In a realignment from last season, athletes from Wayne County high schools were sent to the IHSAA East Central sectional on Tuesday, May 20. The top eight finishers in each event scored points for their team, with the top three finishers in each event advancing to the Lawrence Central regional to be held on Tuesday, […]
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Dan Harney is a sports reporter at the Western Wayne News.
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Tigers topple top-ranked Lapel
The Lapel Bulldogs, ranked number one in the 2A coaches poll, traveled to Hagerstown on Thursday, May 22, with a gaudy 25-1 record and riding a 15-game winning streak. The Bulldogs won every statistical category against the Tri-Eastern Conference champion Tigers except the final score. Lapel ace Kai Newman and Hagerstown ace Kaagen Kendall threw […]
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Yount’s big night leads Centerville’s win over Lincoln
The Centerville softball team hosted Lincoln on Wednesday, May 21, in a Tri-Eastern Conference game. The Lady Bulldogs won the game 8-1 in what turned out to be a record-setting night for Centerville slugger Madi Yount. Yount smacked her ninth home run of the season in the first inning to establish a new Centerville school […]
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Centerville sweeps through tennis sectional
The Centerville tennis team repeated as sectional champions for the fourth year in a row on Friday, May 23, in matches played on the Richmond courts. In preliminary round matches earlier in the week, the Lady Bulldogs swept both Hagerstown and Seton Catholic 5-0 to reach the title match against Northeastern. The Lady Knights advanced […]
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Centerville’s Yount pitches perfect game
Madi Yount pitched a perfect game against Knightstown in a Tri-Eastern Conference game played at Knightstown on Thursday, May 15. Yount did not allow a base hit and did not issue a walk. The game was scoreless after three innings before Centerville exploded for five runs in the top of the fourth inning and nine […]
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Tigers clinch outright TEC title with 7-0 win
The Hagerstown baseball team hosted Northeastern on Saturday, May 17, in a game played on Lloyd Michael Field, but Northeastern was deemed the home team. A Tiger victory meant clinching the outright conference title. A Knight victory meant that the Tigers would be forced to share the league title with Knightstown. The Tigers were not […]
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Winchester sweeps both conference track meets
The Winchester track teams, running on their home track, won both the boys and girls team titles at the Tri-Eastern Conference meets held on Friday, May 16. Winchester junior Carter Campbell won four individual events to help lift his team to the title. Campbell won the 100 meter (11.32) in a photo finish over Maddox […]
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Tigers run-rule Cowan; Young fires perfect game
Tiger senior Rylan Young pitched a perfect game, allowing no hits and issuing no walks as the 2A seventh-ranked Lady Tigers defeated Cowan 15-0 in a match played at Hagerstown on Tuesday, May 13. The Tigers plated eight runs in the bottom of the third inning to take command of the game, which was halted […]
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Bulldogs end TEC 8-0
The Centerville Lady Bulldog tennis team finished with a perfect Tri-Eastern Conference schedule on Thursday, May 15, by defeating Northeastern on the Northeastern courts by the score of 5-0. The win was the 33rd consecutive TEC match win for Centerville’s team, which has compiled a sparkling 114-1 record in its last 115 matches. Centerville will […]
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Tigers alone atop the TEC
When the Hagerstown baseball team traveled to Knightstown on Thursday, May 9, to face the top-ranked 1A team in Indiana, they knew they were facing a big challenge. Entering the game, the Panthers and Tigers were the only teams remaining in the Tri-Eastern Conference without a loss in league play. The game was tied at […]