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Who qualified to the state track tournament?: High school notebook
Tyler Thompson won the 200 at 21.92 and was third in the 100 at 10.83, Wyatt Augsburger was second in the 110 hurdles at 14.72 and fifth in the 300 hurdles and Braden Schultz was second in the high jump at 6-04 as Oak Harbor's boys finished first at the Division II regional track meet at Lexington. Evan Hall was second in the shot put at 56-01.50 for the Rockets. Carson Ridener, Bodee Miller, Blake Nickel and...
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Division II track and field: Oak Harbor boys win regional title
LEXINGTON, Ohio — Oak Harbor’s boys track and field team captured the team championship at the Division II regional meet at Lexington High School that concluded on Saturday. The top four finishers in each event qualified for next week’s state meet at Welcome Stadium in Dayton. In addition, the top two finishers outside of the top four statewide also will qualify. Oak Harbor totaled 58 points, edging out Huron and Ontario, which each had 56. The Rockets were led by Tyler Thompson’s win in the 200-meter dash (21.92) and third-place finish in the 100 (10.83).
Rockets lineup rarely goes hungry as softball moves to state tourney
FINDLAY — The batters at the bottom of Oak Harbor's lineup want to eat just as much as those at the top. No worries. Everybody most often feasts for the Rockets. Myley Sandwisch has two postseason home runs as Oak Harbor advanced to a state final against Baltimore Liberty Union at 3 p.m. Thursday...
OHSAA boys Division I regional track and field recap
CLEVELAND, Ohio — All four OHSAA Division I track and field regionals wrapped up Friday to send 16 individuals to the state tournament in nine races and five field events. Athletes from cleveland.com’s seven-county coverage area in Northeast Ohio participated in both the Austintown and Port Clinton regional meets. More than 30 area athletes from each regional punched their tickets to Dayton.
Errors plague Ontario Warriors in Division II district baseball semifinal loss to Perkins
FREMONT — Errors plagued Ontario High School baseball in two crucial innings against Sandusky Perkins in Division II district semifinal action at Fremont Ross High School on Thursday. Holding a six-run lead after scoring three runs in each of the second and third innings, four errors by Ontario in the fourth frame led to Perkins scoring six runs to tie the game, before the Pirates went on to plate a pair in the top of the ninth...
Oak Harbor falls to Wynford in D-III baseball district final
SHELBY, Ohio — Things were off from the get-go. In a sign of things to come, an error by Oak Harbor in the first inning allowed Bucyrus Wynford to score two early runs. The second-seeded Rockets never righted the ship, committing five errors in a 7-2 Division III district final loss to third-seeded Wynford on Saturday at Shelby High School. "Self-inflicted wounds," Oak Harbor coach Nick Lance said. "Hats off to Wynford. They swing it well. [Grant] McGuire is back-to-back District 9 Player of the Year. He was the one we were worried about, but obviously they've got more than just him."
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Division III and IV softball: Oak Harbor to face former league foe in regional semifinal
Three Toledo-area high school softball teams will be chasing regionals in Division III and Division IV this week. In Division III, sixth-ranked NBC champion Oak Harbor (24-2, 11-1) looks to earn its second trip to the state final four in three years after reaching the D-II semifinals in 2022. The Rockets of second-year coach Cami Haas face former longtime Sandusky Bay Conference foe Margaretta (19-10) in Wednesday's 5 p.m. semifinal at Findlay High School. Two area teams have qualified for regionals in Division IV, with Buckeye Border Conference runner-up Montpelier (17-7, 7-1) facing Monroeville in the 5 p.m. semifinal at Rossford, and SBC River Division member Fremont St. Joseph (12-13) facing eighth-ranked Vienna Mathews in a 2 p.m. semifinal at Berea.
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