Team members (front row, from left) Lori Davidson, Kim Thiel, Martha Schaller, Jason Kemerly; (back) Rob Carlton, Steve Miller, Jack Walton, Phil Burnside and Roger McColly went to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to play in the 80th Wisconsin State Dartball tournament April 6-7.

Growing up in a family of dirt bike racing enthusiasts, it wasn’t long before 7-year old Uriah Messersmith of Upper Sandusky developed a penchant for the sport as well. It didn’t take long for him to start earning accolades for his on-track accomplishments either. When he was 3 years old, he rode one of his family’s dirt bikes for the first time.

Upper Sandusky’s boys were second and the girls were third Thursday in the Bucyrus Middle School Invitational track and field meet. Avon won the girls title with 120 points, followed by Lexington with 93 points and Upper Sandusky with 76 points. Mohawk was fifth with 44 points, Wynford was seventh with 33 points, and Carey finished 11th with 9 points.

Even with Seneca East having lost two straight Northern 10 Athletic Conference games coming in, Upper Sandusky felt like the Tigers were the team to beat to prove they are the class of the league this year. The Rams got a two-hit shutout with 17 strikeouts from Jason Holly and knocked off the three-time N10 champs 1-0 on Thursday at Upper Sandusky.

Did the Mohawk baseball team panic when the Wynford baseball team nearly erased the Warriors’ early three-run lead? Nope. Thanks to timely hitting and Mohawk’s Cole Widmer’s pitching, the Warriors added three more runs — two in the fifth and another in the top of the seventh — to pull away for a 6-2 victory over Wynford on Thursday at Wynford.

Upper Sandusky strung together six straight two-out hits in a four-run third inning and took a 6-3 victory against Seneca East in a Northern 10 Athletic Conference softball game Thursday at Upper Sandusky. With the game tied at 1, Alivia Oney tripled and scored on an Alexis Fogle double to put the Rams ahead 2-1. Reagan Ward followed with an RBI single.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Thanks to a four-run third inning and a six-run fourth, the Riverdale softball team cruised to a 14-4 run-rule victory over Waynesfield-Goshen on Thursday at Riverdale. The Falcons (8-3) fell behind the Tigers 2-0 after the top of the first inning, but scored a run in the bottom of the first and added another in the second to tie the game.

BUCYRUS — Mohawk’s league-leading offense exploded in a 12-0 victory against Wynford in Northern 10 Athletic Conference softball action Thursday at Wynford. The Warriors (8-4, 4-4 N10) scored six times in the second inning and three times each in the third and fourth innings.

WAYNESFIELD — Carey’s girls took fourth and the boys tied for fifth Thursday in the Tiger Invitational track and field meet at Waynesfield-Goshen. Spencerville was the girls winner 129-112.5 over Benjamin Logan. Lima Bath finished third over Carey 106-65.5. In the boys competition, Benjamin Logan topped Indian Lake 158-131 for first place. Carey tied Parkway with 60 points.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Leading by nine runs in the bottom of the fifth inning, Seth McElree hit a walk-off single to give the Falcons a 12-2 run-rule victory over Waynesfield-Goshen on Thursday at Riverdale. The Falcons took an early 4-0 lead after the first inning and added another run in the second before scoring two runs in the third and fourth innings and three in the bottom of the fifth.