Wynford senior Annika Gerlach was the Northern 10 Athletic Conference girls golf player of the year, and three of her senior Royals teammates also received All-N10 honors.

Riverdale’s Carrol Pauley earned third-team All-Blanchard Valley Conference volleyball honors, while teammates Janessa Taylor and Jessica Johnston were given honorable mention.

The Raiders defeated the Cardinals, 24-16, in the Midget League Football Pumpkin Bowl on Sunday.

FINDLAY — Losing in the district finals never leaves a good taste in one’s mouth, but dropping a match to the same team three times in four years by one goal is an even more bitter pill to swallow. That bitterness was all the Riverdale girls soccer team was left with Saturday afternoon after Liberty-Benton’s Jensen Hiegel headed in a cross with 2:20 left in the second overtime to lift the Eagles to a 1-0 victory over the Lady Falcons in a Division II district final match at Findlay High School.

TIFFIN — Call it a comeback. The Carey boys cross country team will return to state for the second straight year after finishing in the top seven in the Division III race at regionals at Tiffin’s Hedges-Boyer Park on Saturday.

ATTICA — Mohawk already had fought off a match point, and it appeared the Warriors did so a second time before a call went against them. Addie Thiery’s tip at the net hit the floor to seemingly tie the third set at 26, but an official ruled a Huron player was able to dig the ball, and while everyone stopped playing as fans cheered, the Tigers nonchalantly pushed the ball back over the net for what became the winning point.

CAREY — “One half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second.”

BUCYRUS — Wynford did a little bit of everything Friday night. The Royals rushed for 350 yards and passed for 205 while rolling to a 62-12 victory against Buckeye Central to finish undefeated in the Northern 10 Athletic Conference for the third straight year.