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Honoring
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Wyandot
Sports Hall of Fame Class
of 2020 The Wyandot Sports Hall of Fame inducted its 10th class April 30,
2022, in a banquet
at the Masters’ Building at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds. Class of 2020 inducted in 2022
Complete profiles are available by
clicking on the pictures above or on the names below. A
1987 graduate of Riverdale High School, Matt Dodds was a three-sport
standout, earning 10 letters and five All-NCC selections. He holds OHSAA
records in baseball and school records in basketball. Dodds earned a Division
I baseball scholarship to the University of Toledo. A
1959 graduate of Carey High School, Tom Greer
was an All-Ohio pitcher in baseball and a standout quarterback who went on to
a Hall-of-Fame career at Ohio Northern University. He coached high school
football for more than 30 years at several schools and was elected to the
Ohio Football Coaches Hall of Fame in 2000. A
1967 graduate of Mohawk High School, Jake Moyer
was a long-time teacher and coach in track and field and football at his alma
mater and served as athletic director. He later became football coach at
Upper Sandusky and then served as an assistant coach at Tiffin University and
then Heidelberg University. Moyer participated in football, basketball,
wrestling, and track and field at Mohawk and lettered three times in football
while in college at Heidelberg. A 1973 Upper Sandusky High School
graduate, Jerry Snodgrass
became the Ohio High School Athletic Association’s 10th executive director in
July 2018. Before that, he served the OHSAA as the lead liaison to athletic
administrations. His 31-year career in education included time as a teacher,
coach and administrator. The
1975 salutatorian of Wynford High School, Tim Steinhilber
earned 10 letters with the Royals and earned numerous honors, including
first-team All-Ohio in basketball. He led the baseball team to a North
Central Conference championship his senior year. Steinhilber went on to earn
three letters in basketball at Ohio Northern University. An
1896 graduate of Sycamore School, Harvey Teal
was a professional baseball pitcher at the minor league level, finishing with
a 78-49 record. After his retirement from baseball, Teal became an educator
in Wyandot County, other locations in Ohio and then in Pennsylvania, where he
set education standards that still are in place today. He died in 1974 and is
buried in Pleasantview Cemetery outside of Sycamore. The
1964-65
Riverdale boys basketball team set school records for wins in a
season by going 22-3, best win-loss percentage of .880 and scored a
school-record 114 points in one game before advancing to the regional
tournament. Led by Jim Shane, the Falcons took out Paulding 82-72 but fell to
Minster 61-58 in the reginal final.
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