To make a tournament run, teams have to be playing their best when it matters most. That has been the case for the Wyandot County Special Olympics basketball team, which has made a surprise run to this weekend’s state tournament.

For the second year in a row, Wes Vent has been named among Ohio’s best basketball players. The Upper Sandusky senior was on the Division II All-Ohio Third Team released Tuesday.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Being a mother is first for Maryann Holderman, and so she made the difficult decision to step down as Riverdale girls basketball coach Monday. With daughter Sydney headed to play basketball at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan, next year, Holderman no longer was going to have the time to be both the coach and mother she wanted to be. “The bottom line is I want to be able to go watch Sydney play,” Maryann said. “I want to be a mom in the stands.”

FOSTORIA — An extra minute of back-and-forth was needed to decide the 45th annual Fostoria Athletic Boosters East-West All-Star boys game Sunday. Van Buren’s Ryan Turner mustered a dunk at the buzzer to cap the West’s 127-121 comeback victory in overtime.

History was made last year in the Wyandot Match Game Invitational when Don McLaughlin became the first bowler to win two straight championships. It was made again this year in Sunday’s finals.

Riverdale’s Sydney Holderman was voted player of the year, and Upper Sandusky’s Brent Fahle was tabbed coach of the year on the All-Daily Chief-Union girls basketball team. Holderman, a senior guard, led the Blanchard Valley Conference in scoring at 20.7 points per game and also was voted the District 6 Division III Player of the Year.

NEW YORK — Riverdale senior Carrol Pauley earned All-American status in the weight throw by placing sixth in the New Balance National Indoor Track and Field meet Sunday at The New Balance Armory in New York City.

Brandt Walton has reached the finals in Wyandot Match Game Invitational championship at Wyandot Lanes. Walton, the No. 5 seed, topped No. 15 seed Roger Ball, 661-576, in the winners’ bracket final Wednesday night and is the lone remaining unbeaten bowler in the field.

The Mohawk sixth grade boys basketball team recently advanced to the finals of the Northern 10 Athletic Conference tournament in Bucyrus, losing to Colonel Crawford, 45-23.