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The look on Matt Stencel’s face said it all.

Stencel, a Clay senior and last year’s Division I state wrestling champion at 195 pounds, had his opponent in the “down” position with one second left in their 220-pound title match at the FloWrestling Super 32 Challenge on Nov. 1 in Greensboro, N.C.

The controversial fi nish did not end well for the 6-foot-2 Stencel, who will wrestle at 220 pounds for Clay this season. He took second at the state tournament at 182 pounds as a sophomore.

“After wrestling season last year, I ended up getting up to 235,” Stencel said. “I have a six-pack right now and I’m pretty healthy. I didn’t want to cut down a lot of weight because I didn’t want to lose my strength, and I’m going to wrestle heavy-weight in college (at Central Michigan).”

Stencel competed at the Super 32 tournament for coach Jacob Kasper’s Ohio Raptors squad. Stencel’s parents, Bud and Kim, attended the tournament as well.

It was Stencel’s second big tournament of the season. He competed at the Junior Fargo (N.D.) Nationals in late June, and took fourth in Greco-Roman and third in the freestyle portion of the tournament.

“I was not prepared for that tourna-ment,” Stencel said. “I had bumped up to 220 there and I hadn’t been lifting before that. I knew I had to come home and get stronger to compete with the kids when I moved up a weight class.”

Stencel’s fi rst four matches at the Super 32 went easy enough. He pinned Mikail Robinson in 1:22, pinned Tyler Cook in 1:07, decisioned Evan Ellis 4-0 in the quarterfi nals and pinned Cole Nye in 1:42 in the semifi -nals. Stencel pinned Cook a month before the Super 32, at a dual-meet tournament.Stencel faced senior Jordan Wood of Boyertown, Pa., in the fi nals. Wood is the second-ranked 220-pounder in the nation by FloWrestling, and Stencel is ranked fourth. Wood won a state championship in Pennsylvania last season, and will wrestle at Lehigh University next year.

Stencel took an early 2-1 lead, but Wood tied the match when the offi cial awarded him a point for getting “run” off the mat by Stencel. The offi cial did not give Stencel a prior warning.

“That call technically should be called stalling,” Stencel said. “It shouldn’t have been called anything at all. He didn’t at-tempt to stay on the mat. If it was any call at all, it should have been a stall on me. I was pushing out of bounds, but I was trying to return him and just went out of bounds. I

was just trying to hang on and the refs said I pushed him out.

“I knew I had to keep wrestling. I wasn’t going to be able to change the ref’s mind, so you just have to keep wrestling.”

Stencel trailed 3-2 after an escape by Wood, and then a takedown by Wood put

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“I knew I had to come home and get stronger to compete with the kids when

I moved up a weight class.

Stencel in a 5-2 hole. Wood would give up a point to narrow it to 5-3.

“Him being No. 2 in the country, when he got a shot he knew how to get on his feet,” Stencel said. “My strength is wres-tling on my feet and getting takedowns. Before the match my dad told me not to

rush anything. I was more laid back than I would have liked to have been. You can go back and look at that match and there could have been 1,000 different things to make a different outcome.”

Stencel tied it at 5-5 with what the match announcers deemed a controversial takedown of Wood with one second left in the fi nal period. Both wrestlers tumbled off the mat, and the match was stopped mo-mentarily as the offi cial gave an explana-tion to Wood’s coach.

“That wasn’t controversial at all,” Stencel said. “The lady who was tapping for time was up (in the period), she tapped the ref too early and the ref blew his whistle. The ref was saying to their coach that I initiated the attempt at the takedown and (Wood) was still defending it the whole time.”

Wood then chose the down position, and in the blink of an eye he was awarded an escape, giving him one point and a 6-5 victory. The look on Stencel’s face was ut-ter disbelief. One announcer said, “I’ve never seen that in my life.”

Stencel said that fi nal second was just another example of where there were “one hundred things I could have done differ-ently.”

“Time wasn’t out,” he said. “I have a picture (of it) on my phone. It was my fault for leaving it up to the refs to make that call. I can hold him down for more than one second, no doubt in my mind. It was an objective call from the ref and it was my fault for leaving it up to them.”

Stencel said he learned a valuable les-son, even at this stage of his decorated ca-reer.

“Don’t leave it up to the refs,” he said. “Beat your opponent by fi ve or more points and you don’t have to leave it up to the refs to make the call.”

That attitude doesn’t bode well for Stencel’s opponents at Clay this year.

“I’m ready,” he said, “for the season to get started.”

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Lake junior Owen Johnson, the only local golfer to qualify to the state meet, is the Alan Miller Jewelers Golfer of the Year. Johnson took fi fth place out of 12 golf-ers who qualifi ed as individuals on Oct. 16-17 at the Division II state golf tourna-ment at North Star Golf Club in Sunbury. Overall, he fi nished 31st out of 72 golfers in the fi eld. Johnson shot an 87-82—169 during the two-day event. He was just two shots be-hind fourth-place fi nisher Mark Standohar of Girard. Johnson is coached by Dorian Boggs, who was pleased with Johnson fi nishing in the upper half of all golfers at state. While Johnson was hoping to do better, so were four long distance runners who qualifi ed for the state cross country meet.

Clay senior Haley Hess, Eastwood ju-nior Hannah Sponaugle, Woodmore senior Courtney Burner and Northwood freshman Trinity Fowler — are this year’s Alan Miller Jewelers Co-Runners of the Year.

All four came away disappointed with some aspect of their race at National Trail Raceway in Hebron, but all four expressed satisfaction with being able to even com-pete at such a high level.

Hess makes fourth trip, Sponaugle thirdHess made the state meet all four

years in high school and was proud of the fact that she earned All-Ohio honors for the third time. Hess fi nished 14th in the Division I race in 18:25.8.

“Obviously it wasn’t my best race,” she said. “It’s so exciting to know you got All-Ohio and made it to state meet for four years. That’s a great accomplishment. Freshman year you’re a little inexperi-enced. Once I got to regionals my freshman year, I fi nally understood what it was. This year I wanted to get back on the podium, which I did.”

Hess placed 56th at the state meet in 2012, took sixth as a sophomore and fi n-ished 10th last year, in 18:33.94. Clay’s girls’ team took 12th at the Tiffi n regional two weeks ago, but Hess won the individ-ual title with a season-best time of 18:06, which she thought she could repeat at the state meet.

“Not every race is a good race,” Hess said. “It was still a good race, but not com-pared to the regional. I didn’t have my best race. My legs weren’t feeling the greatest. It was my second fastest time, so it was still a good run. I still got All-Ohio, so that was exciting.”

Clay coach Dave Hess said Haley had “a good day,” and highlighted the fact that she fi nished her senior year on the awards podium and ran the fastest time she’s ever run at state.

“She wanted to run with the pack of girls we thought would be in the race (at the end) and try to make it a 1,000-meter race in the end,” Coach Hess said. “She just couldn’t hang on. At that level, you have to have your best day. She is a very talented, hard-working girl and it shows that even though she didn’t have her best day, she could still fi nd her way to the podium and fi nd a very competitive, fast time.”

Sponaugle, a three-time state quali-fi er, placed 48th at last year’s D-II meet, in 19:49.98, but this year’s fi eld was a little

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faster. Sponaugle placed 49th despite fi n-ishing 13 seconds faster (19:36.2) than a year ago.

“I got out well and I was where I want-ed to be with two miles to go,” Sponaugle said. “I sort of lost focus in the last mile. I slowed down when I should have sped up. I felt tired and I didn’t think I could go any faster. I didn’t push as fast as I wanted to.”

Sponaugle got to this year’s state meet by winning her district race and taking sev-enth at the Tiffi n regional (19:02.7), which was well off the school-record time (18:41) she ran while defending her Northern Buckeye Conference title last month.

After placing 33rd at state as a fresh-man, Sponaugle said she is ready to make it four in a row at National Trail Raceway next season.

“I didn’t fi nish as high as I wanted to,” she said. “I wanted to be in the top 25, so I’m fairly disappointed. It was a mental struggle. This gives me motivation for next season. It will help me concentrate more.”

Burner, Fowler place at D-IIIWoodmore’s girls’ team took 13th

out of 16 teams at the Tiffi n regional, but Burner advanced to the D-III state meet in the last individual qualifying spot. She fi n-ished 16th in 19:47.3.

Burner took advantage of her oppor-tunity to run at state by fi nishing 30th in 19:35.1

“Going into the race I wanted to have fun with it, because I knew it was my last high school race,” said Burner, whose ca-reer-best time is 19:01. “I was hoping for top 25, but I’m pretty stoked about getting top 30.”

Burner said she had run at National Trail Raceway before, in preseason races as a sophomore and junior. She knew what to expect last Saturday.

“I wanted to get out fast and just main-tain it until the fi nish and stay loose, using positive thinking,” Burner said. “Whenever I get negative, I get super uptight. I feel like with running you have to be very positive.”

Burner said she got so “overwhelmed” at the regional race she briefl y passed out before the fi nish.

“I had to crawl to the fi nish,” she said. “I barely fi nished. I was (running) with the

7-8-9 runners at the end. It was surreal and I got super overwhelmed with thinking ‘I’m going to make it to state’ and I ended up collapsing. (Last Saturday) I just wanted to have fun with it. I worried about myself and I kept positive.”

Fowler also competed in the D-III state meet and fi nished even better with a very respectable 17th in 19:16.6.

“I wasn’t really nervous,” she said. “It was really fast. It was real scary, actually. It was really wild, with lots of people scream-ing the whole race. It was exciting. I was happy with my time. I was a little upset be-cause I just missed top 16.”

Fowler entered the race after winning the Toledo Area Athletic Conference title in a personal-best time of 19:07, winning her district race and then taking fi fth at the Tiffi n regional. She said competing last Saturday was the highlight of her season.

“I don’t think I really had a strategy,” she said. “I wanted to go out fast and push the second mile and keep pushing. I want-ed a sub-19 (minutes). I think it will give me a lot of motivation to do even better next year.”

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Tyler Fry Eastwood NBC

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Stephen Johnson Cardinal Stritch TAAC

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STATE QUALIFIERS (GIRLS)

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Hannah Sponaugle Eastwood D-II

Trinity Fowler Northwood D-III

Courtney Burner Woodmore D-III

REGIONAL QUALIFIERS (BOYS)

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Nick Emerine Woodmore NBC

Nick Korducki Cardinal Stritch TAAC

Adam Burns Clay TRAC

Dametrius Alexander Waite TCL

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Konnor Fletcher Oak Harbor SBC

Austin Tallman Oak Harbor SBC

Vicente Alejandro Gibsonburg TAAC

Sydney Hess Clay TRAC

Hannah Hess Clay TRAC

Brittany Matthews Genoa NBC

Marissa Boos Lake NBC

Lauren Welker Eastwood NBC

Larissa Barman Eastwood NBC

Jasmine Stein Gibsonburg TAAC

Jocelynn Dunbar Northwood TAAC

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Daniel Trombley Eastwood NBC

Grant Matwiejczyk Woodmore NBC

Robbie Wilson Genoa NBC

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Noelle Freund Woodmore NBC

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Jordan Iffland Genoa NBC

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REGIONAL QUALIFIERS (GIRLS)

FIRST TEAM ALL-LEAGUE (GIRLS)

Haley Hess Clay D-I

Sydney Hess Clay D-I

Caitlyn Kuecher Clay D-I

Alaina Lesniewicz Clay D-I

Marissa Niezgoda Clay D-I

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Madison Miller Clay D-I

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Brittany Matthews Genoa D-II

Courtney Burner Woodmore D-III

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Jordan Grzegorczyk Woodmore D-III

Noelle Freund Woodmore D-III

Kate Barbee Woodmore D-III

Jessica Sotak Woodmore D-III

Amber Zarella Woodmore D-III

Trinity Fowler Northwood D-III

Haley Hess Clay TRAC

Hannah Sponaugle Eastwood NBC

Courtney Burner Woodmore NBC

Samantha Sedimeier Woodmore NBC

Carly Gose Genoa NBC

Jordan Grzegorczyk Woodmore NBC

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It wasn’t the ending they were hoping for, but it certainly won’t diminish Lake’s accomplishments on the gridiron. Despite losing in heartbreaking fash-ion, 42-35, to Doylestown Chippewa, in the first round of the Division V playoffs, Lake walks away with one of the most success-ful football seasons ever. The Flyers won their first Northern Buckeye Conference title in 14 years while finishing the regular season undefeated, going 10-0 for just the second time in school history. It is also Lake’s first team since 1978 to win 10 games. It’s quite a turnaround for a program that went 15-15 from 2010-12. Since hir-ing Mark Emans to take over the program, Lake has gone 26-6 and advanced to the postseason twice. Previously, the NBC con-sisted of Genoa, Eastwood “and everyone else.” Now, Lake has established itself as a bona fide threat and, Rossford, which just notched its first playoff win in school his-tory, could be part of a changing landscape in the conference. The Flyers accomplished all this despite losing a number of key seniors and switching from an offense that was predi-cated on passing the ball — former quarter-back Jared Rettig set seven school passing records — to one that focused primarily on running the ball. One of the constants during this three-year run has been running back Branden Short. The senior completed his career by setting four records — career rushing yards (4,181); single-season rushing yards (2,011); career rushing TDs (66); and sin-gle-season rushing TDs (34) — and was an absolute monster this season. Short established himself as one of the top running backs in Ohio while also playing well in the biggest games. In the playoff loss to the Chipps, Short had argu-ably the game of his life, saving the best for last as he rushed 26 times for 241 yards and accounted for all of the Flyers’ five touch-downs (four rushing, one receiving). Earlier in the season, when Lake edged Rossford, 49-46, in Week 4 in the game that ultimately decided the NBC title, Short car-ried the ball 27 times for 161 yards and two scores, including a 46-yard scamper with 1:39 to play that gave the Flyers a 10-point lead and effectively put the game away. “It was a pleasure. You never get these times back, and all you can do is cherish

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the memories that you’ve built up during the season,” said Short, who also played linebacker. “Football has been great. It’s more than just a game to me. Sometimes you question all the work you’ve put in during the offseason, but come Friday night, it all pays off. “It’s been a great season. You have to build up the chemistry or else the season wouldn’t have been as fun. You go through two-a-days with these guys and you see them every day, so you have no choice to build chemistry, whether it’s good or bad. Most importantly, you’re relying on each other to make plays on Friday night. The

team chemistry this year was as good (as it’s been). We had a lot of success — every week was the most important week and we all bought into that.” Short was quick to credit Emans, his offensive line, the unsung heroes — left tackle Jimmy Urias, left guard George West, center Chris Strock, right guard Matt Szymanski and right tackle Aaron Szegedi, plus tight end Drayton Williams — and running backs coach Josh Andrews for helping him. “The line I had this year, I wouldn’t have been able to do anything without them,” Short said. “Josh Andrews is the best coach I’ve ever had. And I put in a lot of work in the offseason to be successful.” Short is looking to play football at the collegiate level and currently has his eye on several NCAA Division II and III schools. Short was one of 10 Flyers, the most in the NBC, to earn fi rst-team league honors. Six came on offense — Short (running back), Szymanski (guard), Urias (tackle), Strock (center), Williams (tight end) and Adam Duncan (wide receiver); three came on defense – Duncan (defensive back), Szegedi (defensive lineman) and Nick DeLauter (linebacker); and one on special teams – Duncan (kicker).

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Ball State University sophomore goalkeeper Alyssa Heintschel (Clay), a fi rst team All-Mid-American Conference selection, pulls in another save. (Photo by Scott McNitt)

Heintschel ‘humbled’ by All-MAC honorBy Mark Griffi nPress Contributing [email protected]

Leave it to Clay grad Alyssa Heintschel to spread the praise around to her teammates after being asked what it means to her to be named the Mid-American Conference’s fi rst-team goal keeper in women’s soccer.

“Our defensive line shut down other offensive lines, and I didn’t have much to do,” said Heintschel, a sophomore at Ball State University. “My main goal was to do my job and whatever accolades come, that’s all fi ne and dandy. I just want to be the best for my teammates because they work so hard ahead of me.”

The 5-foot-8 Heintschel admitted that earning fi rst-team honors this season was “something in back of my mind,” but it hardly consumed her. She has always been a team-fi rst player.

“I was in training every day thinking, ‘how can I be the best for my team,’ ” she said. “I’m the last line of defense. If we get scored on, it’s mostly on me. It’s my job to make sure we have a fi ghting chance. The biggest thing for me is to make the big save when I’m called upon.”

With Heintschel in goal, the Cardinals clinched their fi rst MAC regular season title since 2007, and just the third in school his-tory. Her 0.63 goals against average ranks as the fourth best in school history.

Ball State fi nished 14-3-3 overall, los-ing to MAC rival Akron in the conference tournament quarterfi nals.

“Winning the title was huge for us,” Heintschel said. “I know we put in a lot of work last spring season and in the fall pre-season. You could tell the team dynamic was there. We really wanted it and we be-lieved it was in our reach.”

She said the Cardinals had an inkling they were in for a good season when they tied LSU and Indiana, both on the road, early in the season.

“To have good results against them re-inforced our ability that we can take care of business in the MAC,” Heintschel said.

Ball State earned the No. 1 seed in the MAC tourney, but lost to eighth-seeded

Akron on penalty kicks.“They made four of their fi ve (kicks)

and we made three,” Heintschel said. “It was pretty devastating. We beat them (1-0) two weeks prior. They had a game plan and they followed through with it.”

Heintschel was twice named the con-ference’s defensive player of the week in 2015. She started every game and tied the Ball State record for wins in a season by a goalkeeper, with 14. She posted seven solo shutouts and played the majority of the minutes in two other shutouts.

Heintschel’s 0.54 goals against average during conference play tied for the best in the MAC, and she ended the season with four consecutive shutouts. The Cardinals outscored their opponents by a 35-13 mar-gin, including 21-6 in conference play.

Heintschel’s second MAC defensive honor was awarded on Nov. 2.

“Two shutouts are defi nitely some-thing that puts goal keepers in the spot-light for winning that award,” she said. “We beat Miami, 1-0, on a Thursday to clinch the regular-season title. Three days later, we played Akron in the tournament and played them 0-0 through 110 minutes of competition, and that’s when it went to PK’s. It still goes into the record books as a shutout because we didn’t get scored on.”

On top of that, Heintschel was named to the second team on the Academic All-District squad last month. The teams are selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Heintschel is major-ing in pre-med and chemistry.

“I had never heard of the award,” she said. “Our team hasn’t won it for a couple years, so I had to do some research to see what it meant. They take players from each position from your region to name the all-district teams.”

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sayers may not have done that for various reasons, including business relations with customers in certain areas. The few times that I picked against one of my fa-vorite high school teams I told them why I did and tried to get them mad enough that they might devel-op a ‘we’ll show ‘em’ attitude. One thing that made it much easier was having teams like Ohio State, Bowling Green State University and the University of Toledo on the list,” Hamilton said. “I thought they would do well and they didn’t let me down. On the other side, we had the Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns who were also very de-pendable and I got many points from their losses. I had a bit of luck that helped as well.

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Brooke Gyori (Clay), a freshman de-fensive specialist for the No. 9 Owens Community College women’s volleyball team, has been named the OCCAC Player of the Week for a second time.

In four matches, Gyori totaled 74 digs, including 33 against No. 18 St. Clair County and 23 against Columbus State. She also to-taled seven assists and eight service aces.

This was the second OCCAC player of the week award for Gyori this season. She also won on Sept. 20.

The No. 9 Owens Community College women’s volleyball team has been seed-ed fifth in the upcoming National Junior College Athletic Association Division II National Tournament in Phoenix, Ariz.

In earning the fifth seed, Owens (37-5 overall) will open against the No. 12 seed Kirkwood (28-15) out of Iowa. That match-up will occur Nov. 19 at 5 p.m. E.T. Should Owens advance in the championship bracket, they would take on the winner of No. 4 Des Moines Area (Iowa) and No. 13 Sauk Valley (Illinois) at 9:30 p.m. that evening in a quarterfinal matchup.

The national semifinal is Nov. 20 at 8:30 p.m. E.T. and the championship is Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m.

Owens previously defeated Kirkwood 25-17, 25-19, 22-25, 25-18 on Sept. 18 in a neutral site matchup. In the match, Macy Reigelsperger (Coldwater) and Erika Hartings (Coldwater) combined for 31 kills, Deanna Smith (Riverview, Mich.) had 30 assists and Gyori had 17 digs.

Should Owens face Des Moines Area in the quarterfinals, they would take on a team that defeated them 30-28, 16-25, 27-25, 25-22 in a very close matchup on Sept. 18 in a neutral site matchup. Reigelsperger and Hartings combined for 30 kills in that matchup, while the team produced 120 digs as a team — led by 35 from Gyori and 28 from Ally Mikesell (St. Henry).

Owens has a potential semifinal matchup against No. 1 seed and undefeated Parkland College (53-0). They defeated Owens in three sets on Oct. 30, but two of the sets were two point margins. Parkland is the two-time defending NJCAA Division II runner-up, and they defeated Owens in the national third/fourth place match in 2012.

The defending NJCAA Division II national champion, Glendale (Ariz.) Community College earned the tourna-ment’s No. 2 seed.

The tournament is being hosted by Phoenix College, Nov. 19-20, in the Phoenix College Gymnasium.

Owens stamped their ticket to nation-als by winning the Region XII District F championship. They defeated Columbus State Community College, the two-time defending OCCAC champion, in the finals. (— Nick Huenefeld/Owens Sports Information)

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Wilhelm gets ace Genoa resident Doug Wilhelm used a wedge to get a hole-in-one on the 98-yard, No. 5 at Ottawa Park Golf Course in West Toledo. Bill Bundy, who was golfi ng with Wilhelm and witnessed the event, said the pin was in the back and they could not see it go in because of a bunker that was protecting the green, fi nding out when they reached the green. Also wit-nessing was golfer Dewey Wilhelm.

Owens Community College freshman defensive specialist Brooke Gyori (Clay) directs traffi c. (Photo courtesy Nicholas Huenefeld/Owens Sports Information Director)

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Hamilton Soothsayer champion Press football soothsayer Harold Hamilton of HEH Photos went 15-1 during the fi nal week of selections, missing only the University of Toledo’s loss to Northern Illinois. Hamilton (115-35, 76.7 percent) and Press features editor Tammy Walro (113-37) were tied for fi rst place heading into the fi -nal week, and Walro fi nishes as runner-up. Oregon businessman Alan Miller moved into third at 112-38, followed by Toledo Sports Network television producer Mike Jameson (111-39), Press contributing sportswriter Mark Griffi n (108-42), Genoa Banking Company President Marty Sutter (105-45), Pemberville businessman Dennis Henline (102-48) and Eastern Maumee Bay Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Yvonne Thoma-Patton (99-51). Hamilton said he decided the only way he was going to get the best results was to pick against some of his own local favor-ites, which is not easy to do. “I decided your readers were not inter-ested in my favorite teams but which teams I thought honestly had a better chance of win-ning. I needed to choose with my head not my heart. I recognize that some of the sooth-

they have. This problem is compounded by having to submit the picks almost two weeks before the actual games due to the Press deadlines. It was especially hard to pick early in the season.

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Ever wonder what it would feel like to have broken ribs?

Jon Sandwisch knows. The for-mer Woodmore quarterback, a senior at Heidelberg University, broke his collarbone in grade school, but it felt nothing like this.

“Anything you do, it hurts,” said Sandwisch, a 6-foot-2, 220-pound quarter-back for the Student Princes. “Breathing, coughing, sneezing – it’s like the worst. Sleeping is the most diffi cult thing. I had to take pain medication. That was the worst part, not sleeping.”

The injury occurred during Heidelberg’s third game this season, just when Sandwisch said he felt he was hitting his stride on the football fi eld. A fi rst-year starter, Sandwich got hurt at the end of the fi rst quarter against Ohio Northern University.

“They had a corner blitz and I got hit on my blind side,” he said. “I got hit on my left side, and I’m right handed. I didn’t see him coming and he just crushed me. I got the wind knocked out of me and it progres-sively got worse, but I wanted to keep play-ing. I had two broken ribs and three total fractures.”

Sandwisch fi nished the game, a 34-20 loss, and completed 21 of 37 passes for a career-high 290 yards and a touchdown, with one interception. He ran 12 times for 25 yards and one TD.

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Heidelberg quarterback Jon Sandwisch (Woodmore). (Photo courtesy Heidel-berg Sports Information Department)

to return to the fi eld later in the season for coach Mike Hallett’s squad, but that never happened. Sandwisch hasn’t played since the injury, and he won’t play in Heidelberg’s season-ending game against Baldwin-Wallace on Saturday. The Student Princes headed into that game with a 5-4 record, in-cluding 5-3 in the Ohio Athletic Conference.

Sandwisch, a history major, was 15-for-33 passing for 135 yards and one touch-down and rushed 14 times for 46 yards and another TD in Heidelberg’s season-opening 26-24 loss at Cortland State.

In the second game, a 23-16 home loss to 10th-ranked John Carroll, Sandwisch completed 10 of 27 passes for 142 yards and a TD, with one interception. He also ran 15 times for 55 yards.

One week later, Sandwisch’s season – and his college playing career – was over.

“The game was slowing down for me,” he said. “I had game reps (last year) but I was getting into a fl ow. I was getting more comfortable. We played really solid teams the fi rst three weeks and I was gaining con-fi dence, and the team was coming together.”

Hallett asked Sandwisch to help coach sophomore quarterback Tyler Stoyle, who has fi lled in admirably. Stoyle has thrown for 1,699 yards and 22 touchdowns, with two interceptions, and is completing 66 percent of his passes.

“Tyler is the son of a high school foot-ball coach,” Sandwisch said. “He’s very knowledgeable and always takes advice, which is awesome. At the end of the day, he’s a very good friend of mine. It’s nice to

see people you care about succeed. He’s a standup guy and we get along really well.”

The rib injury has allowed Sandwisch to get a head start on his goal of becoming a head coach, after he completes his masters degree.

“They put me up in the coaches’ box (during games) and I’ve had some input on some stuff,” Sandwisch said. “They put me in a coach’s role, which was cool because that’s going to be my career. That’s what I want to do.”

Sandwisch has been able to spend time with his younger brother Zach, a senior line-backer at defending Division III state cham-pion Central Catholic. The Irish (9-2) are still alive in this year’s playoffs and faced Clyde (10-1) on Friday at Lake High School.

“I have a love for football and I want to see my brother succeed,” Jon said. “I watch fi lm of him and try to give him some pointers when he wants to listen to me. He hasn’t reached his full potential, and it will be scary when he does.”

Zach soon will sign a letter of intent to play at West Virginia University next fall. But, what can a college quarterback teach a high school linebacker?

“We both love contact,” Jon said. “Because I’m a quarterback, I know lot about (reading) defenses, so I have to study defenses very well. Being in college foot-ball for four years, I know what’s going on with the defense. Zach defi nitely keeps improving every game. He’s still growing and it’s going to be scary when he fi nally reaches his potential.”

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