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Gridiron Glory High School Football Top 25
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Gridiron Glory Week 3 “Fan of the Week”–Meigs High School
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Each week, Gridiron Glory host Nathan Taktich travels to southeast Ohio high schools, looking for fans who are passionated about high school football. This week, Nathan traveled down to Pomeroy, where the hometown Meigs Marauders were hosting the Logan Chieftains. Gridiron Glory' airs every Friday night at 11:30 p.m. on WOUB. You can follow the… Read More
Kent State Sweeps Ohio In Saturday Doubleheader
By: Eric Singer, Nathan Takitch
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Game 1 Before the weekend series with Ohio, the Kent State Golden Flashes had one of the best offenses in the Mid-American Conference. With a collective .280 batting average and 167 runs scored on the season, the Flashes ranked second-best in the conference. In game one of the doubleheader with the Bobcats, the Flashes flexed… Read More
Nelsonville-York Week In Review: Dec. 15-22
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The Nelsonville-York basketball program wrapped a pre-Christmas gift for the Buckeye faithful this week, going 3-1 overall. Both the boys and girls programs have conference records sitting at .500, and are both within two games of the top spot in the TVC-Ohio. BOYS After a turbulent 2-2 start to their season, the boys team had… Read More
Athens Looks To Break New Ground In Regional Final
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In 2012, both the Athens Bulldogs and the Marion-Franklin Red Devils lost in their respective regional final, falling just one win shy of reaching the state final four. Marion-Franklin missed out on a chance to make the state semifinals for the third time in four seasons. Athens, meanwhile, has never been to the final four… Read More
Playoff Preview: 1 Athens vs 8 Logan Elm
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After Athens finished the 2012 season with an 11-2 record, falling just one win shy of the state tournament final four, expectations were high in The Plains this fall. And 10-0 was just the beginning. The Bulldogs (10-0, 6-0 TVC-Ohio) will begin their pursuit of Athens’ first ever football state championship when they square off… Read More
Double Overtime Victory Puts Ohio In MAC Tournament
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The Bobcats earned a third place seeding in the Mid-American Conference tournament this Saturday as they ran away with a 3-2 double overtime win against a Kent State team previously undefeated in the MAC. The Flashes made it onto the scoreboard first as Sabrina Binder managed to get the ball past Ohio goalkeeper Brittany Walker… Read More
Meigs, Athens Meet For TVC-Ohio Crown
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In each of the past two seasons the Athens Bulldogs used signature Week 10 wins against the Nelsonville-York Buckeyes to clinch the Tri Valley Conference crown. Things are a little bit different in 2013. The most important game of the season in the TVC-Ohio will indeed feature the Bulldogs (8-0, 3-0 TVC-Ohio). But it will… Read More
TVC-Ohio Chat: Week 8
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TVC-Ohio reporters Nathan Takitch and Blaine Carragher break down week 7 for every team in the conference and look ahead to week 8.
Preview: Undefeated Athens Hosts Alexander In Rivalry Game
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When Athens and Alexander meet in any sport, the game becomes a regional event. But there is something special about matchups between the Bulldogs and the Spartans on the gridiron. The rivalry engages vast audiences from the nearby towns of Albany and The Plains, watching to see if their squad will come away from the… Read More
Athens, Jackson Set To Showdown For Third Straight Year
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The third installment of an epic football trilogy will be coming to Basil Rutter Field when the Athens Bulldogs (3-0) host the Jackson Ironmen (2-1) in a game riddled with playoff implications. The two perennial football powerhouses renewed an old rivalry in their playoff game in 2011, which was the first time the two teams… Read More
Louisville Offense Too Much For Bobcats
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The Louisville Cardinals (3-1) used a rush of offense at the beginning of the second half to take a stranglehold lead in their match against the Ohio Bobcats (1-3) and cruse to a 6-2 victory. After taking a 2-1 lead into the half, the hosting Cardinals scored four goals in just 18 minutes to eliminate… Read More
Field Hockey Earns First Win
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After allowing ten goals in its first two games of the season, Ohio Field Hockey (1-2) buckled down on defense against William & Mary (2-2), and got a late goal to clinch its first win of the year, 2-1. Redshirt junior Lauryl Desch scored in the 58th minute when she buried a rebound that bounced… Read More
Preview: Wellston, South Point Take The Field
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For the second consecutive season, the Wellston Golden Rockets (0-1) will look to grab their first win of the year against non-conference foe South Point (1-0) when the Pointers come to town on Friday night. Last fall, after losing their first two games of the season, Wellston was able to breeze past South Point, who… Read More
Bobcat Field Hockey Practicing In Temporary Home
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Ohio field hockey has begun the 2013 season in new territory, figuratively and literally. Figuratively speaking, the Bobcats are in new territory because of their record. Ohio dropped its first two games on the season for the first time since 2009, meaning that redshirt senior Andrea Biegalski is the only member of the team who… Read More
Delaware Grabs Early Lead, Holds On Against Ohio
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The Delaware Blue Hens (1-0) scored two goals in 39 seconds between the 11th and 12th minutes and never relinquished their lead against the Ohio Bobcats field hockey team (0-2), winning at Boston University’s New Balance Field, 5-2. Shortly after Michaela Patzner and Jacki Coveleski tallied a pair of Blue Hen goals in rapid succession,… Read More
Preview: Fed Hock, Alexander Battle For SPACER Trophy
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The Alexander Spartans look to win the SPACER Trophy for the fourth consecutive time when they host the Federal Hocking Lancers in a cross-division showdown Thursday night. The rivalry, and the first high school football game of the year in Athens County, will pit TVC-Ohio against TVC-Hocking in a game between two teams trying to… Read More
Fisher, Windham Arraigned on Drug-Related Charges
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Update, Aug. 28, 4:35 p.m.: Greg Windham and Larenzo Fisher have been arraigned, and both have entered a plea of not guilty to their indictments of Aggravated Trafficking in Drugs. According to a press release from the Athens County Prosecuting Attorney, Judge George P. McCarthy set Windham's bond at $2,500 with 10% allowed and scheduled a… Read More
Ohio Field Hockey Looks To Reclaim MAC Dominance
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After breaking her thumb in the third game of the 2012 Ohio Field Hockey season, senior defender Andrea Biegalski was redshirted. The 2011 Mid-American Conference Tournament MVP could only sit and watch as her team stumbled to an 8-8 regular season finish, winning just two of five MAC contests before falling in the first round… Read More
Ohio Softball Wins Fourth Straight, Completes Sweep Of Akron
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Ohio Softball needed an extra inning in its game against the Akron Zips Sunday, but the Bobcats were able to escape Lee R. Jackson Field with a 4-2 win on Sunday, extending their winning streak to four games. Ohio starting pitcher Savannah Jo Dorsey was engaged in a pitchers duel against Akron starter Erin Seiler… Read More
Roadwork To Obstruct Two Athens County Roads
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Roadwork will obstruct two U.S. routes in Athens County. According to a statement issued by the Ohio Department of Transportation, traffic on U.S. Route 33 will be reduced to one lane on the east side of Nelsonville. This project is expected to be completed by September 2013. Westbound motorists on U.S. Route 50 will… Read More
Ohio Softball Drops Double Date With Dayton
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Game One A five-run third inning, capped by a Tiffany Ricks Grand Slam paved the way for a 7-4 win for the Dayton Flyers in the Bobcat Softball team’s first home game of the season. Dayton was able to put together a string of base runners and scored first on an error by first baseman… Read More
Late-Game Heroics Lead To Ohio Softball Win
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Ohio Softball finished off the second leg of its doubleheader at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga Frost Classic in grand style, winning 8-6 on a walk-off home run by Caitlin Colvin that capped an impressive comeback. The Bobcats trailed 6-3 with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning when Alyssa Wolfe stroked a single… Read More
Ohio Falls to No. 18 UCLA in Tournament Finale
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After winning two consecutive games by at least eight runs, the Ohio University softball team was on the wrong side of a lopsided game on Sunday. The ‘Cats fell 11-2 in six innings in their final game of the Easton Desert Classic in Las Vegas, Nev. UCLA’s bats struck early and often against Ohio starting… Read More
Lauren Gellerman Earns Weekly Conference Honors
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Ohio University Softball catcher, Lauren Gellerman had a sensational week in the batter’s box that netted the San Diego, Calif. native Mid-American Conference East Division Player of the Week honors. Gellerman, a senior, was locked in on the offensive side of the plate during the 2013 East Carolina University Pirate Classic Feb. 8 through Feb…. Read More