Minerva Lions Athletics News and Updates for the sports teams at Minerva High School. The Minerva Lions are one of the Louisville Leopards oldest rivals in football meeting 90 times on the gridiron since 1924. The Minerva Lions and Louisville Leopards competed in the same Northeastern Buckeye Conference from 1990-2018.
Matti Benson went 3-for-4 and hit her record-tying 11th home run of the season as the Lady Leopards defeated the visiting Lions 13-6. Brooke Haren also drove in 3 runs and Stevie Barrett had 2 RBIs as Louisville improved to 10-12.
JT Popick went 3-for-5 with 2 runs score & 3 RBIs as the Leopards pounded the visiting Lions 19-5. Karson Siegfried also drove in 4 runs and Caleb Miller had a pair of extra base hits as Louisville moved to 4-3 on the season.
Connor Morley threw a 2-hit shutout and drove in 3 runs as the Leopards run-ruled the host Lions 13-0 in 6 innings. Cole Miller and Kyle Vesely also recorded 3 hits each for Louisville who evened their record at 3-3.
Matt Darlison rolled a 514 series to lead the Louisville Boys in their 2826-2673 loss to visiting Minerva. Alysa Thornhill rolled a 338 series to lead the Lady Leopards in their loss to the visiting Lady Lions at Eastbury Bowling Center.
Colby Adams placed 7th and Bobby Ganser took 15th to lead Louisville to a 4th place finish at the DI State Meet. This was the Leopards best finish at state since 2015.
Colby Adams finished as the individual runner-up as the Leopards took 3rd as a team at the Legends Meet. Bobby Ganser also finished 6th and Owen Pukys 9th for LHS. Camryn Barker took 20th to lead the Louisville girls who finished 13th as a team.
Colby Adams took 4th & Bobby Ganser 5th for the LHS Boys who captured 4th. Camryn Barker took 4th to lead the Lady Leopards to a 7th place finish as a team at the Stark County Championships Meet held at GlenOak.
Jack Mayle shot a team low 81 to take 10th individually as the Leopards placed 5th out of 15 competing teams at the Stark County Tournament. Sam Karcher also shot 87 and both Cole Miller & Zach Root carded 93 each for LHS.
Bobby Ganser and Colby Adams finished first and second individually for the second straight year at the East Canton Invitational as the Leopards won the Large Division race for the fourth straight season.
The Louisville Boys placed 1st and the Lady Leopards took 5th out of 11 teams at the Larry Cogan Invitational in Carrollton Friday. Colby Adams set a stadium record in the 3200 meter run and Dale Stauffer swept the hurdle events for the boys.
