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08/25/2010
Division III University School will host Division V Hawken Saturday at 1 p.m. The rivals have a long history of season openers against each other.
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 | Group eases pain for parents of adult addicts
08/18/2010
For parents struggling with the challenges and heartbreak of coping with adult addicted children, there is hope.
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| Golfer's titles add up over six decades
08/18/2010
Not too many people can say they've shot their age during an 18-hole round of golf. At 70, Mary Ann Bierman is one of the few who can.
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 | At 81, Solon man still slalom skis around lake
08/11/2010
He sat at the rear of the boat with his life jacket buckled and almost ready to go. The driver of the watercraft called him "Pape" (pronounced Poppy).
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 | Fall athletes turn up the summer heat
08/05/2010
Sweat, emotion and sometimes tears are left behind to dry. Many high school seasons end with a loss or an unsatisfactory finish. A sour taste can often linger.
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| | Dark, lonely 100-mile run rises early in valley
07/28/2010
When she starts running Saturday morning, it will still be dark outside.
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 | Relay teams splash new record book
07/21/2010
The singing of the Star-Spangled Banner and the sound of fireworks marked the start of the evening finals at the 41st annual Chagrin Valley Invitational Relays last Saturday.
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 | Freshmen face big challenges for varsity sports
07/14/2010
With 14-year-olds competing against 18-year-olds, age restrictions don't seem to be written in the high school rule books. Maturity, however, isn't the only factor freshman athletes are up against when they try out for varsity sports.
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 | Heading for Europe, young icer has big goals
07/07/2010
Michael Hall, of Chagrin Falls, played for several years in the International Hockey League. He said he often dreamed of representing the United States in international sports competition.
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 | Hunter Jumper Classic returns to Polo Field
06/30/2010
As perennial as summer grass, the annual Chagrin Valley Hunter Jumper Classic gallops again into the Cleveland Metroparks Polo Field in Moreland Hills from July 9 to 25 for an extended appearance that spreads over three extended weekends.
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 | Kenston 13U team wins Perry baseball tourney
06/16/2010
The Kenston Baseball Association 13-and-under team won the Perry Baseball Classic Tournament last weekend.
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| | Lady Lancers finish second in state track
06/09/2010
Gilmour Academy's Bekka Simko came home from Columbus last weekend a little bit heavier than when she arrived, and it had nothing to do with the refreshments offered to athletes after the races.
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 | It's on to state track for area thinclads
06/02/2010
With a dozen top finishes in regional track competition last week, Chagrin Valley high schools will send a fast and strong group of athletes to the state meet at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in Columbus this weekend.
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 | Solon netters take game to next level
05/26/2010
Back in March, members of the Solon tennis team had a feeling that the squad had enough talent to send someone to the state finals at the end of May.
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 | Both CVC track team champions repeat
05/20/2010
It's difficult for a team to repeat as champion two years in a row, but what are the odds of two teams repeating during the same day of competition?
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 | Track and field has ups and downs
05/12/2010
For those on track teams who choose to do something besides run, there is what can be called the lift and the leap work.
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 | Baseball wins and losses hang on pitchers
05/06/2010
No matter what the score of a baseball game is, there's only one player out of nine who has the extra weight of being called the winner or the loser.
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| | Orange posts sixth straight baseball win
04/29/2010
The Orange baseball team extended its winning streak to six games and improved to 7-6 overall.
In a Chagrin Valley Conference game, the Lions edged visiting Chagrin Falls 9-8 as Max Provateare's single scored Matt Goodman with the winning run in the bott
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 | Kenston pitcher throws no-hitter
04/21/2010
Kenston senior Alex Wittenberg pitched a no-hitter to lead the Bombers to a 10-0 victory over Aurora in a Chagrin Valley Conference baseball game Monday.
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 | 'Crazy kid with cancer' wins college crown
04/14/2010
Last month, former Solon High School wrestler Richie Clark won the Ohio Athletic Conference wrestling championship in the 149-pound category for Mount Union College.
For Clark, a senior, that title was the culmination of a journey which began in high sch
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 | Youth coaching techniques learned for life
04/07/2010
Late last month, John Callahan stood before parents and coaches in Solon who had come to hear him talk about two subjects of mutual interest -- coaching and parenting.
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 | West Geauga grad takes skiing to Olympics level
03/31/2010
If someone asked Brian Currutt his occupation, he could give the short answer and say flight instructor.
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 | Girls' hockey program is one for record book
03/24/2010
Gilmour Academy hockey director John Malloy said the addition of a second hockey program at the school began about 10 years ago when one the Lancers was body-checked during a game.
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 | Preppers find conference play to their liking
03/17/2010
It did not seem to have taken long for the University School basketball team to go from playing a nonconference schedule to joining a conference.
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 | Hightower, Wukie win state crowns
03/12/2010
Shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday, University School’s Harrison Hightower and Brad Wukie hugged and congratulated each other. Each captured individual championships at the Division II state wrestling tournament at the Schottenstein Center on the Ohio State Un
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 | Hawken girls win 12th staright swim title
03/03/2010
When one of the swimmers from this year's Hawken girls team was asked if there was pressure at the 2010 state meet because of the school's string of 11 straight state titles, her answer showed equal amounts of poise and confidence.
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 | Area wrestlers advance to district meets
02/25/2010
Solon in Division I and Kenston in Division II were among the area schools having the most wrestlers advance to this weekend's district tournaments. The top four in each weight advance to districts.
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| | Preppers claim boys' sectional swim crown
02/17/2010
Throughout the Division II boys' sectional last Saturday at Hawken School, the swimmers from University School and Orange were among the top finishers in each of the races.
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 | Hawken girls win 12th straight sectional
02/17/2010
The Hawken School girls breezed to their 12th consecutive Division II sectional title last Saturday in their home pool. The Lady Hawks collected a total of 566 points compared to 361 for second-place Hathaway Brown.
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 | Kenston pins down CVC wrestling title
02/10/2010
With the help of two champions, Kenston claimed the Chagrin Valley Conference wrestling crown as the Bombers tallied 256.5 points last weekend at Perry. Aurora was runner-up with 231 points.
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 | Orange boys capture eighth straight CVC swim title
02/03/2010
The 2010 Chagrin Valley Conference boys' swim championships ended like the previous seven with Orange rolling to another title.
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 | $18 million sports complex opens at Gilmour
01/28/2010
Anyone who ever had the misfortune to have a seat behind one of the upright support posts at the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium would understand this similarity to some of the seats at the old Gilmour Academy gymnasium.
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 | Indoor runners on track for outdoor season
01/21/2010
Anyone who thinks about indoor track most probably has a vision of athletes in shorts and jerseys racing around an oval while shirt-sleeved spectators cheer from the grandstands.
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 | Comets swimmers, divers pursue return to state
01/15/2010
Solon is a school that can boast about having both its boys' and girls' swimming and diving teams qualify for state finals last season. Rather than boast, however, the Comets are intent on repeating the process.
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 | Kenston makes strong showing in own tourney
01/07/2010
With the midpoint of the 2009-2010 wrestling season about a week away, Kenston's new head coach already has led the Bombers to a 3-1 record in dual meets and a third-place finish in last week's 45th annual Kenston Invitational Tournament.
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 | Three Kenston icers make their points
12/30/2009
Beginning in the early winter of 2002, Kyle Weninger, Colton Deeter and Greg Revak all wore the same uniforms. They were members of the same junior league hockey team, the Maple Leafs, for four years.
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 | West Geauga teacher named to softball hall of fame
12/23/2009
Michelle Thompson does not like to talk about her accolades on the softball field. But lately it has become a difficult thing do for the West Geauga Middle School physical education teacher.
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 | Chagrin Falls senior named soccer All-American
12/16/2009
Three years ago, one of Erika Ilkanich's assignments in freshman health class was to formulate three long-term goals. When she turned in the assignment, one of the goals she chose was to become an All-American.
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 | Tigers tamed in state championship game
12/09/2009
The greatest season in Chagrin Falls High School football history came to a disappointing end Saturday at Fawcett Stadium in Canton, in the shadows of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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 | Businessmen hope Strike Force is big hit
12/02/2009
It may have a new name, but Solon's 19,000-square-foot indoor baseball practice center continues to be a big hit with young players from Northeast Ohio.
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 | Late touchdown puts Tigers in state final
12/02/2009
For most Chagrin Falls football players, it will be their first trip to Canton's Fawcett Stadium this weekend.
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 | Tigers reach final four on 13th straight victory
11/25/2009
It was, by most accounts, an unstated team goal back in August.
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 | Comets' big comeback falls one point short
11/25/2009
For more than 23 minutes of the second half of last Saturday's Division I regional final game at Byers Field at Boulton Stadium in Parma, Solon played like it was headed to the state final four.
But it was not to be.
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 | Tigers advance for rematch with Woodridge
11/18/2009
In addition to remaining undefeated this season, Chagrin Falls has advanced farther up the playoff ladder than last year's team.
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 | Comets knock off Mayfield with overtime field goal
11/18/2009
Early in Solon's playoff game last Saturday, the fans were talking about Mayfield's 61-yard field goal in the first half.
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 | Chagrin Falls flies past Campbell
11/12/2009
In a capsule rerun of the regular season, the Chagrin Falls football team used the run, the pass and a stingy defense over visiting Campbell Memorial, 41-13, in the opening round of the Division IV playoffs last Saturday night.
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| | Solon holds off Euclid
11/12/2009
Both the Solon and Euclid football teams have storied histories of playoff appearances throughout the past two decades. However, for the 2009 season, it is the Comets whose story will continue at least one more week.
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 | Playoffs are next for Tigers, Wolves, Hawks
11/04/2009
In Ohio high school football, the plan is that you play 10 good games in hopes that you can play five more.
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 | Undefeated Comets return to state playoffs
11/04/2009
Ever since the two-a-day workouts began in early August, Solon coach Jim McQuaide has been saying his team's goals were to win the conference and to get back in the playoffs.
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 | Chagrin Falls, West Geauga earn playoff spots
10/29/2009
Two Chagrin Valley Conference teams cemented their spots in postseason playoffs last Friday with one game remaining in the regular season. With victories in week nine, Chagrin Falls and West Geauga collected enough computer points to ensure their particip
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| Chagrin Falls, West Geauga earn playoff spots
10/29/2009
Two Chagrin Valley Conference teams cemented their spots in postseason playoffs last Friday with one game remaining in the regular season. With victories in week nine, Chagrin Falls and West Geauga collected enough computer points to ensure their partic
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| | Undefeated Comets clinch playoff berth
10/29/2009
After failing to make the playoffs last season for the first time in 10 years, Solon is back in the hunt for a state championship.
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 | Tigers tame Wolves in CVC showdown
10/21/2009
Chagrin Falls scored once in the first half, once in the second half and let its defense do the rest of the grunt work on a rain-soaked Friday night when the number of unbeaten teams in the Chagrin division of the Chagrin Valley Conference was whittled to
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| | Comets move closer playoff berth
10/21/2009
The undefeated string went to No. 8 for Solon as the Comets stayed perfect for the season with a 42-7 defeat of Nordonia last Friday night in a Northeast Ohio Conference game.
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| | Undefeated West Geauga, Chagrin Falls set for showdown
10/14/2009
The showdown in the Chagrin Valley Conference is set for week eight between Chagrin Falls and West Geauga.
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 | Comets post seventh straight victory
10/14/2009
The beat goes on for Solon as the Comets posted their seventh straight win of the season, a 17-7 decision over visiting Brunswick last Friday night.
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 | Comets win battle of unbeatens with Mayfield
10/08/2009
Solon's football team seems to be falling into a pattern. Often this year, the undefeated Comets have played a team which also was undefeated. And in the end, the Comets have walked away without a blemish.
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 | Perfect season intact for Wolves, Tigers, Hawks
10/08/2009
Three teams in the Chagrin Valley Conference -- West Geauga, Chagrin Falls and Hawken -- remain undefeated through the sixth week of the season
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 | CVC showdown looms for undefeated teams
10/01/2009
West Geauga and Chagrin Falls football players probably have circled week eight -- Oct. 16
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| | Solon faces Mayfield in battle of unbeatens
10/01/2009
Playing undefeated teams is nothing new for Solon and this Friday the Comets entertain Mayfield in a homecoming battle of 5-0 teams in a Northeast Ohio Conference clash at 7:30 p.m. at Stewart Field.
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 | Winning ways continue for valley teams
09/23/2009
If winning is contagious, it seems that three Chagrin Valley Conference teams are showing the initial signs of having contracted an unbeatable virus.
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 | Comets shoot to fourth straight victory
09/23/2009
After having defeated Mentor for this first time in four years earlier this season, undefeated Solon carried the momentum into week four with a resounding 42-6 defeat of Parma last Thursday night. It was the first meeting of the schools and the 30th victo
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 | Perfect beat goes on for West G, Chagrin, Hawken
09/16/2009
Somewhere, in the locker room of some area teams this season, there almost has to be a poster that says: Refuse to Lose.
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 | Finally, Comets clip Cardinals' wings
09/16/2009
Solon's fans dashed in celebration onto Stewart Field at the end of last Friday night's game against one of the team's arch rivals. It was a dash that the Comets' fans had been waiting to make for four years.
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 | Chagrin, West G, Hawken win going away
09/10/2009
The second week of high school football finds three Chagrin Valley Conference teams with zeros in the right place as Chagrin Falls, West Geauga and Hawken School are undefeated with 2-0 records.
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 | West Geauga shines in TV football appearance
09/03/2009
The opening week of high school football was a throwback in history for a pair of Chagrin Valley Conference teams as both of them came out on the winning end of nonconference games.
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 | Chagrin's Robiskie is right at home with Browns
08/27/2009
Brian Robiskie is back on familiar ground. He's back at 76 Lou Groza Blvd., which just happens to be the address of the Cleveland Browns training facility in Berea.
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 | Brothers hope Force is with them
08/19/2009
A pair of brothers from Orange Village hopes their investment in two amateur sports facilities in Northeast Ohio fills a void and becomes a big hit.
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 | Local athletes compete in Maccabiah Games
08/13/2009
In the very early days of international sport games, the athletes were given a heroes welcome when they returned home. Then they told their countrymen about their success at the games.
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 | Area teams welcome new coaches
08/06/2009
There are new faces in the varsity coaching ranks at Orange High School and at Hawken School.
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 | Records add up for five swimmers
07/29/2009
Some extra spark was added last Saturday for the 20th annual Bainbridge Invitational swim meet.
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 | Three relay teams dunk swim records
07/22/2009
A meet with five records still unbeaten from the 1970s, the 40th annual swimming of the Chagrin Valley Invitational Relays last Saturday fulfilled its expectations and then some.
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 | It's back in the saddle for Chagrin's May
07/22/2009
In considering how to fill a job opening, most employers like to consider an applicant's previous experience at the job. The Chagrin Falls school board recently did this.
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 | West G graduate Walters takes third in Disney Duals
07/15/2009
Remember those Super Bowl champions who announced right after the game that they were going to Disney World?
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 | South Russell runner wins 100-mile race
07/09/2009
About 20 years ago, Wyatt Hornsby quit his attempt to make his high school cross-country team. "I thought it was too hard," he said.
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 | University School's Grant honored by athletic directors
07/02/2009
In an age of job downsizing, factory closings and employee buyout packages, the once familiar tradition of staying on a job through decades is a thing of the past.
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 | Summer hoops circuit shows who's got game
06/24/2009
It is the end of June, and it's a good five months away from the start of the 2009-2010 high school basketball season.
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 | New Gilmour coach goes from pros to preps
06/17/2009
During more than 30 years in football, Matt Simon has helped to coach two Super Bowl championship teams and several winning college programs. But earlier this year, he saw an opportunity he couldn't pass up.
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 | US wins second straight lacrosse state title
06/11/2009
In explaining his team's 7-5 victory in the Division II state lacrosse championship over Cincinnati Mariemont last Saturday, University School coach Jack Fisher offered an analogy for those not familiar with lacrosse.
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| | Sky's limit for Solon vaulter Pierce
06/04/2009
Solon's Chadd Pierce has earned a return ticket to Columbus, and he'll try to make this opportunity a golden one. The gold he seeks is first place in the pole vault.
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 | Prepper sprints to regional track titles
06/04/2009
University School's Justin Chappelle qualified at last weekend's Division II regional track and field meet in three events for this weekend's state meet.
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| | Comets are kings of baseball diamond
05/28/2009
When one looks at the conference record of the Solon baseball team this season, you'll see that the Comets had the zero in the right place.
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| | Lancers head back to regional tournament
05/28/2009
The official scorebooks show that Gilmour Academy's baseball team played two Division IV playoff games last week, relying on two wins to earn the Lancers a trip to regional competition this week.
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 | Track athletes keep setting their sights higher
05/21/2009
Ever since the compact disc replaced the old vinyl record, the term "breaking a record" no longer applies to smashing a 33 revolutions-per-minute album collection of instrumental tunes.
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 | For top players, tennis is year-round commitment
05/13/2009
If one looks at the schedule of regular-season matches this spring for boys' high school tennis, it seems as if it begins in April and doesn't even run through all of May.
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 | Bainbridge man is master of martial arts
05/13/2009
n March, Jason Zakrajsek, owner of Kuk Sul Do Academy in South Russell, was surrounded by his wife, son, parents, hundreds of his students and two grand masters and a chief master of Kuk Sul Do Federation, who arrived from Korea as he demonstrated for the
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 | Keeping track of field events not always easy
04/29/2009
Many centuries ago in the beginnings of Olympic competition, the ancient Greeks believed that tests of athletic ability should go beyond foot speed and include both throwing and jumping.
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 | Weather is tough opponent for spring sports
04/22/2009
Scheduling high school sports in the springtime is not always an easy task. When Mother Nature refuses to cooperate, it can be downright trying.
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| | Oldest sport gains ground in area schools
04/09/2009
For those who don't know the terminology, those athletes you see this time of year carrying sticks with baskets at the end of them are playing lacrosse.
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| | Area athletes set pace on state indoor track
04/02/2009
Gilmour Academy's girls' track team placed fifth in the team standings at the 2009 state indoor track and field championship at the University of Akron on the legs of just two participants.
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 | Preppers make statement in regional tournament
03/26/2009
The longest season in University School basketball history came to an end last Saturday when the Preppers fell in the Division II regional championship contest at the Memorial Civic Center in Canton.
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| | Preppers add hockey trophy to collection
03/18/2009
There is now a 28-inch-high trophy in the home of University School hockey coach Bill Beard which be brought back from Columbus on Sunday. The trophy tells it all -- state high school hockey champs.
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 | Tigers earn praise in district basketball run
03/18/2009
At the end of the Chagrin Falls boys' basketball team's progression through the March playoffs, head coach Dave Bargar had nothing but praise for the team.
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 | Prepper wrestler repeats at state champ
03/12/2009
Starting with Harrison Hightower and progressing down to Nick Mills, James Inghram and Brad Wukie, this year's University School wrestling team has a first-, second-, third- and fourth-place finisher.
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| | Solon girls again advance to regional
03/12/2009
For the second year in a row, the Solon girls basketball team has made it to the Sweet 16 of Division I playoffs.
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 | Swim teams capture state championships
03/04/2009
Hawken School head swimming coach Jerry Holtrey's visit to Branin Natatorium in Canton last weekend produced his 21st state team championship, 19 of them girls' titles.
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| | Area wrestlers earn trip to state tournament
03/04/2009
You can't compete in Columbus unless you get there, and for the University School wrestlers, the same tactical problem as last year must first be addressed. It's going to take more than a compact car to transport all of the Preppers' wrestlers who qualifi
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| | Comets swim to boys, girls district crowns
02/25/2009
It was all Solon in last weekend's Division I district swimming championships at Cleveland State University as the Comets brought home championships for both the boys' and girls' teams.
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| | Hawken, US plant seeds for state swim
02/25/2009
The Hawken girls' swimming team was so dominant at last weekend's Division I district championships at Cleveland State University that nine first places in 11 events were just the beginning. In winning six of the eight individual events, the Hawks also to
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| | Area wrestlers advance to districts
02/25/2009
University School wrestling coach Sean Grosz said he was pleased with the results of last weekend's Division II sectional at Lake Catholic in Mentor, but it wasn't like he hadn't been in this kind of a situation before.
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 | Solon, US swimmers dominate sectionals
02/19/2009
The teams from Solon and University School powered their way to sectional championships last week in the first year of two Ohio divisions for boys' swimming.
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 | Comets soar to Baron Cup hockey crown
02/18/2009
Shortly after 3 p.m. Sunday, the Solon hockey team took possession of a trophy which had previously eluded it. This year, the Comets are the winners of the 2009 Division III Baron Cup.
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 | Lady Hawks, Comets take sectional swims
02/18/2009
For the Hawken girls' swimming team, the road toward an 11th straight Division II state championship took no detours during last weekend's sectional meet at their home pool in Chester.
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 | Kenston, West G, Orange wrestlers win crowns
02/11/2009
A short time before last weekend's Chagrin Valley Conference wrestling tournament began at Aurora High School, Kenston coach Brian Malloy said that because there were so many good teams this year, the championship was up for grabs.
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 | Height has ups and downs for West G player
02/11/2009
For those who are still planning to see their first West Geauga boys' basketball game this season, here's a tip: Blake Vedder is the young man
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| | Comets boys, girls sweep swimming titles
02/04/2009
The Solon girls' team won seven of the 11 swimming events, including all three relays, last weekend to win the Northeast Ohio Conference Valley Division championships held at the University of Akron.
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 | Coach juggles gymnastics duties with six teams
02/04/2009
In a recent gymnastics invitational match held at West Geauga High School, the team from Mentor finished first, the team from Perry placed second and the teams coached by Don Schutz wound up third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth.
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 | Lady Tigers build on winning tradition
01/29/2009
The Chagrin Falls girls basketball team added two more victories to its season total last week, defeating Independence and Perry, which now gives the team a 13-2 mark and a 7-0 record in the Chagrin Valley Conference. The Lady Tigers visit West Geauga Sat
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 | Goals are up for Kenston hockey team
01/29/2009
Kenston hockey coach Jim Revak didn't have to hand out any many new uniform jerseys to this season's varsity squad.
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 | Chagrin swimmers set sights on state meet
01/21/2009
Just as the swallows return to Capistrano and the buzzards return to Hinckley, Chagrin Falls plans a return of its own -- to the high school swimming and diving state finals
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 | Preppers set torrid pace in swimming pool
01/15/2009
There is only a small window for improvement when your team finished third in the state last year, but the University School boys' swim team seems pretty well on its way toward getting even better.
The Preppers are 8-0-1 this season. The one tied meet ca
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 | Tigers get off to best start in 20 years
01/07/2009
It took more than four weeks of games for Chagrin Falls' boys basketball team to finally put a loss onto its season record. But before last weekend's 45-43 nonconference loss to Niles McKinley, the team had rolled to seven straight wins.
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 | West G's Walters pins down wrestling award
01/07/2009
West Geauga may not have won the Kenston Invitational Tournament, but the Wolverines has the most valuable player of the two-day affair.
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| West G's Walters pins down wrestling award
01/07/2009
West Geauga may not have won the Kenston Invitational Tournament, but the Wolverines has the most valuable player of the two-day affair.
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| | Orange swim records stay in the family
12/30/2008
When officials at Orange High School post the school's new record for the swim team's 200-meter freestyle relay, they won't have to change too many words from the existing team record.
Here are the holders of the old fr
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 | West Geauga icers have brotherly love
12/23/2008
In the "Slap Shot" film, a lot of popularity of Paul Newman's hockey team is due to the players on the team known as the Hanson brothers.
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 | Preppers seek to pin down more history
12/17/2008
Last season the University School wrestling team set a school record when it became the first Preppers' grappling squad to finish in the top four of the team standings at the state tournament.
Seven months later, coach Sean Grosz and his wrestlers are in
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| | Solon grad breaks college receiving mark
12/10/2008
Solon High School graduate David Ravida became the all-time leading receiver for the football team at Washington & Jefferson College, of Washington, Pa., Nov. 29 with four catches in a 35-20 victory
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 | CVC boys' basketball hopes high for season
12/03/2008
The Chagrin Valley Conference boys' basketball season is right around the corner. Here's a look at the area teams:
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| | Soccer pen pals get kicks on field and off
11/26/2008
Irenna Taylor leads a double life, but both of those lives are filled with soccer balls.
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| | Local runner named UAA athlete of week
11/26/2008
Kenston High School graduate Taryn Surtees, of Bainbridge, was named University Athletic Association athlete of the week Nov. 18 after placing fifth overall in the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional cross-country championships in Rock Island, Ill.
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 | Chagrin grad shares in Mount Union spotlight
11/19/2008
When athletes move from high school to college, they most often enter a new world. The playing field is the same, but the level of competition increases by leaps and bounds.
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| | Solon grad receives NCAC soccer honor
11/19/2008
Solon High School graduate Jordan Bamberger was named North Coast Athletic Conference women's soccer player of the week Nov. 9 following her goalkeeper performances in Wittenberg University's conference tournament championship run.
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 | Tigers dominate everything, except score
11/12/2008
Statistics don't win games. But when the Chagrin Falls football team puts some time and distance between itself and last Saturday's Division III playoff loss to Cuyahoga Falls Walsh Jesuit, the Tigers will remember that they largely dominated the game t
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 | Gilmour spikers fall short in state title match
11/12/2008
For the 2008 Gilmour Academy volleyball team, this season was one step closer than last year to the state championship.
In only its second setback of the season, the Lancers lost the Division III state championship to Albany Alexander last Saturday in st
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| | Victorious Lancers to tangle with Ursuline
11/05/2008
The playoff road isn't always an easy route. Gilmour Academy won its Division V quarterfinal playoff game last Saturday against visiting Crestwood Norwayne, 48-21, and immediately the Lancers' next rung on the ladder became one that's much more precario
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| | Tigers fall short but gain playoffs
10/29/2008
The Chagrin Falls Tigers have lived to see a week 11 in the 2008 high school football season. By virtue of their 7-3 record, despite a loss to Perry last Friday night, the Tigers will be playing in the opening round of Division III playoffs.
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| | Gilmour girls capture cross-country regional
10/29/2008
For the fourth year in a row, the Gilmour girls' cross-country team is headed for the state championships after winning the Division III regional meet last Saturday.
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 | Prepper golfers take third straight state crown
10/22/2008
University School's golf team is etching its name in history.
The Prepper garnered their third consecutive state championship and fifth in school history, tying them for third place in total state titles.
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 | Chagrin booters make moves in second season
10/22/2008
For those high schools both lucky and good enough, there is a second season of soccer just beginning.
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| | Age is relative for touch football league
10/15/2008
Those who remember the old American Football League might also remember than it only lasted for 10 years as a separate entity. AFL historians might also remember George Blanda, who played in the AFL, moved to the NFL, and played until he was 48 years old.
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| | Solon, Gilmour make run into districts
10/15/2008
There is no off-track wagering in the State of Ohio for cross-country. But it there were, it would be likely that two area schools would have a few bets posted on them for the postseason meets.
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| | Comet girls net respect on tennis courts
10/09/2008
During the off-season last year, Solon girls' tennis coach Linda Fox had all the reason in the world to feel confident. Her team had just finished the 2007 season with a 19-2 record, and her two top singles players were due to be back for another varsity
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| | Chagrin, Aurora CVC football showdown set
10/09/2008
The showdown is set in the Chagrin Valley Conference Friday night at 7 at C.S. Harris Stadium in Chagrin Falls. That's when Chagrin Falls and Aurora -- leaders of the Chagrin Division with 4-0 records -- meet with the winner taking the upper hand with two
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 | Unbeaten Bombers volley way up state rankings
10/01/2008
How does a team improve on a 20-plus game season in 2007 in which they only had four losses?
There's an easy answer. During the next season, you try to only lose three games. Or, maybe only two. If you're lucky, perhaps even just one.
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 | Tough schedule puts Comets in spotlight
10/01/2008
Solon jumped from 12th place to sixth place in Division I, Region I, of the Ohio High School Athletic Association computer rankings following a 42-7 triumph over host Lakewood last Friday night in a Northeast Ohio Conference clash.
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| | Tigers, Wolves, Hawks post wins in CVC
09/24/2008
In the second week of Chagrin Valley Conference action, the winning teams from the area included Chagrin Falls, West Geauga and Hawken.
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| | Comets get back on winning track against Hudson
09/24/2008
After suffering losses in its previous two games, Solon's football team got itself back into the win column last Friday as the Comets hosted Hudson and came out with a 38-13 nonconference victory.
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 | Chagrin, Kenston post CVC opening victories
09/18/2008
After three weeks of nonconference contests, regular season play got under way in the Chagrin Valley Conference last week. Two of the big winners were Chagrin Falls and Kenston.
In a neighborhood rivalry, Chagrin Falls defeated West Geauga last Friday, 2
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 | Comets get shut out in defensive struggle
09/18/2008
Last year, Mayfield's football team went four games deep into the playoffs before finally being eliminated, one game short of making it to the title game.
Despite the losses that all teams face each year to senior graduation, Mayfield proved it was still
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 | Chagrin, West G ready for opening CVC showdown
09/11/2008
After three weeks of nonconeferncefootball games, Chagrin Valley Conference action begins this weekend. West Geauga visits Chagrin Falls, Orange travels to Wickliffe, Kenston heads to Beachwood and Hawken hosts Berkshire. In a nonconference contest, Unive
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| | Mentor continues mastery over Comets
09/11/2008
Fans who went to Jerome T. Osborne Stadium in Mentor to see a good high school football game last Friday night weren't disappointed. The already well-established rivalry between Solon and Mentor was scheduled for its annual appearance. The fact that the
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 | Comets seek answer to Mentor nemesis
09/03/2008
There's a history between Solon and Mentor. It's not quite of Hatfield and McCoy proportions, but any fan of Solon football knows that the Mentor Cardinals ended Solon's playoff seasons in 2006 and 2007. In post-season play, Mentor defeated Solon, 45-0, i
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| | Comets upend Canton McKinley in opener
08/27/2008
Solon made it past the first hurdle of the obstacle course better known as its 2008 schedule. Last Saturday, the Comets played one of the most storied football programs in the state, Canton McKinley, and they came away with a 24-10 victory at Fawcett Stad
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 | Comets, Canton McKinley tangle in opener
08/20/2008
The 2008 Solon football schedule is a journey, and head coach Jim McQuaide is a navigator who doesn't think much at all about short cuts.
The Comets open up their season Saturday when they travel to Canton for a non-conference matchup against one of the
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 | Gates Mills tennis ace qualifies for U.S. Open
08/20/2008
Move over Chris Evert. You too, Mary Joe Fernandez, Zina Garrison and Betsy Nagelson. Make room for Lauren Davis, a 14-year-old tennis sensation from Gates Mills.
All five of those tennis players won the United States Tennis Association Championships, bu
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 | Area riders win in state and out
08/13/2008
Less than a week before her 17th birthday, Chagrin Falls' equestrienne Jennifer Waxman was crowned with Overall Grand Championship at the 2008 East Coast United States Equestrian Federation Junior Hunter Championship Finals last week Horse Shows In The Su
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 | Backup quarterback turning some heads
08/07/2008
St. Ignatius junior quarterback Mark Myers won't be the starter heading into the season, but he's already being touted as a player to watch in the State of Ohio by some college recruiting services.
A Pepper Pike resident, Myers received a brief glimpse o
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 | Chagrin riders
07/30/2008
It's been a long road for 16-year-old Jennifer Waxman, of Chagrin Falls, as she travels around the country competing at horse shows, but it was at the Chagrin Valley Hunter Jumper Classic earlier this month where an equestrian epiphany manifested in her o
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 | Swim relays overcome new challenges
07/23/2008
The 39th annual swimming of the Chagrin Valley Invitational Relays last Saturday took some new directions. But when the gold medals were added up at the end of the meet, it was just like old times for the host Chagrin Valley Recreation Center team, w
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