O-G’s White D3 Northwest Ohio Player of Year
Boys and girls All-Northwest Ohio basketball teams were announced on Wednesday.
Two area players received Player of the Year honors in their divisions and five area coaches were voted as Coach of the Year in their divisions.
Ottawa-Glandorf sophomore Colin White shared the Division III boys Player of the Year award with two other players and New Knoxville’s Ellie Gabel is one of three players named Player of the Year in Division IV girls.
Lima Senior’s Khalil Luster is on the boys Division I first team. His teammates Brent Moss and Camren Miles are on the second and third teams. The Spartans’ coach, Quincey Simpson, shared Coach of the Year honors with Toledo Whitmer’s Anthony Stacey.
Shawnee’s Brady Wheeler is on the Division II first team and the Indians’ Austin Miller received honorable mention.
Perry’s Brayden Knight is on the Division IV second team and the Commodores’ Ryan Yingst received honorable mention. LCC’s Evan Unruh and Carson Parker got honorable mention in Division III.
Bluffton coach Todd Boblitt shared the Division III Coach of the Year honors with two other coaches and Pandora-Gilboa’s Mike Lee shared the Division IV Coach of the Year honors with Tiffin Calvert’s Jon Otterbacher.
Leipsic’s Mason Brandt and Ridgemont’s Landon Newland are first-teamers on the Division IV boys team.
Shawnee’s Zoe Best and St. Marys’ Kendall Dieringer are on the girls Division II first team. Bath’s Ava Craddock is on the second team and Shawnee’s Grace Freiberger is on the third team. Bath’s Rachel Clark and Elida’s Addisyn Freeman received honorable mention.
Ottawa-Glandorf’s Erin Kaufman, Delphos Jefferson’s Alyvia Lindeman and Coldwater’s Riley Rismiller are on the Division III first team. Jefferson coach Denise Lindeman shared the DIII Coach of the Year award with Amy Bays of Ashland Crestview.
In Division IV, in addition to Gabel, Miller City’s Abi Lammers and Pandora-Gilboa’s Lacie Fenstermaker are first-teamers. New Knoxville coach Tim Hegemier is one of three Coaches of the Year in Division IV.
A full list of the All-Northwest honorees is on page 2B. The teams were selected by a panel of 10 media members.
Girls Basketbal
Miller steps down at Wapakoneta
Rusty Miller, after 14 years as the girls basketball coach, has stepped down according to Wapakoneta athletic director Brad Rex Wednesday.
Allen amassed 196 wins, eight sectional titles, five district runner-up titles, one regional title, and one state runner-up trophy.
In the release, Rex expressed his gratitude fo his service and said Allen has decided the time is right for him to take a step back from coaching. We certainly appreciate all his time and effort to the program and wish him nothing but the best.
College
Baseball
Bluffton 7, Alvernia 4
FORT MYERS, Fla. – The Bluffton University baseball team dropped a 7-4 decision to Alvernia on Wednesday, March 9. The Beavers fell to 1-5 on the season while the Golden Wolves improved to 4-6-1.
Alvernia put a run on the board first in the top of the first, but a Jeff Strayer (Columbus/Thomas Worthington) single scored Jake Baumgartner (Toledo/Start) to tie it up at one apiece. The Golden Wolves scored three in the top of the second to take a 4-1 lead. The Beavers plated solo tallies in the fourth, fifth, and sixth to knot it up, 4-4, but a strong Alvernia eighth secured their 7-4 victory.
Starting on the mound for Bluffton was freshman Andrew Collinsworth (Westerville/Westerville South), throwing five innings of two strikeout ball. Jacob Daulton (Batavia) and Nathan Young (Copley) both took a turn on the bump, each sending one Golden Wolf back to the dugout with a punchout.
Leading the Beaver offense was Strayer who went 3-for-5 with one RBI. Continuing his hot start was Baumgartner, going 2-for-4 with an RBI.Garrett O’Reilly (Galena/Orange) and Nathaniel DeWeese (Columbus/Hilliard Davidson) both smacked doubles on Wednesday afternoon. Kenny Schneider (Sunbury/Big Walnut) and DeWeese both chipped in with two hits apiece.
Tennis
ONU remains unbeaten
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — The Ohio Northern men’s tennis team remained unbeaten on its spring break trip with a 7-2 victory over Wabash (Ind.) on Wednesday at Shipyard Racquet Club.
The Polar Bears are 5-0 on their current trip and 11-3 overall, while Wabash falls to 4-5 overall.
Seniors Andrew Cochran (Wooster) and Zach Beaschler (Ada) and freshman Peyton Specht (Munster, Ind.) all went 2-0 on the day for ONU.
Cochran won at No. 2 singles and teamed with Specht, who won at No. 4 singles, to win at No. 2 doubles.
Beaschler won at No. 6 singles and teamed with freshman Drew Swisher (Findlay) to win at No. 3 doubles.
Freshmen Tristan Munteanu (Draper, Utah/Corner Canyon) and Sam Sran (PB, India/St. Stephens and Gian Jyoti Global) also scored victories for ONU, winning at No. 3 singles and No. 5 singles, respectively.
Ottawa-Glandorf’s Colin White was named the Division III Northwest Ohio player of the year.
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