Local Talk with Aaron Hines

The Ashland Arrows won the outright Ohio Cardinal Conference Title on Friday with a 79-74 win in overtime over Mansfield Senior at Arrow Arena. The game had 10 lead changes and was tied 6 times, as Luke Denbow scored 38 points and Grayson Steury dropped in 25 to lead the Arrows to the league crown. Denbow, who was 26 of 30 at the free throw line, drilled a long range 3 with just seconds left to se...

Lexington vs Ottawa-Glandorf high school boys basketball game from Saturday, February 12th ,2022. This was the final game played in the Lexington gym, as the new school will open in the fall of 2023. The game was broadcast live on iHeart Radio via My 100.1 FM. The Titans ranked #4 in the state in Division III were victorious 59-40, as the Minutemen drop to 13-8.

High School Boys basketball broadcast between Ashland and Mount Vernon from Friday, Feb 11, 2022 with Brandon Wells and Dave Schwartz on WNCO-AM Fox Sports 1340.

Shelby School board member Scott Rose joined WMAN to give us an update on the new athletic complex being built on the campus. New LED lights, press box, scoreboard, turf, extra parking and much more. Rose also shares how the community has donated now more than $1 million to help the project, which will have a busy spring and summer to have most of the work done by September, as the Whippets hope t...

Mansfield City Council members heard complaints from residents for the 2nd time in a month following last week’s snow storm that dropped around a foot on the area. Councilmen Aurelio Diaz, who represents Mansfield’s 5th ward, said they held a 80 minute emergency streets meeting to start to develop a plan to get streets plowed quicker. A couple ideas were to contract with ODOT to plow Route 30 and...

Listen to the entire broadcast between Ashland and Wooster on Friday night from Arrow Arena ( Jan. 28th, 2022). The game was broadcast live on Fox Sports 1340 with Brandon Wells and Dave Schwartz.

The Ashland Arrows came from behind to beat Madison in overtime at Arrow Arena. Hear the broadcast on WNCO-AM Fox Sports 1340 with Brandon Wells and Dave Schwartz.

Jacob Byrd, Nike Youth Football Skills Camp Organizer, spoke with WMAN on Thursday about the camp coming to Arlin Field this summer in June (6th - 8th). Mansfield Senior head coach Chioke Bradley will be the camp director, while some big names in college football will be in town to help teach local youth at the camp. Take a listen and check out the poster (above) to see who will be in town this su...

Madison beat Lexington Tuesday night 43-42 at the Madison Middle School in a game that was big in the league standings. The loss for Lexington drops them one game back of first place Ashland and Mount Vernon. (aired 1/18/22)

The Ashland Arrows got a huge road win in the Ohio Cardinal Conference on Friday at Lexington. Hear every play from the game with Brandon Wells and Dave Swartz, as the game was broadcast live on Fox Sports 1340. Luke Denbow led the way for the Arrows with 37 points. (Aired 1/14/22)

Listen to the broadcast on Fox Sports 1340 with Brandon Wells and Dave Schwartz from Friday, January 7th, as Ashland beat Mount Vernon in the final seconds at Arrow Arena.

Scott Valentine, who is one of the most successful high school football coaches in North Central Ohio, took the job at Madison around Christmas. Valentine has been a head coach for 26 years, which included 17 at Ashland and 10 trips to the playoffs. Valentine spent time at Ontario and South Central in his career and will now try and turn around a proud Madison football tradition, which has struggl...

WMAN's Aaron Hines caught up early this week with Lucas coach Taylor Iceman on who is back this season, new scoreboard in the gym and can the Cubs run of league and district titles continue. Aired 12/14/21)

High School football - In Shelby, plans are now in place for the Whippets to play their final home game at Skiles Field next year on August 19th in Week 1 and then play their first game in the new Whippets Athletic Facility on Sept 2 in Week 3 vs Bellevue. The new press box and scoreboard have arrived with the new turf going in this summer. Shelby Superintendent Tim Tarvin said the reason they are...

The Lucas Cubs saw their season come to an end on Saturday night at Triway High School in Wooster, as the fell to the Dalton Bulldogs, 42-23. Lucas (10-2) ends another great season and its 8th straight year in the playoffs. Dalton moves on to the Regional Final vs Warren JFK. The senior class at Lucas played in their 50th career game on Saturday, which marks an incredible run for this group. ( Air...

The Crestview Cougars will take on Carey on Saturday night in the Regional Semi-Final in Marion. Coach Steve Haverdill spoke with WMAN's Aaron Hines to preview the big game. A win would send Crestview into the Regional Championship game for the 1st time in school history.

Lucas head football coach Scott Spitler sat down with Aaron Hines to chat about the Cubs impressive win over Malvern last Saturday and a preview of this week's Regional Semi-Final game vs Dalton in Wooster. You can hear Saturday's game on MY 100.1 FM

Shelby season came to an end Friday in Clyde in a double overtime thriller at Robert Bishop Stadium. Clyde knocked off the Whippets 42-35 in 2 OT to move on the Regional Semi-Finals next week vs the defending State Champion Van Wert. Marshall Shepherd threw 5 TD passes ( and finishes his year with 60 total TDs), while WR's Blaine Bowman and Andre Hill each caught two TD's and combined for 300 yard...

Clyde 9th year head coach Ryan Carter spoke with WMAN's Aaron Hines to talk about their great year and preview Shelby vs Clyde ( Friday) for the 3rd straight year in the postseason. You can hear the game on My 100.1 FM.

Shelby will face Clyde on the road Friday night in the Regional Quarterfinals. It's the 3rd straight year the two schools are meeting in the playoffs. Whippets 3rd year coach Rob Mahaney sat down with Aaron Hines to preview the matchup.

The Lucas Cubs trailed twice in the playoff opener vs Mapleton on Saturday, but rallied to outscore the Mounties 29-8 in the 2nd half in route to the 35-16 win. Senior running back for the Cubs, Grant Barrett, scored 4 TDs in the game ( 3 in the 2nd half) to push Lucas into the Regional quarterfinals next week. The game was broadcast live on My 100.1 FM with Aaron Hines and Ontario coach Chris Mil...

Shelby head coach Rob Mahaney talks 3 league titles in a row, round 2 vs Clear Fork in the playoffs and how tough is Region 14.

Clear Fork coach Dave Carroll visited with WMAN to preview Friday's playoff rematch, 16 teams in the playoffs and how he would be Marshall Shepherd's #1 fan - IF he didn't have to coach against him.

Lucas head football coach Scott Spitler joined Aaron Hines to preview the Cubs opening round playoff game Saturday vs Mapleton. Spitler, also share about what it means to reach the postseason for the 8th consecutive year.

Erik Will and Aaron Hines got together on Wednesday to preview the area schools in the football postseason. Erik gave his thoughts on the toughest Regions, what teams could make the longest runs and what match-ups he hopes to see in the playoffs!