Bassitt Running for World Championship

Volume 1 Issue 2

   Unsponsored and unrelenting, Trevor Bassitt is donning the Team USA jersey for the second time this year. Bassitt is running in the 400m Hurdles at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon this weekend. Bassitt qualified for the team after taking second place at the USA Championships in June with a time of 47.47 seconds. That time now makes hime the fastest 400m hurdler in Northwest Ohio history, beating Richard Bruggeman’s (Marion Elgin) time of 48.6 from 1972. That time also makes him the 19th fastest 400m hurdler in history. Yesterday at the World Championships Bassitt ran a 49.17 in his heat which qualified him for the semi-final round today at 9pm. To advance to the finals tomorrow Bassitt will have to finish in the top two of his race or have one of the two fastest non-automatic qualifying times.

Leading Updates

• Natasha Howard (Toledo/Waite) played in her second ever WNBA All-Star game scoring 8 points, grabbing 2 rebounds and recording 1 assist.

• Pitcher Noah Johnson (Toledo/St. Francis) is transferring from Virginia Tech to Toledo

• Lima native and long time coach Gary Moeller dies at 81.

• Charlie Clark (Sandusky/Perkins) got two wins at the Cleveland Sectionals swim meet taking first in the 400 freestyle and as a member as the 800 freestyle relay.

Notable Game Updates

• On July 11th Matt Wisler (Bryan) started the game with a perfect inning to lead the Rays over the Red Sox.

• On July 11th Zavier Simpson (Lima/Lima Senior) had 11 points, 3 rebounds, 7 assists and 5 steals in a loss to the Thunder.

• On July 12th Adam Wolf (Milan/Edison) got the win for the Double-A Erie Seawolves. Wolf had three strikeouts in in three innings pitched while only giving up two hits.

• On July 12th Andrew Chafin (Wakeman/Western Reserve) pitched one inning for the Detroit Tigers, recording one strikeout and only giving up one hit.

• On July 12th Natasha Howard (Toledo/Waite) recorded a double-double with 20 points and 11 rebounds in a 107-101 loss to the Las Vegas Aces.

• On July 13th Chris Bassitt (Curtice/Genoa) recorded a win over the Atlanta Braves pitching 6 innings with 6 strikeouts.

• On July 13th Cody Orr (Rossford) went 1-for-2 with a home run for the Single-A Fayeteville Woodpeckers.

• On July 14th Nick Thwaits (Fort Recovery) pitched 3 innings and gave up no hits to record a win for Single-A+ Fort Wayne.

• On July 14th Zavier Simpson (Lima/Lima Senior) had 10 points, 6 rebounds and 9 assists in a loss to the Knicks.

• On July 15th Matt Wisler (Bryan) picked up a win for the Rays. Wisler pitched one inning throwing two strikeouts.

• On July 15th Trevor Harris (Waldo/Marion Pleasant) went 19-for-26 and two touchdowns for the Montreal Alouettes in a one point loss to the Edmonton Elks.

Interesting Reads

• Toledo’s Vince Williams rising to the challenge at NBA Summer League

• Sandusky's Ta'Sharra Jeffries scores big overseas

• VanSlooten begins college journey at Oregon

• After redshirting, stronger Kalen Etzler hoping to show improved shot for Ohio State

• Opfer works way up Army football ranks

• Title IX at 50: Toledo’s strength in track, basketball showed in first girls state finals

• Zavier Simpson Draws Oohs and Ahhs From Summer League Crowd For His Skyhook Shot

• Title IX at 50: Scott’s Brenda Morehead was pioneer for girls sports in Toledo

Just For Fun

Top 5 Weirdest NWO High School Baseball Fields

5. Cardinal Stritch

   The Cardinal Stritch baseball field may not look to obscure but upon closer inspection there is a lot out of the ordinary. For the starters there is no consistent homerun fence. The fence in the rightfield is a chainlink fence that stops in dead center. The leftfield fence is not complete and is property of each individual homeowner. Meaning in some parts the ball will role out for a ground-rule double while in others it will bounce of the wall and remain fair. It is also about 460ft. to dead center, so unless the MLB home run derby is in town don’t expect any long bombs.

4. Maumee

   Maumee has an odd field given how the center field wall give the field an actual baseball “diamond” shape. Hitting a homerun dead center would be the same distance as hitting a homerun off the foul pole at just about 330ft. each. The field also buts right up against the track so runners and joggers beware.

3. Toledo Waite

   The dimensions of Waite’s field don’t seem out of the ordinary, and you’d be right. What makes this field odd, other than being crammed in by two different roads, is the fact there is actually a hill in left and left-center field. Outfielders trying to track down a fly ball often trip on the incline. Meanwhile players that look at the incline take their eye off the ball and lose track of it in the air.

2. Swanton

   Memorial Park in Swanton shows what can happen when there is no homerun fence. Rightfield is bordered by Ai creak while leftfield is borddered by an active road. A righfield homerun can be as short as 300 feet while a shot to deadcenter would have to travel a staggering 500 feet! Per rules the sidewalk in leftfield and the water in rightfield are the official homerun barriers so outfielders can not go past those boundaries. This also means there are multiple trees and lightpoles that are within fair territory.

1. Vanlue

   By far the weirdest of the bunch, Vanlue decided that two sports are better than one and have a portion of their track running though the outfield. There are two swinging metal gates that allow runners to pass through the homerun fence in order to do their workouts. The track actually gets as close as 230 feet from home plate so the ball will cross pass with it many times. Oh, and don’t hit a foul ball left or it will go straight into the road.