DAYTON — The statement from Perry’s Brayden Richards has been emphatic down the stretch when it comes to his trademark pole vault.Anything short of an elusive first state championship, as a senior and as one of the most decorated vaulters in News-Herald coverage area lore, simply would not do.Retrospect tends to make that sentiment wane […]
DAYTON — If nothing else, Rob Bonchak is a fantastic listener.One of the lost arts in track and field tends to be how to lean at the finish line, decisively but at the right angle and with the proper sense of when and where to do it.The Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin sophomore went to the textbook […]
What: State track and field meetWhen: May 31 and June 1Where: Welcome Stadium, 1601 South Edwin C. Moses Boulevard, DaytonSchedule: May 31 — 9 a.m. (girls shot put, boys discus, girls pole vault, boys long jump and girls high jump), 9 a.m. (girls 4×800-meter relay final), 9:15 a.m. (boys 4×800 final), 9:30 a.m. to 12:35 […]
YOUNGSTOWN — As spectators and teams entered the stadium May 25 during Day 2 of the Division II Austintown-Fitch Regional, it was someone’s bright idea to play one of Bruce Springsteen’s most timeless classics over the public-address system.After two lightning delays, forget “Glory Days.”It very easily could have been gory days for anyone who didn’t […]