Whether you are a runner or you just enjoy getting out in the sunshine with your children or grandchildren, come and enjoy a family day at the Second Annual Tiger 5K & 1-Mile Fun Run/Walk on Saturday, May 24 at Lake Center Christian School (LCCS).

Akron and Altoona finished their series Thursday morning with a pitcher's duel. Frank Hermann, Jimmy Barthmaier and the bullpens kept bats quiet as the Aeros prevailed 1-0. Akron took three of four games in the series to improve to 15-18 while Altoona fell to 13-20.

If the Coventry Comets were planning on being patient when facing Manchester's P.J. Slider, this was not the day to do so.

Slider, a sophomore pitcher for the Panthers, faced a troubling situation in the first inning and cruised the rest of the way as Manchester defeated the Comets 6-2 on Thursday, April 24.

One key element for Green is that they lack seniors, which means they should have almost the entire team return next season. That will help them compete against perennial powers Copley, Highland and Wadsworth, who have excellent boys and girls teams this season.

Wallace knows momentum at the end of the season is key, and in May, every out counts. “In this month, you play all 21 outs, and you play them all at 100 percent. Sometimes big mistakes happen when you have a season like we have had, but today was a lesson as to why you always go out and play hard. We don’t care what our record is. We don’t look at it and our opponent doesn’t look at it – we just have to play our game.”

I have to admit I have never been on a fishing trip like this before. I was guaranteed to catch a wide variety of things.  It almost sounded too good to be true. I had been in contact with the Outer Bank’s Visitors Bureau about arranging a fishing trip in the Manteo area of North Carolina. Their representative, Aaron Tuell, assured me that he had a unique adventure guaranteeing a large catch.

“When I first caught sight of that beast I was completely shocked.  The
catfish looked like he was big enough to swallow one of my kids in one gulp!  I decided that I would probably NOT be swimming in Portage Lakes ever again.”

Jessica Baker, wife of Keith

Randy Newsom shut the door on the Curve in a 3-2 Aeros victory, securing his seventh save of the season and 25th of his career. He passed Mike Soper on the career list among Aeros closers. Akron upped their record to 14-18 and the Curve are back in last place alone at 13-19.

Runs were scarce as Akron's Chuck Lofgren and Altoona's Joshua Hill threw zeros on the board at Canal Park. Lofgren flinched first, and the Aeros could not respond, falling 3-1. The Aeros and Curve are now both 13-18.

   The camp is designed to give young boys and girls an opportunity to work on and improve their basketball skills. The main objective of the camp is to teach young players the fundamentals of basketball and get them excited about the game.

There's a "Method" to Jon Fleming's teaching.

Akron used home field advantage and their biggest crowd of the season to help propel them to 9-4 late inning rally over Altoona. The win snapped a three-game skid and improved Akron to 13-17, while the Curve dropped to 12-18.