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This Saturday at 2pm the latest class will inducted into the Knox County Sports Hall of Fame at a ceremony at the Knox County Historical Society Museum. This class is Kristin (Long) Clement, T.T. Crouch, Nick Gutman, Chet Looney, Jeff Robertson, Sally (Lambert) Simpson and Vanessa Oswalt. We spoke with John Lambert the Chairman of the selection committee about the …

JACKSON, Mich. – Ryan Lehman and Tammy Liplin won the Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Week from the Crossroads League on Monday, October 20. Lehman led MVNU at the Jenna Strong Fall Classic, finishing fourth-of-250 competitors at the event. Lehman crossed with a time of 25:55.6. The honor is the first of the sophomore’s career. Liplin ran a …

MOUNT VERNON, Ohio. – The Mount Vernon Nazarene University men’s soccer team (6-6-3, 1-5-1 CL) hosted Taylor University (7-6-2, 1-4-2 CL) and picked up its first Crossroads League win of the season on Saturday, October 18 at CH4 Stadium. It was senior night for the MVNU men’s soccer program as Diogo Assis, Christian Dean, Alex DeJesus, Tiago DeJesus, Micah Post, Seth …

Mount Vernon 6-2 3-0 LCL Buckeye at Licking Valley 8-0, 3-0 LCL Buckeye GAME CAN BE SEEN OF THE WMVO FACEBOOK AND YOUTUBE CHANNEL AND HEARD ON THE RADIO ON WMVO The Mount Vernon Yellow Jackets and the Licking Valley Panthers face off for the top spot in the Licking County League Friday Night in Newark. The Jackets are coming …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – History was made on Wednesday, October 15 for the Mount Vernon Nazarene University women’s volleyball team. The Lady Cougars jumped one spot in the NAIA Women’s Volleyball Top 25 Poll, moving to No. 12 in the nation. The ranking for MVNU is the highest ranking in program history. MVNU currently sits at 17-6 overall and is tied …

CLEVELAND – After leading the Kenyon College football team to its first win of the season this past weekend, junior linebacker Michael Kerr earned the North Coast Athletic Conference’s Athlete of the Week designation, the first of his career and the team’s first of 2025.  Kerr headlined an Owls defense that allowed zero points to the Oberlin College offense in …

MOUNT VERNON, Ohio. – The Mount Vernon Nazarene University men’s soccer team (5-5-3, 0-4-1 CL) hosted Spring Arbor University (8-5-1, 3-1-1 CL) for a Crossroads League matchup at CH4 Stadium on Saturday, October 11.  SAU took the early lead in the first half with a goal from David Magalhaes at the 3rd minute mark. Later in the second half of the game, …

WEEK 8 HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PREVIEWS 6-1, 4-0 KMAC Centerburg Host 4-3, 2-2 KMAC Danville The Centerburg Trojans raced out to a 32-0 lead in a shut out win at home against Mount Gilead last Friday Night. Quarterback Blane Ball ran for 121 yards and a touchdown, Miles Marshall ran for 85 yards and a score and Shawn Carter found …

FARMINGTON, Pa. — Playing a bit short-handed, the Kenyon College women’s golf team finished off Carnegie Mellon University’s two-day Tartan Invitational on Tuesday with a team score of 737 strokes and a 15th-place finish. Due to academic obligations, the Owls played both rounds with four golfers, instead of the normal team of five. That Kenyon quartet consisted of Sasha Belova, …

DETROIT, Mich. – The Mount Vernon Nazarene University women’s bowling team began its 2025-26 season in the Midwest Collegiate Championship in Detroit, Michigan on October 4-5. MVNU competed in a stacked field of competition, placing 37th overall with a total of 6136. A three-hour delay caused by a power outage caused a little bit of adversity during the competition, but despite this, MVNU …