Defense drives Braves’ 59-20 win over Wildcats

The Olentangy Braves have played decent ballgames this season and gotten by, but on Friday night, they played their best game of the season, and the result was proof.

The Olentangy Braves have played decent ballgames this season and gotten by, but on Friday night, they played their best game of the season, and the result was proof.

It was a character-building victory for the Battling Bishops.Ohio Wesleyan, building as much as a 16-point lead with just over 10 minutes remaining in the game, held on for a hard-earned 65–63 victory over Marietta in the Battling Bishops’ “Hoops for Hope” Tournament Friday afternoon at Branch Rickey Arena.
Ohio Wesleyan, behind its best offensive performance of the season, snapped its 7-game losing streak with a 31-point, 84–53 victory over Penn State-DuBois in the opening round of the Bishop Classic “Hoops for Hope” Tournament Thursday night at Branch Rickey Arena.

For many, summer internships are filled with days of fetching coffee and making copies. For Ostrander’s Kyle Nappi, they were filled with days brushing shoulders with four-star generals. Nappi, who has an extensive collection of autographs and biographical information from military veterans from all over the world, this summer worked as an intern in the Department of Defense at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
ARLINGTON, Va. — Thousands of grave markers at Arlington National Cemetery may need to be replaced or added to accurately account for the dead, following a meticulous Army review of each of the nearly 260,000 headstones and niche covers on the grounds. In a report to Congress on Thursday, the Army found potential discrepancies between headstones and cemetery paperwork on about 64,000 grave markers — about one in four.
Cincinnati was abuzz this week heading into the annual matchup between the city’s major collegiate basketball programs, Cincinnati and Xavier. Coming into the game, Xavier was ranked as the 8th best team in the nation and so it wasn’t surprising that as the final seconds ticked off the clock, Xavier was winning by a comfortable margin.
Allegheny held off repeated Ohio Wesleyan runs at the lead, but other than an early 2–0 lead on sophomore post Tamra Londot’s baseline jumper 22 seconds into the game, Stacey Ungashick Reed’s Battling Bishops never regained the advantage in a 60–45 North Coast Athletic Conference loss to the visiting Gators Saturday afternoon at Branch Rickey Arena.
Six and counting …Ohio Wesleyan, sparked by a 28–0 opening-half run, rolled to its sixth straight victory with an 82–70 North Coast Athletic Conference decision over Allegheny in front of an appreciative crowd Saturday afternoon at Branch Rickey Arena. The contest marked the NCAC opener for both teams.