Freshmen play key roles in MHS boys’ 2024-2025 wrestling success
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February 22, 2025
Marysville’s freshmen wrestling class is preparing for the postseason, which begins Saturday at home during the Division I sectional tournament. Freshman grapplers are from left, Keegen Andrews, Oliver Fox, Logan Adelsberger, Logan Shaw, Berkley Behrens and Jack Williams. Not pictured, Brian Waller. (Journal-Tribune photo by Aleksei Pavloff)

Freshmen play key roles in MHS boys’ 2024-2025 wrestling success

By Aleksei Pavloff

Typically, those with inexperience must wait their turn.

That is not the case for some Marysville freshmen who are preparing for postseason wrestling action.

The Monarch boys completed their regular season last week, claiming the program’s fifth straight Ohio Capital Conference Cardinal Division tit...

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Aaliyah West (15) of Marysville blasts the ball past a couple of Thomas Worthington defenders. The Lady Monarchs won a marathon, five-set match for their first Ohio Capital Conference victory in two years. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller)
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