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Honoring
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Wyandot
Sports Hall of Fame Class
of 2017 The Wyandot Sports Hall of Fame inducted its seventh class April 16,
2017 in a banquet
at the Masters’ Building at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds.
Members of the seventh class were: Jim Dan Bogard,
Sycamore; James Dillion, Harpster; Roxie Karg,
Upper Sandusky; Tom Schreck, Wynford;
Steve Trout, Upper Sandusky; Cloyce Wentling, Carey; and the 1966-67/67-68 Carey boys
basketball teams. For
complete profiles on each inductee, click on the photos above. Bogard is a
1956 Sycamore High School graduate who was an outstanding basketball and
baseball player. He earned All-Ohio basketball honors in class B and scored
2,135 career points with a high game of 51. He played first base on the 1954
state runner-up baseball team and the 1955 state semifinal baseball team. Dillion
was a 1946 grad of Harpster High School who became a state, national and
international track and field star as a shot and discus thrower. He won the OHSAA
shot put championship once for Harpster, and while at Auburn University, he
won two NCAA and one AAU discus championship along with winning several
Southeastern Conference throwing events. In 1952 at the Helsinki Olympics, he
won the bronze medal in the discus to become Wyandot County’s only Olympic
medalist. He also made and played on the Auburn football team without ever
playing high school football. Karg was a standout athlete at Upper Sandusky
High School and at Ohio Northern University in volleyball, basketball and
track and field. At one time she held the Rams’ single-game scoring record in
basketball. In track and field, she was the school record holder in the shot
put and discus and participated in the state meet. While at ONU, she
accomplished a rare feat in lettering all four years in volleyball,
basketball and track and field for a total of 12 letters. Schreck was a three-sports athlete at Wynford High School, who became well known when he came
back to Wynford after playing both football and
baseball at Taylor University and became a teacher and baseball coach. He
coached for 34 years, including 26 as head baseball coach, going 404-191
while leading the Royals to the state championship in 1982. The school’s
baseball field is named in his honor. Trout
is a 1969 graduate of Riverdale High School was who went on to compete at
Findlay College. He quarterbacked the 1968 Falcons football team to the
school’s first undefeated season, leading the team in scoring with 80 points,
and was named first-team All-Ohio on defense. Later, Trout became a
well-known Ohio high school official in both boys and girls sports. Wentling was a 1931 Carey High School
graduate who was an accomplished three-sport athlete. While playing on
Bowling Green State College football team, a sport writer was so impressed
with his ability on a losing team that he nicknamed him “Moses” in hope he
would lead the team out of the wilderness. Wentling
became a successful coach at Carey in various sports, and he guided Carey to
Wyandot County’s first state baseball tournament in the early 1940s. Carey
High School’s boys basketball teams of 1965-66 and 1966-1967 were called “The
Golden Years.” The Blue Devils had a 43-3 record over those two years with
CHS’s first and only perfect regular season in 1965-66. They also won their
first North Central Conference championship and won the sectional when there
were only two divisions in the state. Every game during those years was a
sellout as Carey fans show up at all the home and away games.
The 1965-66/66-67 Carey boys basketball
team
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