The scrimmages and previews are over, and the Hillsboro Lady Indians are back to their old self Saturday, winning the season opener in dominating fashion.
The Hillsboro Indians hosted the Paint Valley Bearcats in the final scrimmage of the 2011 preseason at Richards Memorial Field, in Hillsboro on Friday evening at the annual Fish Fry event.
The Hillsboro Indians hosted the Paint Valley Bearcats in the final scrimmage of the 2011 preseason at Richards Memorial Field, in Hillsboro on Friday evening at the annual Fish Fry event.
The overall tune for the Madison-Plains Golden Eagle football program is going from the blues to something more upbeat in 2011, as there is a new coach and new energy for a team that won one game a season ago.
The Miami Trace Panthers are looking to regain their storied tradition of gaining wins, winning South Central Ohio League titles and making the playoffs.
One year before the East Clinton Astros step into the South Central Ohio League, they have some unfinished business to take care of in the Southern Buckeye Athletic and Academic Conference in 2011.
Last season for the McClain Tigers was a season that started the path of heading in the right direction. After multiple losing seasons, the Tigers finished with a 6-4 overall record, a 3-1 mark in non-league games, a 3-3 record in league games, and they brought the Rotary Bowl back to Greenfield for the first time since ’06.
There are no two ways about it for the 2011 Hillsboro Indians' football team … they are young and inexperienced, and this season will be one of learning and dedication as they enter the first week of varsity play.
The talent level is high and the expectation level is even higher at Clinton-Massie as the 2011 season nears for the defending five-time South Central Ohio League champions.
Elsewhere, on Dec. 27, 1986, McClain’s defense was awesome, as the Tigers trounced Gallia Academy, 45-21. Ten players scored for McClain, and the high man had only 10 points. Gallia was never really in this game.
More than 290 permits are available to hunters wishing to hunt ducks and geese from a blind at an Ohio State Park lake this waterfowl hunting season. A lottery drawing for the permits will be held at 17 state parks and two wildlife areas the morning of Saturday, August 20.
The men’s soccer team at Southern State Community College is readying for the 2011 season which begins with the Southern State Soccer Shootout IX to be held Aug. 26-27, with the Patriots pitted against rival Kuyper College at 6 p.m. on Aug. 26. The consolation game will be played 10 a.m. Aug. 27, with the championship game to follow at noon.
Highland County Press sports editor Stephen Forsha talks about his weekend of covering girls and boys soccer scrimmages; along with watching the McClain Tiger football team in action at Wilmington College against the Wilmington Hurricane.
