CANTON — Ontario senior Tessa Crum and her classmates couldn’t have scripted a better ending. The Warriors finished seventh in the final girls team standings with 95 points during the final day of the Division II state swim meet. Crum, Sasha Bulakovski and Joie Simmering made their last appearance at C.T. Branin Natatorium one to […]
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Trumpower leads Ontario to 2nd-place finish at state swim meet
CANTON — The 11th and final state medal of Grantham Trumpower’s illustrious high school swimming career was without question his favorite. Trumpower anchored Ontario’s 200 yard freestyle relay team to the gold medal on the final day of the Division II state meet inside C.T. Branin Natatorium. His jaw-dropping split of 19.64 seconds on the […]
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Ontario swimmers make a splash on opening day of state meet
CANTON — The Ontario swim team will be busy on Friday. The Warriors sent five relay teams and four individuals to the ‘A’ finals during Thursday’s Division II state tournament preliminaries at C.T. Branin Natatorium. The top eight finishers in each event advanced to the ‘A’ final and will swim for state championships Friday afternoon. […]
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State swim meet preview: Ontario looks to improve on last year’s historic finish
ONTARIO — Grantham Trumpower and his Ontario teammates aren’t going on a sight-seeing tour this week in Canton. They consider the journey to C.T. Branin Natatorium and the state swimming tournament to be a business trip. The Division II swimming prelims begin Thursday afternoon and Ontario will look to improve on last year’s historic finish. […]
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Ontario dominates at MOAC swimming championships
MARION — Saturday was perhaps the most dominant performance in a long line of dominant performances for the Ontario boys and girls swim teams. The boys took first place in every event and the girls won every event except one at the Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference championships Saturday at the W. Keith Davis Natatorium. The boys […]
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Lex, Ashland swimmers earn honors at OCC meet
WOOSTER — Wooster rolled to the boys and girls team titles on Saturday at the Ohio Cardinal Conference while hosting the event at the Ellen Shapiro Natatorium. On the girls side, Wooster finished with 486 points. Ashland (410) was second and Lexington (302) was third. In boys action, Wooster won with 447 points. Lexington (431) […]
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Colonel Crawford girls, Walnut Hills boys win GMAC team titles
Colonel Crawford won the girls team title and finished second in the combined during the final day of the GMAC Championships at Walnut Hills.
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Red, White & Splash: Woodland hosts 8-team swim meet
MANSFIELD — North central Ohio’s premier summer youth swimming conferences joined forces Saturday morning. Four members of the Greater Mansfield Aquatic Conference and four All Summer Aquatic Conference teams gathered at the Woodland Club for the first Woodland Eels Red, White and Blue Invitational. Host Woodland, Walnut Hills, Ashland and Colonel Crawford represented the GMAC. […]
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Ontario’s Grantham Trumpower adds to state medal collection
CANTON — Grantham Trumpower has made several visits to the state awards podium, just never in an individual event — until Friday. Ontario’s junior freestyle specialist finished fourth in the star-studded 100-yard free during the final day of the Division II state meet at C.T. Branin Natatorium. His time of 46.61 seconds was more than […]
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Historic Haul: Ontario’s Miri Trumpower a quadruple state medalist
CANTON — Miri Trumpower made history Thursday evening. Ontario’s sophomore sensation became the first swimmer in program history to secure state medals in four events on the opening day of the Division II state swim meet inside a raucous C.T. Branin Natatorium. She finished fourth in the preliminaries in both of her individual events and […]