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Lake selects playoff veteran as head football coach
Lake Local Schools completed its search for a new head football coach over the holiday break, receiving 54 applicants for the position, interviewing eight candidates and selecting Bob Olwin.
Olwin comes to the Lake with 30 years of experience as a head football coach. During his career he achieved 10 conference championships and participated in the state playoffs seven times. Coach Olwin has taken three different schools to the state playoffs — Versailles, Fairview, and Tiffin Calvert.
“Coach Olwin comes with a lot of experience as a head football coach,” Lake Athletic Director Dave Shaffer said. “A proven winner — he has been very successful and we look forward to those successes at Lake.”
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New Lake football coach Bob Olwin.
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Countless players under Olwin have received all-state recognition, with several holding state records. He currently comes from Versailles High School in the southwest district of Ohio, Darke County. Versailles, which participates in the Midwest Athletic Conference, finished with a 9-3 record and second place finish in the MAC. Additionally, Versailles participated in the playoffs, losing a second round game to eventual state runner-up and MAC foe Coldwater.
Coach Olwin received Southwest Ohio District Coach of the Year honors this past fall. He is most notably known for his accomplishments at Sherwood Fairview, in the northwest district of Ohio, Defiance County. While at Fairview he amassed a record of 104-33, won seven Green Meadows Conference championships and appeared in the state playoffs five times during a 13-year career.
Olwin replaces Bob Abbey, a Lake alumnus who coached five years, accumulating a 21-29 record. Abbey’s 2011 team won its final two games to finish 5-5 and 4-3 in the Northern Buckeye Conference.
Dartball leaders
Through the halfway point of the Wood County Dartball League season (33 games), Melvin Karns of (Pemberville) Bethlehem No. 1 is leading the circuit in hitting (of those teams reporting) with a .525 average (82-for-156). Teammate Dave Apgar is second at .506 (82-162). Karns and Apgar also share the lead for total hits with 82. Additionally, Karns is first in singles with 77 and Apgar is second with 74.
Bob Kreienkamp (Bethlehem No. 1) is the runaway leader with 47 runs batted in, 14 ahead of second place Dana Kratzer and Mike Farr of Bowling Green Trinity United Methodist. Both Kratzer and Farr have 33. Zion Luckey’s Rick Nelson paces the league in doubles with 53. Teammate Dan Meyer is second with 29.
Farr and Kreienkamp rank first and second, respectively, in triples with 19 and 18. BG Cloverdale holds four of the top five spots in home runs. Ralph Aufdenkamp and Seth Peters each have 16 four-baggers, while teammate Rick Traver is next with 15.
Once again this year, eastern Wood County teams are dominating the league, taking seven of the top eight spots with three BG teams taking the last three.
Pemberville Methodist (28-11) is in first place, followed by Bethlehem No. 1 (26-13), New Rochester (24-15), Pemberville Presbyterian (21-18), BG Trinity United Methodist (20-19), Zion Luckey (19-20), Stony Ridge (19-20), Bethlehem No. 2 (18-21), Salem (17-22), BG Nazarene (16-23), BG Cloverdale (15-24), and BG St. Mark’s (11-28).
Maumee Bay Classic
The 36th Annual Maumee Bay Classic Invitational wrestling tournament, formerly the Mary E. Kerr Memorial held at Waite, will be Jan. 20-21 at Clay. It is a 32-man bracket tournament on seven mats, with finals on four mats. Top eight places will be awarded. Award ceremony is after 285-pound championship match.
The tournament begins at 4 p.m. Friday, with semifinals at 9:30 a.m. Saturday and finals starting at 5 p.m. Teams are Anthony Wayne, Bowling Green, Brush, Cardinal Stritch, Central Crossing, Clay, Delta, Elmwood, Findlay, Fremont Ross, Grove City, Cincinnati LaSalle, Liberty Center, Lima Shawnee, Lorain Senior, Mansfield Madison, Massillon Washington, Maumee, Mt. Vernon, Northwood, Perry, Perrysburg, Reynoldsburg, Sandusky, Sylvania Southview, Tiffin Columbian, and Wauseon.
Prep basketball results
To find updated high school prep basketball results and schedules for every school in Northwest Ohio, visit The Press website at www.presspublications.com and click on “Prep Basketball Results.” That will link you to www.davey1.com, a website managed by Dave Spengler. Also on Davey1.com is “Trail Trash,” which has been published twice annual since 1994 in conjunction with the state boys’ basketball tournament.
Sports announcements
The East Toledo Family Center is still accepting applications for the third and fourth grade co-ed basketball league and the fifth and sixth grade boys and girls basketball leagues. Contact Alan Seeger or Roger Dodsworth at 419-691-1429.
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Toledo Community Recreation Program is offering basketball leagues for high school boys and girls 19 and under and junior high school boys and girls 15 and under. Contact Jim Gramza 419-936-3090 or 419-356-1077.
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The Eastwood girls softball team is raffling off an Eastwood Eagle patio table which was designed and build by Dave Fahle (1978 Eastwood graduate) The table is made of concrete and is meant to look as if it were chipped from a piece of granite. Eastwood will be displaying the table at home basketball games throughout the season and the tickets are only $5. Call Mick Foster at 419-348-4934.
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