By Mark GriffinPress Contributing Writersports@presspublications.com

Who knows if Justin Thomas’ pitching line in the Sacramento River Cats’ 11-7 loss to the Salt Lake Bees last Wednesday will help push him back into the major leagues this season.

Thomas, a 2002 Clay grad, is a 6-foot-3, 220-pound left-hander who is pitching for his ninth minor league team. If he gets called up to the pitch this season for the Oakland Athletics, the River Cats’ major league affi liate, he will have pitched for fi ve major league teams. That list includes Pittsburgh, Seattle, Boston and the New York Yankees.

On this particular Wednesday night, Thomas throws fi ve innings and gives up three runs (all earned) on six hits, with three walks and three strikeouts. He also al-lows a home run as Sacramento falls to 40-33 but still leads the Pacifi c Coast League’s Southern Division.

Four days earlier, Thomas went seven innings against Salt Lake and allowed just one run.

“I go out every time and try to throw 6-7 innings and try to give my team a chance to win,” Thomas said prior to his last start against Salt Lake. “I try to give up three or less runs. I haven’t had a lot of run support in my last few starts, but that comes and goes. I hope we score some runs my next few starts and I can keep the other team at bay and I can get a couple wins under my belt.”

In 15 starts with Sacramento, Thomas had a 3-5 record with a 4.23 ERA in 78.2 innings. He had allowed 87 hits and 31 walks, and struck out 60. Opponents were hitting .276 against him.

Thomas was a starting pitcher when his professional career began, but he was moved to the bullpen in 2008 by the Seattle Mariners. Last season he made the opening-day roster with the Red Sox but was sent to Boston’s Triple-A club, Pawtucket, and became a free agent after a 72-hour waiver

Thomas seeking stint with fi fth major league team

Southpaw Justin Thomas. (Photo by Sara Molina/Sacramento River Cats)

period. He was claimed off waivers by the Yankees and spent the rest of the 2012 sea-son with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre as a spot-starter there before being called up to the Yankees in September.

Thomas spent the last month of the sea-son in the Yankees’ bullpen and then pitched

in Venezuela for about a month as a reliever, to get an early start on spring training. He was acquired by the Athletics over the win-ter and built himself up to be a starter, which turned out to be in Sacramento this spring.Thomas said he doesn’t mind being called on as a starter or as a reliever.

“I enjoy it the same, so it doesn’t really matter,” he said. “I haven’t (started) in a while and it took a while to get my routine down. The last four weeks, I’ve been able to get into a groove and stick with the same routine, so that’s good. I’ve done them both now and I have a grasp on how to do both. I don’t have preference.”

At this point in his career, the 29-year-old Thomas said it is more benefi cial to be a starter if he wants to pitch again at the major league level.

“You can always be called up to the majors and put in the bullpen,” he said. “When you’re a starter, you can sometimes get called up to start or be put in the bull-pen. It gives you more opportunity to get called up into any role. You can be a starter, a short (relief) guy and a long guy. It just opens up some more opportunities.”

Now that he is starting, Thomas said he has mixed in throwing more curveballs to accompany his fastball, slider and change-up. Every team he’s played for, of course, has wanted Thomas to be able to do differ-ent things in different situations. Moving from team to team, city to city, is just part of the deal, he said.

“That’s kind of the way it goes,” Thom-as said. “You take your chances where you can get them. I picked to sign here because they were going to give me an opportunity to be a starter. I wasn’t going to sign back with the Yankees. The Rockies, Padres, Athletics, Orioles and Marlins were teams I was going to sign with this offseason, but I decided to sign with the A’s so I could be in the rotation.”

Thomas added that he doesn’t have a time frame for when he’d like to get called up to the River Cats’ parent club.

“I just kind of play it by ear,” he said. “I’ll wait and see. You have to see which teams suffer some injuries, or I could al-ways be traded or hook on with another team. You just have to go out there when it’s your time to pitch, because other teams might be watching. You have to go out and perform, no matter who you’re pitching for.”

By Mark GriffinPress Contributing Writersports@presspublications.com

Clay product A.J. Achter is at the point in his baseball career where he could get a call to the major leagues at any moment.

Achter, who turns 25 in August, is a right-handed relief pitcher for the Double-A New Britain Rock Cats of the Eastern League. New Britain is located in central Connecticut, about a half hour southwest of Hartford.

“There isn’t too much to do around here,” Achter said. “A lot of time is spent with teammates. We play a lot of video games and watch a lot of movies. Netfl ix has saved a lot of boring days for us.”

The Rock Cats are the Double-A affi li-ate of the Minnesota Twins, which is the team Achter hopes to play for some day. Last year he split his season between the Twins’ “low A-ball” team in Beloit, Wisc., and with their “high A-ball” team in Fort Myers, Fla.

“There isn’t too much difference in talent,” Achter said. “There are still a lot of young guys still trying to learn the game in A-ball. When you make the jump to Double-A, there are more seasoned veter-ans.

“I’ve played against some guys who are 30 years old and a couple guys who have played in the big leagues. A lot of guys get called from this league right to the

A.J. Achter on way up, one step away from Triple Abig leagues. It’s defi nitely just a call away now.”

The 6-foot-5, 205-pound Achter, who was selected by the Twins in the 46th round of the 2010 draft out of Michigan State, pitched in 22 games through June 26 and had a 1-0 record with a 2.18 ERA. In 33 innings he gave up 25 hits, three home runs and 18 walks and struck out 32. Opponents were batting .208 against him.

“My season’s going pretty good,” Achter said. “They say it’s the biggest tran-sition in the minor leagues, to go from high A to Double-A. I was fortunate to make this team in spring training. I have a high num-ber of walks, which is a little discouraging, but I’ve been able to make pitches to keep guys from scoring.”

Achter said he’s concentrating on his four best pitches — a two- and four-seam fastball, slider and change-up. He does not throw many curveballs.

“I threw curves in high school and col-lege, and it was always a pitch that was always tough for me to get a grasp on,” Achter said. “The slider has just been an easier pitch for me to control and get used to. I’m much more consistent with it than I have been in the last couple years.”

Achter was back in Ohio last week, when the River Cats played the Akron Aeros. On June 21, in a 13-4 loss, Achter pitched the sixth inning and gave up one hit with two strikeouts. He pitched one per-fect inning on June 22 in a 12-7 win as the

Cats improved to 35-38.“That was pretty cool,” Achter said. “I

had a lot of friends and family there, close to 30, and it’s pretty awesome. We had a three-game series in Erie (Pa.) before we went to Akron, and I didn’t pitch in any of the games. I had a good feeling I would throw one of the fi rst two games in Akron, and I threw the fi rst two days. I had family there both days.”

Achter was was moved to the bullpen full time last season.

“I’ve been coming in out of the pen since a spot-start last year,” he said. “I love it. I come to the fi eld every day with an opportunity to pitch. With each start, you’re only going to be in there every fi fth day. This rejuvenates you as a ballplayer, knowing you could play every day. The bus rides in minor league baseball are long. When you come to the fi eld know-ing you can pitch every day, if that doesn’t get you amped to go, you’re in the wrong business.”

The next step up from New Britain in the Twins’ minor league chain is Triple-A Rochester, of the International League. To get there, Achter said, will take more con-sistency in everything he does.

“I have to throw strikes more consis-tently and throw my off-speed pitches more for strikes,” Achter said. “My downfall has been a pitch that I’ve struggled with the most, and I’m fi nally starting to get consis-tent with it.”

A.J. Achter pitching in Class A ball. (Press fi le photo courtesy of Beloit Scrappers)

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By Mark Griffi nPress Contributing Writersports@presspublications.com

Northern Kentucky University senior Rachel Brown has had enough.

With the spring women’s college golf season now over, the 2009 Genoa grad is telling her fi rst love that it’s time for a change and she would like to move on to the next phase of her life.

Brown, the Norse’s No. 1 female golf-er the past three years, graduated with a degree in exercise science from NKU last month and has offi cially turned in her clubs. Kind of.

“I’m just gonna golf for fun now,” said Brown, 22. “I’m actually really happy about it. I’m excited to golf for fun. I can enter tournaments if I want to. Before, I couldn’t take a day off because I felt I was letting so many people down. Now, I know it’s OK. You don’t get somewhere by not working hard.”

The 5-foot-3 Brown was a four-time district qualifi er at Genoa and was the To-ledo Junior Golf Association female player of the year in 2008. She competed in the Jamie Farr Junior Pro-Am for several years, winning the event in 2008 at Highland Meadows.

Brown decided to continue playing golf at NKU, located about fi ve miles south of Cincinnati in Highland Heights, Ky. Last month, during the school’s annual sports banquet, Brown received two prestigious awards.

She was one of four NKU student-athletes to receive the Career Service Award, which is chosen from among se-niors in the cheerleading or student ath-letic training programs, as well as stu-dent employees in the athletic depart-ment who have provided integral service to the athletics department. The award is

Brown closes college golf career, plays for ‘fun’ now

Northern Kentucky University golfer Rachel Brown. (Photo by Todd Drexler/ASunPhotos.com/SE Sports Media)

based upon academic excellence, service contribution, character and leadership.Brown, who graduated with a 3.2 GPA, was co-president of the NKU Student Athlete Advisory Committee in 2012-13.

“I was pretty surprised,” she said of winning the award. “I thought that was re-ally cool. It was defi nitely a huge honor, coming from the athletic department.”

NKU also gives out an annual “Mr. and Ms. Norse Award to two senior athletes who are the defi nition of a well rounded NKU student-athlete. The student-athletes not only have to excel on their playing fi eld, but they also have to do well in the classroom and be active in the community.

“That one is voted on by the student-athletes, so that was pretty cool,” Brown said. “I had an idea (I was going to win it) because I had to collect nominations for it, being the co-president of the organiza-tion, but I didn’t know I had won. I was on stage announcing other winners, so I really didn’t know what to do. It usually goes to the athletes in the bigger sports, like soccer or softball.”

In addition to competing on the Norse golf team in the spring and fall, Brown also worked at a local golf course and for the university’s athletic department. She sold programs and tickets at various basketball, volleyball and soccer games, and she was also a personal group fi tness trainer at the NKU athletic center.

“Rachel is without a doubt the hardest working player that has ever played for me in 17 years,” NKU coach Darryl Landrum said. “Rachel has a great vision of how shots are to be played around the green. Because of that, she has a fantastic short game. She has been a perfect role model. She eats the right foods off the course, which allows her to stay focused on the course, and she al-ways has a great attitude. I can honestly say that she has done her best on every single

shot of her four-year career. She was always under control on the course.”

Brown leaves the Norse’s golf program with a pretty impressive resume. She is sixth in career scoring average, fourth in rounds played, fourth in counting scores, and fi fth in birdies. She was a two-time re-gional qualifi er and competed in every NKU golf event over the last four years. She made the NKU All-Academic Team in 2013.

Brown credits her grandfather, Jim Schimming, for teaching her how to golf at age 7.

“I used to spend a lot of time with my grandparents,” she said. “My grandpa used to take me to my fi rst golf lessons when Ge-noa used to have a driving range. He is the one who taught me everything about it and started me with lessons and would question things. My grandma (Dilly) used to take me to a lot of my summer tournaments.”

Brown started playing competitive golf in the LEJGA summer league when she was 9.

“At age 4, I used to hit plastic clubs in my grandparents’ backyard,” Brown said. “They said my swing was pretty natural. It had to be, because I couldn’t swing a base-ball bat to save my life. My whole family (father Al, mother Traci, and sister Erica, 19) has been very supportive. They came to a lot of tournaments throughout my college and high school career.”

Brown said her four years at NKU have “gone very fast.”

“It’s been a really great experience,” she said. “The reason I came to college here was to play golf. It opened a lot of opportu-nities for me and I met a lot of people and have been a lot of places. It’s been a real growing and learning experience.”

Brown said she is currently on the job search and plans to attend the University of Cincinnati to get her masters degree in exercise and fi tness.

By Mark GriffinPress Contributing Writersports@presspublications.com

Michael Deiter spent three days in Wisconsin this week and fi gured out where he’s going to spend the next four years of his life after high school.

Deiter, who will be a 6-foot-5, 300-pound senior offensive and defensive tackle at Genoa, gave fi rst-year University of Wisconsin coach Gary Andersen a verbal commitment on June 24 to become a mem-ber of the Badgers’ 2014 recruiting class.

“I felt comfortable and ready to do it,” said Deiter, who participated in the Bad-gers’ three-day summer camp June 23-25. “I wanted to know what I needed to work for and what they expected of me. I did it just to be comfortable with the coaches and stuff like that.”

Deiter attended the Wisconsin camp with his parents, Deanne and Dave, and Ge-noa football coach Tim Spiess, who helped work the Badgers’ camp.

Deiter said he had offers from the Uni-versity of Toledo, Bowling Green State University, Miami (Ohio), Illinois, Georgia Tech, West Virginia and Nebraska.

“Michigan State called me right before I went to this camp and said if you don’t commit, give us a call,” Deiter said. “But it’s too late now. It feels good. Now I can

Genoa’s Deiter to play Big Ten football at Wisconsinkind of go be a kid again and quit worrying about where I was going to go to school.”

Deiter said he has been a Badger fan “for a while.”

“I just liked watching them,” he said. “They were exciting to watch because they run the ball a lot. J.J. Watt (former UW de-fensive end) went there, and I’m a huge J.J. Watt fan, and that just made it bigger.”

Deiter also attended the Badgers’ spring game in April and said the campus reminded him of home.

“It’s just beautiful,” he said. “I was re-ally comfortable. Everyone is nice and ev-erything about the campus is nice.”

Deiter will be a third-year starter at Genoa in 2013 after being named fi rst-team All-Northern Buckeye Conference on of-fense and defense. He was a second-team All-Ohio selection as a defensive tackle, but colleges recruited him as an offensive lineman.

He said he interacted with several current UW linemen during the three-day camp.

“I like them,” Deiter said. “They seem cool and like they would be good team-mates. They’re huge. I’ll probably only gain 10-15 pounds (in college), but it will be pure muscle. I’ll probably play tackle, but I could end up playing guard. I don’t care. I’ll play wherever, as long as I get to play.”

He added that Anderson, who came

to the Badgers after a successful coaching stint at Utah State, and UW offensive line coach T.J. Woods were impressive during the recruiting process.

“They were just real,” Deiter said.

“They were real in recruiting. They really didn’t have to sell that hard on Wisconsin. They know what they have and what they have to offer. They were confi dent, and I liked that.”

Deiter said his goal is to play in the NFL, but for now he’s contemplating study-ing meteorology.

Spiess, a diehard Nebraska fan, said the Badgers had a leg up on recruiting Deiter, given that Deiter grew up a Wisconsin fan.

“We were here in April for the spring game and they offered him right away,” Spiess said. “Every school recruits dif-ferently. Anderson said, ‘Here’s your of-fer, Michael. We don’t want you to accept right now. We want you to come to one of our summer camps and be coached by our coaches.’ ”

Spiess said Deiter’s performance at UW’s summer camp helped seal his com-mitment to the program.

“The fi rst day they did various agil-ity drills and timed and tested the kids to see what they are capable of doing,” Spiess said. “(Monday) was a lot of lineman drills, seeing how you move, how well you learn things and how well you pick up things. Michael did outstanding. He easily stood out. There were over 200 kids at this camp, and he stood out. Not because of his size and ability but the way he learned, the way he adjusted.”

Michael Deiter. (Press photo by Harold Hamilton/HEHphotos.smugmug.com)

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The Fremont Speedway Hall of Fame has inducted its fi fth class.

The list of drivers includes Elmore racer Randy Ford, Gibsonburg driver Bill Hahn, and Oak Harbor racer Gordon Hol-brook.

Others are the Liskai brothers of Al, Dick and Steve and Paul Dewald from Gib-sonburg. The mechanics are Sonny Conger and Mervin Keegan and the car owners are Larry Keegan and Don Eckhardt. The spe-cial service inductee is the late Phil Huss, otherwise known as Smokey the Clown. Randy Ford grew up in a racing fam-ily. His dad, Jim, a Fremont Speedway Hall of Fame member, raced and owned cars for many years. Randy drove the family No.10 to the Fremont Speedway track champion-ship in 1986 and has seven career feature wins at the track. Randy also posted track

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Elmore’s Randy Ford inducted into Fremont Hall

Elmore driver Randy Ford.Gibsonburg driver Bill HahnOak Harbor racer Gordon Holbrook

championships at KC Raceway and Eldora Speedway and won a World of Outlaws event at “The Big E” and won features all over Ohio. When his dad took over the pro-motion of Fremont Speedway in 2000, Ran-dy became an important part of the track operations.

Bill Hahn was the 1987 Fremont Speedway Six-Cylinder Sportsman Cham-pion and also competed up until a year ago in the late model division at area tracks. “Gentleman Bill” posted 11 career wins at Fremont Speedway and during his career posted track championships at Oakshade Raceway and Millstream Speedway and won races all over Ohio. Bill passed away unexpectedly in January 2012.

Gordon Holbrook started racing in 1977 in the Six Cylinder Sportsman Di-vision at Fremont Speedway driving the No.48. He recorded a career total of 33 wins with 19 of those coming at Fremont and sits 28th on the track’s all-time win list. In 1981 Gordon won the Six Cylinder Sportsman

Championship at Fremont Speedway driv-ing for Ross Jones in the 41 car. He fi nished his career in 1988 driving the No.1h. The Liskai Brothers. Al, the oldest, raced from the late 1960s through 1990. He scored his only career win at Fremont Speedway in 1978 in a non-wing sprint car. That night he also set a new qualify-ing track record that stood for several years. Al, who resides in Fremont, recorded track championships at Millstream Speedway in Findlay and two at KC Raceway near Chillicothe. He also made the A-main for the 1973 Knoxville Nationals. Dick, who passed away in 2002, raced from the late 1960s through the 1990s. He posted 3 wins at Fremont and scored wins at Millstream as well. At one time Dick even got into the promoting of racing at the former McCutch-enville Speedway. Steve, the youngest of the Liskai brothers, raced in the 1970s and early 1980s. Steve, who lives near Gibson-burg, also posted three career wins at Fre-mont and scored his biggest win at Crystal,

Michigan in a 50-lapper. During the mid-1970s all three were a weekly fi xture at Fre-mont Speedway.

The list of inductees was picked for the fi rst time by the membership of the Fremont Speedway Historical Club and includes fi ve groups of drivers, two racing mechanics, two race car owners, and a spe-cial service recipient.

The Fremont Speedway Historic Club’s gun ruffle to raise funds for a wheel chair lift to transport fans to the covered grand-stands is under way. Tickets are $10 each for a chance to win a model No. 37 Ithea Shot Gun custom engraved with the Fre-mont Speedway logo and the Hall of Fame logo with gold inlay. The gun has a AAA fancy black walnut stock. The winning ticket will be pulled Saturday of the Jim Ford Weekend, Sept. 14.

For more information contact Fremont Speedway Historic Club members Randy Mapus at mapus09@aol.com or Brian Lis-kai at liskai2x@roadrunner.com.

By Harold HamiltonSpecial to The Presssports@presspublications.com

A 2010 Genoa High School graduate, Ryan Zunk, has moved into a key role on the national stock car racing scene. Just over a week ago, Zunk was at Michigan International Speedway as part of an ARCA pit crew. ARCA, NASCAR’s little brother provides an opportunity for new drivers and mechanics to get experi-ence and eventually move up to the major league NASCAR circuit. Make no mistake — ARCA may not have the budget or following that NASCAR has, these carbureted engines (NASCAR uses fuel injection which is more costly) still have all the speed and thrills. Zunk does some of his training and practice sessions at Michael Waltrip’s rac-ing facility in North Carolina, which is close to where Zunk lives. Meanwhile, he’s traveling all over the country on the ARCA circuit. He has been to Dayton, Talladega and Pocono, just to name a few. Zunk says for a team to be a consistent

Genoa graduate ‘in the pits’ on national racing circuitwinner you need, of course, a good driver and strong pit crew. Zunk has fi t his part of the bill. After studying auto mechanics at Penta County Vocational School, Zunk attended the University of Northwestern Ohio and received an associate degree with a dual major in automotive technology and high performance motorsports. Now he is start-ing to live his dream. Zunk is in his third year as a pit crew member and has moved up to the Win-Tron racing group with the responsibility of changing the two rear tires for Mason Min-gus’ No. 32 ARCA car. He says the entire seven-man pit crew functions as a precision team with each member allowed only a few seconds to complete their assignments. The entire pit crew has just 13 seconds to complete all of their duties and get Mingus’ car back on the track. Zunk says he must be sure to not inter-fere with his teammates’ assignments, not let a tire roll out into the pit alley, and keep Mingus’ machine from being hit by another pitting race car. He says each car typically

will have eight tires available in the pit for the race and depending on conditions may use all of them. Zunk has his own set of dangers to deal with that can make stock car racing just as treacherous for him as it is for the driver. Zunk says his biggest personal fear is being hit by one of the cars coming into the pits. He says the drivers come in very fast, racing at speeds nearing 200 mile per hour and slowing off that to pit. If the pits are crowded they must turn quickly to get into their space. Zunk says if a driver misjudges or has a brake problem it could be big trou-ble for him and those around him. The other fear is fi re. The cars have their gas tanks topped off during every pit stop and some of the 110-octane gasoline always spills on the concrete. Sometimes when a car exits the pits a tire will kick up one of the lug bolts and sparks fl y. With all of that gasoline underfoot it makes a me-chanic, driver, and other pit crew members nervous. Zunk says the lug nuts are not re-used after a tire change and remain where they fall until the car exits the pit so they can be swept up.

Ryan Zunk. (Press photo by Harold Hamilton/HEHphotos.smugmug.com)

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Dylan Clifton-Lorton is making the most of his decision to play baseball at The Ohio State University at Lima in 2013.

Despite outstanding junior and senior seasons with Waite’s baseball team, Clifton-Lorton said college coaches weren’t exactly rolling out the red carpet to recruit him.

“This (OSU-Lima coach Abe Ambroza) was the only coach who showed interest in me, and I wanted to play ball,” said Clifton-Lorton, who was voted the Barons’ fresh-man of the year this season. “I didn’t want to leave Toledo, initially, to go somewhere else. I’m a momma’s boy and I didn’t want to go too far. Since baseball was an op-portunity, I fi gured I had to go. I didn’t come home once I got there. I stayed down there. That’s my new home.”

OSU-Lima com-petes in the Ohio Re-gional Campus Con-ference. The Barons fi nished 14-19 and 6-10 in the ORCC this year. Clifton-Lorton batted .370 with 18 RBI, 15 runs, seven doubles, six walks and one home run as a freshman.

Clifton-Lorton (6-0, 195), a fi rst-team All-City League catcher his last two years at Waite and a second-team all-district se-lection as a senior, is playing summer ball for the Toledo Hawks, a member of the Tri-State League. Through June 24 the Hawks led the West Division with a 14-2 record and were 17-4 overall.

Clifton-Lorton chose to play for the Hawks, for players age 22 and under, in-stead of returning to play for coach Don “Chopper” Schmeltz’s Pemberville Ameri-can Legion Post 183 squad this summer.

“I did have another year with Pember-ville Legion,” said Clifton-Lorton, 18. “I chose to play with the college kids, to see some better pitching and be around kids

Clifton-Lorton bats .370 in freshman college season

Dylan Clifton-Lorton

my age. It was a great decision. We all get along and we all are pretty good.”

In 15 games, Clifton-Lorton was hit-ting .324 with six runs, fi ve RBI and one stolen base. All 12 of his hits were singles. He splits time behind the plate with team-mate Joe Gentile.

“They alternate games, and at times we’ll have Dylan or Joe where one is catch-ing and the other one will hit,” Hawks coach Ed Mouch said. “He struggled early on, especially offensively. He’s a very good defensive catcher. Over the last week to two weeks, he’s been swinging the bat. He’s got a ton of energy when it comes to playing the game of baseball, and he’s a great kid. I’m glad he decided to play with us.”

Clifton-Lorton, the son of Waite Ath-letic Director Christine Lorton, said it took him a while to adjust to his new team and a new league.

“It might have been the break between the seasons, which was a couple weeks,” he said of playing for the Barons and the Hawks. “I was just trying to get back into the groove and get my confi dence back. In college I played every game and I could work my way through it. Me and another catcher play 50-50 right now. If I have a bad game, it’s hard to get out of a slump if you’re seeing pitching every other game rather than every game.”

Clifton-Lorton said he was pretty much born to be a catcher.

“I really love the catcher position,” he said. “It was meant for me. There’s never a dull moment. You have to be awake ev-ery single pitch. It takes smarts and athletic ability to block the ball and throw runners out. I have a huge bruise on my thigh right now, but I don’t let it affect me. I just like

playing the game.”Clifton-Lorton, who wants to be an ar-

chitect, said he’s trying to hone his skills this summer in order to be ready for the 2013-14 college season.

“Defense is key,” he said. “I aim to be a defensive catcher, and I let the hits fall into place. I don’t hit home runs, I just try to help the team out. Seeing this pitching (this summer) is defi nitely going to help my hitting. The runners here are faster and get better jumps, so if I get my feet working a little quicker, it will all fall into place.”

It just so happens that last summer Clifton-Lorton was an employee at the City of Toledo recreation department, the host of the National Amateur Baseball Federa-tion College World Series. This summer, he could be playing in it.

The Hawks play in the Toledo Amateur

Federation League and the Tri-State Base-ball League. A Hawks’ Fed championship will put the Hawks in the 20-team College World Series at Mercy Field August 1-4.

The 47-game wood bat tournament showcases some of the best college players from throughout the country. The fi rst year it was in Toledo, 2003, St. Louis Cardinal David Freese, who became an MLB World Series MVP, was on the NABF CWS All-Tournament Team. Freese was playing for a team representing the St. Louis Metro Col-legiate League.

Local youth who want to be batboys, summer interns, and other personnel are still needed for tournament organization, preparing the media guide, statistics, fund-raising, and other responsibilities. Call rec-reation coordinators Shawn Sobel at 419-936-3887 or Aaron Myers at 419-936-3881.

The Eastern YMCA, 2960 Pickle Rd., Oregon, offers a wide range of activities through a variety of facilities, including indoor and outdoor pools, an expansive double gymnasium, steam room and sauna, fi tness center with state-of-the-art equipment, three racquetball-hand-ball courts, indoor running/walking track, youth and adult locker rooms, a KidZone nursery, and a sand volleyball court. Meeting rooms and non-athletic educational activities are also offered. For more info, call 419-691-3523, or visit www.ymcatoledo.org.

Bowling for – the fun of it Recreational or skilled bowlers look-ing to live life in the fast lane have sever-al centers to choose from in the Maumee Bay area. Many of them offer glow bowl-ing (luminescent balls rolled down lanes near darkness) as well as bumper rails for kids and newbie bowlers who need help to get rolling. Local lanes include: • Eastern Freeway Lanes, 3511 Woodville Rd. at I-280, Northwood. 419-691-8551. • Toledo Sports Center, 1516 Starr

Ave., Toledo. 419-693-0687. • Tri County Lanes, 512 Lime St., Woodville. 419-849-3400. • 20th Century Lanes, 1284 S. SR 19, Oak Harbor. 419-898-8701.

ARCA/ Toledo Speedway ARCA/Toledo Speedway features ARCA-sanctioned, late-model stock car, factory stocks and sportsman racing Fri-day nights April through Sept. 28 at 5639 Benore Rd. off the I-75/Alexis Road exit in Toledo. The speedway features a half-mile, semi-banked oval and quarter-mile fi gure eight in the middle. Events include the sportsman, fi gure-8, street stocks, winged sprint cars and 4-cylinder racing, special Kids Nights, smashing school bus fi gure-8 races and more. Other highlights include Midwest Monster Truck Show (July 20); the “Rusty Wallace Racing Experience” (Sept. 7); the Silver Anniversary of the Glass City 200 (Sept. 28). For more info about the speedway, call 419-727-1100, or visit www.toledo-speedway.com.

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Purple Super Starrz‘ win soccer championshipPurple Super Starrz’ won a soccer championship with a 9-2-1 record. From left to right: Calli Serres, Alysia Woodard, Hailey Kirian, Savannah Johnson, Hannah Sprague, Ella Peace, Maissa Garcia, Coach John Garcia, Haylee Sprague, Megan Hughes, Dani-elle Hentges, Abby Gill, Alison Domagala, Hayvinn Dunbar, Alanna Kyer, Halayna Kesling (not pictured). (Photo by Jamie Jahns/Remember When Photography)

Caught in the act watching NASCAR racingCaught watching NASCAR racing at Michigan International Speedway are four fans — the blonde at left is Megan Rolf, to her left is Mike Lytle of Curtice, and to his left is D.J. Rolf. In the plaid shirt with sunglasses to the left of the woman with a towel cool-ing her head is Don Rolf. The Rolfs hail from Luckey. (Press photo by Russ Lytle)

Toledo Celtics move on to regional tourneyToledo Celtics boys U13 soccer team headed to Iowa for the Region II Championship Series after winning the state cup. In Iowa, the Celtics played against the other top 14 teams in the region. The girl at right, Taylor Gadus of Oregon, plays for the Celtics.

T-Town hockey and all that goes with it takes over the Huntington Center again on October 26. The Toledo Walleye open its 72-game regular season schedule on the road against Fort Wayne on October 19 with a stop in Cincinnati on October 24 before coming home for its opener on October 26 against the Wheeling Nailers at 7:15 p.m. The Walleye play 30 of its 36 total home games on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Six home games have the Toledo Walleye tak-ing on the Cincinnati Cyclones, who they faced during the first round of playoffs last season. The Walleye are at home the day after Thanksgiving (November 29) and have two games during the Christmas holi-day season (December 28 & 30). “We can’t wait to kick off the 2013-14 season and welcome our fans back to the Huntington Center,” says Erik Ibsen, Toledo Walleye Assistant General Manager. “Last season our fans set records in attendance, group ticket sales, youth hockey and school day tickets. We appreciate all their support and look forward to providing them with another season of fun events, both on and off the ice, and of course, great hockey.“ The Walleye fan experience will again include the ever-popular Scout Sleepovers, School Celebration Day, Jersey Auctions,

Walleye open against Nailersand Hockey Heritage Weekend. Five former Walleye players helped the Grand Rapids Griffins win its first Calder Cup championship, defeating the Syracuse Crunch in game six. Gleason Fournier, Luke Glendening, Andrej Nestrasil and Petr Mrazek all played for Toledo this sea-son and Brian Lashoff played during the 2010-2011 season. Fifteen players make up the 2012-13 season-ending roster for the Walleye. It includes seven defensemen and eight for-wards. Season-ending rosters may include up to 20 players but cannot include any play-ers who did not sign an ECHL contract in 2012-13. Teams may reserve rights to a maximum of eight players from their list by extending a qualifying offer no later than June 30. Of the eight qualified players, no more than four can be veterans (players who have appeared in 260 regular season professional hockey games as of the start of the 2013-14 season). The roster includes defensemen Cody Lampl, Nathan Martine, Wes O’Neill, Phil Oreskovic, Phil Rauch, Joey Ryan, and Erik Spady. Forwards are Aaron Bogosian, Adam Hobson, Joey Martin, Nino Musitelli, Travis Novak, Kyle Rogers, Randy Rowe, and Stephon Thorne

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Admittedly, my daughter Bailey’s fi rst foray into the storied Genoa youth sports scene wasn’t, err…as storied as I would have liked. We signed up my 4-year-old newbie for U6 co-ed recreational soccer. Her fi rst time out, rather than pass the ball with the rest of her teammates, she instead picked it up and took off with it while laughing hysteri-cally as if she were getting her inner-rugby on. When it came to dribble the ball the length of the pitch and kick it into the net, our little Mia Hamm-to-be performed the drill exactly once, kept right on running past the net, and through the stands of fl ow-ering trees at Allen Park and on towards the parking lot yelling “Juicebox! Juicebox!”…as if she had just exerted about every ounce of energy she could muster and knew that a cold libation awaited in the car. About the only thing she did love about the game in the run-up to the season was the running of laps once practice was over. She enjoyed it so much, that often times she’d keep right on running, and running, around the perimeter of the fi eld while her bemused teammates gathered at center cir-cle for a little post-practice huddle. She’d fi nally ride out the giant twisty slide at the opposite end of the park – again, fueled by carefree laughter. When that magical day came when I helped Bailey put on her fi rst sports jersey — in reality, a t-shirt with a black No. 7 emblazoned on the back — I couldn’t have been prouder than when I fi rst pulled on my own Comet’s No. 86 jersey at Bergman Field on a Friday night. You see, I was often told before Bailey Christina Norwalk came into this world that when a person has a child for the fi rst time, everything changes. I’ve discovered that I’m no exception to this rule. These days, rather than reading just one more article in Sports Illustrated before

Bailey’s not exactly Mia Hamm, but she’s hamming it up

J-Walkingby Jeffrey D. Norwalk

bed, I instead fi nd myself opting for one more “Curious George” episode, followed by a bedtime story or two, followed by fall-ing asleep in our favorite chair. Instead of getting together with a good friend for a relaxing game of catch and a few cold beers, I’m working with Bailey on how to ride her Minnie Mouse bike or hit a baseball off a tee over a couple of juice boxes. Her fi rst kickoff, her fi rst assist, her fi rst goal, her fi rst skinned-up knee, her fi rst tears over skinned-up knees…I want to be there. Let’s face it, there’s no greater, more-precious gift in the world than one’s child. Although let me tell you, sports fans…Bai-ley’s rookie season on the pitch has defi -nitely been no holiday. First, there was the carefree meander-ing in the opposite direction on the fi eld, as the play, the ball, and nine other excited, snotty-nosed futballers went scampering by her while she lackadaisically picked dan-delions and softly sang the “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse” theme to herself and whoever else cared to listen. Oh, and who could forget that Saturday afternoon in the middle of the season dur-ing “Soccerpalooza” weekend when Bailey Christina refused to participate at all. Instead, she hid in the trees. Every now and then she let out with the beller, “I want to go bye-bye in Grandma’s car,” even though her team was playing our next door neighbor Wendy Combs’s team. Virtually everyone was in attendance from both sets of grandparents, aunts and uncles, and in-laws. I wanted to hide in the trees myself.

Other highlight-reel moments include tipping over the team water cooler with a few other culprits, then proceeding to churn it into a sloppy, mud puddle mess under the bench with brand-new Umbro cleats. She was picking up every random rock, stick, leaf, and slab of bark laying around the pitch, and then gifting it to her cousin and teammate A.J. Hill. And of course run-

ning towards a newly-discovered patch of dandelions; running after a tractor some 300 yards away in a neighboring fi eld, or running, running, gasp…and running. This kid wouldn’t even sit still for the team photographer without being bribed with a snack pack of Oreos just to remain copacetic for 30 seconds. But, ohh…that day when we got Bai-ley’s fi rst sports photos back and I looked down at my little girl – a soccer ball twice the size of her head clutched in her hands — it brought tears to my eyes. Only three games left, and suddenly I felt sad that her fi rst season ever with the “Mean Green” team was almost over. In turn, that meant one season of her young life was also already over. It was a season during which she took her fi rst steps onto a fi eld of play and began developing crucial socialization and team-work skills with other children her age. Solidarity? Love for her teammates? I can remember multiple occasions when she actually hugged, high-fi ved, or shrieked “Good job!” to our two top scorers and per-haps the team’s best athletes in Brock Mat-thews and Emmy Hayes. Sportsmanship? Let’s say she couldn’t get into the post-game handshake line fast enough after the fi nal whistle to dole out even more “Good jobs.” Bailey’s fi nal stat line might read some-thing like three kickoffs, two or three assists, two “near” goals, and one nasty strawberry on her left knee. So what if she didn’t score a single goal. She’s learning the game, had fun, and is enjoying the vigor of life. Big deal if her rookie season wasn’t storied. Maybe one day she’ll go on to be-come a Northern Buckeye Conference cross country champion, a 4.0 geology major, the fi rst cheerleader for the Pittsburgh Steelers, an award-winning botanist, or the next Mia Hamm.

The next sports superstar, in something, someday — Bailey Christina Norwalk.

By J. Patrick EakenPress Sports Editorsports@presspublications.com

Twenty-three Wood County Special Olympics athletes traveled to Columbus on June 28 to compete at the Ohio Special Olympics Summer Games.

Mike Nietz of Walbridge and Jacob West of Pemberville are members of the Wood County Comets’ volleyball team, which be-gan state semifi nal action at the Ohio State University Recreation and Physical Activ-ity Center on Saturday.

Wood County athletes will also be competing in athletics (track and fi eld), volleyball, or cycling. The games feature competition in 11 sports: aquatics, athletics (track and fi eld), bocce, bowling, cycling, gymnastics, power lifting, roller skating, soccer, tennis, and volleyball. The two-and-a-half day event was the team’s largest event of the year in Ohio with 2,400 ath-letes participating.

“There will also many enjoyable ac-tivities, such as Tent Town, when athletes are not competing,” says Liz Sheets, pub-lic relations coordinator, Wood Lane/Wood County Board of Developmental Disabili-ties.

All competition venues were on The Ohio State University campus with the ex-ception of roller skating and bowling. Ath-

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letes and coaches were housed in dorms on campus.

The opening ceremonies were held in Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. The cer-emony featured a parade of athletes with representative athletes and coaches from throughout Ohio, along with the dramatic entrance of the Torch Run into the stadium and the lighting of the “Flame of Hope.” Law Enforcement Torch Run offi cers hand-ed off the torch to the athletes, who in turn ignited the Flame of Hope. The lighting of the fl ame offi cially signifi ed the opening of the games.

Owens 23rd nationallyThe Owens Community College De-

partment of Athletics fi nished the 2012-13 year ranked 23rd in the nation in the over-all standings of the scholarship division of the National Alliance of Two Year Col-lege Athletic Administrators (NATYCCA) Learfi eld Sports Directors’ Cup.

The Learfi eld Sports Directors’ Cup is

program that honors institutions maintain-ing a broad-based program, achieving suc-cess in many sports, both men’s and wom-en’s. It began in 1993-94 for Division I by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and USA Today. It was expanded in 1995-96 to include NCAA Division II, III and the NAIA and, in 2011-12, expanded to the Junior/Community Col-leges. The scholarship division consists of both NJCAA Division I and II members.

The Express increased their National point total from 48-points, following the Winter Sports standings, to 61-points on the strength of the men’s golf team’s 10th place fi nish at the NJCAA National Cham-pionships.

Of the 401 scholarship offering insti-tutions. Owens Community College was the only program in the NJCAA Region XII ranked in the Top-25.

“2012-13 was the best athletic cam-paign ever for Owens Athletics, with four of eight teams qualifying for National Championships,” said Owens Director of Athletics Rudy Yovich.

“We made eight Regional appearances, captured four Ohio Community College Athletic Conference titles, had fi ve Na-tional Junior College Athletic Association All-Americans, nine NJCAA All-Academic Student Athletes and two NJCAA All-Aca-demic Teams. We are proud to be able to

promote Owens Community College and our community on the National level.”

Iowa Central Community College paced all NJCAA scholarship division schools with a point total of 181. (— by Nick Huene-feld/Owens Sports Information)

Holes-in-One Hidden Hills Golf Club just outside Woodville experienced three holes-in-one so far this year. Last Friday, Troy Miller, Perrysburg, aced the par 3, 186-yard No. 9 with a hy-brid 5-iron. William Bilger, Sylvania, aced the 162-yard par 3, No. 18, with a 6-iron, and Larry Lamont, Bowling Green, aced the 171-yard par 3 No. 16 with a hybrid 3-iron.

Sports announcements The East Toledo Family Center Star-board Side Golf Classic will be Aug. 9 at Chippewa Golf Club to support youth ath-letics, including the Hook a Kid on Golf program. Hook a Kid exposes youth to golf who normally would not have the opportu-nity. Team cost is $300. Call Tracy Garufos at 419-691-1429 or visit www.etfc.org.

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Summer funHarness racing still on at Raceway Whether it be betting on live horse rac-ing, enjoying dinner, or watching live mu-sical entertainment, Raceway Park is one of “The Best Bets in Toledo” for a good time. For 2013, live racing will be held every Saturday and Sunday through Sept. 15, with post time at 6 p.m. The track also offers buf-fets, live simulcasts of races elsewhere and hosts summertime concerts and cookouts. Raceway Park is located at 5700 Tele-graph Rd., Toledo. Call 419-476-7751 or visit www.racewayparktoledo.com for more information.

Toledo Mud Hens The Toledo Mud Hens, the Triple A minor league affi liate of Major League Baseball’s Detroit Tigers for 26 years, play home games from April through September at Fifth Third Field at 406 Washington St. in Toledo’s Warehouse District. Future major leaguers are among those on the team’s roster, and occasionally fans can see current major leaguers sent down for rehab or to better hone their skills. In addition, visitors to Fifth Third Field can enjoy a wide variety of food choices that go way beyond the traditional hot dogs, peanuts and popcorn, includ-ing new Cajun fries, Caprese salad, turkey club wraps, Reuben Panini, fried portabella mushrooms and deep fried chocolate chip cookie dough. For a complete schedule, tickets or more info, call 419-725-HENS or visit www.mudhens.com.

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