NEW WASHINGTON — Upper Sandusky’s eighth grade girls basketball team held off Buckeye Central, 35-29, on Thursday. Madison Byrum led the Rams with 15 points, while Ruth Baldwin scored 7 points.

Carey’s Sydney Kin and Eric Vackert earned top honors on the All-Daily Chief-Union volleyball team. Kin was named player of the year, and Vackert was voted coach of the year, both unanimously.

Upper Sandusky High School is searching for a head varsity football coach for the 2018-19 school year. Available teaching positions are not known at this time.

VALPARAISO, Ind. — Valparaiso University volleyball senior Taylor Graboski recently was named a first-team All-Missouri Valley Conference volleyball selection and to the MVC all-tournament team. Graboski led the Crusaders with 325 kills and a .260 hitting percentage and finished one block shy of the team lead with 106.

The Northern 10 Athletic Conference has announced starting time changes for boys and girls basketball league games played on Saturdays during the 2017-18 season. All girls Saturday games will start at noon, with junior varsity and then varsity, and boys Saturday games will start with JV at 5 p.m.

CAREY — The Carey Teen Leadership Corps will hold the third annual basketball Coaches vs. Cancer game when the Blue Devils boys host Upper Sandusky on Dec. 15. The junior varsity team will start at 6 p.m. with varsity to follow.

Upper Sandusky Middle School will host the 20th annual East of Chicago wrestling tournament at 10 a.m. Saturday. Arcadia, Fostoria, Kenton, Mohawk, Riverdale, Shelby, Van Buren and Upper Sandusky will compete.

If the first week is any indication, another long winning streak may be on the horizon for the Upper Sandusky girls basketball team. Four — nearly five — players scored in double figures as the Rams pummeled Willard 72-50 on Tuesday at Upper Sandusky High School.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Riverdale’s girls basketball team got off to a slow start, missing its first five shots from the field against Hardin Northern on Tuesday night. Once the Falcons got going, though, there was little the Polar Bears could do to stop them.

NORTH ROBINSON — Upper Sandusky’s boys swimming team opened the season Monday with a 57-37 victory at Colonel Crawford, while the Rams girls were defeated, 64-30.