Mohawk almost certainly will be the No. 1 seed in its football playoff region, while Carey is hoping to earn a spot in the postseason with a victory against Colonel Crawford this Friday night. Neither Wynford nor Riverdale are eliminated from postseason contention but their odds are longer.

The Riverdale cross country team recently held its awards banquet. Winners were (front row, from left) coach Kim Rall, BVC coach of the year; Miles Frey, high school boys most improved; Kendra Collier, All-Blanchard Valley Conference first team and Heart Award; Adrian Digby, fourth-year letter winner; (back row) Ethan Warren, junior high boys MVP; Josh Leopold, fourth-year varsity; Eli Weber, …

The Wynford girls golf team recently held its award banquet. Winners were (from left) Caity Schiefer, second-year letter winner, All-Northern 10 Athletic Conference first team and Crawford County All-Star; Emily Rudd, third-year letter winner, All-N10 honorable mention; Kassidy Stanford, second-year letter winner; Gabby Johnson, first-year letter winner; Tim Tuck, first-year letter winner; and Abby Underwood, fourth-year letter winner, All-N10 first team, N10 player of the year and Crawford County All-Star.

ALCOA, Tenn. — Led by Katelynn Kinley’s sixth-place finish, the Capital University women’s golf team finished as runner-up in the Maryville College Fall Invitational to wrap up the fall season recently in Alcoa, Tenn. A Mohawk High School graduate, Kinley shot rounds of 89 and 84 to finish with a 173. Capital finished with a 714 to finish behind Piedmont …

Upper Sandusky High School and Upper Sandusky Middle School will be hosting a combined winter sports parent meeting at 7 p.m. Monday in the USHS gym. Parents of all seventh through 12th grade winter sports athletes are expected to attend.

LANCASTER — Upper Sandusky’s girls were fifth and the boys 12th in their divisions in the OHSAA Middle School/Junior High Invitational to wrap up the season Saturday at the Ohio University Lancaster campus. The girls finished fifth in Race 5, which was won by Pataskala Watkins.

FINDLAY — There were few tears after Carey’s Division IV district semifinal loss to McComb on Monday night at Findlay. While it was the end of the season, it was not the end of the careers for any of the Blue Devils team that has no seniors, and they had shown just how good they might be next year by hanging tough with the No. 2 seed Panthers in the 25-17, 22-25, 25-17, 25-20 loss.

FOSTORIA — Even when the New Riegel volleyball team’s outside and middle hitters hit or tipped the ball to the precise spot on the floor they hoped to, the Mohawk Warriors picked it up and ran offense with it. And many of those times, a kill by Mohawk senior outside hitters Madi Chester or Kaylee Ward or by middle hitters Paityn Clouse or Emma Myers-Huffman quickly ensued.

VAN BUREN — After suffering a 1-0 loss on the road to Van Buren just over two weeks ago, the Riverdale Falcons were looking to flip the score in their favor in Saturday’s Division III sectional final between the two North Central Ohio Soccer Association teams.

GALION — Upper Sandusky’s Madelyn Shasteen and Wynford’s boys team and girls runner Allison Lust qualified for regionals from the cross country district meet held Saturday at Amann’s Park near Galion. With the top four teams from each race advancing to the regional meet, Wynford finished fourth in the Division III district 1 race with 150 points, beating Norwalk St. Paul for the final regional spot by 23 points.