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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
The Beacon
BY YANEEK SMITH , BEACON CONTRIBUTOR
CANTON Oak Harbor had one of its finest showings on its biggest stage, finishing fifth in the Division II state tournament.
The Rockets had the best performance of any public school in Ohio, finishing with 113 points. Gates Mills Hawken won its 22nd consecutive state title with 387 points. Shaker Heights Hathaway Brown was second with 260 points, the Columbus School for Girls finished with 133 points and Cincinnati Seven Hills had 129 points.
Port Clinton finished 16th with 39 points.
Elayna Krupp finished her stellar career with a tremendous performance, finishing fifth in the 100 freestyle in 52.40 seconds. Krupp was part of two relays that both finished in fourth place. The 200 free relay of Krupp, Alyse Sorg, Skyler Turner and Amelia Mizelle was fourth in 1:37.21 and the 400 free relay team of Turner, Sorg, Paige Krupp and Elayna Krupp also took fourth in 3:37.17. The 200 medley relay team of Turner, Mizelle, Emily Hair and P
Clay, Eastwood, Oak Harbor swim at the state meet Published by sports@presspub. on Thu, 02/25/2021 - 1:50pm
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Clay swimmers Joslyn Jurski and Abram Hagedorn. (Press photo by Ken Grosjean)
Clay swimmers Joslyn Jurski and Abram Hagedorn have been rewriting the program’s record book during their prep careers, and they likely are not done. Both were swimming to get on the Division I state meet podium at C.T. Branin Natatorium in Canton, which was held Wednesday through Saturday, Feb. 24-27. Clay coach Rod Gyurke thinks what they have accomplished is even more impressive when you consider that the team only participated in a handful of meets this season.