SYLVANIA — Findlay's Joel Burget and Drew Jack outlasted Sylvania Northview's Will Forrester and John Holler 6-2, 4-6, 6-0 in the No.2 doubles match to cap the Trojans 5-0 sweep of the Wildcats in non-conference boys tennis action Monday.
Findlay, 9-3 on the season, swept the other matches, including decisive 6-1, 6-2 victories by Seth Reed over Adam Jurski at No.1 singles and a 6-0, 6-2 romp by Mandela Sheaffer over Chris Seigneur at No.3. Steve Albert cruised past Billy Rachwal 6-4, 6-0 at No.2 singles, and Damien and Jordan Schuck rolled past Jordan Sun and Sean Camp 6-1, 6-0 at No.1 doubles.
Findlay will try to complete a 5-0 run through the Greater Buckeye Conference ranks when the Trojans host Lima Senior today.
EXHIBITION Matches
Zapf & Hu (Fin) def. Kroeger & Sun, 8-1; Swick & Sheridan (Fin) def. Connolly & A. Gross, 8-4; Hoban & Martin (Fin) def. Georgette & S. Gross, 8-0; Armand & C. Jack (Fin) def. Boudouris & Watson, 8-0; Gephart & Treft (Fin) def. Hildebrand & C. Blackwood, 8-1; Friar & Sheehan (Fin) def. Hadley & M. Blackwood, 9-7; Watson & Boudouris (SN) def. Balko & Rutledge, 8-0.
UF hosts tourney
Some of the best college golfers in the Midwest will be in Findlay beginning Saturday.
That's because the University of Findlay has been selected to host the NCAA Division II Central and Great Lakes Super Regional men's golf tournament at Red Hawk Run Golf Course.
The tournament gets underway Saturday and runs through Monday.
A total of 16 teams, including Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champion Findlay, and ten individuals from the two regions will compete in the event.
The top team in each regional and the top individual not on a qualifying team will earn a spot in the NCAA Division II national championships May 14-17 in Houston. In addition, ten other teams from throughout the country will earn a trip to the to the finals based on the previous three-year average of top-10 finishes of a super regional at the finals.
Central Regional
TEAMS — Washburn, Central Missouri, Winona State, Missouri Southern, Missouri Western, Upper Iowa, Fort Hayes State, Southwest Baptist.
INDIVIDUALS — Steven Busho, Minnesota-Crookston; Chris Kovach, Truman State; Kyle Lewis, Concordia-St. Paul; Jacob Sanders, Minnesota-Crookston; Keith Capps, Pittsburg State.
Great Lakes Regional
TEAMS — Grand Valley State, Wayne State, Ferris State, Indianapolis, Northern Kentucky, Ashland, Saginaw Valley State, Findlay.
INDIVIDUALS — Thomas Hay, Drury; Kyle Leach, Bellarmine; Brooks Herrick, Bellarmine; Andy Hansen, Wisconsin-Parkside; Josh Butterfield, Lewis.
BU's Babcock wins 2
HANOVER, Ind. — Bluffton University pitcher Brooke Babcock achieved a rare double Monday, getting the win in both games of a Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference softball doubleheader with Hanover College.
Babcock started the first game, a 6-3 Bluffton win. She allowed 6 hits, struck out 11 and helped her own cause with an RBI single. Amanda Harris doubled, tripled and drove in 2 runs and Abby Snyder had a 2-run triple as BU (25-15, 13-3 HCAC) rallied for 4 runs in the top of the seventh inning.
Babcock (13-11) also got win in the second game in relief of starter Kellie Kenney. Torrie Wilson (3-1B) and Kayla Williams (2-1B) drove in 3 runs each and Harris (2B, 1B), Snyder (2B, 1B) and Babcock (2-1B) all had 2 hits as Bluffton again staged a late game-winning rally, scoring 3 time sin the top of the seventh to beat Hanover 9-7.
Fry sets world mark
COLUMBUS — Fostoria's Jason Fry recently set a meet and national record in the bench press during the Inaugural United Powerlifting Association National Championships held at the Aladdin Shrine Center in Columbus.
Competing in the 181.75-pound class, Fry bench-pressed 706.6 pounds to not only win his division, but also break the record held by Brad Heck of Omaha, Neb.
Fry is a comparative newcomer to the sport of powerlifting.
"Joe Smith got me into it. I've been doing it for 4-412 years," said Fry, who commutes to Columbus twice a week to train at the Westside Barbell Club.
"It's the most prolific powerlifting gym in the world," Fry said. "People come from all over to train there."
Fry, 28, was originally a gymnastics coach at Gold Medal Gymnastics in Findlay. And while the two sports seem worlds apart, Fry credits one with developing his talents in the other.
"Gymnastics really helped me develop my upper body strength," Fry said.
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