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  • 1 week ago | toledoblade.com | Steve Junga

    How do you adequately summarize the body of work over a 40-year career in sports journalism, including nearly 38 full years at The Blade? Close to impossible. As this column appears, I have officially retired, and this will be my final media offering to a community that I have attempted to serve with the best of my ability covering the local and regional sports scene. It was not an easy decision to end this run but, like I had heard from many others in this position before me, it was just time.

  • 2 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Steve Junga

    When highly successful Napoleon High School girls basketball coach Corey Kreinbrink left his post there a little over two years ago, he had aspirations for a positive change in his life at his new school, Division I power Dublin Coffman. Onward and upward. Well, change did come, just not in the way Kreinbrink had imagined.

  • 2 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Steve Junga

    AKRON — Springfield's second crack at a state softball championship was denied Saturday night by a Dover team that simply outpitched and outhit the Blue Devils in a 10-0, six-inning mercy-rule victory in the Division III title game at Firestone Stadium in Akron. The top-ranked Tornadoes (28-3) were led in the circle by junior ace Kara Lint, who struck out 11 Springfield batters in her complete-game three-hitter.

  • 2 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Steve Junga

    Top-ranked Anthony Wayne was two outs away from reaching a state softball final for the third time in program history on Saturday. But, it was not to be, as eighth-ranked Mount Vernon rallied for two runs in the top of the seventh inning, then held on for a 5-4 victory in a Division II state semifinal at Firestone Stadium in Akron.

  • 3 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Steve Junga

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Junga Blade
Junga Blade @JungaBlade
2 Jun 23

Entering the bottom of the sixth inning in Division I state softball semifinal in Akron, Anthony Wayne leads Pataskala Watkins Memorial 2-1. AW now coming to bat.

Junga Blade
Junga Blade @JungaBlade
2 Jun 23

Entering the top of the sixth inning in Division I state softball semifinal in Akron, Anthony Wayne leads Pataskala Watkins Memorial 2-1. Watkins Memorial is now batting.

Junga Blade
Junga Blade @JungaBlade
2 Jun 23

Entering the bottom of the fifth inning in Division I state softball semifinal in Akron, Anthony Wayne leads Pataskala Watkins Memorial 2-1. The Generals are now batting.