A total of eight Highland County athletes will be participating at the 2023 OHSAA State Track and Field Championships June 2-3 following their performances at regionals in Division II and Division III this past weekend.

The Hillsboro and McClain track and field teams competed in the Division II Southeast District meet May 16 and 20, where the Lady Tigers earned their first-ever district title.

Bluffton skipper James Grandey has been named the Heartland Conference Coach of the Year after guiding the Beavers baseball team to a third-place finish in the HCAC.

The McClain Tigers trailed for most of their Division II SE District Sectional Final game Monday night, but eventually took the lead in the top of the seventh inning against the host Miami Trace Panthers.

The following student-athletes have been selected as All-Frontier Athletic Conference.

The Hillsboro Indians boys team placed second in the 2023 Frontier Athletic Conference Meet on Tuesday and Thursday this week at Hillsboro High School.

For the third time this season, the Hillsboro Lady Indians defeated their Highland County counterpart, the McClain Tigers, but this time the Lady Indians will be moving on in the 2023 Division II SE District Tournament.

The Southeast District has announced the 2023 baseball sectional pairings. The following are the first-round games for Highland County schools.

The Ohio High School Athletic Association announced the football divisional breakdowns and playoff regions for the 2023 season on Wednesday.

The second round of the Highland County rivalry belonged to the McClain Tigers. Tuesday night at John Mitchell Park at Nixon Field, the McClain Tigers earned a Frontier Athletic Conference victory behind a second inning that saw them jump ahead of the visiting Hillsboro Indians, leading to a 4-0 shutout win.

The McClain Tigers lost a Frontier Athletic Conference game on Wednesday (April 26), falling to the host Chillicothe Cavaliers, 12-2 in five innings.

On Friday, the McClain Tigers held the annual Bob Bergstrom McClain Track Invitational in Greenfield, where McClain won the girls meet and the Hillsboro Indians won the boys meet at McClain Field.

The Southeast District has announced the 2023 softball sectional pairings. The following are the first-round games for Highland County schools.

Continuing the tradition of McClain Lady Tigers basketball is what drives Shania Massie, as she’s a part of the storied McClain basketball tradition as a player and now as the new head coach of the program she once suited up for.