Staff reports The West Jefferson softball team split with visiting Mt. Gilead on Saturday. The Roughriders won the opener, 5-1, before falling 4-0 in the second game. “The first game we played the girls played very hard and hit the ball real well,” West Jeff coach Jim Stevens said. “We played heads up the [...]
The West Jefferson Athletic Booster Club has planned a golf scramble. The event will take place Sunday, June 24, at Locust Hills Golf Course, 5575 North River Road, Springfield. Registration is from 7:30-8:15 a.m. with tee-off slated for 8:30 a.m. The cost is $70 per player and includes entry into all events, 18 holes of [...]
By Fran Odyniec Editor A fatal fire Friday evening in West Jefferson at 74 E. Main St. claimed the life of a male. The fire broke out at approximately 9:50 p.m. and soon spread through the two-story structure which housed the National Road Beer and Grill on the first floor and a number of apartments [...]
By Jeff Gates For The Madison Press WESTERVILLE — A win just wasn’t in the stars. In the age-old concept of Leap Year, a full day is added every four years to the calendar to coincide with the astronomical year. Against Worthington Christian Wednesday, the planets were not aligned for the West Jefferson High [...]
By JEFF GATES For The Madison Press NEW ALBANY — Home away from home. When walking into the New Albany High School gymnasium, the ‘Home of the Eagles’ banner takes center stage. As the Madison-Plains High School girls basketball team proved Saturday, that court hospitality extended to any other squad that shared a similar [...]
West Jefferson boys beat Elgin 58-53 in the basketball tournament opener. Read about it in Thursday’s Madison Press.
By Gregg Rettig Managing Editor ’Rider Ricky Ratcliff, top, won MSL at 145. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Despite its youth, the West Jefferson wrestling team won its sixth consecutive Mid-State League/Cardinal Division championship on Saturday at West Jefferson. The Roughriders have won the MSL title all six of [...]
Team Scores: West Jefferson 303.5 Jonathan Alder 232.0 Columbus West 195.0 Centennial 192.5 Independence 50.0 Kettering Alter 27.0 MVP for weight class 106-145 – Gunner Feucht, #126, West Jeff MVP for weight classes of 152-285 – Mitch Ridder, #220, JA Individual Placers: 106 1st Emmerson Jordon, CEN 2nd Aden Abdi, CW 3rd Tyler [...]
