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By ZACH BOLINGER Daily Record Sports Writer BERLIN — The Classic in the Country promotes itself as a place “Where Champions Compete.” The proof is in the pudding … or rather, the production. “We’ve had 75 percent of the state champs here in the three years that we’ve been doing this,” said Ohio Girls Basketball…

By ZACH BOLINGER Daily Record Sports Writer BERLIN — Cierra Bravard was taller than her kindergarten teacher. These days, the 6-foot-5 Sandusky Perkins junior continues to shoot up the charts. Despite her state-ranked team losing to both Cincinnati Princeton and Cincinnati Oak Hills this weekend, Bravard did what many players at the Classic in the…

By JOE SCALZO The Vindicator Sports Writer If you wind down Ohio route 62 just out of Navarre, past the cow crossing, the three or four horse-and-buggies and the sign that says, “Visit McDonald’s! Sugarcreek’s newest restaurant,” you’ll come to the little town of Berlin, in Holmes County, deep in the heart of the world’s…

By CRAIG GIFFORD Daily Record Staff Writer BERLIN — Ben Mast has had to work very hard to accomplish all that he has. The owner of the Holmes County Amish Flea Market in Walnut Creek, Mast lost his right arm to a farming accident in 1967. From then on, Mast has had to work a…

By CRAIG GIFFORD Daily Record Staff Writer MILLERSBURG — The Sandusky Perkins girls basketball team traveled to Berlin this weekend for a pair of basketball games as part of the Classic in the Country. However, Saturday’s loss to Cincinnati Princeton and this afternoon’s match-up with Cincinnati Oak Hills was the farthest thing from the players’…

By ZACH BOLINGER Daily Record Sports Writer BERLIN — For the fourth straight Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, the small town of Berlin is doing it up big. Hiland High School, Ohio Girls Basketball Report founder/director Tom Jenkins and close to 250 volunteers are set to again put on Classic in the Country IV.…

By LAUREL SCHEFFEL T-G Sports Writer Forget the state girls basketball tournament. Ohio teams should just try to earn an invitation to the Classic in the Country Challenge at Berlin, Hiland. Over the weekend, 30 of the best teams in the state participated in the three-day event that drew scouts from 125 colleges around the…

By ZACH BOLINGER Daily Record Sports Writer BERLIN — Holmes County and handcrafted items go together. It’s no different with the Classic in the Country and its concessions. Holly Troyer, Deb DeSeyn and Naomi Troyer led a food club of 90 volunteers that served just homemade food. The trio of Troyer’s and DeSeyn organized a…

By DAVE MAST The Holmes County Chamber of Commerce and Tourism rolled out the red carpet to patrons visiting the second annual Classic in the Country Challenge over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Camping out in the lobby area at the Perry Reese Community Center, where visitors from more than two dozen teams…

Second annual Classic in the Country set to tip off Saturday at Perry Reese Jr. Community Center By ZACH BOLINGER Daily Record Sports Writer Tucked away in the heart of Berlin’s Amish country is an 1,800-seat gymnasium — one of a kind as far as high school facilities are concerned. A vast majority of the…