Dan Sutherland is set to become the new head football coach at Medina High School, pending board approval on Monday.

Medina Athletic Director Jeff Harrison selected Sutherland after he served as a Bees assistant coach during the past nine seasons.

Sutherland played football at Medina and graduated from the high school in 1997. He continued to play at Malone and is currently a social studies teacher at A.I. Root Middle School in Medina.

Sutherland will be the fourth head coach Medina during the past four years. Larry Laird and Ray Hradek had one-year stints with the Bees after Greg Reed compiled a 22-28 record in five seasons and took the Bees to their first state playoff appearance in 2006.

Laird guided Medina to its first postseason win in 2010 with a 31-28 victory over top-seeded Canton McKinley in a Division I, Region 2 quarterfinal.

Hradek posted a 4-6 record last season.

Ray Hradek has reportedly stepped down after one season as Medina football coach, according to Cleveland.com.

Hradek teaches at Midpark and coached at Medina, according to the report. “I didn’t realize it would be so tough teaching at one school and coaching at another,” Hradek told the website.

Medina was 4-6 overall and 2-3 in the Northeaster Ohio Conference Valley Division this season, according to the report.

The Walsh Jesuit girls’ soccer team is ranked No. 14 nationally by the ESPN Rise Powerade Fab 50 rankings this week. Walsh had been ranked No. 19.

Medina is ranked No. 45 nationally in the poll.

In the state girls’ coaches’ poll this week, Walsh is ranked No. 2 in the Division II state poll.

In the Division III state poll, Chippewa is ranked No. 6.

In Division I, Medina is ranked No. 9.

In the boys’ soccer state coaches’ poll, Hudson is ranked No. 6. Austintown Fitch is ranked No. 9.

In Division II, Revere is No. 3. In Division III, Western Reserve Academy is No. 6 and St. Thomas Aquinas is No. 9.

Medina outside hitter Ally Peters has reportedly made an oral commitment to play volleyball at Alabama-Birmingham, according to Cleveland.com.

Peters also reportedly considered Marist, Miami University, East Carolina, Texas State and Gardner-Webb, according to Cleveland.com.

She averaged 4.9 kills and 2.2 digs last season, according to the report.

Medina free safety Benny Cunningham has verbally committed to play at Akron, according to the Medina Gazette and Medina athletics Twitter account.

Cunningham, who is 6 feet 2 and 190 pounds, had 11 solo tackles, 35 assists and an interception for Medina last season, according to The Gazette.

Medina senior quarterback Mason Schreck has reportedly made a verbal commitment to play at Buffalo, according to ScoutingOhio.com.

Schreck, who is 6 feet 5 and 212 pounds, also had an offer from Toledo.

- Cincinnati Princeton senior outside linebacker Daryan Martin has verbally committed to the University of Akron, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Martin, who is 6 feet 3 and 213 pounds, was offered by the Zips in June.

- Medina senior quarterback Mason Schreck has reportedly added an offer from Buffalo, according to ScoutingOhio.com.

Schreck, who is 6 feet 5 and 212 pounds, also has an offer from Toledo.

- Manchester senior center Tony Matteo has reportedly made a verbal commitment to play football at West Virginia, according to ScoutingOhio.com,

Matteo, who is 6 feet 5 and 283 pounds, also had offers from Bowling Green, Toledo, Akron, Cincinnati, Kent State, Miami (Ohio), Pittsburgh, Iowa State and Connecticut.

- Canton McKinley senior defensive back Jermaine Edmondson has reportedly given a verbal commitment to Michigan State, according to ScoutingOhio.com.

Edmondson, who is 6 feet and 170 pounds, also had offers from Toledo, Louisville, Buffalo, Illinois, Bowling Green, Purdue, Nebraska and Northern Illinois.

Medina High School senior Ally Peters has orally committed to continue her academic and volleyball careers on scholarship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Peters, a 6-foot-1 middle-hitter, compiled a Medina County-record 37 kills against Solon on Sept. 30.

The University of Akron, Miami (Ohio), East Carolina, Texas State, Coastal Carolina and North Carolina at Greensboro also heavily recruited Peters.

Eight area boys’ lacrosse players have been named Regional All-Americans, according to U.S. Lacrosse.

The players were named for the North Coast section of Ohio.

Players include Western Reserve Academy goalie Kyle Bernlohr, Medina midfielder Nate Blue, Hudson defenseman Cooper Charlton, Jackson attacker/midfielder Dillon Giorgis, Jackson attacker Tom Herold, North Canton Hoover defenseman Sean Hohan, Hudson midfielder Robby Lynott and Medina attack Alex Schell.

According to the lacrosse website, LaxPower.com, there were almost 500 high school boys’ lacrosse players named to the USA Lacrosse Boys’ High School Regional All-American team.

CANTON: Junior right-hander Mark Zimmerman pitched a complete game to lead Green to a 5-2 victory over Shaker Heights today at Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium in a Division I regional baseball semifinal.

Green will play at 2 p.m. Saturday against Willoughby South, which won 1-0 over Medina today, at Munson Stadium for a spot in the state final four next week in Columbus.

Zimmerman is 5-0 this season.

Senior Joe Ferrell was 3-for-3 with a two-run double for the Bulldogs (23-4).

Junior right-hander Spencer Byers (4-3) took the loss for the Raiders (12-11).

Willoughby South shutout Medina behind the pitching of junior right-hander Cameron Knott (7-1).

Senior Aaron Lindgren tripled in the fourth and scored for the Rebels (22-5) after junior Jake Hall reached base via an error.

Medina senior left-hander Scott Sency (6-1) pitched a complete game and took the loss. Senior Alex Thielman had three singles for the Bees (18-9), who stranded nine baserunners.

More details on these games will be available in the Saturday Akron Beacon Journal newspaper and also on the Internet at ohio.com.