Ironton’s Mark Pierson blasts through Russell defense en route to a touchdown in September 1984. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Pat Schilling)

The umbrellas sprout in the stands at the Chesapeake-Fairland game as the sky opened and dumped rain on the Chesapeake High School football stadium in September 1990. The game was delayed by 45 minutes. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Mike James)

The women’s 3.0 tennis team playing out of the Ashland Tennis Center is bound for California after winning the USTA Volvo sectional championship in Kalamzoo, Michigan, in September 1984. Team members are top row, from left, are Linda Blair, Penny Preston and Gail Clark; second row, from left, are captain Missy Baker, Terry Spradlin and Ironton’s Susan Sheridan, and third row is Celeste McClanahan; and bottom row, from left, are Janet Dillow and Karen Meinhart. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo)

Members of the South Point 11- and 12-year-old girls’ softball All-Stars in 1990 were, front row, from left, Beth Blake, Yolanda Pennington, Monica Morris, Heather Runyon and Deanna Fry; second row, from left, Nikki Watkins, Heather Pine, Margaret Morris and Valerie Zona, back row, from left, volunteer Barbara Zona, Kelli Carson, Natalie Mullens, Samantha LeMaster, Brooke Plummer, Leslie Chaffin and manager Lisa Collins. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo)