Merchants Bank were the 12-and-under tournament winners of the 2010 Tournament of Champions held at Shaffer park in Hillsboro.

GREENFIELD — When the whistle sounds this Monday, the McClain Tigers boys soccer team will start their journey toward repeating as South Central Ohio League champions.

"I play for love of the game."
    Hillsboro soccer player Lauren Colliver is set to begin her senior campaign for the Lady Indians, but the sport of soccer is more than just a game for her.

The Fairfield High School volleyball team will practice from 5-7 p.m. , starting on Monday Aug. 9 through Friday, Aug. 13.

    Water breaks and whistles.
    Each has importance to every football player, but that especially rings true in the hot summer month of August. Both are essential as players endure the heat of summer, and the only way to get a drop of the ice cold H2O is by the sweet sound that echoes from the whistle.
    Two-a-days are here, scrimmages are next week, and the regular season is around the corner.

(Continued from last week.)
    November 5, 1977 saw Washington upset Circleville, 14-7, and Teays Valley upset Hillsboro, 14-10. In the Hillsboro vs. T-V game, the Indians took a narrow 3-0 lead to the locker room at halftime.
    In the final quarter, with 3:47 to go, the Indians still held a 10-7 lead.
    Teays Valley managed to advance the ball to the 32-yard line.

The Lynchburg-Clay Lady Mustangs Volleyball Team held their annual volleyball camp on July 27, 28, 29.

Two-a-day football practices began throughout the state Monday.

Two-a-day football practices began throughout the state Monday.

The Fairfield Athletic Department will be holding the Fairfield Lion Open at the Buckeye Hills Golf Course on Saturday, Aug. 14.

As mentioned previously, Mike Doyle submitted his resignation as head football coach at Hillsboro during the winter of 1976-77. The Hillsboro schools employed Jerry Peters to replace Doyle. Peters came to Hillsboro from Loveland, where he had (at various times) coached football, basketball, baseball, track and wrestling. Also, Teays Valley, of near Circleville had become the eighth team in the SCOL.

When the Hillsboro Post 129 season ended Tuesday in Lancaster during the American Legion State Baseball Tournament, my summer as I’ve known it ended as well.

EBER — By a vote of 7-0, the East Clinton Astros were formally voted into the South Central Ohio League Thursday morning at the Miami Trace Board of Education meeting room by the seven standing SCOL school principals. Wilmington’s bid to re-enter the league which it helped found, was rejected by the board.

The East Clinton Astros could be set to be formally voted into the South Central Ohio League Thursday morning at the Miami Trace Board of Education by the seven standing SCOL school principals.

Dates and times announced for Greenfield Middle School volleyball conditioning and tryouts.