It may not have been the common theme running through Saturday's 13th biennial Wayne County Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremonies at Wooster High School, but it was the chord that hit the hardest.
Touching lives is certainly what makes athletes, coaches or administrators great.
Sure, scoring some 3600 points in high school and college basketball, as inductee Erich Riebe did, or finishing second in the state wrestling tournament, as Joe Kikume did, or coaching numerous Wayne County League championships, as Ernie Moore did, are accolades that HOF selection committees look for. But, the important thing is the lives they've touched. Some did it through coaching, some by running the ball, some by shooting it and some by throwing it. They're the ones that fans went to see, adored, admired or wanted to be like, and Saturday once again remembered. In one way or another, so did the other seven inductees, five of whom were on hand to accept their accolades in person, and two posthumously.