MANSFIELD, Ohio — Jared Jakubick and his St. Peter’s teammates walked off the floor in disbelief as the final seconds ticked off the clock Friday. The Spartans had just stumbled through their worst half of the season and instead of cutting down the nets inside the University of Toledo’s Savage Arena, they could only look […]
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Veteran Spartans ready for another shot at regional title
MANSFIELD, Ohio — Had Tuesday’s Division IV regional semifinal game been a 100-meter dash, St. Peter’s would have gotten run off the track. The Spartans stumbled out of the blocks while super-charged North Baltimore did its best Usain Bolt impression. The Tigers led 10-4 midway through the first quarter. As the old adage goes, though, […]
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Spartans hammer North Baltimore, advance to Elite Eight
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — After spinning its tires for four minutes Tuesday evening, St. Peter’s stomped on the accelerator. Trailing midway through the first quarter, the Spartans scored 19 unanswered points and cruised to a 72-45 win over North Baltimore in the opener of a Division IV regional semifinal doubleheader at Bowling Green State University’s […]
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Gurski quietly boosting Spartans
MANSFIELD, Ohio — Jake Gurski’s contributions don’t always show up in the scorebook or on the stat sheet, but the senior’s fingerprints are all over St. Peter’s march to the Sweet 16. The Spartans (23-2) will take on North Baltimore (16-10) in the early game of a Division IV regional semifinal doubleheader Tuesday at Bowling […]
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Ashland’s Ohl goes out in style
ASHLAND, Ohio — Sid Ohl may not have won the state championship he coveted, but the senior cemented his place in Ashland wrestling history. Ohl, the Richland Bank Athlete of the Week, placed second at 152 pounds at the state tournament in Columbus over the weekend. He fell to St. Paris Graham’s Rocky Jordan 8-0 […]
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Ashland’s Ohl second at state
COLUMBUS, Ohio — It took a member of Ohio high school wrestling’s royal family to finally derail Sid Ohl’s march toward a Division II state championship. Ashland’s 152-pounder fell to St. Paris Graham’s Rocky Jordan 8-0 in the finals Saturday night inside Ohio State’s Schottenstein Center. Jordan, the youngest of Graham coach and four-time state […]
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St. Peter’s holds off Eagles to capture district crown
WILLARD — St. Peter’s defended its district championship Friday night, but upstart Colonel Crawford made the Spartans sweat. Tyson Kent scored a team-high 18 points as top-seeded St. Peter’s rallied from a halftime deficit for a 59-42 district final win at Robert L. Haas Gymnasium. The second-ranked Spartans (23-2) won back-to-back district crowns for the […]
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Lex, Sandusky ready for Round 3
LEXINGTON, Ohio — They’ve seen enough of each other the past two postseasons that the players ought to be on a first-name basis by now. Lexington and Sandusky will meet in the district tournament for a third consecutive season at 2 p.m. Saturday at Mansfield Senior’s Pete Henry Gym and for the second year in […]
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Last-second shot sends Western Reserve past Clear Fork
NORWALK, Ohio — Colton Puder struck again. Western Reserve’s leading scorer erased an evening’s worth of offensive frustration with a buzzer-beating layup and the Roughriders knocked off Clear Fork 36-34 in the Division III district semifinals at Norwalk High School. A 6-foot-3 senior forward, Puder hit the game-winning 3-pointer in Western Reserve’s 58-56 win over […]
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State meet awaits 15 area wrestlers
SHELBY, Ohio — Brahm Ginter doesn’t remember much about his first trip to the state tournament, but Shelby’s 160-pounder knew he wanted to be part of the spectacle. It was 2011 and Ginter was 11 years old. “I went there once to watch two of the high school wrestlers,” Ginter said after punching his ticket […]