Rob Bonchak News Today

How News-Herald coverage area student-athletes fared on Day 1 of the state track and field meet in Dayton. Competitors are listed in alphabetical order by division.

DAYTON — If nothing else, Rob Bonchak is a fantastic listener.One of the lost arts in track and field tends to be how to lean at the finish line, decisively but at the right angle and with the proper sense of when and where to do it.The Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin sophomore went to the textbook […]

What: State track and field meetWhen: May 31 and June 1Where: Welcome Stadium, 1601 South Edwin C. Moses Boulevard, DaytonSchedule: May 31 — 9 a.m. (girls shot put, boys discus, girls pole vault, boys long jump and girls high jump), 9 a.m. (girls 4×800-meter relay final), 9:15 a.m. (boys 4×800 final), 9:30 a.m. to 12:35 […]

Athletes to watch, meets to watch and notes heading into the 2024 outdoor season

YOUNGSTOWN — As spectators and teams entered the stadium May 25 during Day 2 of the Division II Austintown-Fitch Regional, it was someone’s bright idea to play one of Bruce Springsteen’s most timeless classics over the public-address system.After two lightning delays, forget “Glory Days.”It very easily could have been gory days for anyone who didn’t […]