Sports
On Saturday, May 26, the Springfield Preservation Alliance will kick of the ninth year of its annual Summer Tour Series, celebrating Springfield's distinctive architecture and history. The 2012 series includes 18 unique tours guided by architects, curators, historians and other local professionals, and runs through mid-September.
Reid hosted it's sescond annual run to support healthy kids. There were over 310 5K runners and an additional 50 1 mile runners from the Clark County area. Students from all over the Shawnee District participated. "it was so cool how they [The Race] brought the school and community together," said Beth Patterson a teaacher who ran in the race with her students. The kids have been training six long and hard weeks at Shawnee High School to get their bodies fit and ready to run. The 5K started at Avetec (Avetec is located near teh Melody Drive-In) at 10:00 A.M.
WWRD television will produce and air a short run sports special, “Sports Talk on the Road”. The show will be a 1 hour weekly talk show highlighting local High School spring sports including Track and Field, Men’s Tennis, Baseball and Softball. “Sports Talk on the Road”, sponsored by local Allstate Agents Jim Twiggs and Dave Maute, will air beginning this Friday, May 11th through Saturday, June 2nd at 10pm Friday evening and again Saturday morning at 10am.
For many fishermen spring is considered the most productive fishing season of the year. Not only is the fishing excellent but the weather is good also. If you haven't been fishing in a while or have never been, now is a good time to start.
COLUMBUS — Braxton Miller didn’t start off Ohio State’s 2012 Spring Game last Saturday in the pocket, like many quarterbacks would.
COLUMBUS-- The Ohio State Football Spring Game is an annual spectacle for Buckeye Nation. This Saturday April 21st was no exception. Held at Ohio Stadium on the campus of The Ohio State University, new head coach Urban Meyer christened Buckeye fans with a little twist on tradition with a pregame circle drill that matches toughness with toughness. Adding to the novelty of seeing the two-time national championship coach Meyer at the helm of their team, Buckeye fans also came to see the progress of their beloved team, and especially, their starting quarterback, Braxton Miller.
Springfield, Ohio – For the third straight year, a Wittenberg University football standout earned Most Valuable Player honors at the Ohio Army National Guard Senior Bowl after quarterback Ben Zoeller, class of 2012 from Louisville, Ky., earned the Offensive MVP award at the 2012 game on Saturday, April 14 at Columbus Crew Stadium.
Springfield, Ohio – Summer will be as busy as always around the Wittenberg University athletics complex in 2012 as nine different Wittenberg programs – men’s basketball, women’s basketball, field hockey, football, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball – are sponsoring youth camps this year.
Springfield, Ohio – Wittenberg University’s Department of Athletics and Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) will host a weeklong campus celebration of the inaugural NCAA Division III Week April 9-15.
SPRINGFIELD-- The Kenton Ridge Cougars softball team gained their first victory of the season at Ed Foulk Field on Thursday March 29 by defeating Indian Lake 8-3 in a CBC crossover game. Freshman pitcher Learic Kinser, the starting pitcher for the first time in her career, gave up a single to start the game and a single and a triple in the seventh inning for the only hits of the game for the Lakers. Kinser allowed only three other batters to reach base, including a run-scoring throwing error in the first inning, and a base on balls in each of the fourth and seventh innings. She struck out three. The fourth inning base on balls was the only base-runner Indian Lake could muster between the first and last innings.
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