When Oak Harbor enters the Northern Buckeye Conference in 2023, Eastwood’s dominance in track may be challenged. Eastwood boys had won 19 straight boys titles until this year, when they were edged by Genoa.
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BY YANEEK SMITH, BEACON CONTRIBUTOR
PORT CLINTON For the 11th year in a row, the Oak Harbor girls track team has won a league championship. The Rockets won the Sandusky Bay Conference Bay Division, finishing with 166 points.
Margaretta was second with 124 points, followed by Edison (116), Huron (113), Willard (71) and Port Clinton (47).
“I think all year long they felt a little pressure from Huron and Margaretta. In our eyes, it was going to be a really close meet. They were really making us wonder if we could win this year,” said Oak Harbor coach John McKitrick. “This senior class didn’t want to be the ones that lost the streak. Everybody did their job.”
Krupp finds the state meet podium in all four events Published by sports@presspub. on Thu, 03/04/2021 - 1:39pm
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Oak Harbor senior swimmer Elayna Krupp. (Photo by Laura Bolander)
Oak Harbor senior Elayna Krupp has come a long way since she began swimming competitively in middle school. Krupp, who hopes to swim for Bowling Green State University next year, reached the podium in four events at the Division II state swim meet at C.T. Branin Natatorium in Canton. However, most of her competitors were swimming competitively at a much younger age than she was. “She came to me in the summer of her eighth grade year and she was kind of raw,” Oak Harbor coach Andrea Sorg said. “She really had not swum before seventh grade competitively. For her to have a career like this and not really compete until you are in seventh grade, that is pretty much unheard of. So, she trained hard, she was very coachable and listened, and she is just all a
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