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Avon, Avon Lake and North Ridgeville

The Marriage and Family Office of the Diocese of Cleveland will host a workshop entitled Caring for the Caregiver from 7 to 9 p.m. at Holy Spirit Church located at 410 Lear Road in Avon Lake.
The workshop will address stress reduction for caregivers, teaching caregivers to care for themselves and their loved ones.
The event is $5 per participant.
To register, call Jason Lewis at (216) 334-2974 or Leanne Mahovlic at (216) 696-6525 ext. 3070.

It's finally here. Avon (8-0, 5-0) will try to clinch its first West Shore Conference championship Friday with a win at North Ridgeville (5-3, 4-1). The Eagles are riding an 11-game winning streak, stretching back to the last three games of last season.

Avon, which is averaging better than 43 points per game, is getting production out of Ryan O'Rourke, who is completing 65 percent of his pass attempts. He's thrown for over 1,500 yards and 23 touchdowns.

Marquis Harrell has scored 87 points and is closing in on the 1,000-yard rushing mark, needing 156 yards against the Rangers to do it. Garrett Gronowski has caught 27 passes for 480 yards. Alex Tabar leads in tackles (67) and tackles for loss (7), sacks (4.5) and fumble recoveries (4). Matt Logan leads wit five interceptions.

Avon's girls' soccer team ended its regular season with a win over Lake Ridge, 3-0. Megan Repas had a goal and an assist. Melissa Bruno and Megan Garner each had a goal. The other two assists came from Katie Demarco and Devon Saini. Holly Kraus posted her seventh shut out in the net in her 16th straight start.

Avon is the No. 1 seed in the sectional tournament that begins tonight, while Lake Ridge is the No. 4 seed. Avon (13-3 and 6-1 in the WSC) plays tonight against Brookside. The winner plays the Elyria Catholic-Keystone winner Thursday at Avon.

Repas finished the regular season as the team scoring leader with 19 goals and 11 assists. Devon Saini was behind her with 10 goals and nine assists. Holly Ohradzansky had nine goals and nine assists. Kraus had a goals-against average of 1.00 with 62 saves.

The University of Central Oklahoma opened its hockey season two weeks ago with a familiar face in sophomore defenseman Mike Haszto, a native of North Ridgeville and an Elyria Catholic graduate who rejoined the team after a year off in a move to Phoenix. Re-enrolling back at UCO this year, Haszto has regained his spot as No. 1 defenseman and will also lead the power play and penalty kill untis for the Division I Bronchos.

During their opening weekend, which brought the University of St. Louis to town, Haszto netted goal No. 3 for UCO on a blistering slap shot from the point. The first game was a 5-2 victory over the Billikens. The next night's rematch brought a dominant thrashing of St. Louis, 9-2. In that game, Haszto scored two goals and assisted on another.

Christine Chiricosta of Avon Lake closed out the fall college tennis season by taking second at both first singles and first doubles at the Mid American Conference championships Sunday in Michigan.

The Bowling Green sophomore took second in the No. 1 singles slot after losing to Western Michigan's Kerstin Pahl, a 6-foot-2-inch German girl, in the singles finals.

She was joined by her Falcon teammate, Kelsey Jakupcin, in taking second at first doubles, falling to Toledo's Martina Wodzinski and Maha Guirguis, in a 9-8 tie-breaker.

Up to the finals, Chiricosta had lost only one match all fall.

The 4th annual North Ridgeville vs. Midview food drive will be collecting canned food items from now until Oct. 23.
Items can be donated at each of the school buildings and will be counted and delivered to the North Ridgeville Community Care.
The school district with the largest donation will be honored at the North Ridgeville vs. Midview football game on Oct. 24.

Avon and Avon Lake played scoreless soccer for 73 minutes and settled for a 1-1 tie in the battle of the railroad tracks, boys' soccer version.

Avon scored 15 seconds into the match on a Lynden Ody goal. The Eagles received a red card for doing pushups on the field after the goal.

It stood 1-1 until Nick Siko scored at 73:40 to tie it. Andrew Wimmer kept the shutout going by recording three saves. Logan Crist saved two shots and shutout the Eagles in the second half after relieving Bryce Stuart who had three saves in the first 40 minutes

"This match will be here for years to stay," Ogilvy said. "Avon and Avon Lake are both hungry for soccer success. Judging by tonight's match, you know that there are going to be many Avon-Avon Lake battles in years to come. Both schools want to keep each other on the schedule."

Cleveland Heights defeated Lake Ridge Academy 20-25, 26-24, 12-25, 25-21, 15-11 in volleyball in the Heights.

Alexis Inman had 14 kills and 12 digs, Jordan Guidish had five kills with a block and kill and 16 digs, and Emily Glor had two kills, 15 digs and was 58/58 setting with 14 assists for Lake Ridge.