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Magnificat ends volleyball season for Lady Comets
by CARL SULLENBERGER Sports correspondent It was a magnificent journey to the Regional final in Norwalk. At the District playoffs in Midview, the Lady Comets volleyball team took down the Elyria Pioneers in the Division I final in a five-game series for the right to play in Norwalk. The C ...
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Shoremen end hopes of playoff game for football
by PAUL MORTON Associate editor Amherst football coach Kevin Fell is fond of saying, "They're not a rival till you beat them." He would like the Avon Lake Shoremen to be the Comets' rival in the worst way after the Shoremen beat his team for the 10th time in nine years Thursday in front of a ...
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Pittak finishes 20th in Tiffin run
Amherst Steele junior Miles Pittak finished 20th at the Tiffin Regional on Saturday, narrowly missing a ticket to the State Cross Country Meet in Columbus. He ran a 5k time of 16:27, missing the top 16 cut off by just six seconds. "Miles ran a gutsy race the entire 5k distance. He positioned h ...
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Lady Comets take Division One title in five games
by CARL SULLENBERGER Sports correspondent The Lady Comets hold the Division I district title after defeating the Elyria Pioneers on Thursday in a five-game series. Elyria took the first two games 25-19 and 25-20 giving the Comets a seemingly impossible task of coming from behind. As they h ...
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Tough competition overcomes Comets at meet
Running in the most difficult regional in the state brought some great performances out of the Steele High School girls cross country team Saturday. With six of the state's top 20 teams competing, the road to Columbus was far tougher at Tiffin for the area's 16 best teams. Rocky River Magnific ...
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Steele grad playing in Caribbean League
Moving up the ladder in the St. Louis Cardinals organization, the team that drafted him in the 16th round of the 2007 draft, former Kentucky outfielder and Steele High School graduate Antone DeJesus played well for the Double-A Springfield Cardinals this summer. Playing in 75 games primarily as ...
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