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Honoring
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Wyandot
Sports Hall of Fame Class
of 2018 The Wyandot Sports Hall of Fame inducted its eighth class April 21,
2018 in a banquet
at the Masters’ Building at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds.
Members of the eighth class were: Riverdale’s Don BowmSan, Upper
Sandusky’s Robby Lee, Sycamore’s Wilfred Osborn, Wynford’s Mike Schifer, Mohawk’s
Aubrey Walton, Carey’s Beth (Baldridge) Williams and the 2003 Mohawk softball
team. Complete
profiles are available by clicking on the pictures above or on the names
below. A 1974
graduate of Riverdale High School, Don Bowman was an All-Ohio football player
in 1973 when he also earned all-district honors. Bowman was a two-time
all-conference players in baseball and football and played football and
baseball for two years at Heidelberg University. He was a USA, ASA and high
school softball umpire and worked eight ASA national championship games. An
All-Ohio football player, Robby Lee was a 1965 graduate of Upper
Sandusky High School. He went on to play at Michigan State University and
then Eastern Michigan University, graduating there in 1970. He became a
teacher and a coach of a variety of sports at Clyde High School and then his
alma mater, USHS. Lee was an accomplished high school and college basketball
official for 33 years, was an avid golfer and was the ultimate Upper Sandusky
Rams fan. Lee died Oct. 13, 2017. Born
outside of Nevada, Wilfred Osborn was a 1901 graduate of
Sycamore High School who went on to become a major league baseball
outfielder. After two years in the minor leagues, he debuted in the National
League with the Philadelphia Phillies. After 11 professional seasons,
including three in the majors, he came back to Wyandot County and operated
the Bon Ton restaurant and bakery with his brother. One of his three
children, Sara Jane Ulrich, is an Upper Sandusky resident. Osborn is buried
in Oak Hill Cemetery. A 1965
graduate of Wynford High School, Mike
Schifer excelled in baseball and especially basketball for the
Royals, as well as the Mount Zion Bulldogs before the formation of Wynford.
He earned first-team All-Ohio honors in basketball as a senior as the Royals
won the North Central Conference championship and earned all-state honorable
mention as a sophomore with the Bulldogs. He scored 1,281 career points. He
played four years of basketball at Capital University and went on to work at
and coach at Grandview Heights, Edison and South Central high schools. The former
all-time Ohio softball record holder for consecutive pitching wins, Aubrey
Walton helped Mohawk to the
2003 state championship and graduated in 2004. Walton went 43-0 during one
stretch of her pitching career with the Warriors and earned a spot in Sports
Illustrated’s Faces in the Crowd. Walton also was a four-year basketball
player and ran cross country for a year. She earned a degree from Purdue
University, worked for the Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment Commission
and now works for the National Football League, managing NFL On Location
Experiences, the event experience and hospitality company of the league. A 1998
Carey High School graduate, Beth (Baldridge) Williams
was the NAIA outdoor high jump national champion in 2000 and an eight-time
All-American while competing for the University of Findlay. While with the
Blue Devils, Williams won 10 letters in track and field, basketball and
volleyball, excelling in the high jump. She won the event in all but four
meets during her career and placed three times at state with a high finish of
second. She now is an elementary school physical education teacher at Carey
Elementary. The 2003 Mohawk softball team won the school’s first ever state
championship by winning the Division III title with a 6-1 victory against
Convoy Crestview to cap a 31-1 season. Mohawk had topped Rootstown, 5-0, in
the state semifinals. Coached by Jenny Weinandy, the Warriors were led by
Walton, who finished the year with a 24-0 pitching record. The team’s offense
also was potent, finishing with a state-leading 355 hits, led by Christa
Coppus with 60.
The 2003 Mohawk softball team
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