Archive - May 2012 - Sports Article
May 23rd
St. Marys football camp slated for July 23-25
The St. Marys football program will hold a youth football camp on July 23, 24 and 25 for players grades 3-8 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Varsity coaches and coaches from all levels of St. Marys football will coach the camp. There will be competitions and combine agility drills. Sign ups sheets are available at the intermediate and primary schools at St. Marys, at the Roughrider Touchdown Club and at Albert’s Sporting Goods.
St. Marys flag football sign-up
May 22nd
The St. Marys softball team had three players named to the All-Western Buckeye League softball list released on Monday.
Harle Smith, a St. Marys senior third baseman, earned first team All-WBL honors.
Kiley Schamp, a Roughrider senior centerfielder, was a second team selection.
Lexi Roop, a junior pjitcher, was honorable mention.
Camille Martin of Bath was named the league’s top player.
Bath’s Laura Ford and Nicole Driggs of Celina were co-coaches of the year.
The St. Marys baseball team had five named to the All-Western Buckeye League baseball teams released on Monday.
D.J. Manning, a senior centerfielder and leadoff hitter for the Roughriders, was named to the first team.
St. Marys senior second baseman Michael Huber was named second team All-WBL.
Brad Sawmiller, a senior pitcher and Nick Vogel, a senior shortstop, earned third team All-WBL honors.
St. Marys catcher Steven Paulus was named honorable mention.
FOSTORIA — Erin Kinkley won the Division II district high jump championship at Fostoria on Friday night, punching her ticket for this week’s regional meet.
Kinkley, a St. Marys sophomore, cleared five feet, one inch and won a jump-off to earn the district title.
Kinkley will join St. Marys’ Wednesday regional qualifiers Kelly Heitkamp in the pole vault and the St. Marys girls 3200 meter relay team of Sara Lininger, Lexi Grothause, Kristen Dammeyer and Marissa Schrolucke. at the regional meet in Lexington on Thursday and Saturday.
May 18th
COLDWATER — The Cardiac Cats did it again.
Minster won its second straight district title with a 4-3 win over Crestview that — in typical Wildcat style this season — came down to a pulsepounding finish in the seventh inning.
“To be able to do this two years in a row, that’s something special,” Minster head coach Mike Wiss said.
PHOTO GALLERY: Minster repeats as district champion
WAPAKONETA — The Minster softball team could start celebrating — and breathe a big sign of relief — when pitcher Kayla Richards got Michelle Bruns to fly out to left field giving the Wildcats their first-ever Division IV district softball championship at Wapakoneta on Friday.
Minster used a five-run fifth inning and took advantage of five St. Henry errors to defeat the Redskins 7-5.
SOUTH BEND — Mike Elston says he’s found the perfect home in the collegiate, spiritually-engaging, football-crazy city of South Bend as a defensive assistant and key recruiter for the Fighting Irish.
Elston, one of the driving forces behind St. Marys’ powerhouse football teams of the early 1990s and an all-Ohioan in football, basketball and track for the Roughriders, enters his third season as the defensive line coach at Notre Dame this fall.
A former Michigan man has found Notre Dame to his liking.
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SPENCERVILLE — The Minster boys 3200 meter relay team smashed the Division III district record by four seconds as part of Minster’s strong start on day one of the meet.
The Minster boys team leads the district meet standings with 45 points after the first day. The New Bremen track team is in 11th after the first day with two points.
The Minster girls are in fifth place after the first day with 12 points, highlighted by a win in the girls 3200 meter relay.
May 17th
COLUMBUS (AP) — For the second consecutive year, Ohio high schools voted down a proposal that would have addressed the ongoing competitive-balance problems between public and private teams.
An OHSAA bylaw that would have changed how schools are assigned to tournament divisions in the team sports of football, soccer, volleyball, basketball, baseball and softball was voted down 339-301. The results of the vote were announced on Wednesday afternoon.
A similar proposal failed by a 332-303 vote a year ago.
