With a 19-win season and two second-place finishes in the sectional and district tournaments, Hillsboro junior Reese Leibreich has set a new standard for the Hillsboro boys tennis program, being the first tennis player to reach the OHSAA Division II State Championships in school history.

With a 19-win season and two second-place finishes in the sectional and district tournaments, Hillsboro junior Reese Leibreich has set a new standard for the Hillsboro boys tennis program, being the first tennis player to reach the OHSAA Division II State Championships in school history.

There will be a youth golf clinic on June 1 from 9 a.m.-noon; and on June 2 from 8 a.m.-noon at the Hillsboro Elks, there also will be an adult/youth tournament.

The 2012 Coaches SE All-District baseball team was recently announced, with 12 student-athletes from five Highland County high schools named to the team in the sport of baseball.

Listed is the 2012 OHSAA Division II State Singles Tennis First Round Bracket.

Eight players on the Southern State Community College softball team were honored recently by the Ohio Collegiate Athletic Conference (OCAC) and the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA).

In a rare event, four Hillsboro Indian baseball players have signed letters stating their intent to play baseball at the next level on Monday, May 14 in the media center of Hillsboro High School.

Hillsboro High School senior Tyrand Cumberland signed a letter Friday, May 18 to play basketball with Ohio University-Chillicothe this winter.

The Cowan Lake Association of Sportsmen (CLASS) will present a Pathway to Fishing seminar on Saturday, June 30. It is free and open to the public.

Highland County Press sports editor Stephen Forsha discusses the end of the baseball and softball seasons, looks ahead to the state tennis and regional track and field tournaments and shares stats from the spring sports season.

Hillsboro junior Reese Leibreich is headed to the 2012 OHSAA State Championships in tennis, as he went 2-1 in the combined East and Southeast Division II Boys Tennis District tournament on Saturday at Ohio University in Athens.

Hillsboro junior Reese Leibreich is headed to the 2012 OHSAA State Championships in tennis, as he went 2-1 in the combined East and Southeast Division II Boys Tennis District tournament on Saturday at Ohio University in Athens.

Listed are 2012 Highland County postseason baseball and softball tournament results.

For six innings, the Lynchburg-Clay Mustangs were on the verge of upsetting the Division III No. 7 state-ranked Wheelersburg Pirates, but in the final two innings, it was the Pirates who made the Mustangs walk the plank, as they defeated LC 6-5 in eight innings, Sunday in the Division III SE District final.

For six innings, the Lynchburg-Clay Mustangs were on the verge of upsetting the Division III No. 7 state-ranked Wheelersburg Pirates, but in the final two innings, it was the Pirates who made the Mustangs walk the plank, as they defeated LC 6-5 in eight innings, Sunday in the Division III SE District final.