AW Reigns In Tri-Meet At Kazmaier Stadium

BY KYLE BORCHERS — MIRROR SPORTS
The Anthony Wayne boys and girls track teams both won a Northern Lakes League tri-meet at Kazmaier Stadium last Tuesday, beating host Maumee and Rossford.
The AW boys scored 70 points while Maumee had 53 and Rossford had 35.
The Lady Generals won with 76 points while the Panthers finished with 58 and Rossford had 38.
Boys
Junior David Birsen led Anthony Wayne on the boys side with wins in both the 100- and 200-meter dashes (11.66 and 23.69 seconds).
Birsen was also a part of the first-place 800 relay team with juniors Travis Philo and Anthony Donald and sophomore Mike Bridges (1:35.1).
Donald also won the 300 hurdles with a time of 42.47.
In the 110 hurdles, senior Mike Meier won for AW in 15.8 seconds. On top of that, Meier took first with a high jump of 6 feet, 2 inches.
Also for the Generals, sophomore Alex Kocol was best in the 800 run with a time of 2:14.4.
For Maumee, junior Jay Hall won the long jump (18-1-1/2) and the 400 (53 seconds).
Junior Jeff Fronk won the 1600 for the Panthers, crossing the finish line in 4:49.9.
Fronk, junior Brandon Smith and sophomores Aaron Leow and Eric Burns won the 3200 relay in 9:03.6.
Maumee senior Nick Miller won the discus with a distance of 123-11.
Also for the purple and gold, sophomore Michael Greisiger won the pole vault by going 8-6.
In the 400 relay for Maumee, sophomores Mike Wilkins, Tyler Fleig, Brian Bigelow and freshman Eric Long combined for a winning time of 47.23.
Girls
The Zaper twins (juniors Alecia and Ashley) led the Anthony Wayne girls team by contributing to six wins.
The Zapers won both hurdles events – Alecia the 100 (15.44) and Ashley the 300 (47.8).
Ashley Zaper went 5-2 in the high jump for first place.
The Generals swept the shorter relays. In the 400 relay, Alecia Zaper, juniors Ja’Neisha Galloway and Carrie Gerhardinger and sophomore Lindsay Green combined for a time of 52 seconds.
In the 800 relay, it was Galloway, Gerhardinger, Ashley Zaper and junior Erika Schmidt (1:49).
Ashley Zaper, Gerhardinger, Schmidt and freshman Udo Okoru won the 1600 relay in 4:23.5.
Schmidt also took the 100 in 12.75 and freshman Brittany Green won the 200 in 28.37.
Finally for AW, sophomore Lauren Wilson won both the shot put (32-3-1/4) and the discus (105-4).
For Maumee, freshman Brooke Tullis won the 1600 (5:39) and the 3200 (12:16.2).
Tullis, seniors Caitlyn Theaker and Shannon Tolles and junior Izzy Leck won the 3200 relay in 10:39.
Senior Chelsea Schultz won the pole vault for the Panthers, going 8-6.
In the long jump, freshman Megan Baker took first with a leap of 15-4.
Finally, freshman Morgan Cheung won the 400 in 1:04.7.

---

Lady Generals Sweep Through Panthers, Trojans

BY SCOTT CALHOUN — MIRROR SPORTS
The Anthony Wayne softball team used its mighty power stroke to club visiting Whitmer 7-1 last Sunday.
In their second game of a doubleheader, however, the Lady Generals needed a mighty stroke of luck against Findlay to come away with a 4-3 win.
AW 7, Whitmer 1
Against Whitmer, the Generals got back-to-back home runs from junior second baseman Samantha Hamann and senior third baseman Sam Kolling to lead off the fourth inning.
With those two dingers, Anthony Wayne increased its team total to 20 on the season, good for second most in a season among all divisions of OHSAA sanctioned high school softball in Ohio, according to the OHSAA record books.
In the 7-1 whipping of the Panthers, freshman Emily Kurfis pitched seven innings for the complete-game victory. She struck out nine Whitmer batters. Hayly Erdman took the loss for Whitmer.
Hamann finished 2-for-4 with the home run, a single and two runs scored. Kolling went 2-for-4 with her homer. Senior Michelle Manley also batted 2-for-4, scoring two runs.
AW 4, Findlay 3
The Generals trailed the Trojans 3-1 in the bottom of the sixth inning, but capitalized on a dropped fly ball in right field with two outs, a critical error that paved the way for three runs for AW.
The Trojans’ Kelly Walton battled AW sophomore starting hurler Dani Haley to a 1-1 draw through the game’s first five innings.
Findlay drew first blood in the third when Maggie Gilliland’s one-out single off the right-field fence just missed being a home run, and instead resulted in an RBI that gave the Trojans a 1-0 edge.
It took the potent Generals offense 11 outs to finally plate a run, something sophomore Kelly Hensley brought to fruition with an RBI bloop single to right with two outs in the fourth, tying the score at 1-1.
Findlay looked to take command of the game in the sixth.
Katey Crow drew a leadoff walk, and Haley then plunked Nicole Lahey. Shelby Treece then executed a perfect sacrifice bunt to move her teammates over to second and third with one out.
Katie Miller followed with a grounder toward first, and junior first baseman Alyssa Hoot fielded the ball, but hesitated in choosing her throwing target. That allowed Crow to come home with the go-ahead run.
A rundown ensued with Emily Warnimont at the plate, but the Generals bungled the play and a third run sneaked in as a result.
Haley and her teammates escaped the inning without further damage, but trailed 3-1 against Walton and an outfield defense that had done an excellent job of shutting them down.
Senior shortstop Becky Gill gave AW immediate hope with a leadoff single to left in the bottom of the frame.
The hope nearly died with a line-out by Haley and a foul pop-out by senior Brittany Zickafoose, but with two outs and Gill planted on first, Hensley sent a line single to left.
Stephanie Baker then hit a fly into shallow right that the fielder dropped with the game on the line, and the error allowed Gill to score to make it 3-2.
Junior catcher Jen Marzec then reached safely on another Findlay error, and a near comedy of errors ensued that allowed Hensley and Baker to come home with the tying and go-ahead runs.
Up 4-3, Haley allowed a Trojans single in the seventh, but no further damage took place and the Lady Generals escaped with the win to go to 16-4 on the season.
Hensley was the key bat for AW. She went 3-for-3 at the plate with the only RBI for the Generals.
Haley gave up just three hits and one earned run. She walked four Lady Trojans and struck out five.

These are a couple of articles that ran in The Mirror Newspaper.

To see what else you've been missing . . .