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Team (League) Overall Eastwood (7-0, NBC) 10-0 Gibsonburg (6-0, TAAC) 9-1 Genoa (5-2, NBC) 8-2 Northwood (4-2, TAAC) 6-4 Lake (4-3, NBC) 6-4 Clay (3-4, TRAC) 5-5 Oak Harbor (2-3, SBC Bay) 5-5 Waite (3-2, TCL) 3-7 Woodmore (1-6, NBC) 2-8 Cardinal Stritch (1-5, TAAC) 1-9
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PA 95 85 200 262 168 221 191 263 462 479
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Another run to the playoffs. It has come to be expected in Genoa. “It comes down to the kids we have,” said Genoa fourth-year head coach Paul Patterson, whose Comets needed a 49-21 win over Fostoria in week 10 to garner the seventh seed in Division V, Region 18 and with it a postseason berth. “We have tough kids that are coachable. The biggest thing needed to have the success we do is hard work.” Patterson understood expectations were a given when he took over a program that had been to the playoffs seven years in a row prior to the 2014 campaign. “I knew coming in that was part of the program that has been built up for 10 or 11 years,” Patterson noted. “The kids have grown up with success.” Two-way star lineman Kaleb Kuhlman has followed the program his whole life. “I know it’s a special thing, but when you go through a program that you watched growing up you feel like it’s expected to happen every year,” the 6-foot-5, 280 pound senior said about making the playoffs following an 8-2 regular season. “When I was little I looked forward to Friday nights. I looked up to all the players. It’s hard to believe I’m at that point now.” Josiah Bradfield is another senior that has enjoyed being involved in a program that is a perennial contender for the Northern Buckeye Conference title. “I’m playing next to guys I’ve been playing with my whole life,” noted the 6-1, 165-pounder, who is starting for the fourth year at defensive back and third at running back. “In fifth and sixth grade we dominated and we were good in junior high. It’s awesome to still be good in high school and be making the playoffs.” Noah Edwards, who rushed for a school-record 427 yards while scoring seven touchdowns against Fostoria to push his season total to 2,008 yards on the ground with 37 TDs (34 rushing), is one more senior standout behind a young offensive front. “Noah’s a tremendous back,” Bradfield said. “He’s got quickness you don’t see and the ability to hit the home run. When he got the first TD (against Fostoria) I said let’s break that record. It was an awesome experience.” Sophomore Danny Baker and junior Corwin Barry are undersized guards for an offense that lost quarterback Jacob Plantz and center Hunter Simmons to injury at midseason. Caleb McGeorge now calls signals with Justin Shafer snapping. “Caleb played the second half of our playoff game last year after Jacob went down,” noted Patterson, who also relies on tight ends Nick Lewis and Drew Bench to lead an offense that averages 44.5 points a game. “Our offensive line has been tremendous all year,” Bradfield said. “Guys earn every ounce of playing time. Everything we accomplish is through them.” Running back Daniel Navotney is another key performer according to Patterson. “He’s our guard that’s a running back,” Patterson said of the sophomore. “With Josiah and Kaleb, he’s at the point of attack.” The Comets have rolled up 3,169 yards
Six-foot-5, 280 pound senior lineman Kaleb Kuhlman lifts Genoa playmaker Noah Edwards, a 5-10, 170 pound senior running back, after a touchdown. (Press photo by Russ Lytle/Facebook.com/Genoa High School & Local Sports Photos) on the ground to date, with Bradfield at 632 yards and 10 rushing scores. “Everyone knows we’re going to run and knows where we’re going to run, it’s what we do most of the time,” Patterson said. “We’ll scheme here and there and make in-game adjustments. You’ve got to have an answer if they take something away.” While the offense has shined, the defense has done its part with Kuhlman anchoring the front as a first-time two-way starter.
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“Last year I couldn’t play both because of the shape I was in,” Kuhlman admitted. “But with offseason agility and summer conditioning I’m in shape and can go both ways and not be tired.” Bradfield is second on the team in tackles (49) with a pair of interceptions. “My freshman year I was only 5-7,” he said about his first experience in the secondary. “Now I’m 6-1 and have the ability to go over the top of receivers and make plays at safety or lock someone down as
a corner because of the length of my arms and legs.” Bench, a 6-5 195-pound junior inside linebacker, leads the Comets in tackles (65), while fellow ‘backer Novotney has 49. “We’ve been playing well for the most part all year,” Patterson said. “After the Otsego loss (in week five) we bounced back. We had opportunities early and took advantage against Eastwood but they had opportunities at the end (in the other defeat). But we bounced back well from that.” That has been a theme this year, with the Comets forced to overcome injuries and a smaller roster than normal. “Resiliency has been the key,” Patterson said. “We’ve had a couple injuries but we’ve had kids step up throughout the year.” With a roster just topping 40 players, many are two-way participants. “There aren’t many of them, but we have the ‘right’ guys as far as how they conduct themselves on the field and prepare for the games,” Patterson said. “They’re very workmanlike and understand what needs to get done.” A senior class that is special to the Genoa coach makes sure of that. “This is the first class that has gone all the way through for me,” the fourth-year mentor pointed out. “I’ve seen them grow from awkward kids. Watching them develop has been fun to see.”
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Top-ranked Eagles have multi-talented quarterback By Mark Griffin Press Contributing Writer sports@presspublications.com Jake Pickerel is having a good week. It was only Monday, but in three days the Eastwood’s senior was prepared to sign his name to a letter of intent to play baseball at Owens Community College next year. Not only that, but he was still basking after leading the Eagles’ football team to a 10-0 regular season, a Northern Buckeye Conference title and a berth in the state playoffs. Pickerel pitches and plays third base for coach Kevin Leady’s baseball team, and he is a two-year starting quarterback for coach Craig Rutherford’s top-ranked (Division V) football team. What’s it like to be the senior quarterback of a top-ranked team? “It’s both good and bad, but bad in a good way,” Pickerel said. “It’s a lot of stress. It’s always great, being a leader and helping your teammates do the best they can do. It’s a little bit of a relief, now that we’re in the playoffs. It’s almost a bigger time now to step up and be the best you can be. “The seniors have really come together and it’s been a lot of fun. We’ve been playing together for five years now and it’s been a tight group.” Only three other Eastwood teams (1977, ‘88 and 2011) have finished unbeaten during the regular season. This year’s group, the top seed in its playoff region, faced eighth-seeded Swanton (7-3) in Friday’s first round of the playoffs. Pickerel (6-1, 185) has completed 20 of 45 passes for 388 yards and six touchdowns, with two interceptions. He’s also rushed for 58 yards, but stats don’t tell Pickerel’s entire story. “Jake has done a great job of keeping our offense in control of games,” Rutherford said. “Obviously, we run the ball really well so he doesn’t have the stats other guys have. What people might not notice is his ability to pick up third downs throwing the ball and scrambling when the receivers aren’t open. He’s also checked us into the right plays in some big situations. “Jake understands exactly what we’re
Eastwood senior Jake Pickerel. (Press photo by Lee Welch/FamilyPhotoGroup.com) trying to do as an offense, and that’s kept us on track for the entire season. Teams don’t score over 40 points a game without a really good quarterback.” Pickerel said he and his teammates talked about making the playoffs this season, “and we had really big goals for this year.”
“We know what we can do,” he said, “and we hope to put everything out on the field and, hopefully, not regret what happens in the end. We tried to go into every week going 1-0. When Monday hits, it’s a whole new season. We forget what happened the past week and we don’t look ahead. When Tuesday hits, you can tell if everyone’s fo-
cused and prepared and ready to play.” Pickerel will be one of four seniors who have started all four years in baseball at Eastwood. Leady said Pickerel has been “a staple of our program for four years.” The Eagles went 21-6 last season and won the school’s first baseball title in 27 years in 2016. Eastwood finished in a tie for second in the NBC last season. Pickerel has driven in 84 runs in three years and is a team captain. “Ever since he’s been little, baseball has been his favorite,” Leady said. “He will randomly text you and tell you he can’t wait for baseball to start. The second football season is over, his mind completely shifts and he gets ready for us to go to Florida (for five games) in March.” Pickerel batted .467. with 26 RBI as a freshman, and followed that with a .410 average, 30 RBI and a 5-1 record and 1.71 ERA on the mound as a sophomore. He batted .438 with 28 RBI last season and had a 6-4 record and 2.77 ERA. “When there’s a big game,” Leady said, “he’s the guy we’ve turned to on the mound.” On Thursday, Pickerel signed his letter of intent to play for coach John Parisho at Owens next season. The Express have not had a baseball program the past two years due to budget cuts. “That’s a great spot for him,” Leady said. “Knowing the program and knowing what the wants to study, it gives him an opportunity to compete for a starting position right away. It’s nice when kids go to school for school and not just sports. He’s going for both, which is big. He wants to be an electrician and he can study it there.” Pickerel said signing day was “going to be an emotional day” and he chose Owens because it “was the best fit for me.” “I’ve worked really hard to continue my baseball career, ever since I was eight years old when I started playing with the neighbor kids on our travel team,” Pickerel said. “It’s a relief. You know you can just go out there and play now (as a senior) and you don’t have to worry about anything. Owens will be a good stepping stone to start off, and then in two years I’ll see if I can transfer to a bigger school.”
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Bears get third straight title, but they wanted more By Mark Griffin Press Contributing Writer sports@presspublications.com Teams with an 8-1 record and a chance to clinch a conference title in the last game of the season don’t usually end up on the losing end of a 35-0 score, but that’s what happened to Hilltop last Friday in what proved to be a mismatch against playoffbound Gibsonburg. The Golden Bears needed to win to clinch at least a share of the Toledo Area Athletic Conference title and secure a Division VI playoff bid. “Going into the game, we knew it was huge game,” senior offensive tackle/defensive end Andrew Kreais said. “If we win, we become TAAC champs and make it to the playoffs. If we lose, we have to turn our stuff in Saturday morning. That’s extreme motivation. I played every play to the best of my ability. “I didn’t even notice the rain after the first two plays. It just became part of the game and we dominated and played really well.” Gibsonburg and Ottawa Hills, who did not play each other this season, shared the TAAC championship with 6-0 records. Ottawa Hills (7-3) lost to Hilltop (8-2) by one point, but that was considered a nonconference game due to the fact that the TAAC has an uneven number of teams. This is the Golden Bears’ last year in the TAAC; they will join the Sandusky Bay Conference in 2018. “This is so exciting,” Kreais said. “It’s great for all the seniors. A lot of people weren’t believing in us at the start of the season, like we weren’t going to make it this far. We have six seniors on the team and we all have to lead the team. We have a great bond.” Gibsonburg (9-1) was set to take on host Hicksville (8-2) in the first round of the D-VI playoffs on Friday. The Golden Bears have qualified for the playoffs seven times, including the last three years. “They’ve worked hard and we’ve been pretty fortunate to have some good teams with some great men the last few years,” coach Steve Reser said. “They knew they
Jaret Harrision signaling for a safety against Hilltop. (Photo by Jeff Holcomb) lost talent after last year and there were going to be some naysayers out there. They put some extra special effort into it to keep the status quo and not be in somebody else’s shadow.” Reser said the players have been “all business” since they first convened for summer workouts on July 31. “Once you get a little taste of winning, we just keep on building and building,” Reser said. “They put the time and effort in
and they had something to prove. They had to wait for their opportunity (to play) and they took advantage of it.” Sophomore Andrew Farris, a 6-foot-2, 320-pound left guard and defensive tackle, got some playing time on defense last season. He earned a starting role this season and said he’s been happy with the way Gibsonburg performed this season. “Winning the TAAC is a big accomplishment,” Farris said. “Some people
say playing in the TAAC isn’t that hard, but you definitely have to play a few good games to win it. We’ve been to the playoffs the last three years and I’ve been a part of two of them. We have good team chemistry this year. We had a couple big games and we played well the whole time.” The Bears wouldn’t have done much this season if not for the play of their offensive and defensive lines. Gibsonburg averaged 277 rushing yards a game and 7.4 yards per attempt. Junior tailback Brad Mendoza rushed for 1,159 yards and 20 touchdowns. The defense, meanwhile, allowed just 8.3 points per game and pitched four shutouts. Gibsonburg beat three teams that finished with winning records; its lone loss was to Tiffin Calvert (7-3). “We’ve really come together as a team,” Kreais said. “This is the best bond we’ve had as a team in the last four years. I’m thankful to be a part of it with all these guys. We have to be together. We have to work together to succeed like a brotherhood.” The offensive line consists of senior center Nate Kissel, seniors Kreais and Joey Adkins at tackle, and Farris and junior Nick Hade at guard. “The three seniors have done a fantastic job,” Reser said. “Kissel does a great job recognizing the defensive front, calling our pass protection based off that, and directing our run scheme. Adkins and Kreais have done a phenomenal job as well. We have a really athletic offensive line and they have done a good job of moving the line of scrimmage. It’s been a pleasant surprise how well they’ve come along throughout the season.” The defensive front consists of senior Tyler Lilley at nose guard and Farris and Hade at tackle. Adkins and sophomore Jake Foster are the ends. Foster dislocated his elbow in the second game of the season and just returned last week against Hilltop. “They’ve gotten better and better every week,” Reser said, adding that the line’s responsibility is to keep opposing blockers off Gibsonburg’s linebackers. “That’s our goal, to keep the bodies off the linebackers,” Reser said. “Our team really understands our trench play on both sides of the ball, and that makes it nice.”
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Eagles were confident heading into regional tourney By Mark Griffin Press Contributing Writer sports@presspublications.com If recent performance was any indication, Crestview didn’t have a chance when it lined up on the opposite side of the net against third-ranked Eastwood on Thursday in the Division III regional semifinals at Lake High School. The winner advanced to face either 16th-ranked Marian Pleasant or top-ranked Coldwater in Saturday’s regional semifinals. Coach Jeff Beck’s Eagles reached the regional semis last season, losing to Sparta Highland in three games. Highland (26-2) lost in the state semifinals. Despite its dominating effort at the district tournament, Beck said Eastwood (250) can play better. “We saw some glimpses of amazing stuff in the summer, when we played some amazing Division I teams in tournaments,” Beck said. “I know we can improve even more. They’re putting it all out there. If any team is going to beat us, they’re going to have to earn it.” Senior libero Bailey Ramlow, a twoyear starter, called the Eagles’ tournament run “awesome.” “The entire team wants this so bad,” she said. “It’s been crazy. We know this is really our year to do it, because of the bond we have with each other and how bad everyone wants it. We just have a drive for it.” The top-seeded Eagles rolled at the district tournament, beating both Hicksville and fifth-seeded Fairview in three straight games. They claimed the district title at Defiance last Saturday, beating No. 2 seed and 13th-ranked Tinora, 25-22, 25-22, 2523. Beck said the Eagles have spent an inordinate amount of time practicing on defending their side of the net. “That’s all we’re doing,” he said. “We’re taking a break from offense. All we do is focus on defense. This time of year, we’re not going to win regionals with our offense. You’re going to win it on defense, and we are doing very well. The girls have bought into it. They’re bruised at the knees
Eastwood front line defenders Hannah Hodulik (4) and Kyra Contris go up for the block in Division III district tournament action at Defiance High School. (Press photo by Lee Welch/FamilyPhotoGroup.com) and they don’t complain about it.” Ramlow said the Eagles’ practices have focused on doing constant reps of digging, double-knee drive drills and throwing their bodies all over the court. “It has definitely paid off,” she said. “We have become so much more scrappy. Everybody is contributing to our defense. Our blockers have been doing a good job setting us up for a strong defense. We’ve been practicing defense non-stop.” Senior outside hitter Katelyn Meyer
leads Eastwood in kills (451) and digs (211). Senior middle hitter Hannah Hodulik has 145 kills, and senior setter Abby Schroeder has 43 aces and 701 assists. Ramlow, who has 210 digs, drew high praise from Beck for her effort. “Katelyn is consistent,” Beck said. “Hanna Hodulik is really becoming a force at the net. The biggest contributor to our defense is our libero. Bailey is all over the floor. She’s not letting the ball drop. If it’s in her area, she will get it. For the last two
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Oregon’s Sylvester earns second Player of Week Award After a perfect 4-0 week, the Wheeling Jesuit University volleyball team’s offensive director gained her second weekly award. For the second time this season, Wheeling Jesuit setter Stephanie Sylvester earned the Mountain East Conference Player of the Week honors. Sylvester is an Oregon native who went to St. Ursula Academy. Sylvester guided the No. 21 Cardinals (23-4/12-0 MEC) through wins over two of the other top MEC members, Shepherd and Fairmont State with victories at Walsh and Malone from the G-MAC. The sophomore setter averaged 13 assists per set with 182 in 14 sets. The Oregon product also hit .476 with 10 kills in 21 attacks, dug 41 digs (2.93 digs/set), six block assists and three aces. Sylvester had 11th and 12th double-doubles of assists and digs, while she missed two more with nine digs in the other two week’s matches. In her best match of the weekend, Sylvester set a new career-high for assists with 61 against the MEC’s second-place team Fairmont State. She added three kills with a .600 hit percentage, 13 digs and a block assist in the 3-1 win. Starting the week, the second-year player had 34 assists, nine digs and three kills in a straight-sets match at Walsh. Last Friday night against Shepherd, the setter dished out 46 assists to go with 10 digs, a kill and two blocks. Completing her weekend, Sylvester added 41 assists, three kills, nine digs, three aces and a pair of block assists when WJU played Malone.
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Smith wins Soothsayer title Press contributing writer Yaneek Smith easily won the 2017 Gridiron Soothsayer championship, finishing the season 120-28. Picking 80 percent of high school, college and professional football games correctly puts him at an 80 percent clip, which is tied for second all-time Yaneek Smith among all soothsayers over 15 years. Press Sports Editor J. Patrick Eaken was at an 80 percent clip the very first year, and then-internet radio broadcaster Mark Reeves was over 81 per-
cent one year, which is the all-time best. Smith went 15-1 the final week of the soothsayer season and he and GenoaBank President Marty Sutter were the only soothsayers to have perfect weeks this year. Smith is an Oak Harbor High School graduate, where he played football and he also helped coach football at Danbury High School. A graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, he has covered high school sports for multiple newspapers and is currently studying medical coding at Owens Community College. In second place this year is Ron Gladieux of Gladieux Home Center, who finished six games back at 114-34. Gladieux was followed by Sutter (112-36) and retired Press General Manger John Szozda (11137). Toledo Sports Network broadcaster Mik Gonzales, Oregon jeweler Alan Miller and Press saleswoman Leeanne LaForme finished in a three-way tie for fifth at 10642 and Big Apple Deli owner Tim Williams, a former Miami University and professional football player from Northwood, finished 100-48.
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Saffran All-Conference Indiana Tech women’s soccer player Kayla Saffran (Lake) was among those honored by the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference on Wednesday as they conference’s regular season awards were announced. Saffran was tabbed to the AllNewcomer Team. Saffran made an immediate impact for Tech in her first season, starting all 17 games, tallying five goals and logging 1,381 minutes of game action.
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Win over Spartans shows what Clay can really do By Mark Griffin Press Contributing Writer sports@presspublications.com Junior flanker Trey Reddick’s touchdown run in Clay’s 20-7 season-ending victory over Lima Senior pretty much summed up the Eagles’ determination this season. Reddick took a short flip pass – pretty much a glorified handoff – from junior quarterback Reese Wamer on a jet sweep and ran to his right. Seeing nothing developing there, he turned and headed back to the other side of the field through a mass of bodies. Reddick followed his blockers, fought his way through Lima Senior defenders and barely got the ball over the goal line for a touchdown. “That was an incredible effort on his part,” first year coach John Galyas said of Reddick, who led Clay with 57 catches for 709 yards and five scores this season. “Reese threw a nice block and Trey did his thing. He’s pretty good. He was going to get in the end zone one way or another.” Reddick’s inspiring run characterized Clay’s 2017 season. The Eagles trailed both St. Francis de Sales and St. John’s Jesuit by identical 10-0 scores before pulling out those wins. The Eagles finished 5-5 and 3-4 in the Three Rivers Athletic Conference after winning just three games last season. “That’s a big difference,” said Galyas, who was a Clay assistant for a decade before becoming the head coach. “We competed much better this year, for sure. Findlay has been a team in the past that has handled us pretty easily, and we ended up losing to them by 10. The Central Catholic game was a lot closer than the score. They scored touchdowns in the last three and a half minutes of the game. “Beating St. John’s, after having never beaten them, was big and it’s been five years since we’ve beaten Lima. We were 5-5, but our kids realize we can play with anybody. Doing this at my alma mater, it means so much to me.” The Eagles will bring several starters back next season. Their quarterback returns along with a tailback, two receivers and three offensive linemen. Two defensive
Clay junior wide receiver Adam Ummel (2) takes off downfield in the Eagles' win over east side rival Waite. (Press photo by Russ Lytle/ Facebook. com/Genoa High School & Local Sports Photos) linemen, two cornerbacks and a safety will also return in 2018. “We will lose all four of our linebackers (Michel Halka, Devin Lunsford, Bo Szymczak and Walker Bliss),” Galyas said. “They were all two-year starters except for Szymczak. From a leadership standpoint, those guys were the heart of our defense and that’s something that will be a big focus for us.” Wamer “had a great season” directing Clay’s offense, Galyas said. Wamer completed 138 of 237 passes for 1,458 yards and 10 touchdowns. Wamer, who led the team in rushing with 574 yards and 10 touchdowns on 120 carries, helped finish off Lima Senior by rushing for 112 yards and two scores. “As the season went on, he definitely got more comfortable on offense,” Galyas said. “He’s such a tough kid, kind of the heart of our offense. He’s got some intangibles. He sees the field really well and we’re happy he’s back next year.” Clay opened the season with a 41-0
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rout of Rogers, which got the Eagles off to a positive start. Rogers went on to finish 0-10, but no one knew the Rams’ potential until the season wore on. “We didn’t know what Rogers was going to be, but at the time it did turn some heads,” Galyas said. “Coming off a 3-7 season, that first win, we took care of business. It was like, wow! People thought we were going to win and then we went out there and we did.” The Eagles lost at Northview, 31-0, one week after beating Rogers. Northview finished 8-2 and made the playoffs in Division II. Clay responded, however with a win over rival Waite, then beat St. Francis in overtime at the University of Toledo’s Glass Bowl. Clay lost three in a row, to Central Catholic, Findlay, and third-ranked (D-I) Whitmer, and ended the skid with a 27-22 win over St. John’s. It was the Eagles’ firstever win over the Titans. Clay lost a tough one at Fremont Ross, 28-23, but finished strong with the home win over Lima Senior.
“You want to send the seniors off on a good note,” Galyas said. “It’s something you remember the rest of your life, your last game and a chance to be 5-5. It’s been five years since we’ve been 5-5. You build momentum heading into the offseason. There’s some excitement around the school and our program, and that’s something we can build off of.” Galyas said Clay, which graduates 13 seniors, had big freshman and junior classes this year, but “the sophomore numbers weren’t real strong.” The junior varsity team won one game. “We are going to focus on the same things we did this past offseason, as far as team-building stuff and getting our guys to spend time with each other outside of football,” Galyas said. “We took a big step forward, and next year we’re looking to get over that hump, and we want to play in week 11. I have a great staff. It’s not my program, it’s our program. I have guys who are willing to do whatever it takes, and nobody cares who really gets the credit.”
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In tourney, Oak Harbor just kept marching along By Mark Griffin and J. Patrick Eaken sports@presspublications.com
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