ODU's Williams has career day

Ohio Dominican senior wide receiver Casey Williams delivered his best day on the college gridiron this past weekend.

The Tri-Valley product had a career-high 129 yards on four catches, including touchdown receptions of 59 and 46 yards, as the Panthers routed Lake Erie 48-26 Saturday.

Redshirt freshman Dar Stanford had three receptions for 52 yards, sophomore J.T. McFarland ran twice for 18 yards and had one catch for a yard, and redshirt sophomore Tyler Edwards-Frick started at right guard for Ohio Dominican. Stanford and McFarland graduated from Zanesville and Frick is a Tri-Valley alum.

• Junior center Will Weir and sophomore left guard Zach Clapper, both from Zanesville, started and sophomore Zak Sheridan, of Philo, ran for 38 yards on 15 carries and had a 2-yard touchdown run for Capital in a 62-7 loss to Mount Union on Saturday. Sophomore Hunter Smith had a tackle and classmate Andrew Dorman played for the Crusaders, as both are Philo products. Sheridan has run for 156 yards and two touchdowns in four games and Smith had two tackles in four games.

• Walsh University senior Braily Blair made three tackles, junior Jeremy Willison caught a pass for six yards and senior Zack Hill had one catch for no yards in a 16-7 loss to Northwood on Saturday. Blair and redshirt freshman lineman Austin Kimble, who also played, are from Zanesville. Willison attended Maysville and Hill went to Rosecrans.

• Senior A.J. Eppley, from West Muskingum, started at left guard for the fourth game, as Marietta notched its first win of the season by a 34-14 score against Wilmington on Saturday.

• Bethany freshman Nate Daniels made one tackle, including a half-tackle for a loss, in Saturday's 59-20 loss to Case Western Reserve. The Crooksville grad has three tackles and one tackle for a loss in four games this season.

Cross country

Former Muskingum Valley League standouts, Sheridan graduate Matt Bromley and John Glenn alum Zak Geiger highlighted the men during Saturday's All-Ohio Championships at Cedarville University.

Bromley, a sophomore for Miami University, came in 48th in 25:36, while Geiger, a senior at Ohio Wesleyan, placed 64th (25:44) out of 647 competitors.

Ohio University senior Sarah Kaufman, a Zanesville product, placed 92nd (23:20) to lead the women. Ohio Wesleyan sophomore Rheanna Wilson, of John Glenn, came in 157th (23:48) and freshman teammate Cheyenne Hanson from Morgan 209th (24:14); Cedarville sophomore Alaina Spears, of Tri-Valley, was 119th (23:32), and freshman teammate Mackenzi Clemens, from Morgan, was 500th (28:00)

Two Maysville products — Ashland senior Megan Roessler and junior Dana Dale — finished 173rd (23:56) and 442nd (26:47). Otterbein freshman Katy Foltz, a Sheridan alum, took 243rd (24:31); Mount Vernon Nazarene junior Jessi Habegger from Sheridan was 314th; (25:16) and Muskingum junior Madison Emmert, of Sheridan, placed 475th (27:31) out of 592 runners.

Golf

• Junior Zack Forker, a Tri-Valley grad, tied for 31st with a 161 (81-80) as Mount Vernon Nazarene was fourth out of eight teams in the USF Cougar Fall Invitational this past weekend. For the MVNU women, junior Brittany Smith from Philo placed 36th (209) as the Cougars came in sixth out of six teams in the same invitational.

• Muskingum freshman Christian Taylor, a John Glenn alum, shot an 86 to tie for 46th during Sunday's OAC Fall Classic.

• Rosecrans product Leah Baughman, a sophomore at Wheeling Jesuit, tied for 44th with a score of 171 (87-84) in this past weekend's Dan Salisbury Memorial. The Cardinals were 10th out of 15 teams.

Volleyball

• Sophomore Taylour Fatheree hit a team-high 17 kills and classmate Deidre Prince made a team-best 25 digs for Muskingum in a five-set loss to Baldwin-Wallace on Saturday. Fatheree from John Glenn also had eight kills and Prince, of Tri-Valley, made 19 digs in a three-set win over Capital on Tuesday.

• Sheridan alum, sophomore Bailey Lotozo, had 38 kills and hit 48.5 percent in three matches for Kentucky Christian (13-7, 6-0) this week. Lotozo leads the Lady Knights in kills (225), kills per game (3.31) and hitting percentage (31.2), which is good enough for 38th in the country in NAIA Division I.

• Juniors Dakota and Dylana McKenzie, West Muskingum grads, continue to lead Bethany. Dakota has a team-high 227 kills with 176 digs, 40 blocks and 19 aces, while Dylana has totaled 203 kills, 50 digs and 37 blocks in 23 matches.

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