St. Francis de Sales repeated its team title and Notre Dame won the girls crown Saturday at the Three Rivers Athletic Conference swimming championships at Fremont Ross.
The Knights won with 746 points, followed by runner-up Fremont Ross (469), Findlay (415), and St. John’s Jesuit (276).
Leading the way for St. Francis was TRAC boys swimmer of the year Christian Sobczak, a senior who won the 100-yard backstroke (52.17 seconds) and 200-yard individual medley (1:54.09), and swam a leg on the winning 200 (1:27.30) and 400 freestyle relay (3:15.00) teams.
St. Francis junior Jecorlin Frazier posted a score of 524.85 to win the 1-meter diving championship, and senior Aaron Borgman won the 200 (1:44.84) and 500 (4:43.08) freestyle, who also swam on the 200 and 400 freestyle winning relay teams.
Knights senior Ben Gordon won in the 100 butterfly (52.79), and swam on the 200 and 400 freestyle relays and the wining 200 medley relay.
St. Francis sophomore A.J. Wawrzyniak won the 100 breaststroke (1:03.93), and swam a leg on the winning 200 medley relay team.
Fremont Ross junior Trent Williams won the 50 free (22.47) and the 100 free (48.90).
Fremont Ross junior Meghan Moses, who won titles in three events for the third straight year, was named TRAC girls swimmer of the year.
She won the 50 (24.42) and 100 (53.71) freestyle, and swam a leg on the victorious 200 freestyle relay team (1:40.16). Teammates Morgan Waggoner, Kaity Kelly, and Haley Fisher were also part of the record-setting relay effort.
Notre Dame won the team title despite finishing first in only one of the 12 events with junior Sam Jacobs winning the 1-meter diving competition with a score of 367.80.
But the Eagles had enough overall depth to edge rival St. Ursula 537.5-521.
St. Ursula senior Zhada Fields was a double winner, taking titles in the 100 backstroke (59.52), and the 200 free (1:57.95). The Arrows also got a victory from senior Mikayla Murphy in the 500 free (5:20.76).
Ross placed third with 448 points. Other Little Giants winning were Waggoner, a junior, in the 100 butterfly (1:00.38), and Fisher, a senior, in the 200 IM (2:10.92).
Fourth-place Findlay (417.5) got a title in the 100 breaststroke (1:10.40) from sophomore Hannah Clinger, who also swam a leg on the winning 200 medley relay (1:55.22) and the 400 free relay (3:53.96) teams.
Brett Ransom of St. Francis was named TRAC boys coach of the year, and Tina Moses of Ross and Lori Yaross of Notre Dame shared girls coach-of-the-year honors.
Since the TRAC began in 2011-12, St. Francis has won all four boys titles. Ross had won the previous two girls championships.
Hockey
Knights, Trojans aim for title
The Red Division race in the Northwest Hockey Conference is pointing toward a potential showdown between top-ranked St. Francis and sixth-ranked Findlay.
The Knights (25-1-1) take a 4-1-0 division record into Friday’s 9 p.m. game against defending state champion Northview at Tam-O-Shanter, then face Bowling Green at 9 p.m. Saturday.
Even if St. Francis wins both games, Findlay may still have a chance to earn a share of the division title when the Trojans face the Knights on Feb. 7.
If St. Francis does win those two games, Findlay (14-11-2, 4-2-0 Red) would need to defeat BG on Feb. 6, and beat the Knights on the next night. That would forge a tie atop the Red at 6-2-0.
Findlay is the only team to beat St. Francis this season, blanking the Knights 1-0 at home on Jan. 9. The Feb. 7 rematch will be at 7 p.m. at Tam-O-Shanter.
Northview (2-3-2 Red), St. John’s (3-5-0 Red), and Bowling Green (1-3-2) have been eliminated from title contention.
In the White Division’s National Conference, Anthony Wayne (7-2-0), Perrysburg (7-3-0), and Bedford (7-0-0) are battling things out for first place.
First place in the White Division’s American Conference is a battle between Clay (6-1-0) and Maumee (6-4-0), and could ultimately boil down to a regular-season finale between the teams at the Bowling Green Ice Arena at 6 p.m. Feb. 13.
Clay has five other division games to get through before then, and the Panthers have two in the division before facing the Eagles.
Basketball
Adams nears record
Cardinal Stritch senior Austin Adams, who has committed to Urbana University, is closing in on a 29-year-old school record for career points.
With his 19 points scored in Tuesday’s 63-54 Toledo Area Athletic Conference loss against Gibsonburg, Adams has 1,378 career points.
Joe Gajdostik (1983-86) is the current record-holder with 1,425 points.
Adams, a 6-foot-6 guard-forward, is also the Cardinals’ single-game record holder, scoring 44 points in a win over Northwood last season. He is the only Stritch player to have reached 1,000 points before his senior season.
Football
Toth leaving Central Catholic
Nick Toth has resigned his position as defensive coordinator at Central Catholic, but said he is not retiring.
He just doesn’t know where his next stop will be after helping the Irish to two state championships in three seasons.
“It’s the right time for me to move on,” Toth said. “I’m grateful to have been there for five years. What a run. Unbelievable. Now it’s time to do something else, and I’m kind of looking forward to that.”
The Irish were 55-11 from 2010-14, including 39-4 the last three seasons with a Division II state title in 2012 and a D-III crown this past fall.
“I’m certainly going to miss Central, miss those kids, and miss the guys I’ve worked with,” Toth said. “This was the right fit because it had the right ingredients. If I can find the right fit [somewhere else], then I’ll do it.”
Toth, 66, kept his home in Strongsville, Ohio, near Cleveland the past five years while occupying a condominium in Toledo from July through December to work on head coach Greg Dempsey’s staff.
Toth was Central Catholic’s head coach from 1981-86 before becoming an assistant at Ohio University for nine years.
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