Midview graduate Kris Boey was named Great Lakes Region Men's Coach of the Year after guiding the Battling Bishops of Ohio Wesleyan to titles at the All-Ohio and NCAC championship meets.

That marks the third straight NCAC outdoor crown for the Battling Bishops and extends Ohio Wesleyan's string to its sixth-straight track championship counting both indoor and outdoor titles.

Ohio Wesleyan is ranked No. 2 in the Great Lakes Region. The Regional Coach of the Year citation is the seventh for Boey in the last 4 seasons.

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Elyria’s Julius Higginbotham earned a spot on the Division III All-American Outdoor Track and Field Championship in his senior season at Baldwin-Wallace. The feat of All-American is the second time he has accomplished this at the college level.

Higginbotham’s jumped 23-foot in the finals which earned him a sixth-place finish. This marked Higginbotham’s best long jump performance in Outdoor Nationals. He took third in indoor long jump in March.

"It’s exciting," said Higginbotham. "To get All-American in anything is an honor and a blessing. It shows that hard work pays off. It was a great feeling to stand on the podium."

This event is especially special to Higginbotham because it is the last event of his collegiate career.

"I’m thankful for all the support over the years," Higginbotham said. "The media has been great and I appreciate everything that Heidelberg University has done for me. I will take these moments with me for the rest of my life."

Higginbotham was also part of the 4x100 meter relay that came up two spots short of making the finals. Higginbotham and Admiral King’s Paris Hilliard were two of four runners that finished in 10th place with a time of 41.61.

"I happily pass the torch to the underclassmen," said Higginbotham. "This gives them a taste of the Nationals and hopefully will get them hungry for next season."

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Perkins’ Amy Schlessman and her her partner Prita Kidder (Jakarta, Indonesia/Jakarta International) lost to the the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Division III Doubles Championship on Saturday. Tuft University’s Julia Browne and Meghan McCooey defeated Schlessman and Kidder, 6-1, 6-3.


Schlessman and Kidder defeated twins Megan and Mallory Arhaus, of Mary Hardin-Baylor (Texas) in the first round.


Schlessman and Kidder end their season with a 16-4 record as a team.

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Edison's Preston Robinette shot rounds of 80, 79, 81 to equal 240, finishing in fourth place after 54 holes at Weatherwax Golf Course in Middletown in the NJCAA Region 12 Division III Championship.

Robinette finished the season ranked eighth nationally with a scoring average of 78.6 strokes per 18 holes. Robinette made the OCCAC All-Conference First Team, placing fifth in scoring average during the spring season.

Robinette shot rounds of 80-77 to equal 157 to place fourth in the OCCAC State Championships played at Belmont Country Club in Toledo.

Columbus State won the OCCAC State Championship followed by host Owens Community College and Cincinnati State.

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Amherst's Paul Srnis was presented the "Jack Zagrans Sports Award" by LCCC Golf Coach Tom Szabo for being the top male athlete during the 2009-2010 Academic Year.

Srnis currently has a 3.3 grade point average in pre-med and was the No. 2 ranked golfer on the team with an 18-hole average of 82 during the 2010 spring season.

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Edison’s Sarah Foster and the Ohio State Buckeyes women’s cross country team finished 29th in the their first-ever trip to the Division I National Finals.

Foster finished third best for the Buckeyes, crossing the finish line in a time of 21:42, good for 125th overall.

Villanova won its ninth NCAA title with a total of 86 points, followed by Florida State with 133. Oregon, the 2008 champion, finished in third-place with a score of 188. The Buckeyes finished 673 points.

Monday’s race brought to an end the most-successful season in the history of the women’s cross country program at Ohio State.

The 2009 squad won its first All-Ohio championship in 18 years, improved its standing at the Big Ten championships, and finished second at the Great Lakes regional finals to qualify for the first national championship appearance in school history. With all but one regular starter returning in 2010, the future of the team looks bright.

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Admiral King’s Gabe Washington will be traveling to Italy with the Ohio Northern University football team to play in the Global Football Italian Classic.

Washington is a senior linebacker at ONU earning second team All-Ohio Athletic Conference.

The team will be in Italy from May 24-June1 as they combine sightseeing with football practices as they prepare to take on a local Italian team on Saturday.

Global Football President Patrick Steenberge has produced football games in 18 nations and this year Global Football is scheduled to travel with NCAA DIII college teams to Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.

During the Global Football Italian Classic, the ONU football team will visit three historical cities – Venice, Florence, and Rome – as well as numerous sites along the way.

The team will enjoy the spectacular sights of the Famous Roman Coliseum in the center of Rome, which is the largest amphitheatre built during the reign of the Roman Empire. It is considered of the greatest works of Roman architecture. They will also visit St. Mark’s Square and Basilica, Rialto Bridge, Florence Duomo, Piazza Signoria, and the Vatican and St. Peter’s Basilica.

The trip is organized by Texas-based Global Football (www.GlobalFootball.com).

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Vermilion’s Brett Zientarski was named honorable mention, playing baseball at Notre Dame College of Ohio, as the American Mideast Conference released their baseball awards.

Zientarski had a remarkable season for the Falcons, setting a new program record for home runs in a single season with eight. The senior hit .408 on the season, with a .608 slugging percentage, and led Notre Dame with 43 RBIs.

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Two local athletes will be competing at the Division III Outdoor Track and Field Nationals at Baldwin Wallace College this week.

Elyria's Julius Higginbotham and Admiral King's Paris Hilliard look to end their college careers on top.

Higginbotham will compete in the long jump and the 4x100 relay. At the Gregory Invitational last week, he set the school record in the 100 (10.84). His jump of 23 feet, 1.75 inches at the 2010 Ohio Athletic Conference Championships was an automatic qualifier.

Hilliard will also run in the 4x100 relay which also set a school record (41.45) last week. He has received All-Ohio Honorable Mention six times.

Hilliard and Higginbotham qualified for nationals in the same event in 2007.

Long jump trials and finals will be on Thursday at 6 p.m. The 4x100 finals will be on Saturday at 1 p.m.

"It’s close to home," Higginbotham said. What a better way to end my college career. It adds more excitement to be in the position that I’m in and it just seems that it’s meant to be."

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Perkins’ freshman sensation Amy Schlessman has added to her outstanding first-year season at Kenyon College.

Schlessman, along with doubles teammate Prita Kidder, are on of just 16 doubles teams to participate in the NCAA Division III Championship tournament.

Kidder, a junior, and Schlessman have a 15-3 record together and are currently ranked as the No. 4 doubles team in the Central Region.

The national doubles tournament will be held at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and will commence this Friday (May 28).

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Tess Sito, of Elyria, has reached yet another milestone.

In just her freshman year at Cleveland State, she has added another accolade as she was named to the All-Midwest Region Second Team by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association, released Monday.

"I’m happy with my individual success, but I definitely wish we would’ve made it to that next level and made it to the tournament," said Sito, whose team was eliminated by No. 2 seed Wright State in the Horizon League Championship last week. "I’m not too worried about what I can do individually, as long as I can help the team out."

Sito, who earlier this month was named both the Horizon League Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year, set records for runs scored (51), hits (74), home runs (18), slugging percentage (.773) and on-base percentage (.495). She is also second all-time in stolen bases (39) and third in batting average (.409), RBIs (45) and walks (29).

Although Sito basically re-wrote the CSU single-season record book, she remains focused on what she wants to do to be a better player and help her team.

"I definitely want to become a better fielder for next year," Sito said. "I wasn’t too good at shortstop this year. I made a lot of errors, but hopefully I’ll work on that this summer, along with working on my pitching."

Sito ranked in the top 40 nationally in six stat categories and started the season with an 18-game hitting streak, which is also a school record. She led the league in nine of the 12 major offensive statistics.

"Tess had a phenomenal freshman season but she has barely begun to achieve all that she is capable of," Cleveland State softball coach and Elyria-native Angie Nicholson said through a press release. "She is a very special player and I look forward to seeing how much better she can become in the next three years."

Cleveland State missed a berth to the NCAA Division I National Tournament by losing the Horizon League title game to Wright State. Sito only had two hits in her last 14 at-bats.

"Hopefully next season, I’ll come out strong and stay strong throughout the year," Sito said. "Everyone has slumps, but this year I was really mad, because I didn’t do as well as I wanted to in the tournament when it really counted. I’ll work a lot in the summer and hopefully I’ll be better than I was last year. Obviously you always want to be better than you were the year before."

The Vikings record-setting season ended with an impressive 44-15 record, which was the sixth time in eight years that Cleveland State played in the title game, last winning the championship in 2009. Nicholson has played a big part in Sito’s success at the college level.

"Angie (Nicholson) is awesome," Sito said. "You can talk to her whenever. Whenever you have a problem, she’s like another mom at college. She knows everything about hitting, she knows everything about fielding and she gives us little tricks here and there to do. She’s great. Everything about her is awesome. I just love her. She’s just really always there for us and that’s the main thing. And we had a lot of fun, and that’s the most important thing too."

For her high school career at Elyria, Sito went 75-9 on the mound with 814 strikeouts in 531 innings pitched. Her senior year, she helped lead the Pioneers to a state championship after losing the state championship game three years prior. At the plate, she batted .470 with 107 RBIs and 143 runs scored in her career. She also stole 46 bases in 48 attempts.

"(College softball) is a lot quicker," Sito said. "When I went back to watch Elyria, everyone is bigger and stronger in college. In high school, everything seems slower, while college is quick paced and you got to be ready all the time."

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Avon's Josh Pierce talks about continuing his baseball career at Kent State.

Amherst’s Ryan Rua was named to the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) All-Midwest Region Second Team for his outstanding season at Lake Erie College.

Rua, a sophomore shortstop, hit a single-season record-tying 11 home runs for the second year in a row and became Lake Erie’s career leader in home runs midway through the season. He knocked 60 hits and hit an even .400 for the season with 38 runs scored, 12 doubles and a team-leading 40 RBIs. His 107 total bases were a school record, as was his .713 slugging percentage.

Rua also made eight appearances out of the bullpen and posted a 2.70 ERA in 13 1/3 innings. He made one start and earned one save on the season, holding opponents to a .231 average.

Lake Erie won a school-record 18 games this season, highlighted by a 19-4 win road win over NCAA Division I Cleveland State University on March 28, and was one of seven schools to have multiple players named to the All-Midwest Region Team.

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Elyria Catholic's Rebecca Mittler, a freshman playing tennis for Baldwin-Wallace, won the deciding match for the Yellow Jackets, who defeated Otterbein College, 5-4 last Saturday in the Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament Championship match.

Mittler's success also earned her second team All-Ohio Athletic Conference announced on Tuesday.

The Yellow Jackets have now won three OAC Tournament titles in the past four years. Mittler, who lost the first set 6-4, came back to beat Otterbein’s Megan Asterino 6-4 in the second set and then dominated the final set with a 6-1 victory.

With her victory, Mittler improves to 15-9 overall.

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Avon Lake’s Alex Trzeciak, a sophomore, notched an All-Ohio Athletic Conference selection for his outstanding season playing tennis at Baldwin-Wallace.

Trzeciak, who was a second-team All-OAC selection last season, has a 17-8 record while competing strictly at the No. 1 singles position. Trzeciak was 8-1 during OAC competition and was a part of B-W’s No. 2 doubles duo that had a 17-6 record. In two seasons, Trzeciak is 39-11 overall in singles play and 37-12 in doubles.

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Western Reserve’s Greg Patrick was among two Baldwin-Wallace athletes to get named Outstanding Senior Athletes for Baldwin-Wallace.

Patrick has turned in one of the most accomplished seasons by any thrower in B-W school history. During this indoor season, Patrick earned the second All-American honor of his career with a third-place finish in the shot put at the NCAA Championship meet.

Prior to nationals, Patrick won the OAC Championship in the shot put with a school-record throw of 54 feet, 6 3/4 inches. He also placed second in the weight throw and was named the OAC’s Bud Yost Most Outstanding Field Athlete.

During the current outdoor season, Patrick won the OAC Championship in the shot put and has broken his own school-record in the event with an NCAA automatic qualifying mark of 55’10.5."

Last outdoor season, Patrick placed eighth in the shot put at nationals to become the first male in school history to earn All-American honors in the outdoor shot put. Prior to the meet, he was named as the USTFCCCA Great Lakes Region Field Athlete of the Year.

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Avon Lake’s Christine Chiricosta was selected to the Academic All-Mid-American Conference Women’s Tennis Team for the second-straight season at Bowling Green.

Chiricosta was also named to the All-MAC First Team after earning all-conference second team her first two years at BG. She had an overall singles record of 22-9, which led the team in wins. She also had a 15-7 record in dual play, in which she plays at No. 1 flight in all 22 of BG’s duals this season, while also going 5-3 in MAC play.

In doubles, Chiricosta is 21-9, including a 16-6 mark in dual-match play. She teamed with freshman Maddy Eccleston at the top flight for every dual match, with that duo going 6-2 in MAC contests.

Chiricosta’s total of 43 victories this season led the team, and ties her for 10th in BGSU history.

Entering her senior season, Chiricosta has a combined career total of 128 wins, with 64 singles and 64 doubles victories. She has moved into 12th place on the BGSU doubles wins list, and is tied for 12th in overall wins and deadlocked for 14th in career singles wins. Chiricosta is within striking distance of all three school records.

Last month, she was named BGSU’s Junior Scholar-Athlete of the Year at the athletic department’s Academic Honors Night. That award is given to just one male and one female student-athlete in the junior class for all BGSU sports.

Chiricosta was named the MAC’s Female Scholar-Athlete of the Week three times this season. Last year, she was named an ITA Scholar Athlete for the second-straight year, and also was chosen to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Third Team. Chiricosta became the first student-athlete in Bowling Green women’s tennis history to be named an Academic All-American. She also had been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District First Team in 2009, and was named an ITA Scholar Athlete for the second consecutive season.

In the classroom, Chiricosta has a 3.96 cumulative GPA as an adolescent/young adult/secondary education major at the time of nomination.

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Elyria Catholic’s Ashley Herrick was among selected individuals for Carnegie Mellon that will compete in the NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Championship on May 25-27 at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

This is the second-straight season that Herrick was invited, with her partner Courtney Chin, of California as a doubles pair. The duo of Herrick and Chen have a 24-4 doubles record together this season and placed third at the ITA Championship last fall.

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The No. 2 seed Wright State defeated Cleveland State, 8-3 and 6-3, on Saturday to claim the Horizon League Softball Championship.

The Vikings record-setting season ends with an impressive 44-15 record. This was the sixth time in eight years that Cleveland State played in the title game, winning the championship in 2009.

"This was a very tough day for us," CSU head coach Angie Nicholson said on the team's website. "I felt like we were out of sync offensively during the tournament and it really hurt us today.

"We’ve had the ability to battle back and overcome deficits all season long, but today we just didn’t have it. Amanda (Macenko) was throwing well, but Wright State is a great offensive team and they were hitting everything she threw.

The day started with CSU dropping an 8-3 decision in the first meeting with the Raiders. The Vikings jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning as Lia Gordon executed a well-placed bunt, sending home Keystone's Jessica Burt. Katelyn Ciminelli provided the second run as Amy Powell grounded out to the WSU shortstop for the RBI.

Cleveland State took little time regaining the lead as Horizon League Player of the Year Tess Sito, of Elyria, jacked a solo homer to right center, her 18th of season, yielding a 3-2 score.

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Elyria's Tess Sito had an amazing freshman season playing softball at Cleveland State University.

Sito was honored for her outstanding season this week as the Horizon League's Player of the Year. It is the first time a freshman has received the accolade in 13 years.

Sito was also named the league's newcomer of the year, along with a All-Horizon League First Team selection and a member of the league's All-Newcomers team.

Sito finished the season with 18 home runs, a school best, along with other school records. She broke the single-season marks for hits (67) and runs scored (37). She is also second in school history in stolen bases, walks and RBIs.

Sito finished among the Top 20 players nationally in four categories and among the Top 30 in two others.

Keystone's Jessica Burt was named an All-Horizon Second Team selection.

CSU head coach Angie Nicholson also nabbed Horizon League's Coach of the Year award for their record-setting 44-15 overall record.

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Bay's Sarah Vick has decided to continue her volleyball career next year collegiately.

Vick chose Mercyhurst College in Pennsylvania to play volleyball after her stellar career at Bay.

Vick earned four letters at Bay and was the West Shore Conference MVP and a WSC First Teamer.

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Admiral King's Anna Britvec talks about her college of Findlay and her final at-bat as an Admiral

Phil Brua shown pitching

Four Oberlin College baseball players were honored by the North Coast Athletic Conference, the league office announced on Tuesday.

Highlighting the honorees were All-NCAC First-Team selections Avon’s Phil Brua and Ben Puterbaugh. Western Reserve’s Brandon Cantrill and Jack Dunn garnered honorable-mention accolades.

Brua dominated on the mound this season as he set the school record for saves in a season (six) and tied the Oberlin mark for wins with a record of 6-3. His 2.78 ERA was third best in the league, while his opposition batting average of .227 tied for tops in the NCAC.

The sidearm specialist recorded almost nine strikeouts per nine innings. He totaled a team-high 55 innings, while making a school-record 22 appearances and racking up 50 strikeouts along the way.

Cantrill was the main backstop for the Yeomen and finished second on the team with a .328 batting average. He led the team with four home runs and joined Puterbaugh as the only players to start all 37 games. He finished second on the team in hits (38) and slugging (.543).

Last week, Brua pitched a two-hit complete-game shutout against Allegheny College to keep Oberlin alive for a postseason berth in the NCAC Tournament.

However, Oberlin lost the last three games, finishing the season 18-19 overall and 8-8 in the NCAC East, and missed qualifying for its first ever NCAC Tournament appearance. The 18 wins by the Yeomen surpasses that of the 2007 squad that finished 17-23 overall. The eight conference wins is also the most since 1986 when Oberlin finished 9-11 in league play.

Brua (6-2) took a no-hitter into sixth inning before giving up a single. He allowed just one more hit the rest of the way and struck out eight batters in the game.

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North Ridgeville's Collin Oliva and Elyria Catholic's Jonathon Mahilo have decided to continue their bowling careers at Wright State University.

Oliva led North Ridgeville to back-to-back state appearances. The Rangers took sixth in the state in 2009 and took seventh in 2010. He also led the North Shore Bowling Conference in average the past two seasons.

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Elyria’s Megan Bashak had three hits and drove in a pair of runs to lead Cleveland State over Valparaiso, 5-1, completing a weekend sweep on Sunday afternoon at Viking Field in Cleveland.

The win allowed CSU to end the regular season with a 42-13 record and in first place in the Horizon League with a 22-2 record. It is the most wins ever by the Vikings, also setting a league record for conference victories in a season (old record was 17 by CSU last year).

Cleveland State will host the Horizon League Championship starting Thursday at Viking Field, entering the tourney as the No. 1.

"We came out ready to play all weekend and it showed on the field," Elyria native and CSU head coach Angie Nicholson said on the team’s website. "Today's game didn't mean anything in the conference race but our kids have a lot of pride and they wanted to show that they are the best team in the conference.

"We hit the ball really hard today and found the gaps. I don't like that we left nine runners on base, but that shows how many opportunities we had today."

CSU got its second run in the fourth when Bashak led off with a double, went to third on a fly ball by Keystone’s Jessica Burt and scored on a single by Elyria’s Tess Sito.

The Vikings will now have off until Thursday when they open the defense of their Horizon League Championship title when they play the winner of No. 4 Valparaiso vs. No. 5 Green Bay game beginning at 1:30 p.m. at Viking Field.

For the season, Sito and Burt are 1-2 in hitting. Sito is batting .436 (72-for-165) with nine doubles, a triple, 17 home runs and 44 RBIs. The home runs are most ever by a freshman at CSU. Burt is batting .333 (60-for-180) with 16 doubles, four triples, two home runs and 26 RBIs. Sito and Burt are also 1-2 in steals (Sito-39, Burt-28).

Bashak is batting .244 (29-for-119) with six doubles, a triple, three home runs and 22 RBIs. Elyria's Andrea Nagy is also on the team. She has made nine appearance, including seven starts. She is batting . 211 (4-for-19) with a double, two home runs and four RBIs.

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Avon's Ryan Galik will continue his soccer career at Case Western University. The center midfielder scored 10 goals and assisted on 10 others for Avon last season. He was an All-Ohio first teamer, which was the first time an Avon soccer player accomplished the feat.

Galik is a four-year letter winner and was selected Lorain County Player of the Year and Academic All-Ohio in soccer and football.

As a student he maintained a 4.026 GPA and is ranked eleventh in his class. He plans to major in Bio-medical engineering.

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Avon Lake's Brian Mihalic has made a verbal commitment to play football at Boston College.

Mihalic, who is a 6-foot-7, 240 pound defensive end/tight end, chose the Golden Eagles over West Virginia, Stanford and over 10 other offers.

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Admiral King's Anna Britvec has decided to continue her softball career collegiately at the University of Findlay next season.

Britvec is the Admirals' top pitcher and top batter and will join other locals at Findlay.

Keystone's Taylor Bell and Taylor Kessinger, along with Amherst's Alyssa Kushinski are already on the team.

Wellington's Michele Jordan is the new head coach at Findlay.

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Sandusky's Gus Everson has decided to continue his swimming career collegiately, choosing Eastern Michigan as his college of choice.

Everson was a two-time state qualifier for Sandusky, and placed ninth in the state in the 100 freestyle.

He holds Sandusky school records in three events. He has the 50 freestyle record (21.27), the 100 freestyle (46.14) and the 400 freestyle.

He also earned All-American recognition in all three events in 2009 and All-American in the 50 and 100 this season.

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Monroeville’s Logan Stieber was named the winner of the Dave Schultz High School Excellence National Award announced by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum. Stieber was also awarded the Junior Hodge Trophy.

The award, which is named in honor of Olympic and World Champion Dave Schultz, the High School Excellence Award is presented to the student-athlete who exhibits excellence in wrestling, scholastic achievement, character, citizenship and community service. Wrestling Insider Newsmagazine (WIN) and the Amateur Athletic Union select the recipient of The Junior Hodge Trophy, which recognizes the nation's top high school wrestler.

"Excellence has defined Logan's high school career on the mat, in the classroom and in the community," Tom Ryan, Ohio State head coach, said on Ohio State’s website. "Logan was born to be a Buckeye. He has a great family support network and truly understands the commitment needed to win NCAA titles and an Olympic gold medal. Buckeye nation will enjoy following his career."

The 2010 Ohio Wrestler of the Year, Stieber became just the 19th four-time Ohio High School Athletic Association state wrestling champion, recording a 16-0 record in those four state tournaments. Capping his career with a 179-match winning streak, the 125-pounder lost only one match (184-1) his high school career. He also recorded 134 pins in his career.

Stieber's other impressive credentials include winning three USA Wrestling national championships in the freestyle division. A Greco-Roman champion (Cadet and Junior), Stieber is a FILA Junior national champion in freestyle.

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North Ridgeville’s Aaron Keller has decided to continue his cross country and track career at Indiana Tech.

"Aaron nicely fits the profile of the kind of athlete I look for to join our team," Warrior Head Coach Karen Brandt said on the team’s website. "He comes from a good family upbringing, is a good student, and takes his athletics seriously and with commitment. I look for him to provide a positive role model for the team as he develops at the college level."

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Perkins’ Kyle Hallock picked up his fifth win of the season in a 11-3 win in the front end of a doubleheader against Ohio University on Saturday.

Hallock struck out six, and allowed just two runs, five hits and one walk over six innings, improving to 5-3 on the season.

Hallock pitched the Flashes to a 8-4 win to complete a doubleheader sweep over Buffalo last weekend to pick up his fourth win. He pitched 5 2/3 innings, allowing seven hits and three earned runs, while striking out two.

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