When Lilly Kosar entered her freshman year at Gilmour Academy in 2017, everyone knew she had the genes of an athlete.
Going off pitch counts in the first two innings, Gilmour Academy was in big trouble during the Lancers’ Division II state championship game against Dayton Chaminade Julienne on Sunday evening at Canal Park in Akron.
Gilmour Academy owned a 1-0 lead, but 6-foot-5 sophomore righty Ben DeMell faced a bases-loaded jam in the top of the third against St. Clairsville (20-10) in the Division II state semifinals Saturday at Canal Park in Akron.
Gilmour Academy’s one-through-four batters didn’t knock in any runs, but the Lancers still plated a baker’s dozen thanks to the depth of their order to win their first Division II region championship Saturday in Hudson.
The Gilmour Academy girls didn’t score a ton of points, but they sure brought home a ton of hardware from the Division III state track and field meet Friday and Saturday at Jesse Owens Stadium in Columbus.
Advancing four relays to the state track and field meet is supposed to be a once-in-while thing, but the Gilmour Academy girls don’t know much different.
Either the Gilmour Academy boys were sandbagging at districts or their training really cashed in during the four-by-800-meter relay during last week’s Division III region track and field meet in Massillon.
Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin loaded the bases on three singles in the seventh and could have knocked Gilmour Academy sophomore Ben DeMell off the mound with perhaps one more at-bat during Division II district semifinals action on Monday in Gates Mills.
There were no challengers to try and take the Gilmour Academy girls track and field team’s belt away, as the Lady Lancers won their 17th straight district crown during the Division III meet last week in Cuyahoga Heights.
Chagrin Falls
Just as soon as the Gilmour Academy baseball team jumped to No. 1 in the Division II state coaches poll, the Lancers had their 18-game win streak snapped by that team down the street.
GATES MILLS — Gilmour Academy student Teeba Furat Marlowe has faced more challenges at the age of 17 than many people will in a lifetime. Her brother Yousef was killed by an improvised explosive device during a taxi ride in Baghdad with Teeba, who was then 2, and their father.
After falling victim to a one-goal loss against Lake Catholic on April 10, the Gilmour Academy boys lacrosse team wasn’t going to suffer the same fate in a pair of nail-biters against Cleveland Heights and Walsh Jesuit.
Hopefully the folks at Gilmour Academy let Medina Highland senior Ryan Chema keep the baseball following his single in the fourth inning against the Lancers in a non-league meeting on Saturday at Figgie Field in Gates Mills.
After stepping away from the coaching scene in 2016, Jim Scully came to the conclusion that he’s a really poor spectator to the game of lacrosse.
Featured by sophomore Andre Rodgers’ sprint MVP performance, the Gilmour Academy boys track and field team finished runner-up during St. Thomas Aquinas’ 11th Big Ox Invitational on Saturday in Louisville.
The Gilmour Academy baseball team got a taste of great pitching and top-to-bottom hitting, as well as a mouth full of defeat during the Lancer sluggers’ first two games of the season last week.
Gilmour Academy athletic director Sean O’Toole announced the hiring of Anton Trifonovs as the head coach of the varsity girls soccer team earlier this month. He succeeds Joe Ciuni, a 2003 Gilmour graduate who led the Lady Lancers to a 48-8-5 record in three seasons at the helm, including a D…
Gilmour Academy hockey had been causing havoc with its forecheck all game, and it finally paid dividends early in the third period against rival University School in the district title game on Friday night in Kent.
Coaches dub playoffs the second season for a reason; previous wins don’t mean jack.
The Gilmour Academy girls basketball team possessed the talent to go out and contend for a district championship this season when few outsiders thought the Lady Lancers could.
Competing against the Brecksville-Broadview Heights girls can be intimidating for opposing gymnasts, especially those who were making their debuts during the Northeast District meet on Saturday at West Geauga High School.
Everything was going great for the Gilmour Academy varsity hockey team at the midpoint of the season in early January.
As any senior athlete would hope for, Orange’s Jonah Katz ended his high school career with a lifetime best 57.43 seconds to finish fourth in the 100-yard breaststroke during the Division II state swim meet on Friday night at Branin Natatorium in Canton.
The state No. 1-ranked Gilmour Academy hockey team might have dodged an upset bullet, but the key was getting one of its 48 bullets on net to dodge Hudson senior goalie Will Hannon in district quarterfinals action Monday night in Kent.
Gilmour Academy didn’t even have a boys swim team last year, and now four Lancer torpedoes are gearing for states – well, don’t fact check that statement, because it’s only half true.
University School swimming took back its sectional thrown, but two-time defending champion Hawken School might as well have had a free pass to districts during the Division II sectional meet on Friday at the Spire Institute in Geneva.
To say that the rest of the Division II swimmers in Northeast Ohio and across the state have their work cut out would be an unfair statement in a sport that now has the majority of its athletes tapering.
Opponents can put their best skaters on the ice to stop Gilmour Academy varsity hockey’s starting line, but the problem is the Ice Lancers are just going to keep coming and coming no matter the shift.
As the past three weeks have unfolded, it’s become clear that the Gilmour Academy girls basketball program has somehow retained its reputation as a Northeast Ohio power when few thought the Lady Lancers would. Losing four varsity starters and incurring a revolving door of three coaches in th…
Contrary to every poll or ranking, Gilmour Academy was the team to beat for the overwhelming majority of a road battle against North Coast League foe Villa Angela-St. Joseph on Friday night in Cleveland.
When Ania Lewis first picked up a cello, it was nothing more than a toy she would play with when she visited her friend’s house.
A superstar goaltender or goal scorer can make or break a season for just about any high school hockey team.
Second and third place were meaningless in the 400-yard freestyle relay, as a dual between the Gilmour Academy and Chagrin Falls girls swim teams came down to a winner-takes-all finale on Tuesday evening in Gates Mills.
Gilmour Academy awarded Cheryl Forino Wahl, class of 1987, of Chagrin Falls and Jim Conway, class of 1967, of Shaker Heights the 2018 Alumni Man and Woman of the Year Awards at the school’s annual Christmas at the Academy holiday party on Dec. 15.
Headlined by a 27-point performance from senior point guard Annika Corcoran, an overtime battle and a 3-point frenzy, the Gilmour Academy girls basketball team got out to a 3-1 start before losing against a pair of Division I programs last week.
The Gilmour Academy boys basketball team didn’t necessarily have its best shooting night during a road battle against Cornerstone Christian Academy on Saturday, but the Lancers still fixed up a 93-73 victory.
Solon High School
The Orrville Red Riders (10-2) got the pigskin back with 1:27 remaining in the half and a 22-7 lead against Gilmour Academy (11-1) during a Division V regional semifinal thriller on Saturday night at Tiger Stadium in Twinsburg.
There wasn’t a whole lot of deviation among runners in the top 10 from the midpoint of the race to the finish during the girls Division III state championship on Saturday at the National Trail Raceway in Hebron.
The Gilmour Academy girls lost the Division II volleyball regional championship might be a more accurate statement than saying the Lake Catholic girls won it when the programs smashed the court on Saturday afternoon in Stow.
First-round playoff matchups between four and five seeds might be like a box a of chocolates, but the Gilmour Academy gridders (11-0) got their favorite piece during a 43-21 home rout against Columbiana Crestview (6-4) on Saturday afternoon at Weber Stadium.
Division V, Region 17
With the fastest three, four and fiver runners in the field, the Gilmour Academy girls cross-country team captured the Division III regional title Oct. 27 at the 5-kilometer course in Boardman.
Division V, Region 17
Despite ending the regular season on a four-game skid against some of the best teams in the state, the Gilmour Academy volleyball girls took a hot knife to butter with a trifecta of three-set sweeps in district competition.
The Gilmour Academy girls soccer team couldn’t get redemption during a 1-0 loss against Lake Catholic in a Division II district championship rematch last Thursday night in Mayfield.
The Gilmour Academy gridders (9-0, 4-0) got back to their offensive ways during a 46-6 road waxing of Villa Angela-St. Joseph (3-6, 3-1) in North Coast League action on Saturday night in Euclid.
(Editor’s note: Tony Lange went 4-3 last week and is 48-17 overall.)
With their fifth straight shutout, the Gilmour Academy girls soccer team secured its third straight district final appearance by way of a 3-0 victory against West Geauga on Monday evening at the Lady Lancers’ Weber Stadium.
