Category: Sports

Hoops for heart

Antwerp Middle/High School held its annual  on Wednesday, March 21, 2018. Student donations to the American Heart Association (AHA) totaled $5,146. This brings Antwerp’s total contributions to the AHA since 1997 to $78,075.82.

Antwerp Honors Winter Sports Athletes

Pictured here are winter sports athletes receiving awards: Back (l-r) Karsyn Brumett, Heather Oberlin, Alex Hindenlang, Rachel Williamson, Kortney Smith, Chelsea Johanns, and Riley McAlexander. Front (l-r) Luke Brewer, Aidan McAlexander, Randall Mills, Ty Rebber, Cole Seslar, and Jayvin Landers. Cheerleaders: Seniors: Alex Hindenlang, Riley McAlexander, Kortney Smith Juniors: Kendall Billman, Chloe Franklin, Jonathon Lederman,…

Wayne Trace Places 2 at Jr High State

This past weekend 4 Paulding County wrestlers competed in the 20th Annual OAC State Wrestling Tournament. First on the mat to get the weekend started was Eli Reinhart from Antwerp Wrestling in the 84 lb. weight class. Eli came out of the gates with a bang defeating Dominic Artman by decision 5-2. However, in the…

POTACC & the Boys Come Home

POTACC, club members and guest return home for the first rifle match of 2018. On Saturday, March 17th, the Antwerp Conservation Club held it’s first rifle match of 2018 with 14 participants. The match was a 40 shot NRA High Power offhand we called the Any Rifle Any Sight match. An NRA High Power match…

Spring Hunting Season Opens Soon

The winter months have passed us by. It is finally spring. Well, sort of. According to the calendar spring arrived last week. The weather looks and feels like winter. It will soon change and all the spring time activities will begin. With spring’s arrival, it starts a new hunting season. 2018-2019 hunting licenses went on…

Leipsic Overpowers Lady Raiders

Not very far from where the Paulding boys were playing was the Regional Semi-Final for the Lady Raiders against Leipsic. The game took place in the Field House at Elida on March 8. What everyone needs to realize is this is new territory for the Wayne Trace Raiders in basketball. They had never made it…

Paulding Crumbles to a High Power

On March 8, the Panthers travelled down to Lima to take on Ottawa Glandorf in the District Semi-Final match. Paulding was out matched from the very beginning, only posting 10 points in the first quarter. That doesn’t sound too bad until you see the Titans plastered 31 points on their side of the scoreboard. Jay…

POTACC & Others Battle Along the Border

On Sunday March 11th, POTACC and three other Antwerp Conservation Club members (Aaron Kohler, Keith Mueller and Alex Campbell) crossed the Indiana border to compete in the monthly High Power match held at Fort Wayne Rifle and Revolver. This is a 100 yard off hand match using a center fire rifle. The targets used are…

McAlexander Places 3rd at State Wrestling

Junior Aidan McAlexander had yet another historic weekend by earning a 3rd place finish in the 106-pound weight class at the State Wrestling Championships on March 8-10 in the Jerome Schottenstein Center on the campus of The Ohio State University.  McAlexander finished the weekend with 4 wins to only 1 loss and 2 major decisions,…

Rough Start Dooms Antwerp

VAN WERT – A bad start proved to be too much to overcome for the Antwerp boys basketball team on Wednesday night as the Archers dropped a 59-53 decision to Parkway in Division IV sectional action at Van Wert High School. The Panthers jumped out to an 18-6 lead at the end of 8 minutes…

5th Sectional Title After Raider Victory

Wayne Trace made the short stint to the Palace on Friday, March 2nd to play in the Sectional Final game to take on the Lincolnview team. The Lancers had won over Continental in the semi-finals previously in the week, also at Paulding. Previously in the season, Lincolnview had defeated the Raiders when they pounded them,…

Panthers Win Sectional Championship

MILLER CITY – The Paulding Panthers posted victories over Bluffton and Tinora to win a Division III boys basketball sectional championship at Miller City High School last week. Coach Miller stated, “This is the first time in three years the Panthers have picked up this title victory.” The Panthers advanced to the district tournament with…