COLUMBUS - Ada High School junior Clayton McClain and freshman Marley Bulerin wrestled at the state double-elimination tournament Friday, March 10, at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus.
The pair are the third and fourth Bulldog wrestlers to make it to the state meet.
March 6, 2023--There are 14 individual weight classes contested in each division of the state tournament, and that has been the case since 1995. Before then there were 13 weight classes, an era that started in 1971, which was the first year of the boys’ state wrestling tournament having multiple divisions (Class AAA and Class A-AA).
In that 1995 season, Cuyahoga Falls Walsh Jesuit became the first team to crack the 200-point barrier, as the Warriors had 203 points on the strength of five state champions. Since then, the mark has been exceeded 13 times, four by Lakewood St. Edward (2005-2007, 2012) and nine by St. Paris Graham Local (2007-2011, 2015-2018). It should be noted the first 50 editions of the state tournament never saw a team even exceed 100 points, as Akron Coventry was the first to do so with their 158.5 points in the 1978 Class AA tournament.
March 6, 2023--The growth in participation and increase in popularity that girls wrestling has experienced in Ohio in recent years figures to only be the beginning of bigger things to come for the sport.
One of the final major prep events to be held in 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out the OHSAA-sanctioned state tournaments in boys wrestling, girls basketball and boys basketball was the inaugural girls wrestling state tournament sponsored by the Ohio High School Wrestling Coaches Association (OHSWCA) held in late February of that year.
MARYSVILLE – Ada freshman standout Marley Bulerin finished third at the girls regional wrestling meet in the 125 lbs. weight bracket at Marysville on Sunday, March 5, to become the first Bulldog female to qualify for the inaugural OHSAA state meet.
Bulerin ended up third out of 20 girls in the 125 lbs. bracket at the regional competition.
“Marley wrestled a really good tournament, she went in as the five seed and out-performed that, as we were confident she could,” said Ada head wrestling coach Eric Perkins.
CORRECTION Previously the article incorrectedly indicated McClain finished third.
By Cort Reynolds
TROY--Ada High School junior Clayton McClain finished a strong fourth in the 144 lbs. division at the Div. III northwest district double-elimination tournament Friday and Saturday, March 3-4, at Hobart Arena.
With his top-four showing buoyed by a 4-1 record at the event, McClain advanced to the state meet at the Schottenstein Center March 10-12 in Columbus.
Seeded first in his quarter of the 16 wrestlers at the district event, McClain won his first two matches handily Friday.
First, he pinned junior Dallas Coffey of South Charleston Southeastern in 3:30 of the first round.
Ohio Northern scored three times in the bottom of the seventh inning to break a 1-1 tie and post a 4-1 victory over Oberlin on a chilly but nice Thursday afternoon, March 2, at Wander Field in Ada.
The Polar Bears improve to 2-1 on the season, while the Yeomen fall to 1-2.
The contest was the earliest recorded home opener since ONU began playing baseball in 1891. In 2016, Northern swept a double header from Oberlin 7-2 and 1-0 on March 12 at Wander Field in the previous earliest home opener.
Pitching dominated the early stages of the game as the two teams combined for just three hits and no runs in the first five innings.
