Vote here for Marion Star Best of the Week Performer Polls, plus find out last week's wins
Highland's baseball team collected a sixth straight league championship to highlight the Marion-area's spring sports regular seasons coming to a close. Earlier, Ridgedale's softball team won its first conference title since 1999, winning the program's first in the Northwest Central Conference.
The Rockets, along with Pleasant, Cardington and Northmor, all qualified for this week's district softball tournaments, while baseball teams will play sectionals this week.
For track and field, the league meets are finished and now the attention turns to the postseason where everyone will be vying for the top four in every district meet event to qualify for the following week's regionals.
The boys tennis season is complete for everyone but the Marion Harding brother tandem of Alexander and Sebastian Lisiecki who qualified for this week's Division I district tournament in doubles.
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Last week's poll winners
In last week's Marion Star Boys Best of the Week Performer Poll, Highland baseball's Zach Church, who threw a three-hitter with nine strikeouts and a walk plus hit a triple and drove in three runs in a win over Clear Fork, earned 301 of 703 votes (43 percent) to win it.
Other boys nominees were Cardington baseball's Wyatt Denney, Northmor track's Cowin Becker, Pleasant track's Nick Swartz and Marion Harding baseball's Ray J Scott-Harbolt.
In last week's girls poll, Northmor softball's Kallie Wright drove in three runs with a triple, double and single in a win over Crestline, and she earned 299 of 625 votes (48 percent) to win it.
Other girls nominees were Mount Gilead track's Abby Leonard, Pleasant softball's Hannah Miller, River Valley softball's Samantha Woods and North Union softball's Reese DeCamp.
Voting for this week's polls can be done through MarionStar.com and its app until early Sunday morning.
Girls Poll
● Ridgedale softball's Alexis Burton hit a home run and two singles for five RBIs in a Division IV sectional championship win at Berne Union.
● Marion Harding softball's Janaiye Braddy tossed a one-hitter with a walk and eight strikeouts plus hit a double in a win over Delaware Christian.
● River Valley's Eva Moran won the the pole vault with a Mid Ohio Athletic Conference record jump of 12 feet, one-half inch.
● North Union's Gabby Lindsey won the 400 meters in 1:00.14 and was runner-up in the 200 and long jump at the Central Buckeye Conference Track and Field Championships.
● Cardington's Magi Hallabrin won the 800 meters in 2:32.79 and was second in the 1600 and third in the 3200 at the Knox Morrow Athletic Conference Track and Field Championships.
● Mount Gilead's Kimberly Staley won the 3200 meters in 12:23.16 and was third in the 800 and 1600 at the Knox Morrow Athletic Conference Track and Field Championships.
Boys Poll
● Marion Harding's Alexander and Sebastian Lisiecki were Division I sectional runners-up in doubles tennis and the area's lone district qualifiers.
● Highland baseball's Kort Sears threw a three-hitter with two walks and seven strikeouts, plus hit two singles in a shutout win over Ontario to clinch at least a piece of the Mid Ohio Athletic Conference title.
● River Valley's Cooper Miller set the Mid Ohio Athletic Conference record by winning the pole vault in 14-10.25.
● Pleasant's Hudson Warner won the long jump at 21-5.5 and was third in the 110-meter hurdles and 300 hurdles at the Mid Ohio Athletic Conference Track and Field Championships.
● Mount Gilead's Logan High won the 100 meters in 11.26 and the 200 meters in 22.82 at the Knox Morrow Athletic Conference Track and Field Championships.
● North Union's Tyler Huff won the 3200 meters in 10:27.66 and was third in the 1600 at the Central Buckeye Conference Track and Field Championships.
● Ridgedale's Brogan Weston won the 3200 meters in 10:42.56 and the 1600 in 4:47.59 at the Northwest Central Conference Track and Field Championships.
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