC with 71-32 romp over Pirates. Centerburg improved to 11-1 and remained unbeaten in KMAC play at 7-0, with a thorough 39-point shellacking of Cardington-Lincoln (3-10, 1-7 KMAC), 71-32, Tuesday night at home. Controlling the action and shooting well, Centerburg hit 18 field goals and eight threes, to six and six for Cardington. Protecting the ball well, Centerburg turned the ball over only three times, to 10 for C-L.

The Mount Vernon Yellow Jackets swimming season was on hiatus, and after three weeks of intensive training, the swimmers resumed competition. At the Mansfield Senior High School Tyger Championship Invitational on Jan. 8, Yellow Jacket boys finished in seventh place among 14 teams, and the girls squad came in fifth, for a combined finish in fourth place.

Yellow Jackets get two 20-pt. performances, but lose to Ashland 67-65. Mount Vernon rode two big scoring nights to a fourth-quarter lead, but was overtaken by Ashland, 67-65, Jan. 7.. Nolan Belcher scored 22, Trevor Buttke poured in 20 and the Jackets (5-7 and 3-2 in Ohio Cardinal play) got 13 points from Caden Rowland, but their big nights were for naught as Ashland improved to 7-7 and 4-2 in OCC play on a 35-point night by Garrett Denbow.

The Mount Vernon News sports department’s 17th ATHLETE OF THE WEEK nominations continues the established procedure of spotlighting student-athletes’ skills and performances on the fields and courts of action. For the second week in a row, we had outstanding performances on the mats and the hard court, but this time the roles were reversed, with a female wrestler and a male hoops star taking the spotlight.

MOUNT VERNON – A pair of comebacks weren’t enough to overcome Mount Vernon’s biggest nonconference rival.The host Yellow Jackets erased an eight-point deficit in the fourth period Wednesday, but succumbed to foul troubles late.

The East Central Indiana Classic (ECIC) wrestling competition was held December 23, and Mount Vernon High school placed third out of 16 competing teams, with 181.5 points. Jay County won with 206.0, Oak Hill was second with 196.0 and Bluffton finished behind Mount Vernon, with 172.0.

East Knox stays undefeated, outlasts Danville, 52- 47. The East Knox Bulldogs started slowly, then ramped up their offense higher each quarter to remain unbeaten and improve their record to 6-0, 5-0 in KMAC play, with a hard-fought 52-47 win over host Danville. The Tuesday night loss dropped the Blue Devils to 2-6 and 1-5 in KMAC.

East Knox tops Granville, 61-47 to remain unbeaten. In a non-conference matchup, Saturday, East Knox came from behind to down Granville Christian, 61-47. Remaining undefeated at 5-0, the Bulldogs dropped Granville to 1-3, after a tight first quarter that ended with EK on top 9-8. The Bulldogs were outplayed in the second quarter, 20-13, to go into the locker room at halftime down 28-22. The Bulldogs came out shooting in the third and took over with a 20-9 run, led by Sam Whitney and Peyton Lester with seven points each and Ethan Rine with six.

MOUNT VERNON – Slow starts had become the norm for the Mount Vernon girls basketball team.Head coach Nathan Short was determined to end that.The Yellow Jackets began Saturday’s game with a 13-2 run, putting to bed any hopes of a Lexington upset.

Mount Vernon High School released the following list of senior students named to its honor, merit and achievement rolls for the first quarter of the 2021-22 school year.

Mount Vernon High School released the following list of junior students named to its honor, merit and achievement rolls for the first quarter of the 2021-22 school year.

Mount Vernon High School released the following list of sophomore students named to its honor, merit and achievement rolls for the first quarter of the 2021-22 school year.

Mount Vernon High School released the following list of freshmen students named to its honor, merit and achievement rolls for the first quarter of the 2021-22 school year.