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  Some athletes take the summer off while others continue to work hard and improve on their craft.  This summer will be one of those busy summers for Pioneer athletics to improve and prepare for its first eligible fall season in NCAA Division II. “Our off-season training is a lot different from prior years,” assistant [...]

  The Pioneer track and field team will be participating in its first ever GLIAC outdoor championship next week at Ashland University. After competing in its first indoor conference championship this past winter, Pioneer track and field coaches and athletes are ready for the outdoor championship and hope to surprise its competitors in a stretch [...]

  Pedigree: This weeks’s Pioneer Focus goes to junior baseball player Taylore Baker after leading the Pioneers to a 3-1 record two weeks ago against Ohio Dominican on April 10 and Saginaw Valley State on April 14.  As a pitcher, Baker tallied a batting average of .571 and three RBI’s while tossing the first five innings [...]

  “Malone has moved into a very prestigious conference and is now competing against schools that are somewhat larger in both total student enrollment and overall budgets and resources,” Athletic Director Charlie Grimes said.  “Even with this new challenge, we predict that several of our teams will have great opportunities to make the GLIAC postseason. [...]

  PEDIGREE: This week’s Pioneer Focus goes to junior long distance runner Mitch Williams for his performance  this past weekend at the All-Ohio Championships in Athens, Ohio when he finished first out of  14 competitors in the 3000-meter steeplechase, clocking in a time of  9:12.48. Williams also hit a NCAA Division II national qualifying provisional time [...]

  Head baseball coach Tom Crank‘s ties to the game of baseball run deep.  He has been involved with the game of baseball for 41 years, and the players that have been around him have benefited from him in some way. “The main thing I have learned from coach Crank is how important the little things are,” [...]

  Athletics will be building an altitude room here in the near future.  By having an altitude room, it gives Pioneer cross-country runners an advantage to be able to adjust to oxygen levels. “As distance runners, our bodies rely on the amount of oxygen our red blood cells and hemoglobin can carry to our muscles. [...]

  Many communities have road races, but Canton is home to one that is a little different than most.  The Jack Hazen Pump & Run is an event that welcomes both road racers and lifters, and is making an impact in the community. “We wanted to get students involved in something that would give back [...]

  PEDIGREE: This week’s Pioneer Focus goes to sophomore golfer Ashley Phipps for her performance a few weeks ago in the Muskingum University’s Muskie Shootout when she finished fourth out of 35 competitors. Phipps earned her fourth place finish by carding a round of 86, which led the team’s cumulative score of 366. The Pioneers were not as [...]

  Dogs chasing Pioneer athletes during practice has increasingly become more and more of an inconvenience for the teams. What seems to be happening with regularity is that athletes will be minding their own business, getting their workout done, when all of the sudden a dog comes running at them. Robert Zaila, freshman defensive lineman, said he [...]