By BRIAN DULIK
Staff Writer
EATON TWP. — Scott Kimmey isn’t the marquee player on Olmsted Falls’ boys basketball team, but he deserves to have his name up in lights.
The junior forward scored on a putback with four seconds left in double overtime on Thursday night, lifting the Bulldogs to a 62-61 upset of top seed Brunswick [...]

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By RICK NOLAND
Assistant Sports Editor
COPLEY — Goliath got the better of David this time, but it was far from easy.
Dominating inside, a bigger and stronger Stow team downed hot-shooting Wadsworth 60-56 in overtime Thursday in a thrilling Copley Division I District semifinal boys basketball game.
The seventh-seeded Bulldogs (13-9), who will meet Akron Firestone for the [...]

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By BRAD BOURNIVAL
Staff Writer
COLUMBUS — Watching Brunswick’s Richie Spicel and the Wadsworth tandem of Brad Squire and Ben Buzzelli compete in the 71st annual state wrestling tournament looks almost as natural as an umbrella on a sandy beach.
The three have been to Columbus before. All of them know what it takes to win and each [...]

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By ALBERT GRINDLE
Staff Writer
COLUMBUS — Medina County high school basketball didn’t have its usual amount of names when the All-Northeast Inland District teams were announced Thursday, but there was still enough recognition to go around.
On the boys’ side, Brunswick’s Tyler Ferrell was the lone first-team pick in Division I.
The 6-foot-5 sophomore, who coming into Thursday’s [...]

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What, you expected the Cavaliers to become the best team in the NBA overnight?
Don’t worry — at least not too much — that Mike Brown’s team has gone just 1-2 with Ben Wallace, Wally Szczerbiak, Joe Smith and Delonte West in uniform.
It takes time for four players to jell with a new team, especially when [...]

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By BRAD BOURNIVAL
Staff Writer
COLUMBUS — The only credentials Value City Arena cares about are the ones around the necks of media members. A sporting venue with a reverberant soul, it doesn’t care if you come in with the moniker of state placer or state qualifier.
All it cares about is the fact you bring it every [...]

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By ALLISON WOOD
Staff Writer
Because of wintry weather this week, the school year for students and employees in the Highland Local School District will be one day longer.
The district has had six snow days, so one day must be made up at the end of the school year on June 5, Superintendent Bruce Armstrong said.
“It has [...]

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By HANNAH SCHAEFER
Staff Writer
BRUNSWICK — Although the city acquired a parcel of land to build a new fire station, the project has been put on hold due to a lack of funding.
Chief Jim Baird said construction of the proposed fire station, which the city plans to build on North Carpenter Road, has been delayed until [...]

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By BRAD BOURNIVAL
Staff Writer
COLUMBUS — Parma Padua senior and York Township resident Anthony Melillo knows all about being a pain in the neck. The returning state qualifier learned it firsthand this season.
Just a month removed from his first action, Melillo rolled through his Division II match with Cambridge’s Tyler Berger in the 130-pound weight class [...]

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By SCOTT PETRAK
Staff Writer
BEREA — The Browns may not do a cannonball off the high-dive this time through free agency, but general manager Phil Savage still hopes to make a splash.
Savage and coach Romeo Crennel haven’t been shy about the need to beef up the defensive front seven, and the first opportunity began at midnight [...]

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