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Salem to join Northeast 8 in all sports except football in 2027

The Northeast 8 Conference will finally return to its appropriate number of teams. On Friday, the league announced the addition of Salem as its newest member, with the Quakers joining in all sports except football for the 2027-28 academic year. The recommendation was approved by a 7-0 ...

Life, art and fishing lures

Fishing lures have been works of art for as long as people have applied their imagination to fashion bone, wood, feathers, metal and string into tools capable of convincing wild animals to attempt to eat them. Inanimate though they are, lures come alive in the hands of skilled anglers who know how to drift or drag them in the vicinity of fish. The familiar saying that life imitates art came to mind recently when I spied a sunfish on the surface of the lake. While playwright Oscar Wilde was not discussing fishing when he famously wrote “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates ...

Guards hold on for win over Red Sox

CLEVELAND — Angel Martinez had an RBI single during Cleveland’s four-run first and made a key defensive play in the second inning as the Guardians held on for a 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Friday night. Cleveland’s Chase DeLauter and Kyle Manzardo broke out of slumps with ...

Reynolds’ homer lifts Bucs past Twins

PITTSBURGH — Bryan Reynolds hit a two-run homer with one out in the ninth inning — after Oneil Cruz hit a mammoth shot early — to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 6-5 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night. Reynolds launched a 422-foot shot to left field off Taylor Rogers (1-2), ...

Cardinal Mooney beats Field to win back-to-back district titles

LOUISVILLE — For the second year in a row, the Cardinal Mooney Cardinals are district champions. After a go-ahead hit from junior Taco Verocco that scored a pair of runners, and a complete game effort on the mound from junior Ford Stacy, Mooney took down Field 3-1 to earn the Division IV, ...

Canfield loses to University in district final on walk-off

NORTH RIDGEVILLE — The Canfield baseball team just needed one or two more things to go its way on Thursday at North Ridgeville. The Cardinals came up just short, falling to University School 5-4 in the bottom of the seventh in the Division IV, Northeast 5 district final. “The kids played ...