COLUMBUS — The Ohio High School Athletic Association honored Carey cross country coach Dean Kessler with a Sportsmanship, Ethics and Integrity Award for the 2014-15 school year.

Coast to Coast Baseball is hosting a baseball tryout and hitting camp for local players ages 14-18 to evaluate a player’s hitting, fielding, arm strength and speed. Since 2001, over 3,500 athletes from 46 different states have participated in the program.

COLUMBUS — Coming into the 2015 Ohio Special Olympics in Columbus, Wyandot County coach Therese Barron was anxious to see how her team would fair in the new sports — soccer and swimming.

NEW ORLEANS — Carrol Pauley, who will be a junior at Riverdale High School this fall, played on Blackswamp’s 16 National team that competed and finished 26th of 48 teams this past weekend in the USA Volleyball Girls’ Junior National Championships in New Orleans.

COLUMBUS — The soggy environment and unfortunate weather did not dampen the opening ceremony and events of the 2015 Ohio Special Olympic Summer Games on Friday night at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in Columbus.

CANTON — Mohawk alumnus Andrew Trusty was named to the Capital One Division II Academic All-America men’s track and field/cross country teams in a release by the College Sports Information Directors of America recently.

Lawrence Insurance out hit the Fraternal Order of Police, 17-5, on its way to an undefeated season (14-0) and a tournament title, 10-0, in a minor league baseball game Thursday.

Cancer is a vicious disease in this world. It carries with it a certain stigma that those diagnosed aren’t going to live the life they did before, their lives are over and they may not live much longer.

MARYSVILLE — Upper Sandusky’s Brett Montgomery took second in the 13-15 age group to lead area golfers Wednesday in the Heart of Ohio Junior Golf Association tournament at Marysville Golf Course.

For the first time this year, Angeline’s Special Olympics team of athletes will be competing in six different sports in the Summer Games this weekend in Columbus. New this year for the Indians are soccer and swimming after volleyball was a first for them in the 2014 event.