By Chris Miles Sports Editor They aren’t teammates, in fact they attend different rival schools. But London’s Kali Boyd and Madison-Plains’ Anne Brady have forged a pretty strong bond and you can thank the spirit of competition for bringing them together. The Madison County duo have been competing along side one another all season [...]
By Chris Miles Sports Editor The 2013 high school spring sports season is still a couple weeks from starting, but a pair of Madison County track and field athletes are going strong in their winter sport of choice. London’s Kali Boyd and Madison-Plains’ Anne Brady both qualified for and will compete in the Division [...]
By Chris Miles Sports Editor A number of Madison County girls basketball players picked up All-Central District honors last month. The awards were voted on by a panel of Associated Press sports reporters. Madison-Plains’ Abby Finney was selected third-team all-district, while teammate Abby Ames and the West Jefferson duo of Paige Fabry and Kelsey Kirkpatrick [...]
By Chris Miles Sports Editor The Madison-Plains powerlifting team shined at the Division IV, V, VI state championship meet held last weekend at Kenton High School. T.J. Wrigley (125 pounds) placed seventh. Travis Chaffin (155) and Jake Datz (165) were both ninth in their respective weight classes, while Brandon Rose was 28th at 175 and [...]
It was only fitting that the young man wrestling for a team nicknamed the Roughriders needed to ride out the final 30 seconds of a marathon wrestling match to claim the school’s first wrestling state championship since 1988.
By Chris Miles Sports Editor They run the floor better than most high school basketball teams. They are as athletic as any squad you’re going to find anywhere in Central Ohio and the Bearcats of Brookhaven High School are the district’s top seed in the boys Division II tournament. With their intimidating style of [...]
By Chris Miles Sports Editor MILFORD CENTER — It wasn’t exactly the proper way to close out the game, but Madison-Plains boys basketball coach Jeff Spradlin will gladly take it. The Golden Eagles (14-9) failed to make a single free throw (0 for 3) in the final two minutes of Division III tournament game [...]
By Chris Miles Sports Editor It is an environment that very few high school wrestlers get a chance to experience first hand. The state’s largest wrestling event will take place this weekend when the Ohio High School Athletic Association hosts its state championship tournament at Ohio State University’s Schottenstein Center Thursday through Saturday. Thousands [...]
