PERRY — Spencerville won the team title at Friday’s Lady Commodore Spectacular track and field meet.
The Bearcats finished with 157 points followed by Ada (114), Waynesfield-Goshen (110), Upper Scioto Valley (42), Ridgemont (38) and host Perry (26).
Spencerville’s Nelaya Burden won the 100- and 200-meter dashes and teamed up with Madison Catlin, Gabrielle Goecke and Alivia McMichael to win the 400 relay.
Catlin, McMichael, Sydney Shaffer and Goecke were first in the 1,600 relay and 800 sprint medley relay. Goecke also won the pole vault. Olivia Goecke won the discus and Allison Adams was first in the shot put also for the Bearcats. Spencerville also was first in the distance medley where those who ran for the Bearcats were not reported.
Abbey James (800) and Olivia Ennis (300 hurdles) and the 3,200 relay team of Anabel Alexander, Libbie Milks, Katie Butterfield and James finished first for Ada.
Waynefield-Goshen’s Ballie Barrington (1,600), Audra Meeks (high jump) and Caitlin Hinds (long jump), Ridgemont’s
Sidney Richardson (400) and USV’s Megan Carey (100 hurdles) all were event winners.
Girls basketball
New LCC coach
Katie Krieg has resigned her position as the Lima Central Catholic girl’s basketball head coach and Ron Williams, past athletic director and longtime assistant boys coach, will assume the position it was announced Friday.
Krieg, who coached the Thunderbirds for the past six years, posted a 75-65 record at LCC. This past year, Krieg guided the Thunderbirds to a 12-12 mark.
For Williams, the move to coach the girls’ team, sort of fell in his lap. Approximately two weeks ago, he met with Krieg about the possibility of helping coach the girls team as an assistant because his daughter, Rosie, is on the team, and he wanted to offer his experience.
A week later, Krieg met with LCC athletic director Frank Kill about stepping down as the head coach of the team due to family reasons.
Kill then met with Williams and asked him if he would accept the position of head coach and Williams accepted.
“It was one of those things that I don’t know if I would have asked to be an assistant if it wasn’t for my daughter,” Williams said. “She was the main reason I wanted to switch from boys to girls and things just opened up the way they did.”
Williams, who has coached girls at the middle school level, looks forward to the challenge and has the advantage of knowing the players he will be coaching.Williams was a member of the coaching staff of the teams that won state championships under Bob Seggerson and Kill at LCC.
“I have coached a lot of these girls when they were younger and I have been around them for years,” Williams said.
Baseball
Kalida-Elida
Today’s game between Kalida and Elida will be played at Elida beginning at 1 p.m.
Games canceled
The Crestview at Fort Recovery doubleheader scheduled for today has been canceled.
Softball
Game changed
Today’s New Knoxville at Jackson Center game has been moved to 1 p.m. at New Knoxville.
Colleges
HCAC All-Academic
BLUFFTON — The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference has announced its winter All-Academic awards for winter sports and 13 Bluffton University athletes were recognized.
Jackson Center graduate Trey Elchert, Adam Hopkins and Andrew Hunter from the men’s basketball team, Anna Hairston, Alisa Hauke, Maelinn Delong, Devony Miller, Sarah Oliver and Jonah Eckert from indoor track and Ottoville grad Rachel Beining, Macey Sheerer, Abigail O’Donnell and Allen East alum Kaycee Rowe from the women’s basketball were recognized.
To be named All-Academic HCAC, a student-athlete must have completed a full year at the institution, be a varsity athlete and carry a minimum cumulative grade point average of at least 3.5 through the semester preceding the end of the season.
Softball
ONU date changed
ADA — The Ohio Northern home contest with Ohio Athletic Conference-foe John Carroll has been moved from today to 1 p.m. Sunday.
The Transylvania (Ky.) double header originally scheduled for Sunday has been postponed to a date yet to be determined.
