The Fairfield Lions and South Webster Jeeps played even for two innings in a scoreless game, but the Jeeps scored three runs in the third, and as the innings ticked away, that ended up being enough to defeat the Lions in the Division IV SE District Finals, with Fairfield falling to South Webster by a 4-2 score.

The Fairfield Lions entered the bottom of the sixth inning of their 2023 Division IV District Semifinal game with a one-run lead against the Waterford Wildcats. Once the inning was finished, the Lions built a six-run lead, and they eventually won by five runs as they defeated the Wildcats, 9-4 Saturday at VA Memorial Stadium, moving to the district finals for a second straight season.

The No. 2 seeded Fairfield Lions controlled all aspects of their 2023 Division IV SE District Sectional Final game on Tuesday, defeating the No. 15 East Tartans in five innings by a 17-3 score and becoming sectional champions.

The Fairfield Lady Lions scored 130 points en route to the 2023 girls Southern Hills Athletic Conference championship Friday at Fairfield High School, while the Whiteoak Wildcats earned the boys SHAC title with 152.75 points.

The Fairfield Lady Lions had their string of 20 consecutive sectional championships (combined Div. III and IV) end Thursday afternoon at Fairfield High School with a 9-4 loss to the Westfall Lady Mustangs (10-9, 6-4 SVC) in a Div. III Southeast District Sectional Championship game.

On Saturday at Fairfield High School, the Lady Lions hosted a tri-match where the Lady Lions lost to two of the top teams in the area, Portsmouth Notre Dame and New Richmond.

In a game featuring the two champions of the Southern Hills Athletic Conference, the Fairfield Lady Lions — a SHAC Div. I co-champion — lost to the SHAC Div. II champion, the Manchester Lady Greyhounds, by a 10-1 score.

The Fairfield Lions capped off their 2023 Southern Hills Athletic Conference Division I championship season with one last conference victory, defeating the Manchester Greyhounds, 10-0 at FHS on Tuesday night, May 9.

The Fairfield Lady Lions entered their Southern Hills Athletic Conference game in first place in Division I, while the Peebles Lady Indians sat in the middle of Division II of the SHAC standings.

There is a battle brewing for the Division I Southern Hills Athletic Conference championship, especially following Fairfield’s Tuesday night win over the Eastern Warriors by a 3-2 score, with the Lions winning in walk-off fashion in the bottom of the eighth for the extra-inning win.

Fairfield wasted little time in their Southern Hills Athletic Conference game Wednesday (April 26), as a three-run first inning turned into an 11-1 win over the visiting Peebles Indians.

For just the third time this season, the Fairfield Lions suffered a loss on the diamond, as they fell in a non-conference game to Greeneview by an 8-4 score at VA Memorial Stadium.

The Fairfield Lady Lions traveled to West Union High School to play the Lady Dragons in a Southern Hills Athletic Conference game played Friday afternoon, leaving with a 15-run win in five innings for the Southern Hills Athletic Conference victory.

The Fairfield Lions continued to add wins to their overall total on Friday night, winning in Southern Hills Athletic Conference action against the West Union Dragons by a 22-3 score at WUHS.

Highland County commissioners Terry Britton, David Daniels and Brad Roades issued a proclamation honoring the Fairfield Lions boys basketball team during the Wednesday, March 22 commission meeting.