Findlay tennis tops Northview in OTCA

SYLVANIA – Findlay's four wins came in straight sets and the Trojans beat Sylvania Northview 4-1 on Thursday in the Ohio Tennis Coaches Association team tournament. Findlay, which will have two doubles teams and a singles player in OHSAA district tournament play on Saturday, will travel to Perrysburg on Monday for the Northwest regional final. A win against the Yellow Jackets would earn the Trojans, who achieved a second straight 20-win season on Thursday, a return trip to the OTCA state semifinals. Findlay dropped just five games in sweeping the singles matches against Northview. Max Hosey doubled up Grant Wielgman 6-2, 6-2 at No. 1 singles, Austin Asada blanked Northview's Connor Kleinschmidt 6-0, 6-0 and No. 2, and Mac Robertson scored a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Mateo Roth at No. 3. Findlay's No. 2 doubles team of Sam Swisher and Haden Harris scored a 6-4, 6-0 win over Gavin Binni and Nick Legakis in their match. Northview's lone win came at No. 1 where Max Forquer and Grayson Worth outlasted Nick Simmermeyer and Arda Dastan in a marathon match, 6-3, 5-7, 10-8. (14-sub head) UF's Guarnieri named University of Findlay golf coach Dominic Guarnieri has been selected the NCAA Division II Jackie Steinmann Women's Golf Coaches Association National Coach of the Year. Guarnieri led the Oilers to the 2022 NCAA Division II National Championship last week at the Chattahoochee Golf Club in Gainesville, Ga. The Oilers narrowly made the medal match play portion of the event as they finished eighth in stroke play before taking down three nationally ranked opponents to win the title. They defeated top-ranked Dallas Baptist University in the quarterfinals, beat fifth-ranked Barry University in the semifinals, and clinched the title with a win over third-ranked Limestone University. Guarnieri, who was also voted the East Region Coach of the Year after winning the regional title, led his squad to an undefeated spring season in which they won all eight events they participated in. In seven of those eight wins, the Oilers had an individual win medalist honors as well. In addition, the Oilers had three student-athletes earn accolades from the WGCA for their performance on the course this season. Senior Kristina Kniesly was named a first team all-American and all-East Region, senior Jill Schmitmeyer was voted second team all-American and all-region, and freshman Mary Kelly Mulcahy was tabbed honorable mention all-American and all-East Region. (14-sub head) Tropf joins ONU staff ADA — Jon Tropf, a Van Buren graduate who spent the past eight seasons at Goshen (Ind.) College, has been named an assistant men's basketball coach at Ohio Northern. Tropf was an assistant coach at Goshen under current ONU head coach Neal Young from 2015-17. He has been Goshen's head coach since 2018. At Van Buren High School, Tropf played on teams that reached the regional tournament in 2007 and 2008. He has also spent summers as an AAU coach of seventh- and ninth-graders for the Western Washtenaw Basketball Association (2010-11) and running summer camps for inner-city boys through Team Focus USA (2011-12). Tropf graduated summa cum laude from Eastern Michigan with a B.A. in history and received an M.A. in history at Oakland University, where he got his start in coaching. LOCAL SPORTS Thursday's Results HANCOCK COUNTY SOFTBALL U-14 FASTPITCH LEAGUE Arlington 12, Bloomdale 9 SCHEDULE Friday's Events BASEBALL Toledo St. John's at Findlay (TRAC), 5 OHSAA TOURNAMENT DIVISION II Maumee (6) at Ottawa-Glandorf (5), 5 p.m. Winner advances to district semifinal at Archbold, 4 p.m. May 26 SOFTBALL Findlay at Toledo Whitmer (TRAC), 5 OHSAA TOURNAMENT DIVISION IV AT ELIDA North Baltimore (2) vs. Wayne Trace (1), 5 p.m. Winner advances to regional semifinal at Clyde, 2 p.m., May 25 AT OAK HARBOR Tiffin Calvert (2) vs. Hopewell-Loudon (1), 5 p.m. Winner advances to regional semifinal at Clyde, 5 p.m. May 25 TRACK & FIELD Division II district at Defiance Division III districts at Gibsonburg, Colonel Crawford and Spencerville