The University of Findlay football team will try and make it two straight wins today as the Oilers take on Tiffin in a 1:30 p.m. Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game.
Courier writer Brian Lester will be covering the Oilers today.
Conference championships will also be decided today in cross country as seven league meets are set for today across the region.
In addition, the OHSAA girls sectional soccer tournament kicks off today with a pair of teams in action.
Upper Sandusky will take on Mansfield St. Peter’s at 11 a.m. in a Division III girls sectional match at Riverdale. Mohawk and Ashland Crestview play in the second sectional game at Riverdale beginning at 1 p.m.
We’ll have scores and more from all of the action later tonight on The Courier’s sports weblog, the Blanchard River Buzz. You can also follow us on Twitter for the latest local sports updates @Courier_Sports.
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SCHEDULE
Saturday’s Events
College Athletics
FOOTBALL — Findlay at Tiffin (GLIAC), 1:30
Rose-Hulman at Bluffton (HCAC), 1:30
Ohio Northern at Baldwin-Wallace (OAC), 2
MEN’S SOCCER — Bluffton at Earlham (HCAC), 3:30
Baldwin-Wallace at Ohio Northern (OAC), 3:30
WOMEN’S SOCCER — Bluffton at Earlham (HCAC), 1
Baldwin-Wallace at Ohio Northern (OAC), 3:30
VOLLEYBALL — Ohio Northern at Baldwin-Wallace (OAC), 12:30
Hillsdale at Findlay (GLIAC), 2
MEN’S & WOMEN’S SWIMMING — Findlay vs. Lake Erie at Geneva, 1
WOMEN’S TENNIS — Malone at Findlay (GLIAC), TBA
WOMEN’S GOLF — Findlay at Ferris State Invitational, Katke Golf Course, Big Rapids, Mich.
Prep Girls Tennis
Division I & II district tournament at Bowling Green State University
Prep Boys Soccer
Ada at Lima Senior, 12:30
Miller City at Lima Bath, 7
Ottawa-Glandorf at Kalida, 7
Prep Cross Country
Three Rivers Athletic Conference Championship at Walsh Park, 9 a.m.
Midland Athletic League Championships at Seneca East, 9 a.m.
Northwest Conference Championship at Van Wert Reservoir, 10 a.m.
Northern Buckeye Conference Championship at Fostoria, 10 a.m.
North Central Conference meet at Galion, 10 a.m.
Western Buckeye League championship at St. Marys Memorial, 10 a.m.
Northwest Ohio Athletic League meet at Evergreen, 11 a.m.
Prep Volleyball
Bluffton at Cory-Rawson, 10 a.m.
Carey at McComb, 10 a.m.
Hardin Northern at Ridgedale, 10 a.m.
Patrick Henry at Edgerton, 10 a.m.
Columbus Grove at Ottawa-Glandorf, 11 a.m.
Arcadia at Upper Scioto Valley, 11:30 a.m.
Junior Varsity Football
Toledo Central Catholic at Findlay, 10 a.m.
Freshmen Football
Toledo Central Catholic at Findlay, Noon
Freshmen Volleyball
Findlay in Findlay Freshmen Invite, 10 a.m.
PREP GIRLS SOCCER
Saturday’s Sectional Semifinals
Division II
AT BRYAN
Bowling Green vs. Bryan, 2
Division III
AT ARCHBOLD
Liberty Center vs. Otsego, 6
Toledo Christian vs. Delta, 8
AT GENOA
Ottawa Hills vs. Cardinal Stritch, 1
AT ELIDA
Lincolnview vs. Convoy Crestview, 5
Delphos Jefferson vs. Coldwater, 7
AT RIVERDALE
Upper Sandusky vs. Mansfield St. Peter’s, 11 a.m.
Mohawk vs. Ashland Crestview, 1:30
PREP FOOTBALL
Saturday’s Games
Firelands Conference
Plymouth at Norwalk St. Paul
Other NW Ohio Schools
St. Wendelin at Troy (Mich.) Defenders
PREP CROSS COUNTRY: Grove boys, Bluffton girls second in NWC
VAN WERT — Lincolnview placed four runners in the top 10 to knock off three-time defending champion Columbus Grove for the boys crown at the Northwest Conference cross country championships Saturday at Van Wert County Hospital.
Colton Grothaus (16:36) was second, Logan Douglas (17:36) finished sixth and Lee Altenburger (17:42) was eighth for Columbus Grove but Lincolnview was able to edge the Bulldogs 36-39 for first place. Bluffton (164) was sixth and Ada (210) finished ninth.
The top five runners in both the boys and girls races earn first-team all-NWC honors.
Convoy Crestview’s Mycah Grandstaff won the race by edging Grothaus at the finish line when both finished the race in a time of 16:36.
Spencerville won its seventh straight NWC girls crown by outscoring Bluffton 38-51. Columbus Grove (58) was third.
Spencerville’s Karri Purdy defended her individual league crown by winning in 20:51. Columbus Grove’s Megan Langhals (5th, 22:45) and Leah Myerholtz (9th, 23:08) finished in the top 10 along with Bluffton’s Audrey Marshall (6th, 22:53), Ashley Schweyer (7th, 23:01) and Morgan Humphreys (8th, 23:05).
The coaches voted Bayley Tow of Lincolnview as the NWC Boys Runner of the Year and Karri Purdy of Spencerville as the Girls Runner of the Year. Lincolnview’s Matt Langdon was selected as the boys Coach of the Year and Spencerville’s Brian McMichael was tabbed the NWC Girls Coach of the Year.
Varsity Races
BOYS TEAM STANDINGS
1, Lincolnview 36. 2, Columbus Grove 39. 3, Convoy Crestview 53. 4, Paulding 130. 5, Spencerville 153. 6, Bluffton 164. 7, Allen East 183. 9, Ada 210.
WINNER & AREA TOP 25 FINISHES
1, Mycah Grandstaff (Convoy Crestview) 16:36. 2, Colton Grothaus (CG) 16:36. 6, Logan Douglas (CG) 17:36. 8, Lee Altenburger (CG) 17:42. 11, Jerry Kesselmayer (CG) 18;00. 12, Bryce Sharrits (CG) 18:13. 16, Boone Brubaker (CG) 18:30. 17, Alex Tabler (CG) 18:33. 18, Phillip Vance (CG) 18:34. 20, Zach Shafer (CG) 18:39. 23, Tristan Armbrecht (Ada) 18:57. 24, Jacob Barnett (Blu) 18:58.
GIRLS TEAM STANDINGS
1, Spencerville 38. 2, Bluffton 51. 3, Columbus Grove 58. 4, Convoy Crestview 87. 5, Lincolnview 115.
WINNER & AREA TOP 25 FINISHES
1, Karri Purdy (Spencerville) 20:51. 5, Megan Langhals (CG) 22:45. 6, Audrey Marshall (Blu) 22:53. 7, Ashley Schweyer (Blu) 23:01. 8, Morgan Humphreys (Blu) 23:05. 9, Leah Myerholtz (CG) 23:08. 13, Adel Sommers (Blu) 23:43. 14, Macy McCluer (CG) 23:46. 16, Gracyn Stechschulte (CG) 23:55. 18, Candace Downing (CG) 24:10. 21, Erica Sheehan (Blu) 24:23. 23, Lindsey Malsam (CG) 24:33.
Junior High Races
BOYS TEAM STANDINGS
1, Lincolnview 27. 2, Paulding 79. 3, Spencerville 81. 4, Convoy Crestview 100. 5, Bluffton 104. 6, Columbus Grove 117.
GIRLS TEAM STANDINGS
1, Bluffton 22. 2, Lincolnview 41. 3, Convoy Crestview 65.
COMPLETE RESULTS: http://www.baumspage.com/cc/ccframe.php?path=./nwconf/2013
Findlay’s Gaines, Stahl first team all-TRAC
FREMONT — Findlay High School’s Isaiah Gaines and Emily Stahl continued their strong seasons to lead the Trojans at Saturday’s Three Rivers Athletic Conference cross country championships at Walsh Park.
Both runners finished fourth in their respect races as the Trojans were fifth as a team in both meets.
Gaines earned first-team all-TRAC honors by crossing the finish line in 16:21.91, a little more than 17 seconds behind the individual winner, Toledo St. John’s Tevin Brown (16:04.15).
Toledo St, Francis outran Toledo St. John’s 44-56 for the team title. Findlay checked in with 135 points.
Oregon Clay won the girls team championship handily with a 27-72 margin over Toledo Notre Dame. Findlay scored 112 points.
Stahl crossed the finish line in 19:27.71 to lead the Trojans. Teammate Sarah Barwig earned second team all-TRAC honors by placing 12th in 20:21.69.
Oregon Clay’s Erin Gyurke defended her individual title by winning in 17:57.54, more than 45 seconds ahead of teammate Haley Hess.
Varsity Races
BOYS TEAM STANDINGS
1, Toledo St. Francis 44. 2, Toledo St. John’s 56. 3, Fremont Ross 68. 4, Toledo Central Catholic 98. 5, Findlay 135. 6, Oregon Clay 139. 7, Toledo Whitmer 151.
FIRST TEAM ALL-TRAC
1, Tevin Brown (Toledo St. John’s) 16:04.15. 2, Louis Guardola (FR) 16:18.44. 3, Daniel Siebenaller (TSF) 16:19.77. 4, Isaiah Gaines (Fin) 16:21.91. 5, David St. John (TSF) 16:31.03. 6, Jake Barnes (TSJ) 16:38.46. 7, George McCartney (TCC) 16:38.87.
SECOND TEAM ALL-TRAC
8, Nick Jarrell (TSJ) 16:52.01. 9, Mitch Kaiser (TSF) 16:53.34. 10, Jason White (TSF) 16:57.62. 11, Tyler Edmonds (FR) 16:59.01. 12, Joshua Lykans (TCC) 17:02.37. 13, Owen Starkweather (FR) 17:18.0. 14, Christopher Butler (TW) 17:22.65.
HONORABLE MENTION ALL-TRAC
15, Ryan Schaffer (FR) 17:26.8. 16, Kosh Kneisel (TW) 17:30.27. 17, Jacob Baugh (TSF) 17:31.09. 18, Vanya Barron (OC) 17:31.73. 19, Matthew Gibbons (OC) 17:34.04. 20, Adam Farthing (TSJ) 17:34.29. 21, Dominic Bier (TSJ) 17:35.94.
OTHER FINDLAY FINISHES
28, Justin Hopkins (Fin) 18:04.22. 32, Patrick Breen (Fin) 18:38.99. 33, Brad Dufek (Fin) 18:40.74. 38, Rhett Patterson (Fin) 19:05.83. 41, Zachary Schumm (Fin) 19:12.7. 49, Matthew Cairns (Fin) 21:43.33.
GIRLS TEAM STANDINGS
1, Oregon Clay 27. 2, Toledo Notre Dame 72. 3, Toledo Whitmer 85. 4, Toledo Central Catholic 105. 5, Findlay 112. 6, Fremont Ross 115. 7, Toledo St. Ursula 161.
FIRST TEAM ALL-TRAC
1, Erin Gyurke (OC) 17:57.54. 2, Haley Hess (OC) 18:42.85. 3, Abbigail Dorn (TW) 19:13.99. 4, Emily Stahl (Fin) 19:27.71. 5, Stephanie Sherman (TND) 19:36.88. 6, Sydney Hess (PC) 19:55.99. 7, Hannah Hess (OC) 19:58.07.
SECOND TEAM ALL-TRAC
8, Cassidi Lovell (FR) 20:07.01. 9, Alex Matus (TCC) 20:08.19. 10, Lyndsey Matus (TCC) 20:08.56. 11, Caitlyn Kuecher (OC) 20:15.05. 12, Sarah Barwig (Fin) 20:21.69. 13, Kirsten Harder (TW) 20:26.23. 14, Meghan Hanenkrath (TCC) 20:30.91.
HONORABLE MENTION ALL-TRAC
15, Katarina Genson (TND) 20:31.73. 16, Bridget Smythe (TND) 20:32.09. 17, Erin Schaefer (TND) 20:39.03. 18, Emma Kosek (TW) 20:39.9. 19, Alexa Urbanski (TND) 20:41.06. 20, Danielle Szczesniak (TSU) 20:42.37.
OTHER FINDLAY FINISHES
30, Mia Johnson (Fin) 21:33.7. 32, Katherine Wilson (Fin) 21;41.58. 34, Lindsey Broerman (Fin) 22:11.68. 35, Kelly Coleman (Fin) 22:15.81.
Junior High Races
BOYS TEAM STANDINGS
1, Findlay 32. 2, Toledo Washington 36. 3, Oregon Fassett 54.
GIRLS TEAM STANDINGS
1, Toledo Washington 27. 2, Findlay Glenwood 38. 3, Oregon Fassett 74. 4, Fremont 116.
COMPLETE RESULTS: http://www.baumspage.com/cc/ccframe.php?path=./trac/2013
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