Marysville’s Erryl Will (above) has an Ashland opponent in a single-leg takedown on Friday. Lincoln Heard of MHS (below) has control of his Ashland rival. Both Marysville grapplers won their matches. (Journal-Tribune photos by Tim Miller) Friday evening marked another wrestling-basketball doubleheader at Marysville High School. The action began at 6 p.m. when the Monarch grapplers took on Ashland under the spotlight of the school’s gymnasium. MHS’ mat match, which resulted in a 40-24 loss to the Arrows, was followed by the boys varsity basketball squad’s victory over Central Crossing. Zachary Pfarr got the battle under way with a pinfall…
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Fairbanks’ Bella Rowland knocks the ball away from a Mechanicsburg player Thursday evening. FHS teammate Emma Kugel (10) is ready to recover the turnover during the Lady Panthers’ 47-33 loss. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) Many fans in Panther Nation may have wondered just how the Fairbanks girls basketball team would fare against an unbeaten Mechanicsburg squad on Thursday evening. If you take away a little more than two of the 32 minutes played, you’d say they did all right. “It was 2 ½ minutes during which we lost our focus,” said FHS coach Landon Fraker after a 47-33 setback…
JA’s Sophie Zawodny goes up for a basket. The Lady Pioneers beat Urbana on Wednesday. (Journal-Tribune file photo by Tim Miller) Jonathan Alder’s girls hoop squad ran out to a 27-4 lead by the end of the first quarter and coasted to a 76-24 victory over Urbana. The second quarter continued with the blowout. Urbana managed just a pair of points during the period and trailed 47-6 by the halftime break. The Hillclimbers finally reached double digits in the third stanza. Alder (5-0), however, took a 66-10 margin into the final eight minutes of action. The Lady Pioneers’ scoring balance…
Marysville’s Brynn Rychlik is shown competing on the balance beam in this file photo. The Lady Monarchs won a triangular meet on Wednesday. (Journal-Tribune photo by Sam Dillon) The Lady Monarch gymnastics squad ran its record to 4-1 on Wednesday with a triangular meet triumph. Marysville tallied 127.55 points, followed by Olentangy-124.70 and Thornville Sheridan-89.7. MHS placed in the top five during the following events: -Vault: Mary Calvert, first, 8.25; Brynn Rychlik, third, 8.05; Grace McKillen, fourth, 8.0; -Bars: Calvert, second, 8.1; Katelyn Rabe, third, 8.0; -Balance beam: Rychlik, fourth, 8.0; Calvert and Chloe Baschnagel, tied for fifth, 7.9; -Floor…
Marysville’s Caitlin Cotner hauls down a rebound Tuesday evening against Olentangy Liberty. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) “We had it until we didn’t,” said Marysville High School girls basketball coach Brooke Young. By that, the second-year head coach said she felt the Lady Monarchs stayed with Olentangy Liberty for a while before running out of gas. The fatigue eventually led to a 69-41 setback for MHS on Tuesday. The numbers, at times, supported Young’s thinking. The Lady Monarchs held slight leads during the opening period on the strength of their outside shooting. Three-point goals from Tinley Graves, Haley Cook and…
The Monarchs of Marysville lost their first boys varsity basketball game of the season. MHS dropped a 64-52 verdict at Olentangy Liberty on Tuesday. The Patriots took a 13-12 lead after the opening period and then maintained a consistent pace of 17 points during each of the final three quarters. MHS (which will host Central Crossing on Friday) fell behind 30-22 by halftime and 47-36 at the end of the third quarter. Jack Christian led Marysville with 16 points and Joey Duke added 11. Olentangy Liberty Wade 5-4-14, Jayaraman 5-0-13, Hinkle 5-0-10, Barcus 4-0-9, Foster 2-3-7, Rausch 1-2-4, Chapman 2-0-4,…
The 2019-2020 North Union wrestling team is pictured from the left, front row, Kaleb McClung, Blake Coopr, Trace Williams, Gabe Hansen, Caleb Isler, Liam Adams and Casey Clark; second row, Johnny Strickland, Jeremiah Brill, Kyle Daley, Alec O’Reilly, Kamren Apt and Shan Swank; third row, coach Randall Riffle, coach Christian Koch, Warren Millington, Daren Forey, Caleb Fitch, Kane Beltz, Skyler Cowgill and head coach Garret Andrews. (Journal-Tribune photo by Sam Dillon) The North Union Wildcat wrestling squad has found itself on the winning side of most exchanges. NU finished as the runner-up to St. Paris Graham in the Central Buckeye…
There is just one more week (give or take a couple of days) left in the Pigskin Pickers’ hiatus. The Pickers selected games through the Ohio State-Michigan contest and then have taken some time off before the big college bowl bonanza. Next week, we will be making our picks on nearly 40 college bowl games that begin on Dec. 20 and run through Valentine’s Day. Just joking, but the bowl season does extend into nearly the middle of January. As we prepare for next week’s bowl picks, the race for the King Picker is still way too close to call.…
Jonathan Alder’s Melissa Walbom goes up for a basket against Kenton Ridge Saturday. The Lady Pioneers rolled to an 89-31 victory. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) There are a great deal of slang words and phrases that are used to describe what happens in the world of sports. One of them for the game of basketball is “sharing the sugar.” It’s a phrase that means moving the ball around and allowing as many of your teammates to score as much as possible. The early-season juggernaut that is the girls hoop squad from Jonathan Alder High School has been very good…
Marysville’s Tinley Graves (11) is fouled going to the basket Friday evening against Westland. Graves scored 20 points as the Lady Monarchs rolled past the Cougars. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) The Lady Monarch basketball team dialed up 11 trifectas Friday evening and coasted to an 84-27 victory over Westland in Ohio Capital Conference action. Tinley Graves led the charge for MHS (1-3) as she knocked down four treys en route to a game-high 20 points. Graves and Kass Lee both scored twice during the opening minutes of the contest. Westland had a great deal of difficulty maintaining possession of…
Another red-hot offensive night by junior Jack Christian led to Marysville’s 63-54 varsity boys basketball victory at Westland on Friday. CHRISTIAN Christian tallied 21 of his game-high 35 points from beyond the three-point arc as MHS upped its record to 2-0. Ryan Barlow joined Christian in double figures with 10 points. The Monarchs took a 16-8 lead into the second quarter and a 34-30 edge at halftime. Christian fired in 13 points during the third period as the Monarchs pulled out to a 53-44 margin. Marysville will return to action on Tuesday at Olentangy Liberty. Marysville Christian 10-8-35, Barlow 4-0-10,…
Lincoln Witt of Marysville has Delaware Hayes’ Ethan Rupp in a difficult situation Friday evening. Witt went on to win the match by a pin. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) There was a different type of atmosphere Friday evening when the Marysville High School wrestlers hosted Delaware Hayes. While the Lady Monarch basketball team played Westland in the school’s main gym, the MHS grapplers contended with the Pacers on the stage in the nearby auditorium. The spotlight was on each wrestler as his or her name was called prior to each match. Athletes ran down the aisles of the auditorium…
Marysville’s boys varsity hoop squad is pictured from left, front row, student assistant TJ Grose, Gabe Schaeffer, Joey Duke, Spencer Mills and Noah Brown; second row, Kade Focht, Evan Brown, Ryan Barlow, Nick Kessler, Garret Taylor, Jack Christian and Clark Hamilton; back row, coaches Mitch Hammond, Brock Cunningham, head coach Ryan Grose, Klarke Ransome and Scott Forney. (Journal-Tribune photo by Sam Dillon) Marysville’s varsity boys basketball team will be led by six returning lettermen from the 2018-19 season this winter. Junior Jack Christian is the top-scoring veteran as he averaged 12.7 points per game during his second varsity campaign. Additional…
The Lady Monarch varsity girls basketball team is pictured from left, front row, Maggie Hazelbaker, Sydney Lee, Caitlin Cotner, Hannah Olson, Karleigh Sutter and Haley Cook; back row, Tinley Graves, Emma Ingle, Abbie Welsh, Madi Sloan, Kass Lee, Alyssa Strahm, Abbey Williams and coach Brooke Young. (Journal-Tribune photo by Sam Dillon) It is a veteran team that will take to the court this season for the Marysville High School varsity girls basketball squad. “We have an upper-classmen team this year,” said second-year head coach Brooke Young. “We are full of seniors and juniors with a few sophomores.” Seniors who have…
Marysville’s girls gymnastics team is pictured from left, front row, Vilde Solvang, Yazmin Esparza, Katelyn Rabe, Mary Calvert, Kaylene Baschnagel, Brooklyn Keller and Grace Heller; second row, Jackie Rychlik, Jennifer McKillen, Hannah Bates, Ashlyn Etherington, Avery Murphy, Hannah Scheiderer, Chloe Baschnagel, Kelsey Murphy, Bryn Rychlik and Catie Cruikshank. Not pictured, Grace McKillen. (Journal-Tribune photo by Sam Dillon) A solid lineup of returning lettermen will be complemented by a strong freshmen class this season for the Marysville High School gymnastics team. Veteran gymnasts and their specialty events include: -Senior Mary Calvert, All-Around; -Senior Grace McKillen, All-Around; -Senior Kayleen Baschnagel, All-Around; -Senior Katelynn…