Russell Hall did not expect to ever be a head coach when he was hired as an assistant at Upper Sandusky for the 2008 season, but 10 years later, he is. Hall was hired to lead the Rams during Monday night’s Upper Sandusky Exempted Village Schools Board meeting.

A night full of laughs ended with a record-setting fundraiser for Hannah’s House this past weekend. Headlined by the ‘Not So Newlywed Game’ at the Elks Lodge in Upper Sandusky on Saturday, more than $15,000 was raised for the charitable organization.

UPPER — Bucyrus boys basketball coach Justin Mattix has many memories at Upper Sandusky High School. The 2012 USHS graduate played on the boys junior varsity basketball team as a freshman and sophomore and on the varsity basketball team as a junior and senior under coach Shane Adams.

SYCAMORE — Seneca East was determined not to let Mohawk leading scorer Zach Hayman beat them. So instead Keith Jenkins did, scoring 13 of his 21 points in a momentum-changing third quarter in the Warriors’ 60-54 victory in Northern 10 Athletic Conference boys basketball action Saturday night.

WOOSTER — A Wyandot County family was honored for its impact on the Ohio sheep industry recently at the Buckeye Shepherd’s Symposium in Wooster. Al Kin and his sons, Jim and Phil, owners of Kin Brothers Corriedales in rural Forest, were named the 2017 Charles Boyles Master Shepherd by the Ohio Sheep Improvement Association and the Ohio Sheep and Wool Program.

Abigail Fogle’s six 3-pointers. Megan Hensel’s triple double. Each of Tori Damron’s layups. Niki Young earning her first start. That is what all four seniors on the Upper Sandusky girls basketball team will remember from their 81-39 victory over Wynford on Friday at Upper Sandusky High School.

MORRAL — Free throws were the difference Friday night. In a game featuring a pair of teams that defend well but sometimes struggle to score, Ridgedale made 23 foul shots in 29 attempts to top Mohawk, 51-46, and assure itself a sixth-place finish in the Northern 10 Athletic Conference girls basketball standings.

The question Thursday night was, would the Seneca East boys basketball team be able to handle Upper Sandusky’s full court pressure? As it turns out, forcing turnovers in a full court press wasn’t the only way the Rams found success defensively against the Tigers.

Carey High School senior Destiny DeFeo signed her national letter of intent to play basketball at Heidelberg University. “I got the chance to meet the team and they were really nice and I like them,” DeFeo said.

The Upper Sandusky seventh grade boys basketball team defeated Seneca East, 53-44, in the championship game of the Northern 10 Athletic Conference tournament Thursday at Wynford Elementary.