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The date for the Metro Buckeye Golf championship has been moved to Sept. 26 at Reid Park Golf Course starting at 1 p.m.

The course is at 1325 S. Bird Road, Springfield.

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Dayton Christian's football team is in position to make the Division VI playoffs for the fifth time heading into a week six game against Peebles, a club team from Adams County.

The Warriors are 3-2 and have won three straight after losing their first two. 

They are currently 10th in region 24 with the top 16 teams making the playoffs. Teams receive points for winning a game (level one) and then also receive points each time a defeated opponent wins and for games that opponent has already won (level two).

Level one points are worth 6.5 for a win over a Division I team, 6.0 for a win over a Division II team, and go down in half-point increments down to Division VII, which are worth 3.5 points. 

Level two points are basically the number of level one points a defeated opponent has each week.

Then there is some math involved to come up with a weekly average. 

Here is the latest rankings.

Region 24 - 1. Coldwater (5-0) 10.35, 2. Bainbridge Paint Valley (5-0) 6.85, 3. Anna (3-2) 6, 4. Portsmouth West (3-2) 5.55, 5. Springfield Northeastern (4-1) 5.3, 6. St. Bernard-Elmwood Place (4-1) 5.25, 7. Ironton Rock Hill (4-1) 5.0667, 8. Cin. Country Day (3-1) 4.6806, 9. Covington (3-2) 4.55, 10. Miamisburg Day. Christian (3-2) 4.2408, 11. Frankfort Adena (3-2) 4, 12. Chesapeake (3-2) 3.9667, 13. Cin. Deer Park (2-3) 3.7, 14. Cin. Purcell Marian (2-3) 3.4, 15t. Cin. Miami Valley Christian Acad. (2-3) 2.95, 15t. New Paris National Trail (3-2) 2.95, 17. London Madison-Plains (2-3) 2.35, 18. Lima Perry (2-3) 1.9, 19. Blanchester (1-4) 1.6556, 20. Chillicothe Southeastern (1-4) 1.05

DC beat Miami Valley Christian Academy, 15-3, in week three, New Miami, 41-7, and Lockland, 35-34, last week. They lost to St. Bernard-Elmwood Place, 32-6, in week one and Covington, 14-7, in week two. 

The Warriors handed New Miami its first loss and picked up some key computer points.

Three of the last four games are against teams currently 4-1 each -- Upper Scioto Valley, Shroder, and Cincinnati College Prep so there are more points to be had.

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Dayton Christian and Middletown Christian's volleyball teams both enter the week undefeated.

DC, the defending MBC co-champ, is 6-0 with three wins coming in straight sets. Only one match has gone to five sets. Middletown Christian is 4-0 (two matches were cancelled) and has not dropped a set.

Individually, Yellow Springs' Adeline Zinger is at or near the top in several categories including kills (first with 69), passes (first with 2.43 per game), and digs (second with 84).

Here is a quick glance at the week's schedule.

Greene County native Grace Norman won a gold medal at the Paralympics.

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A local Paralympian has won gold once again.

“Oh, man, I am overjoyed. It was a really hard year to get here with a lot of injury, Norman said through tears. “It was is all God out there.”

Grace Norman, a Jamestown local, came in first place in the women’s Paratriathlon event earlier today. Norman was joined by a crew of family and friends in Paris to support her ahead of the race.

“It was a phenomenal race and just taking it all in and being so grateful and running through a place of joy, instead of fear or animosity, or yeah, it was just, I was just so happy.”

With the win, Norman earned the second gold medal of her career, her fourth overall. She won gold, in the triathlon event, for the first time in 2016, as well as a bronze medal in the 400 meter race. During the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, Norman took home silver in the triathlon.

With three Olympic appearances on her resume already, Norman is eyeing future competition.

“Oh, we’re looking at L.A., we’re looking at L.A., definitely not done,” Norman said.

Her gold medal winning run came a day after the event was set to be held. The paratriathlon was scheduled to run yesterday, but heavy rain made its presence felt on Friday and Saturday, flooding the Seine river with wastewater and runoff.

With the river saturated with high levels of bacteria like E. Coli, there was no choice but to hold the event until it was safe for the athletes to participate in.

Officials confirmed late last night that the race would go on today after testing concluded that the quality of the water met world triathlon standards. France invested 1.4 billion euros for infrastructure improvements to prepare for the Paris Olympic and Paralympic games.

The recent disruption is another shortcoming for the city, as they’ve worked to clean the river for public swimming in the future, a promise made in anticipation of the Olympics and Paralympics this year. During the Olympics, the men’s individual triathlon event was delayed, as were many swim tests, as a result of high bacteria levels following rainstorms.