Sports Feature - 1st, “State Champs”The Strasburg-Franklin High School softball team celebrates their victory over Hopewell-Loudon in the OHSAA Division IV state softball championship game, Saturday, June 3 at Firestone Stadium in Akron. (Andrew Dolph / The Times Reporter)
Sports Feature - 2nd, “Warmups”Cincinnati's Max Scharping walks to the field for warmups prior to the Bengals game against the Indianapolis Colts. (Erik Schelkun / Elsestar Images)
Sports Feature - 3rd, “Anthony Wayne Band”A member of the Anthony Wayne marching band marches out ahead of a high school football game between Anthony Wayne and St. John’s Jesuit at Anthony Wayne High School in Whitehouse, Ohio, on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Sports Feature - Award of Excellence, “Taking the Field”The West Virginia Mountaineers takes the field prior to an NCAA college football game against the Cincinnati Bearcats, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023, at Milan Puskar Stadium in Morgantown, W. Va. (Kareem Elgazzar / The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Sports Feature - Award of Excellence, “Goal”St. Francis’ Drew Tucker celebrates their first goal during the high school hockey regional final at Tam-O-Shanter in Sylvania on Friday, March 3, 2023. Northview defeated St. Francis, 3-2. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Sports Feature - Award of Excellence, “Damar Hamlin”The Buffalo Bills gather as an ambulance parks on the field while CPR is administered to Bills safety Damar Hamlin (3) after a play in the first quarter of a game against the Cincinnati Bengals at Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati on Monday, Jan. 2, 2023. The game was suspended after Hamlin was transported to University of Cincinnati Medical Center and players on both teams agreed not to retake the field. Officials initially called to resume play after a short break. (Sam Greene / The Cincinnati Enquirer)
