JOHNSTON: Solid finish to season for Cats

November 12, 2018

COSHOCTON — Waterford High enjoyed one last drive. Never mind that it was very late in the final quarter, colder than a well-digger’s ditch, and the fourth-seeded Wildcats (9-3) were trailing, 33-6, they were determined to get to the house and did when senior quarterback Peyten Stephens hooked up with freshman Holden Dailey with an eight-yard scoring strike. Stephens then passed to sophomore Jude Huffman for the two-point conversion. “We just wanted to go out with something to go on,” Stephens said. “With a score like that, there had to be something for us to leave with ...

Wildcats’ Peyten Stephens conducts a clinic at quarterback

November 5, 2018

WATERFORD — Waterford High played inspirational first-half football. The fourth-ranked Wildcats scored on their first four offensive possessions en route to a 34-14 triumph over the visiting Berne Union Rockets in an OHSAA Division VII, Regional 27 playoff opener Saturday night. And, while ...

Cadets moved the ball at will in playoff opener

November 3, 2018

BEVERLY — Fort Frye High moved the ball pretty much at will in its 34-14 triumph over visiting Milford Center Fairbanks in an opening-round OHSAA Division IV, Region 23 playoff game Friday night. The undefeated Cadets (10-0) amassed 499 yards of total offense, 271 rushing and 228 passing, ...

ALBRIGHT: Can the Red Sox repeat as World Series champions?

October 30, 2018

American League champion Boston Red Sox dipped in 24 karat gold a dominant Major League Baseball season Sunday night with a World Series championship. National League winner Los Angeles became the final victim of a group responsible for a franchise-record 108 regular-season wins. Manager Dave Roberts’ Dodger club and their fan base proved unable to learn from previous playoff opponents’ mistakes of trolling the Red Sox after their lone win in the best-of-seven series in a 4 games to 1 beatdown. Boston stomped the second- and third-best teams in the majors and 100-plus game ...

Barker tried hard to ‘stop the bleeding’

October 27, 2018

JACKSON — With a 2-0 advantage in sets and needing one more to secure a berth in Saturday’s OHSAA Division IV district final volleyball match at Jackson High, top-seeded Waterford High seemed almost a lock to advance this past Thursday night But fifth-seeded Bainbridge Paint Valley proved to be an underdog with a bite, and rallied to defeat the Wildcats in the next three sets of the semi. No one in green and white saw that coming. Waterford won the the first two sets with relative ease. In fact, in the opening game, the Wildcats never trailed and won 25-17. In the second game, ...

A diving extraordinaire

September 28, 2018

Many people were always awed whenever mom effortlessly knifed into the pool water after a dive off the board. Barely a ripple. She reminded me of the late actress/diver Esther Williams in the movies, and I often told her that whenever I saw or talked to her on the phone -- and she would just ...