Riverdale’s Aidan Loveridge was a first-team All-Blanchard Valley Conference baseball selection in the release of BVC spring awards Wednesday. The Falcons’ Seth McElree and Wayne Frey earned second-team honors, while Jonathan Walter and Alec Loveridge were picked as honorable mention.

BUCYRUS — Each of his last four meets, Wynford High School junior Alizhah Watson has reduced his time in the 400 dash. Now, as he prepares to compete in the 400 dash in the state meet Friday and possibly Saturday at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium at Ohio State University, Watson is hopeful he will set a new personal best time each day.

Arguably the best season in the history of Carey baseball was capped off with All-Ohio honors for three senior players and a top honor for its coach. Trey Bame was named first-team All-Ohio, while teammates Brayden Wentling and Easton Roark received honorable mention in Division IV.

AKRON — It was already going to be a tremendous challenge for Mohawk to hold the Hillsdale softball teams’ bats in check. As it turns out, getting a hit off of Hillsdale starting pitcher Sydney Long was even more challenging.

LEXINGTON — It wasn’t the finish Upper Sandusky junior Kenedi Hayden was hoping for in the girls 300 hurdles, but she is optimistic that qualifying for regional finals — the furthest she has ever gone into the postseason — will lead to higher finishes in the future.

The Andersons shut out Reineke, 12-0, in a USGS game May 17. Offensively for Reineke: Hailey Brodman, single; Chalis Moselay, 2 singles. Offensively for The Andersons: McKenzie Rosvanis, single, 1 run; Audri Lucas, single, 1 run; Jo Cornish, 2 singles, 2 runs; Karli Gossman, 2 singles, 2 runs; Leah Margison, single, 1 run; Savannah Wells, 1 run; Ashlynn Davis, single, …

LANCASTER – Regionals could not have gone much better for Mohawk. After advancing the 3200 relay team and Taeylor Mullholand in the high jump to state Wednesday, the Warriors qualified in two more events Friday, highlighted by Destini Oler dominating the field in the 800 run during Division III competition at Fairfield Union.

TIFFIN — Two years ago, when Wynford’s Alizhah Watson and his teammates lost the 200 relay, he used that as motivation to excel in the 400 dash. This year, history repeated itself during the finals of the Division III Regional Tournament at Tiffin Columbian High School. Watson was the anchor in the boys 200 relay, a relay in which he didn’t receive the handoff of the baton. He and his teammates were disqualified as a result.

AKRON — Just two days after their come-from-behind 5-4 victory over East Canton, the Mohawk softball team faces a stiffer challenge when it meets Hillsdale, the No. 1-ranked Division IV team in Ohio, in the Division IV regional final at 3 p.m. Saturday at Firestone Stadium in Akron.

AKRON — The Mohawk softball team never lost hope. Trailing by one run entering the bottom of the seventh inning, the Warriors scored twice to take a 5-4 victory against East Canton in a Division IV regional semifinal softball game Thursday at Akron Firestone Stadium.