COVID-era fair may set attendance record
CELINA - The 2021 Mercer County Fair will almost certainly set a new attendance record once final numbers are known, fair manager Cara Muhlenkamp said while offering a recap of a week that saw huge crowds, many smiling faces and vendors running out of food. [
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WAPAKONETA - Seventeen new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Auglaize County over the last two days, health department officials said in a news release Thursday.
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St. Marys' top two golfers combined to play par golf on the front nine of Celina Lynx to defeat Celina 156-185 in Western Buckeye League boys golf action on Thursday afternoon.
WAPAKONETA - The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced it will operate an OVI checkpoint in Auglaize County this evening.
The OVI checkpoint, funded by federal grant funds, is planned to deter and intercept impaired drivers.
CELINA - The 2021 cross country season will be a season of change for Celina after longtime coach Dan Otten died in January after a battle with cancer.
COLDWATER - Coldwater cross country coaches Martin Schoenherr and Jenny Alig are looking to have bounceback seasons for their teams.
Illness and injuries hampered the Cavaliers last year and key losses will require the coaches to retool and refine the teams this season.
FORT RECOVERY - Fort Recovery cross country has a girls district championship to defend and returns district qualifiers on both the boys and girls teams, including an individual district champion.
MARIA STEIN - Starting her second year as Marion Local's cross country coach, Elle Sutter has a lot of optimism with experience coming back on the boys and girls sides.
MINSTER - Fresh off its fourth straight Midwest Athletic Conference championship, head coach Larry Topp looks to continue piling up the hardware in 2021 with the Minster boys' cross country program, which welcomes back eight letterwinners and six all-MAC performers.
NEW BREMEN - With a solid nucleus of returning runners the New Bremen boys and girls cross country teams will be looking to move up in the pack this fall.
ROCKFORD - After coming in no higher than fourth in the district meet in 2020, Parkway is eyeing a pair of deep postseason runs this year.
The boys team, which sent Blake Strickler to regionals, hopes to get all the way to state, while the girls team is hoping for a run to the regionals.
ST. HENRY - Despite a fifth-place finish in the Midwest Athletic Conference last year, the St. Henry girls cross country team made it all the way to the state championship and finished 16th.
ST. MARYS - Veteran St. Marys cross country coach Rob Cisco returns several key runners to both the boys and girls squads this fall.
The Roughrider boys finished fifth at the Western Buckeye League meet last year and took ninth at the district.
CELINA - Experience returns for the Celina boys and girls golf teams as they look to move up the Western Buckeye League standings.
Boys coach Jim B
COLDWATER - New coaches will help guide the Coldwater golf teams this season as both look to continue the success achieved in the 2020 campaign.
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FORT RECOVERY - The top of the scorecard should be set for the Fort Recovery golf teams.
Jalyn Bruns, fresh off a summer battling the top golfers w
MARIA STEIN - Both the Marion Local boys and girls golf teams will look to build up this season.
One thing that will help will be depth for each team as the boys have 15 golfers while the girls team has 23 competitors for six varsity spots.
MINSTER - Last season was a banner year for the Minster boys' golf team and head coach Jeremy Magoto as they captured the program's first Midwest Ath
NEW BREMEN - Both the New Bremen boys and girls golf teams will look toward experience to build a successful season in 2021.
The Cardinal girls, un
ROCKFORD - Parkway boasts an experienced boys golf squad this year, returning two letter winners from 2020 and two from 2019.
Junior Roman Leszins
ST. HENRY - The St. Henry boys team has the top of the board locked down, but the rest is wide open.
Seniors Sam Koesters and Ben Romer return after averaging 18-hole scores of 86.4 and 89, respectively, behind graduated senior Nate Niekamp.
ST. MARYS - At the conclusion of the fall season a year ago, the St. Marys' boys' golf team closed the campaign with a fourth-place finish in the Western Buckeye and third place finishes in both the sectional and district tournaments.
CELINA - While veteran coach Ryan Jenkins will look to continue to keep his Celina boys soccer team towards the the top of the Western Buckeye League standings, he will have to fill several key spots from last season's 12-4-2 (7-1-1 WBL) season.
CELINA - While Celina lost nine seniors from last season's 10-4-4 girls soccer campaign, the cupboard is far from empty for coach Eric Gerker.
The Bulldogs have seven returning starters and 10 overall letterwinners back with just four seniors.
COLDWATER - After going 9-8 last season, Coldwater will look to Paul Dingledine to help keep the team going in the right direction.
Dingledine re
ST. MARYS - As he enters his fourth year in charge of the St. Marys' boys' soccer program, coach Josh Hertenstein will welcome back seven starters this fall to a squad which finished 11-7-1 a season ago.
ST. MARYS - The St. Marys girls soccer team hopes to pick up where it left off from a highly successful 2020 campaign when it went 17-4-1.
The Roug
CELINA - After finishing in the middle of the Western Buckeye League this season, Celina will look to move up with a fairly experienced lineup.
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ST. MARYS - In her fifth year as St. Marys girls tennis coach, Mariah Krugh will focus on progress for a successful season.
The Roughriders were 3-6 in Western Buckeye League dual matches last season and finished eighth in the WBL tournament.
