Audrey Spooner (top photo) clears the high jump bar Wednesday evening. In the bottom photo, Mason Lamb (center) races toward the finish line of the kids fun dash. The events were held during the inaugural Community Track and Field meet at Marysville High School. (Journal-Tribune photos by Tim Miller) The weather was hot and sticky. That, however, didn’t keep a number of track and field enthusiasts away from the Marysville High School facility on Wednesday. The temperature hovered slightly above 90 and the humidity was thick as athletes of various ages participated during the inaugural Community Track Meet. Competition began…
Author: Tim Miller
The Union County Joint Recreation District Complex on County Home Road is hosting Buckeye Elite baseball tournament games on its turf fields this week. The above picture was taken during a 15U contest on Thursday between Demand Command Toledo and Tigers Elite from Dublin. (Journal-Tribune photo by Kevin Behrens) A late pinch-hit has turned into a grand slam homer for the city of Marysville. “I was approached by Buckeye Elite Baseball on Monday to see if one of our turf fields (at the Union County Joint Recreation District Complex) could be used for their tournament this week,” said Dave Raymond.…
In the above photo, Jacob Markert of the Marysville Stingrays competes in the 18U breastroke medley relay Wednesday evening against Dublin Atlantic. In the bottom photo, Patrick Filbert swims in the butterfly medley. The Stingrays won the meet against the Dublin squad. (Journal-Tribune photos by Kevin Behrens) The Marysville Stingrays swimming teams split meets with Dublin Atlantic on Wednesday. The Stingrays captured the boys contest by a score of 295-258. Dublin won the girls competition by a 425-310 count. Stingrays swimmers placed in the top three as follows: -Girls 9-10 100 IM: Emma Hubbard, first, 1:27.72; -Boys 9-10 IM: Braden…
Jonathan Alder swimmer Eli Stoll is pictured before a meet. Stoll said his Olympic Trials experience was a valuable learning experience. (Journal-Tribune file photo) A Jonathan Alder High School swimmer recently came up short of qualifying for the United States Summer Olympics team. Eli Stoll, however, said the experience of competing in the Olympic Trials in Omaha, Neb. was “awesome.” “It was very much a great experience,” said Stoll, who will be a junior at JA in the fall. Stoll qualified for the Olympic Trials in the 100 backstroke with a time of 55.89. He finished in the upper half…
Abri Schmutz of Marysville attempts to put down a bunt during a 2021 game. The Lady Monarchs are going through summer workouts to help prepare for the 2022 season. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) Although the summer months are here, it doesn’t mean the Marysville High School softball team is taking time off. The Lady Monarchs began summer workouts a few weeks ago and will finish the middle of this month. The team conducts sessions on Mondays and Wednesdays of each week in order to help prepare for the 2022 season. ‘This is a good way to introduce our incoming…
Brynn Rychlik clears the pole vault bar during one of Marysville High School’s 2021 meets. Rychlick competed during Thursday’s national high school meet in Eugene, Oregon. She tied for 19th. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) “It was a very good experience… I was surrounded by the best high school girls vaulters in the country.” Those were the words of Marysville High School graduate Brynn Rychlik. The former Lady Monarch standout tied for 19th out of 28 pole vaulters during Thursday’s National Scholastic Athletic Foundation track and field meet. Rychlik tied with Tatum Richards of Emmett, Idaho with a vault of…
Former Marysville High School boys basketball coach Ryan Grose watches the action during a 2020-21 game. Grose, who resigned from the MHS position this past spring, has joined Jonathan Alder as a boys assistant coach. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) When Ryan Grose stepped down as Marysville High School’s boys varsity basketball coach, he told the Journal-Tribune he wasn’t done with the profession. He was absolutely right and it didn’t take him very long to find a new position at a nearby school. Grose resigned as the Monarchs’ head coach in the middle of April. He had compiled a 112-140…
Marysville Stingrays swimmers dive into the pool at the start of an event during a recent meet. The Stingrays fell to the Muirfins on Wednesday. (Journal-Tribune photo by Kevin Behrens) The Marysville Stingrays swimming teams dropped meets to the Muirfins squads on Wednesday. The Stingrays lost the girls meet, 837-430, while the boys fell, 381-171. Marysville placed in the top three in the following events: -Girls 9-10 100 IM: Emma Hubbard, first, 1:26.50; -Girls 11-12 100 IM: Aurora Matsuura, first, 1:21.06; -Boys 11-12 100 IM: Cody Byrd, first, 1:28.57; -Boys 15-18 100 IM: Jacob Markert, first, 1:07.31; Nate Moledor, second,…
There has been some confusion regarding today’s posting of an athletic director vacancy within the Jonathan Alder school district. “I bet I’ve had 20 athletic directors call me and ask if I was all right,” laughed incoming Jonathan Alder High School AD Scott Reule. The job posting is for a middle school athletic director-assistant principal in the district. Eric Pettit, who held both positions for Jonathan Alder, recently resigned to become the middle school principal in the Cardington-Lincoln school district. Reule, who is finishing his duties as athletic director at Benjamin Logan High School, was hired this past spring as…
North Union’s Trevyn Feasel (3) picks up yardage during a game. The photo was taken by the late Todd Ridgeway. Ridgeway provided the Journal-Tribune and Richwood Gazette with NU gridiron photos for a number of years. (Journal-Tribune file photo) I just got back from a week’s vacation and heard some startling and sad news on Monday. Todd Ridgeway recently died as a result of injuries from a tragic motorcycle accident near Marion. His funeral was held yesterday. Todd was an unsung, yet valuable contributor to the Marysville Journal-Tribune and Richwood Gazette sports departments. He enjoyed taking North Union football pictures,…
Marysville High School’s Brynn Rychlik skies toward the bar during the Division I girls state pole vault championships. Rychlik, who placed sixth during the state meet, will compete on Thursday during the national high school meet in Eugene, Oregon. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) Meet will be held Thursday in Oregon Nearly a month ago, Brynn Rychlik finished the best season ever for a Marysville High School girls pole vaulter. She established a pair of school records during the 2020-21 school year, which was her senior season. Rychlik set a new girls indoor record of 13 feet and bettered that…
In this file photo, former North Union softball coach Dawn Draper walks to third base to coach during a 2018 Division III regional semifinals game. (Journal-Tribune photo by Sam Dillon) An era in Union County high school sports has come to an end. Dawn Draper recently announced she is stepping down as North Union High School’s head softball coach. Former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda once said if you cut him, he’d bleed “Dodger Blue.” If you did the same to Draper, it would come out in North Union “Orange, Black and White.” As Dawn Ridgeway, her maiden name,…
Pictured are some of the plaques that designate members of the Marysville High School Athletic Hall of Fame. The Hall will induct the classes of 2021 and 2022 early next year. (Journal-Tribune photo by Tim Miller) 2021 ceremony wasn’t held due to COVID The coronavirus pandemic prevented Marysville High School from conducting an athletic Hall of Fame ceremony last winter. As such, Hall of Fame officials will induct two years’ worth of classes early next year. The next Hall of Fame induction will take place on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. At that time, the 2021 class (Josh Palivoda, Don Viers…
Addie Keller (center) competes during a sprint drill during a recent Monarch youth track and field camp. MHS assistant coach Caleb Downey, left, gives instructions. (Photo submitted) Although the high school track and field season concluded a couple of weeks ago, Marysville coaches and athletes have still been busy. The program recently held a camp for students who will be in grades 3-9 during the 2021-22 academic year. The camp was not held a couple of years ago as the old track was torn up during the upgrades to the high school football stadium. It was halted a year ago…
These Marysville Stingrays swimmers jump into the Marysville Municipal pool for the start of the 18U 50 freestyle. They are from right to left, Grace Pancallo, Mya Potridge, Corey Acker, Janie Clayton and Reese Cordonnier. (Journal-Tribune photo by Kevin Behrens) The Marysville Stingrays swimming teams split competition on Wednesday with Life Time Dublin. The Stingray girls defeated Life Time, 327-286, while the boys dropped a 289-207 verdict to the Dublin squad. The top Stingrays swimmers in each age bracket were as follows: -6 and under: Ellis Matsurra; -7-8: Maggie Potridge and Josue Tangeman; -9-10: Emma Hubbard and Devin Forson: -11-12:…