Northmor Jr./Sr. 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.

The Mount Vernon News sports department's MVN ATHLETE of the WEEK is a weekly feature that spotlights local student-athletes and their schools.

The Mount Vernon News sports department’s MVN ATHLETE of the WEEK is a weekly feature that spotlights local student-athletes and their schools. Based on their performances, we will select an ATHLETE of the WEEK and recognize other outstanding athletic accomplishments. Our Athletes of the Week are Kameron Stover (Highland basketball) and Grant Bentley (Northmor basketball).

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 Northmor boys basketball team hopes to see another jump in the win column under third-year head coach Blade Tackett.

This year's Northmor girls' basketball team looks to four seniors for leadership.

Between trick plays, 50-yard bombs, physical play, takeaways, and fans booing both the referees and the play-by-play announcer, this year’s Northmor vs East Knox rivalry game had it all, and the Friday night thriller ended with a Northmor victory, 26-23.

Following last week’s games and entering Week 7 of the 2022 high school football schedule, the Ohio High School Athletic Association released its official weekly football computer ratings Tuesday, and seven local school made the Top-20.

Fredericktown 22, Northmor 15. A defensive squeaker yielded only a safety in the first half and a flurry at the end of the game made it close, as Fredericktown (4-2, 2-1) faced Northmor (4-2, 1-2) on Friday. The Feddies held only a 2-0 advantage at halftime, before Fredericktown outscored Northmor by five points in the second half to secure a 22-15 victory.

Northmor Golden Knights boys and girls teams sweep first-place titles at the 48th annual McGowan Invitational Cross-Country meet, Sept. 10.

The Northmor Golden Knights were 10-4 in KMAC play behind Highland and Cardington-Lincoln, and went 19-7 overall, and the volleyball squad looks to build off a season where they ended with three tournament wins before losing a tight five set loss to Newark Catholic.

EK’s Streby wins Northmor Cross-Country Invite, Knights, Lady Freddies win team competition. At the Northmor Cross County Invite, August 22, Nathan Streby of East Knox won with a time of 17:02.38, more than 13 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher, Ryan Lehman of Northmor, at 17:15.53

Highland uses Nauman’s 300 yards to grind down Freddies, 17-14Dane Nauman started where he left off last year on both sides of the ball, rushing for 300 yards and making 10 tackles in the season opener for Highland, leading the Scots to a 17-14 win over Fredericktown.Highland had a 14-6 lead after one quarter and led 17-6 at the half.

The Northmor football team outscored opponents in a 297-236 last season when they went 9-3 overall and 5-2 in KMAC play, and Coach Scott Armrose looks to build off a season that ended with a second-round playoff game to West Jefferson.

The Northmor softball team lost three key players to graduation, but the Golden Knights are returning nine letter winners led by All KMAC honorable mention Taylor Cantrell, who looks to lead the team to a successful season this spring. Their head coach is not shy in setting goals for the team to compete at a high level.

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.

With nine returning seniors and 17 players who were on the squad last year, Northmor coach Buck Workman starts his 22nd year at the Golden Knights’ helm adapting to his personnel with a focus on “getting it done.”

Golden Knights take to the road, upset Bulldogs, 52-46. On the road at Crestline on Feb. 2, Northmor took a first-quarter lead, and held on against a fourth quarter rally to defeat the host Bulldogs 52-46. The win evened the Golden Knights’ record at 9-9 (5-6 in KMAC), while the favored Bulldogs fell to 13-7 and 5-3 in Mid-Buckeye play.

Mount Vernon area girls' basketball roundup

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)