The Riverdale boys soccer team recently held its awards banquet. Top winners were (from left) Kyle Evans, most valuable defensive player; Justin Riegle, most valuable offensive player; Joe Lauck, 110 percent award; and Nathaniel Hughes, unsung hero. Missing from the photo is Eric Isenbarger, most improved.

Upper Sandusky’s eighth-grade girls basketball team had 10 players score in defeating Seneca East, 46-12, on Thursday. Jadyn Smalley led the Rams with nine points.

Wynford lineman James Ort was named to the All-Ohio football second team, and Mohawk linebacker Derrick Sowers is an All-Ohio special mention. Ort, a 6-5, 270-pound senior, also was a first-team All-Northern 10 Athletic Conference selection and a first-team all-district selection as an offensive lineman.

Area students in third through sixth grades are invited to learn and practice basketball fundamentals with assistance from Upper Sandusky High School coaches and players. Instructional sessions will be held in the USHS gymnasium Saturday mornings in January.

Upper Sandusky’s home girls basketball game against Ridgedale on Friday night will be varsity only and begins at 6:30 p.m. Ridgedale does not have a junior varsity team.

MORRAL — Jade Stuckman scored 15 points as Wynford cruised to a 61-28 victory against Ridgedale to open Northern 10 Athletic Conference girls basketball play Tuesday night. Gretchen Harris added 10 points, Sarah Ogden scored nine points, and Tara Zinser finished with eight points for the Royals (2-2, 1-0 N10).

NORTH ROBINSON — Bailee Daughenbaugh scored 17 points to lead Mohawk to a 56-49 victory against Colonel Crawford in a Northern 10 Athletic Conference girls basketball opener Tuesday night. Daughenbaugh, who had just two points total in her team’s first two games, went 7 of 11 from the field, including 2 of 4 from 3-point range.

CAREY — For Upper Sandusky, taking down the mighty Carey Blue Devils proved too tall a task. The reigning Northern 10 Athletic Conference Champions erased an early deficit and scored 10 unanswered points to end the third quarter on their way to a 58-47 win in their home opener against a feisty Rams team.

BUCYRUS — Riverdale learned first-hand the importance of a good start Saturday night, and on Tuesday night, it seemed the Falcons took that lesson to heart. The Falcons scored the first nine points and did not let Bucyrus get closer than seven points the rest of the game in a 55-42 victory at Alex Kish Memorial Gymnasium. It came just …

SYCAMORE — It was a late surge by the Ridgemont Golden Gophers that sealed the deal in their out-of-conference matchup with the Mohawk Warriors. In the season opener and with most of their roster back from a year ago, the Warriors would have liked a better start and finish, but the Golden Gophers built an early lead and closed the game on a 19-4 run to claim a 58-45 victory.