At a school that has had legendary hitters in the past,
@DefiBulldogs
senior Karleigh Hoffman has carved out a legacy all for herself, and it’s being cemented with her best season yet.
My feature on the four-year starter:
Fun story I did updating anyone who might not know of the unlikely internet fame that Bryan's regional semifinal
@BlueAcesBball
has garnered over the last month thanks, in part, to their head coach
@BarstoolTate
.
Appreciate Tate speaking with me!
With this 6-6 jump, Tinora junior Owen Ackerman is state champion in the boys Division III high jump.
He finished fifth at the regionals and needed a wildcard spot to even get to the state meet.
That matters little now as he's the best in the state in D-III.
FINAL
Liberty Center 49, Elmwood 38.
Tigers win an absolute classic and will head back to the state final four for the first time since 2018.
They'll get Canfield South Range at Clyde next Friday.
Lincoln Creager with a steal on the defensive end and Aiden Behrman with a SLAM in transition.
A technical was called on Ayersville after and both FTs were made. 34-25 PH with 1:08 to play.
State ACME ⚾️ FINAL
Napoleon 6, Coldwater 5.
Napoleon will head to the ACME state finals for the 1st time in program history, preventing Coldwater from getting there for a 2nd-straight season.
Trey Rubinstein slammed the door on the mound for the save.
FINAL
Liberty Center 34, Coldwater 0.
Complete and utter domination in all phases by the Tigers against the No. 1 ranked team in Division V.
They will play in next week's Region 18 regional final against Elmwood at a site TBD.
🥎 FINAL
No. 3 Tinora 9, No. 1 Oak Harbor 8
Unbelieveable.
With bases loaded and the winning runner on second, Tinora turns a 1-2-3 double play to end the game and knock out top-seeded Oak Harbor.
Probably the best HS softball game I've watched.
Add another state record to the books for the Wayne Trace girls.
The Raiders 1600 relay runs a 3:54.85 to claim back-to-back state titles in Division III.
The Raiders were well in second when Sydnee Sinn took the baton. This is the result.
FINAL
Liberty Center 14, Valley View 10.
Liberty Center is back in the state title game for the first time since 1998.
They'll play Perry next Saturday in Canton at 3 p.m.
CAREER UPDATE:
Excited to announce that starting July 6th, I will be begin work as a General Assignment Reporter for
@NReflector
. I'm excited to get to work with some great journalists and continue my journalism career!
FINAL
@DefiCollegeFB
34,
@AdrianCollegeFB
17.
What a win for Defiance.
They end an nine-game losing streak to Adrian and win their first non-conference game since 2016 with a dominant second-half performance.
They are 1-1 and will travel to 2-0 Kalamazoo next week.
FINAL
Wayne Trace 13, Antwerp 4.
Wayne Trace wins a share of their first title since 1987.
Cooper Wenzlick went 4-for-4 with a home run, double, 2 singles and 6 RBIs.
⚾️ FINAL
@NapBaseball
13,
@DefianceBBall
3
Napoleon are district champs for the first time since 2011. It's their second district title in school history.
Defiance finishes 20-6 and fall short of regionals for the first time since 2021.
Cayden Zachrich just scored his 1,000th point of his Defiance career with a three with 6:36 left in the second quarter.
Congrats to Cayden on the accomplishment.
FINAL
@Defiance_BBall
74, Hanover 73.
After Hanover nets two foul shots to take the leads. Marell Jordan comes up clutch and it's mayhem at DC.
HUGE win for Defiance who gives Hanover their first loss of the season and moves to 3-0 in the HCAC
Excited to announce that I will be taking over as Falcon Media Sports Director for
@BGFalconMedia
in the upcoming school year. I am grateful for the opportunity and I can't wait to get to work!
🥎 FINAL
Defiance 2, Liberty-Benton 1
Pinch runner Taylor Bibler comes around to score from second on a wild pitch, and the Bulldogs head to districts for the first time since 2018.
Taighen Zipfel got the knock that led to the run and also gets the win the circle.
The Tinora boys 4x800 foursome of Jaxen Durfey, Cole Anders, Paul Westrick and Logan Coy are THIRD in the state in Division-III.
Bluffton takes the state title at 7:52.13. Ottawa Hills runners-up. Tinora comes in at 8:00.53.
Heck of a start for the Rams in Columbus.
If you ever needed any proof that Sydnee Sinn is a freak of nature, take a look at these photos before, during and after Sinn took the baton in the 4x400 girls relay that gave Wayne Trace back-to-back state titles and a state record.
Add another state record to the books for the Wayne Trace girls.
The Raiders 1600 relay runs a 3:54.85 to claim back-to-back state titles in Division III.
The Raiders were well in second when Sydnee Sinn took the baton. This is the result.
Tinora's Lauren Sattler finishes her state cross country career 5th at the state meet.
Heck of a comeback after finishing outside the top 60 last year and heck of a career for the Ram runner.
Will relay the rest of the results as we get them.
Some more career news for me:
Starting Monday I will begin work as a Sports Reporter for
@crescentnews
in Defiance.
I am grateful for the opportunity that the Norwalk Reflector gave me but am excited to get to work full-time sports!
Wild ending in the
@BryanLadyBears1
win over St. Vincent-St. Mary tonight.
The Irish were ranked third in all of Division II in SOS according to
@MartinRPI
. They had played 10 D-I schools and two prep teams from California during the season.
FINAL
Defiance 32, Anderson 22.
Defiance gets their first win of the season and as a result Bill Nickell gets a Gatorade shower for his first win as DC head coach. Hugs did ensue as well.
Jackets are 1-6, 1-3 HCAC. Anderson falls to 0-7, 0-4 HCAC.
FINAL
Fairview def. Eastwood 27-25, 22-25, 25-20, 18-25, 15-12
After being swept by Eastwood two weeks ago, Fairview are back to back district champs. Who else but Kelly Crites with the kill to win it.
One of the best HS sporting events I have ever watched.
FINAL
Defiance 5, Kenton 1.
Aidan Kiessling gets the 5th Defiance no-hitter in the last two years and his first of his career as the Bulldogs takes their 7th-straight. He struck out 14 and walked one.
They are now 12-1, 5-1 WBL. Kenton is 6-6, 3-3 WBL.
FINAL
Antwerp 6, Wayne Trace 2.
Archers avenge their 13-4 GMC loss to Wayne Trace earlier this season and win their third-straight district title.
They'll play at Patrick Henry in regionals next Thursday.
Wayne Trace finishes 22-4 with their first GMC title since 1986.
FINAL
@AntwerpArchers
9,
@apachebaseball7
4.
Antwerp baseball adds a second GMC title to go with their first in 2019.
2 home runs, a double, 5 RBIs, and three runs scored to go along with a complete game win for Luke Krouse.
FINAL
Patrick Henry 32 Antwerp 20
For the first time since 2002, Patrick Henry are district champs.
Lincoln Creager with 14 to lead all scorers, Gavin Jackson adds 8.
Carson Altimus had 10 to lead Antwerp. Antwerp finishes 20-5.
🥎 FINAL
@BryanSoftball
4, Lexington 1
Bryan softball are regional champs!
It's the first regional title in program history. They'll play in Akron next week.
3 hits, 13 strikeouts for So. Thea Staten. A home run in 2-straight games for freshman Amiyah Langham.
District ACME ⚾️ FINAL
Napoleon 6, Defiance 4
Defiance had the winning run at the plate with one out, but Napoleon turned a double play to end the game.
Napoleon takes home the District 1 ACME title and the bragging rights over rival Defiance.
FINAL from Eastwood:
North Union 14, Eastwood 20
Gage Might finds the endzone on a 9-yard TD rush and the Eastwood Eagles advance to the regional finals.
Boys hoops FINAL
@_PHSAthletics
51,
@TinoraRams
28.
In just their second season back in the GMC, Paulding climbs the mountaintop and wins their first outright GMC title since 1965.
Its their first league title in boys hoops since 1999.
At the half:
Napoleon 29, Lima Shawnee 19.
Napoleon caught fire from deep in the second quarter and they outscore Shawnee 23-13.
Joshua Mack had 10 to lead the Wildcats in the first half including this breakaway dunk:
Bryan Hieber subbing out his seniors, Gavin Jackson, Kaden Rosebrook, Drew Rosengarten and Aiden Behrman to a standing ovation.
Heck of a season for the Patriots.
DIV boys hoops district semis FINAL
Antwerp 45, Toledo Christian 44.
In one of the wildest endings you will ever see, Antwerp escapes Toledo Christian and will head to Friday's district final.
TC missed two FTs that would have won the game.
FINAL
Liberty Center 17, Coldwater 7.
LC heads to the state final four and moves to 14-0 for the second straight season.
They shut Coldwater out in the second half. Cavs finish 12-2.
⚾️ FINAL
Defiance 2, Napoleon 1.
Brezlen Zipfel scores from second on a Christian Commisso grounder that gets away from the first baseman and the Defiance faithful go home happy.
12th-straight win for
@DefianceBBall
. Aidan Kiessling with the complete game, 2-hit shutout.
“Being able to look back when we are older and saying we did that. Having our number up on that banner. It’s going to mean a lot to us,”
@WenzlickCooper
@WTHardball
won their first GMC title since 1987 yesterday.
Story on the title-clincher ⬇️
The Wayne Trace foursome of Rachel Stoller, Kiara Bahena, Gracie Shepherd and Sydnee Sinn are STATE CHAMPS in the DIII girls 1600 relay. Final time was 3:55.95.
Abe Delano pins Archbold's Wyat Ripke in the third period at 215 and is the second
@AyersvilleAD
wrestler to take home first place today.
Henry Eggers falls in his third place match for Napoleon.
TOUCHDOWN Ayersville
Abe Delano makes an incredible one-handed grab in the back of the endzone from 25 yards out to put the Pilots back in top. Conversion comes up just short.
Ayersville 20, Fairview 14. 3:37 left in the first half.
Jr. ACME FINAL
@ColdwaterBB
12,
@DefianceBBall
3
Coldwater Jr. ACME heads to their third-ever state final and first since 2019.
They'll go for their second Jr. ACME state title tomorrow at 6 against the winner of our next game between Archbold and Ottawa-Glandorf.
🥎 FINAL
@BryanSoftball
5,
@SoftballMaumee
0
Bryan is on to the regional finals for the first time in school history with a 2-hit shutout from Thea Staten, and a 3-hit day at the dish from Amiyah Langham.
They'll get either Lexington or Springfield back at Shelby on Friday.
And in the subsequent inning, Napoleon has broken this one wide open, with this two-run bomb by Lucas Gerken forcing a pitching change from Defiance. Khalil Ligon in for Cody Shaw.
Cats lead 8-0.
Defiances David Jiminez, Jackson Walter, Bradyn Shaw and Gavino Gomez are all named to the all-state ACME team.
Aidan Kiessling wins MVP of the tournament.
Owen Ackerman on the podium in the Division III long jump.
His first words to me before going up to the podium were: "I'm absolutely exhausted, I can't wait to get out of here, go back to the hotel, and sleep the night away."
I'd say he's earned that.
The Archbold student section has a banner that says "Becker Strong" and the Archbold coaches all have shirts on supporting the Becker family.
Top class from the Bluestreaks tonight.
In some unfortunate news earlier this week, Amber Becker, wife of Tinora head coach Eric Becker, passed away after a battle with cancer.
A good number of Ram fans are wearing shirts in her honor. The proceeds went to the Becker family.
Nothing better than small town support!
Legendary LCC head coach Frank Kill had one word to describe DC student assistant Will Garlock.
"Selfless"
My story on Garlock's unique path to becoming an assistant coach for
@DefiCollegeMBB
:
FINAL
@BHSGoldenBears
40,
@Granville
26.
Bryan is back in the regional finals. For a second-straight year the Golden Bears are one game away from Dayton.
Ella Rau with 11 to lead the way. Kailee Thiel and Marah Smith added added 8. Granville finishes 25-2.
@RealCJ10
@TimEwing37
@3YearLetterman
Not sure if you noticed but he is a total parody account. Pretty much just making fun of coaches that take youth sports so seriously. I personally find it pretty funny.
Napoleon head girls basketball coach Corey Kreinbrink announced that he has accepted a teaching and varsity girls basketball coaching position at Dublin Coffman in an email to the Crescent-News this morning.
Here's the play of the game for
@DCFBJackets
provided by .
Jordan Ambrose jumps and dives for a first down on 3rd and 13 to keep the drive alive up one score. Jackets finished the drive with the game-sealing score.
4 pitches from Thea Staten make it 3 outs in the seventh and Bryan will play for a state championship!
Golden Bears defeat Circleville Logan Elm 2-1 and will play Canfield at 3 tomorrow for the D-II state title!
FINAL
Napoleon 7, Findlay 1.
The
@NapoleonBandits
win their district for the second-straight year and the 14th time in program history to advance to next week's legion baseball state tournament.
DJ Newman goes 7 strong on the mound and strikes out 13 in the win.
FINAL
Tinora 35, Fairview 34.
Incredible. Tinora comes back from a 28-7 second half deficit to down county rival and preseason league favorite Fairview in the final seconds.
They move to 2-3, 2-0. Fairview falls to 3-2, 1-1.
As good as it gets in HS football.
After 3:
Patrick Henry 22, Antwerp 16.
PH freshman nails a DEEP three just before the third quarter buzzer to give the Patriots a 6-point lead after 3.
Patriots are 8 minutes away from their first district title in 21 years
FINAL
Tinora 2, Otsego 1.
Tinora softball knocks off the fourth ranked team in DIII and wins a district championship. Their first since 2018.
Anna Frazer gets 3 hits, an RBI and a run scored. Scylea Zolman goes 10 innings giving up 5 hits and striking out 19.
Bryan girls tennis just had their first perfect season in program history.
They'll look to go to state for the first time since 1997 today against Shelby and push their record to 24-0.
My story on why the program has seen so much success ⬇️
The
@NapoleonBandits
downed Chillicothe 10-7 today to win their 1,000th game in program history.
Heck of an accomplishment for a program that continues to display its dominance in the state of Ohio every summer.
They'll celebrate it when they play at home on Saturday.
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen on TV. This ESPN corespondent made “thoughts and prayers” more than just a cliche statement. He actually prayed live on the air for Buffalo Bills Damar Hamlin.
FINAL
Antwerp 6, Wayne Trace 2.
Archers avenge their 13-4 GMC loss to Wayne Trace earlier this season and win their third-straight district title.
They'll play at Patrick Henry in regionals next Thursday.
Wayne Trace finishes 22-4 with their first GMC title since 1986.
TOUCHDOWN Ayersville:
Hauenstein finds Abe Delano for the long touchdown through the air and the Pilots are on the board.
Ayersville 8, Tinora 3. 2:16 left in the first half.
⚾️ FINAL
@NapBaseball
13,
@DefianceBBall
3
Napoleon are district champs for the first time since 2011. It's their second district title in school history.
Defiance finishes 20-6 and fall short of regionals for the first time since 2021.
Archbold starts the 4th quarter on a 5-0 run and trails Emmanuel Christian 45-41 with 6:24 to play.
Jayden Seiler with this three to cut it to 4. Evan Wendt takes a charge on the other end.
FINAL
Napoleon 3, Van Wert 1
Napoleon wins in a game that takes less than two hours and advances to district finals tomorrow to take on Defiance. Complete-game win for Blake Wolf.
FINAL
@ArchboldBasebal
knocks of the top-ranked team in DII
@DefianceBBall
5-2.
DJ Newman gets the win going 6.1 innings while also going 1-for-3 with 2 RBIs.
Defiance is now 18-1 on the season. Archbold moves to 13-5.
DIV boys hoops district semi at the half:
Patrick Henry 18, Ayersville 12.
PH freshman Mack Hieber gets a 3 to go at the buzzer for the Patriots. He has 5 to lead them in scoring.
Tyson Schlachter with 6 for the Pilots.
TOUCHDOWN DC:
Tyshaun Freeman punches it in from a yard out and this is a two-score game again.
Couple of nice plays on this drive by DC. The biggest of which was a Jordan Ambrose hurdle for a first down on 3rd and 13.
Defiance 32, Anderson 22. 4:52 left in the game.