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Ottawa Hills, Lake advance to D-III district finals
DEFIANCE — Ottawa Hills is one win away from a third consecutive district championship following an 8-1 victory over Archbold. Standing in the way is Lake, which outlasted Otsego 10-6 in the late game of the Division III districts, setting the stage for Saturday’s noon showdown with a regional berth on the line. “We got clutch hits, we scored in five of the six innings, and we got pretty good pitching,” summed up Ottawa Hills head coach Chris Hardman, who led the Green Bears to the state semifinals a year ago and now has his squad at 18-9 this season against a very challenging schedule. Deadlocked at 1-1, Ottawa Hills pushed across two runs in the bottom of the third and pulled away with one in the fourth and two in each of the fifth and sixth innings.
Whitmer, St. Francis advance in D-I district baseball
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — By the skin of their collective teeth, the Whitmer Panthers survived for a 9-8 victory over Northview on Thursday at Bowling Green's Carter Park to advance to this weekend's Division I district baseball finals. The Panthers (19-7), who avenged two league losses to Northern Lakes League Buckeye Division champion Northview, will face St. Francis de Sales (18-11) in the district final, which will be played Saturday at 7 p.m. or Sunday at 3 p.m. St. Francis has graduation at 3 p.m. on Saturday. The Knights advanced by blanking Anthony Wayne 4-0 in Thursday night's second semifinal at Carter Park. Junior Colin Hennessey (6-1) pitched a three-hit shutout for St. Francis.
Fired College Football Assistant Coach Suing For $10-Plus Million
Former Toledo assistant coach Craig Kuligowski is suing the university after he says he was wrongfully fired from the position due to his age and race. He's seeking more than $10 million in damages from the school and believes that his due process rights were violated. After Kuligowski ...
Toledo ousted from MAC baseball tournament after splitting games
AVON, Ohio — Sixth-seeded Toledo outlasted the No. 4 and No. 5 seeds at the Mid-American Conference baseball tournament, but the Rockets’ run came to an end Friday afternoon with a 4-3 loss to No. 3 seed Ball State in an elimination game. The Rockets, who were sent to the elimination bracket with an 8-0 loss Thursday evening to second-seeded Western Michigan, bounced back Friday morning with an 8-4 victory over No. 4 seed Miami (Ohio). Living to play another game! ????@toledobaseball | #MACtion pic.twitter.com/jFbbpwACtO Against Ball State, however, the Rockets couldn’t overcome the Cardinals’ three-run sixth inning, finishing the season with a 27-32 record.
Monroe County Region high school sports calendar May 20-26
Ann Arbor Skyline at Monroe (2), 4 p.m. Riverview at SMCC, 4:30 p.m. Bedford at Dexter (2), 4 p.m. Flat Rock at Airport, 4:30 p.m. Whiteford at Dundee (2), 4:30 p.m. Erie Mason at Gibraltar Carlson, 4:30 p.m. Jefferson at Milan, 5:30 p.m. Grosse Ile at New Boston Huron, 4:30...
St. John's lacrosse avenges regular-season loss in regional quarterfinal victory over Ottawa Hills
An ambitious schedule prepared St. John’s Jesuit for the postseason, and a regular-season loss to Ottawa Hills planted the seed for revenge. The Titans got their retribution on an unseasonably warm evening on Thursday, defeating Ottawa Hills 8-5 in a Division I, Region 5 quarterfinal. The victory avenged a 10-5 loss to Ottawa Hills on April 22. “It felt really good to come out here and show what our team has been through,” St. John’s midfielder Jude Dzierwa said. “Losing to them the previous game, [this] felt really good.” No. 7 seed St. John’s (11-7) advances to the regional semifinal where it will play second-seeded Rocky River on Tuesday. The site is to be determined.
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.
Mud Hens suffer doubleheader sweep to Louisville on two walk-offs
LOUISVILLE — The Toledo Mud Hens suffered a doubleheader sweep at the hands of Louisville as the Bats scored two walk-off wins on Friday at Louisville Slugger Field — 4-2 in the first game and 4-3 in the nightcap. Toledo (26-23) took a 2-1 lead into the bottom of the seventh inning of the first game, but Louisville got a walk-off three-run homer from Austin Wynns off Mud Hens reliever Andrew Vasquez (3-1). The Mud Hens trailed 1-0 after two innings after Hernan Perez reached on a fielding error by Bligh Madris that allowed Peyton Burdick to score. But Parker Meadows hit a sacrifice fly in the fifth to tie the game, and the Mud Hens took the lead in the top of the sixth when Ryan Vilade launched a solo home run to left field.
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