COLUMBUS GROVE — The Ada girls, led by freshman Anney Archer who placed in the top three in four events, finished fourth as a team at the Northwest Conference track meet on Saturday.

ST. PARIS — The Ben Logan boys and girls track teams claimed the Mad River Division Title of the Central Buckeye Conference on Friday night.

FINDLAY — The Riverdale boys were second and the Falcon girls were fourth at the Blanchard Valley Conference track meet on Friday night.

For the second time in four years the Kenton softball team is sectional champions. The Wildcats reached that feat on Friday night by putting three runs on the scoreboard in the third inning and then holding off visiting Ottawa-Glandorf the rest of the way for a 4-2 victory.

DEFIANCE — Kenton had two top-six placers on the second day of the Western Buckeye League track meet as the Widlcats finished the meet in ninth place with 10 points.

ST. MARYS — Kenton’s Tristan Reichelderfer and St. Marys’ Nathan Wilker were locked into an old-fashioned pitcher’s duel during Thursday’s sectional baseball final. It was the Wildcats that finally caved as a pair of errors on the same play in the fifth inning led to two St. Marys run as the Roughriders would go on to a 3-0 victory.

LIMA — With its play on Thursday at a Division II sectional tennis tournament, Kenton guaranteed it will have someone in Saturday’s sectional final. The Wildcats also had two players qualify for districts – Dale Oates and Jake Abbott.

DUNKIRK — Hardin Northern pitcher Addy Bame recovered from a three-run first inning to record 18 strikeouts and help her Polar Bears to a 7-3 Division IV softball sectional final win over Arcadia on Thursday evening.

ARLINGTON — Riverdale’s softball sectional final against Arlington had a little bit of everything Thursday night. There was a home run, a home run that wasn’t, an infield double, five Riverdale errors that led to no runs and a no-hit bid into the sixth inning.

CAREY — Snapping a seven-game losing streak isn’t easy, and neither was Carey’s Division IV softball sectional final against Ada on Thursday. In an ugly game with 10 combined errors, the Blue Devils produced an eight-run second inning and held on for dear life in a 9-7 victory.