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2024 Friday Forecast: Predicting 10 Toledo-area games for Week 6
Each week, The Blade sports department’s Steve Junga, Mark Monroe, Kyle Rowland, Michael Burwell, and Ron Seibel predict winners for 10 intriguing high school football games in the Toledo area. Last week, Seibel and Rowland went 8-2, while Burwell and Junga went 7-3, and Monroe 6-4. For the season, Junga is 39-11, Monroe and Rowland 38-12, Burwell 36-14, and Seibel 33-17. Here are the predictions for this week. Winning Drive Game of the Week presented by Renewal by Andersen: OTTAWA HILLS (4-1) AT NORTHWOOD (3-2)■ Junga: Ottawa Hills, 32-20■ Rowland: Ottawa Hills, 31-10■ Burwell: Ottawa Hills, 45-14■ Monroe: Ottawa Hills, 42-24■ Seibel: Ottawa Hills, 44-14
ESPN BET Sportsbook to be unveiled at Hollywood Casino Toledo on Friday
TOLEDO, Ohio — Hollywood Casino Toledo is set to unveil its newly branded ESPN BET Sportsbook and Restaurant on Friday. The space is located on the main casino floor next to Final Cut Steakhouse and features three betting windows, 19 betting kiosks, 13 video poker machines and over 40 HDTVs, including a 460-square-foot jumbotron.
Toledo area's volleyball stat leaders for week of Sept. 22
Below are the high school volleyball stat leaders in The Blade’s coverage area entering the week of Sept. 22. Stats courtesy of MaxPreps. KILLS PER SET5.5 — Libbie Baker, Hilltop5.2 — Keely Culler, Archbold4.6 — Mallory Pike, Anthony Wayne4.6 — Leah Pike, Anthony Wayne4.6 — Katie Pahl, Perrysburg4.3 — Kacey Like, McComb4.3 — Madison Cowan, Bowling Green4.3 — Ryen Smith, Old Fort4.2 — Victoria Gray, Bedford4.2 — Naomi Richer, Pettisville4.2 — Ava Buddelmeyer, Findlay4.1 — Mackenna Miller, Eastwood3.9 — Lanae Manz, Evergreen3.9 — Brooklyn Wilkin, Van Buren3.8 — Johanna Tester, Wauseon3.8 — Selma Brant, Van Buren3.8 — Riley King, Lakota3.7...
Bowsher football scores late to win back-and-forth game over Waite
Bowsher quarterback Jordan Singer found Nah'Sohn Triplett in the corner of the end zone for a 14-yard touchdown pass on a 4th-and-11 play with six seconds left to lift the Blue Racers to a 20-18 road victory at Waite on Thursday night. After a 2-point conversion run failed and Waite secured the short kickoff, Bowsher sacked Waite quarterback Carl Foards on the last play of the game to win a back-and-forth City League contest. Waite opened the scoring with a 29-yard TD pass from Shayne Curns to Daveyon Holman on a fourth-down play, but failed to run in the 2-point conversion. With 10 seconds left in the opening quarter, Waite's Damien Harrington turned in a highlight-reel one-handed interception.
Ginny Boggess era under way for Toledo women’s basketball
Wednesday afternoon brought a familiar sight to Savage Arena: the University of Toledo women’s basketball team practicing. But something about the scene felt foreign — for the first time since the George W. Bush administration, Tricia Cullop was not leading drills. A new era of Toledo women’s basketball officially dawned, as Ginny Boggess led the Rockets in their two-hour inauguration of her breakneck offense and grating defense. The head coach's name is different, Sophia Wiard and Quinesha Lockett are gone, and there are seven new freshmen and transfers. The standard, however, is the same. And Boggess isn’t backing down, instead acknowledging the expectations and embracing the forecast.
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