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Byline: Calvin Silvers Oct. 22As fall sports begin to slow down, excitement is still in the air in Plattsburg, Missouri, where the Class 2 District 7 Softball Championship unfolded between [...]

Byline: Abby Sharpe Oct. 11GRAND FORKS Bismarck Legacy lost to Jamestown twice in the regular season. The Sabers didn't let that happen a third time in the North Dakota boys [...]

Byline: Tom Miller Sep. 19GRAND FORKS The Grand Forks Red River football program has risen to the No. 1 ranking in North Dakota's Class AA division. The Roughriders are 3-0, [...]

Byline: Alex Coffey Sep. 3TORONTO On Saturday night, after going 0-for-3 with a walk against Atlanta, Kyle Schwarber stayed late in the batting cages with the Phillies' hitting coaches. The [...]

Byline: Abby Sharpe Aug. 30GRAND FORKS Senior running back Kelan Harstad started Jamestown's season opener against Grand Forks Central as the top running back. He did his job in the [...]

Byline: Diamond Leung Jul. 15Pottstown native Trey Yesavage, a right-handed pitcher for East Carolina University, was selected 20th overall by the Toronto Blue Jays in the first round of the [...]

Byline: Scott Lauber May 7As the Phillies stack up wins like chips on the table at the World Series of Poker, their biggest issues qualify as first-world baseball problems. 1. [...]

Byline: Chris Howell May 2DELPHOS Delphos St. John's has had the type of week that turns around a season. After falling to Wayne Trace on Monday, the Blue Jays are [...]

Byline: Chris Howell Mar. 26DELPHOS Delphos St. John's coach Aaron Elwer called his team's season one of the best in school history. His numbers back up that claim. The Blue [...]

Byline: Kevin Gorman Mar. 13Roansy Contreras couldn't find the strike zone, so the Toronto Blue Jays made him pay by drawing walks and with a big swing by Justin Turner. [...]

Byline: Scott Lauber Mar. 10CLEARWATER, Fla. Each plate appearance is an opportunity for Johan Rojas. So, the Phillies' center field hopeful had one thought Saturday when his fifth-inning at-bat ended [...]

Byline: Chris Howell Mar. 8ELIDA Two league championships and now titles at the sectional and district levels. So many teams have tried to get in Pandora-Gilboa's way this season, and [...]

Byline: Chris Howell Mar. 1DELPHOS Lincolnview had no choice but to muddy up Friday night's sectional final against top-seeded Delphos St. John's. That strategy worked early on, but foul trouble [...]

Byline: Chris Howell Feb. 24DELPHOS Delphos St. John's could have used last year's late-season loss to Marion Local as motivation for Friday night's MAC finale, but they didn't need to. [...]

Byline: Chris Howell Feb. 20Most area conferences crowned at least a share of their boys basketball champions last week. Here's a rundown of who came out on top, while reviewing [...]

Byline: Alex Coffey Feb. 7The Phillies claimed right-handed pitcher Max Castillo off waivers from the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday. As a corresponding move, outfielder Simon Muzziotti was designated for [...]

Byline: Jim Naveau Jan. 27SPENCERVILLE Cameron Elwer picked a great time to have a historic night and Spencerville picked a bad time to have a bad minute. Elwer scored 41 [...]

Byline: Jim Naveau Dec. 8KALIDA Two games into its boys basketball season, Delphos St. John's is undefeated. The way the Blue Jays got those two wins couldn't have been more [...]

Byline: Mark Altstaetter May 18DELPHOS It could not have been scripted any better. It was the bottom of the eighth inning with two outs, bases loaded with a 3-2 pitch-count [...]

Byline: Jacob Meikel May 15It's been a see-saw season for the Central baseball team, but newfound confidence could spell success for them as they prepare for their district play on [...]

Byline: Scott Lauber May 10Aaron Nola's second pitch of the sixth inning Tuesday night landed in the right-field bleachers. He walked the next batter, then gave up an infield single [...]

Byline: Alex Coffey Mar. 12CLEARWATER, Fla. The Phillies put together a good offensive showing on Sunday afternoon, knocking in 10 hits against a strong Blue Jays pitching staff in their [...]

Byline: Alex Coffey Mar. 5DUNEDIN, Fla. Phillies shortstop Trea Turner led off Sunday's game against the Blue Jays with a line drive single to right field, and advanced to second [...]

Byline: Alex Coffey Mar. 5DUNEDIN, Fla. Phillies shortstop Trea Turner led off Sunday's game against the Blue Jays with a line drive single to right field, and advanced to second [...]

Byline: Scott Lauber Feb. 28CLEARWATER, Fla. Zack Wheeler's first pitch of his first spring-training start zoomed across the plate at 97 mph. The first time he threw 97 last year? [...]

Byline: Mike Sielski CAMP HILL, Pa. -- On Sept. 28 at Rogers Centre in Toronto, in the seventh inning of a game against the Blue Jays, on the eighth pitch [...]

Byline: Mike Sielski Dec. 26--CAMP HILL, Pa. -- On Sept. 28 at Rogers Centre in Toronto, in the seventh inning of a game against the Blue Jays, on the eighth [...]

Byline: Jose Nogueras Dec. 19DELPHOS Lima Central Catholic appears to be finding its basketball legs. The Thunderbirds, who began late due to the football team's success and with just 11 [...]

Byline: Scott Lauber Nov. 10In an attempt to add depth, the Phillies claimed two relief pitchers off waivers Wednesday from the San Francisco Giants. Right-hander Luis Ortiz and lefty Andrew [...]

Byline: Joe Patrick Nov. 2The East Buchanan volleyball team is enjoying an impressive season, compiling a 31-5-1 record coming into their biggest test of the year against the Jefferson Blue [...]

Byline: Calvin Silvers Oct. 1As you pull into the small town of Gower, Missouri, you can hear the screams and cheers of dedicated fans for their beloved East-Buchanan Bulldogs. The [...]

Byline: Daniel Slaybaugh Sep. 10FAUCETT, Mo. The Mid-Buchanan Dragons decimated the West Platte Blue Jays, 42-0, from both sides of the ball on Friday at Mid-Buchanan High School. The Dragons' [...]

Byline: Kevin Gorman Sep. 1Johan Oviedo, the 24-year-old right-handed pitcher acquired from St. Louis in the Jose Quintana trade, will make his Pittsburgh Pirates debut when he starts Friday night [...]

Byline: Jose Nogueras Aug. 21DELPHOS Delphos St. John's gets to celebrate city bragging rights after the Blue Jays downed rivals Delphos Jefferson, 49-27, in the second annual Delphos Bowl on [...]

Byline: Scott Lauber Aug. 19As the Phillies packed their things Wednesday and left Cincinnati, the front office worked the phones to acquire a fill-in outfielder, not an easy task after [...]

Byline: Vickie Fulkerson Aug. 11To be hired by Major League Baseball's Toronto Blue Jays as their player development complex intern, East Lyme High School graduate Alex Chambers had to go [...]

Byline: Rob Tornoe, Matt Mullin, Scott Lauber, Alex Coffey and David Murphy Aug. 2What you should know The Phillies acquired Angels starting pitcher Noah Syndergaard just before the 6 p.m. [...]

Byline: Scott Lauber Jul. 15At roughly 10 p.m. Sunday, the Phillies will make the 17th pick in the Major League Baseball draft, and as usual, it will come with a [...]

Byline: Scott Lauber Jul. 12ST. LOUIS Alec Bohm was ready to take infield practice Monday, but first he had some explaining to do. Bohm, star catcher J.T. Realmuto, and starting [...]

Byline: Mark Altstaetter Apr. 2DELPHOS Lima Central Catholic head baseball coach John Schnieders feels like this year's squad has a high ceiling. In Friday's 12-9 victory against Delphos St. John's [...]

Byline: Tom Usher Jan. 23SPENCERVILLE Delphos St. John's Landen Grothaus has battled adversity most of the season. But Saturday, Grothaus was able to block that all out and power the [...]

Byline: Gavin Keefe Jan. 8Glen Miller kept his same office in the University of Saint Joseph's O'Connell Athletic Center when Jim Calhoun retired from coaching in November after a Hall [...]

Byline: Tom Usher Aug. 18DELPHOS Field turf is coming to Stadium Park this year. And what better way to break it in than have Delphos St. John's meet Delphos Jefferson [...]

Byline: Jim Oconnell Jul. 25Baseball gets the pro stage to itself Monday, as the NBA Finals concluded last week, leaving MLB as the only remaining major sports league in action. [...]

Byline: Joe Wojtas Jul. 7Wildlife organizations, including the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center of Mystic and the Connecticut Audubon Society, are asking bird enthusiasts to remove feeders from their yards to [...]

Byline: Brian Buckey Jun. 18As part of his transition back to professional baseball after signing with the Toronto Blue Jays, former University of Toledo standout Jared Hoying found himself at [...]

Byline: Bob Brookover May 17It was fitting that the Phillies played their series finale against the Toronto Blue Jays in a spring-training ballpark because the lineup manager Joe Girardi sent [...]

Byline: Matt Breen May 17Joe Girardi had four players on his bench Sunday, but just one of the reserves was healthy when the Phillies manager drew the lineup for a [...]

Byline: Matt Breen May 14The Phillies traveled to Florida on Thursday night to open a three-game series on the road at Toronto. Huh? The Blue Jays, for the second straight [...]

Byline: Scott Lauber Mar. 27Twenty-five spring-training games down, three to go, and Scott Kingery is a clear underdog in the Phillies' center-field race. But it isn't over yet. Kingery had [...]