COLUMBUS — Things started about as well as possible for Angeline on Friday in the first day of the Ohio Special Olympics Summer Games — and it was a good thing.

FOREST — The 2016 Tree Town Festival to be held July 8-10 at Gormley Park in Forest will hold various athletic events for festival goers to participate in again this year. Events include the Tree Town Trot 5K, a 3-on-3 basketball tournament, a 4-on-4 volleyball tournament and a fishing derby. Additionally, there will be a new “Under the Lights” 3-on-3 …

Addyson Newman hit a three-run home run to help Bookie’s Lawn Service advance past Dweazley’s Repeaters into the semifinals of the Junior League fastpitch softball tournament Monday.

COLUMBUS — The Ohio High School Athletic Association on Friday made changes to its cross country tournament structure at the regional level and increased the number of team state qualifiers. Teams from each district will compete in their own regional, whereas in the past some teams were forced to compete in other regionals to even out the number of competing teams at each location.

MARYSVILLE — Upper Sandusky’s Owen Knapp was third in his division in Wednesday’s Heart of Ohio Junior Golf Association tournament at Marysville Golf Club. Knapp shot a 47 with two pars in his nine holes in the 12-and-younger division, finishing five strokes behind winner Minoy Shah, of Pleasant, who had four pars and a birdie in his round of 42.

Seven new athletes are among the 34 Angeline is taking to the Special Olympics Ohio State Summer Games this weekend in Columbus. The new athletes helped increase the number of Wyandot County competitors by four or five from last year, Angeline coach Therese “Bucko” Barron said, and most of them cannot wait.

The Elks defeated Buffalo Trading, 9-3, in a girls slowpitch softball game last Tuesday.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — LeBron James cradled the shiny gold trophy and struggled to sum up what might be his sweetest championship yet, the one he is so proudly bringing home to his native northeast Ohio just as he promised to do when he returned to the Cavaliers two summers ago. Later, flanked by his three children on Father’s Day, …

Upper Sandusky High School varsity boys basketball coach Jeff Winslow recently took the seventh and eighth grade teams to the Eastern Ohio Basketball team camp.