Archive for June 6th, 2008
Elyria wins 11-2; plays Saturday for state title
UPDATE:
The Elyria Pioneers softball team advanced to the third straight state title championship game after it defeated Mason 11-2 at Firestone Stadium in Akron on Friday afternoon. Now, the girls will face their nemesis, North Canton Hoover, at 5:30 p.m. Saturday in a rematch of the 2006 title game, which Hoover won.
Elyria pitcher Tess Sito […]
Teens hurt in crash improving
CLEVELAND – All three teens hospitalized Thursday after a crash with a tractor-trailer on state Route 301 have been upgraded from critical condition.
Phyllis Harman, spokeswoman for MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, said Katie O’Brien of Columbia Township is now in fair condition. A […]
Woman convicted of shooting estranged husband gets 13 years
ELYRIA —An Avon woman convicted of trying to murder her estranged husband while he slept was sentenced to 13 years in prison Friday in county Common Pleas Court.
Pamela Carrasquillo, 53, was convicted in March on charges stemming from the January 2007 shooting of her Herminio Carrasquillo.
County Common Pleas Judge James Burge sentenced her […]
H.S. Softball: Wellington refuses to lose, reaches state final
AKRON — For the second game in a row it appeared as if a home run was going to decide the outcome. As it turned out, errors were the reason the Division III state tournament semifinal Thursday ended the way it ended. West Liberty-Salem made them. Wellington took advantage of them. Wellington scored […]
H.S. Softball: Melanie Conklin does it all for Dukes
AKRON — It was another one of those days when Melanie Conklin played nearly flawless softball. Another top pitching job, big day at the plate. In fact, the Wellington senior ran into just one little glitch in the heat and humidity of Thursday afternoon. It happened in the top of the seventh inning […]
Crash injures 5 teens
Two of the victims in hospital; one is ‘extremely critical’