2004: Hawken’s Kendall Sweet takes fifth in Division II and Euclid’s Katie Carter is eighth in Division I during the state diving competition in Canton.

1993: Ken Priestley nets a hat trick in the Lumberjacks’ 6-4 win at Salt Lake, and Nikole Pilkington records a double-double with 18 points and 12 rebounds in Brush’s 56-35 Division I sectional final win over Collinwood in girls basketball.

1982: Bryan Huff connects on a 22-footer with 1:53 left, two of his 25 points for the game, as South staves off Wickliffe, 49-47, in a Class AAA sectional.

1971: University gets 20 points from Dave Chollet and 13 from Ken Bolek en route to a 66-55 boys basketball victory over Chardon.

1960: Browns running back Bobby Mitchell is unveiled a sa guest speaker for the Willoughby Jaycees, and Painesville Telegraph sports editor Bob Thompson laments losing a guest picker in boys basketball predrctions, jokingly offering to buy the picker coffee on Feb. 30.

1949: Harvey defeats Kirtland, 66-49, led by Tom Pietila’s 16 points in a balanced attack, then get the good news that it will play Ashtabula in the upcoming Euclid Shore tournament, to whom it lost twice during the regular season.

1938: The entire area contingent — three female singles players and a male doubles team — fall in “severe whitewashings” during the first round of the Ohio State Open Badminton tournament.

1927: The Indians hold a workout in Hot Springs, Ark., under the watchful eye of noted comedian Will Rodgers then take up local celebrity Jack Vilas’ offer of a ride on his motor boat on Lake Catherine.

2003: Luke Fitzgerald has 23 points to lead five players in double figures as Cornerstone Christian rolls to a 95-60 boys basketball victory over Ledgemont, and Jena Centa’s 13 points pace NDCL in a 55-38 Division II sectional semifinal victory over Chardon.

1992: Karyn Pomfrey’s 18 points earn high honors and Jessica Lundblad has 11 points and seven rebounds as Riverside holds host St. John to 19 points through three quarters of a 49-26 Northeastern Conference girls basketball win.

1981: Jody McMillan has 36 points as the Lake Erie women’s basketball team defeats Notre Dame College, 63-42, and Mayfield, Benedictine and Hawken gets votes but don’t crack the top 10 in the state boys basketball poll.

1970: The Mentor boys swimming team shares Port Clinton Relays team title honors with Warren Western Reserve, getting first-place finishes from its 300-yard medley and the quartet of Steve Galbos, Rick Pluth, Charles Armstrong and Curt Harvey in the 400 free relay.

1959: Den and Don Boyner combine for 18 points as Geneva nips host Ashtabula, 35-33, in Northeastern Conference action, eliciting “We Beat Bula” chants from Eagles fans after their team avenged an earlier loss to the Panthers.

1948: In the opening round of the Geauga County Class B boys basketball tournament, district scoring champion Don Blair nets 26 points in Parkman’s 53-35 win over Troy, and Auburn edges Thompson, 25-23.

1937: Ray Toivonen sends a “sizzling shot through the meshes” to give Fairport the lead for good in a 36-34 double-overtime victory over Conneaut to keep its hopes alive for a third straight Lake Shore League boys basketball championship.

1926: Indians pitchers Walter Miller, Norman Lehr and Joe Shaute, along with pitching coach Jack McCallister, depart for a camp in Hot Springs, Ark., the precursor to spring training in Lakeland, Fla., under Manager Tris Speaker.

2002: Patrick Neundorfer scores a pair of goals and assists on another as University  doubles up Gilmour, 4-2, in the opening round of the Brooklyn District hockey tournament, and Pat Homans’ power-play tally in the third period gives Chagrin Falls a 3-2 win over Avon Lake.

1991: Amy Llewellyn scores 20 points as Chagrin Falls defeats visiting Gilmour, 49-45, in nonconference girls basketball, and Matt Davis and Greg Cherne light the lamp for Euclid in a 2-0 hockey victory over Rocky River.

1980: Vince Ruggieri’s 15 points nets high honors for Mayfield in a 75-50 Greater Cleveland Conference win over visiting Mentor, and Lori Korver has 20 points for Lakeland as it turns back Penn State-Beaver Branch, 61-50.

1969: Tom Mental’s 22 points pace Newbury in a 62-58 East Suburban Conference win over visiting Richmond Heights, and Bill Huff had 27 points as Kenston turned away a fourth-quarter West Geauga comeback bid, 58-54.

1958: Indians outfielder Minnie Minoso turns down a $40,000 one-year deal,  telling General Manager Frank Lane “not enough money” in a note attached to the unsigned returned contract, and the Barons fall, 3-1, at Springfield.

1947: The Grand River Gun Club nets its third win in the Tri-County National Rifle Association League, defeating Chagrin Falls, and Ohio State football coach Paul Bixler steps down to take the same post at Colgate.

1936: Kirtland’s Eric Davidson and Wickliffe’s Vic June share the lead in high scoring honors for Lake County Class B schools, each netting 45 points for the season, with Wickliffe’s John Lichniak sitting at 44.

Nine years ago this week, Columbia became the first shuttle lost on landing. Above, the front page of The News-Herald from Feb. 2, 2003.


-- Cheryl Sadler | CSadler@News-Herald.com | @nhcheryl

1925: The Painesville YMCA hosts a gymnastics exhibition before a large crowd, including wand and dumbbell drills and piano accompaniment by Miss Olive Rust – “one of the finest programs” of the winter season according to the Painesville Telegraph.

2001: Johnny Rivers has 19 points and nine rebounds in Harvey’s 79-70 boys basketball win over Pymatuning Valley, and Rachael MacLean has 12 points and 11 rebounds in Mentor Christian’s 36-33 victory over Massillon Christian.

1990: Beth Koch’s 12 points and 15 rebounds are team highs for Perry in a 48-39 girls basketball win over Ledgemont, and Lissa Latina has 27 points, 13 steals, 11 rebounds and six assists in Richmond Heights’ 71-34 win over Independence.