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Area swimmers make waves locally and at the Northeast

Classic Finals in Canton BY MATTHEW DOTSON | DRESDEN BUZZ

teammates Savannah Brooks finished for the John Glenn Lil’ Muskies in the
fourth with 25 points, Sara Jacoby took event.
sixth with 17, and Camryn Cunningham Stella Fuhriman from Tri-Valley fin-
finished eighth with six points. ished second in the Girls 50 Yard Back-
Scottie AJ Lawler took the top spot stroke, with Maysville’s Leila Hawk tak-
for the men with 40 points, teammates ing third and Scottied teammates Sarah
Garrett Stirling took fourth with 19 Jacoby, and Savannah Brooks taking
points, Dallin Stirling finished fifth with fourth and seventh places respectively.
15 points, Coen Fuhriman finished sixth Camryn Cunningham was twelfth for TV,
with 11 points, Owen Harney tied for with John Glenn’s Iyla Herron in four-
eighth with five points, Kolling Buckner teenth. West Muskingum’s Alana Geb-
had four points to tie for eleventh place hart swam in at eighteenth place. Scot-
with Aiden Lentz, and Cole Dougherty tie Dara Wilson finished in twenty-third
finished 13th with two points. place, Addy Dailey swam in at twenty-
In the first event of the day, Tri-Valley’s fifth place for John Glenn, while Grace
team of Stella Fuhriman, Camryn Cun- Rush and Olivia Rusnak finished twenty-
ningham, Sarah Jacoby, and Savannah sixth and twenty-seventh for Maysville.
Brooks won the Girls 200 Yard Medley Kylie Martin was twenty-ninth for Tri-
Relay with a time of 2:06.40. Maysville’s Valley, with teammate Bri-Clark finishing
team of Olivia Rusnak, Leila Hawk, thirty-third and West Muskingum’s Rae-
Grace Rush, and Madison Hirtle took gan Randles right behind in thirty-fourth
fifth place, and Tri-Valley’s second team place. TV swimmer Raegan Berry was
of Dara Wilson, Kylie Martin, Bri Clark, thirty-seventh, along with Scottie Allison
and Raegan Berry finished eighth. Scurlock, in fortieth place. Lady Panther
Madison Hirtle finished forty-third, John
The team of AJ Lawler, Owen Harney, Glenn’s Ginger Blagg finished forty-sixth,
Garrett Stirling, and Coen Fuhriman had and Julia Golden was the forty-eighth
a top time of 1:49.55 in the Boys 200 swimmer for Bishop Rosecrans. West
Yard Medley Relay. With their second Muskingum was represented by Genna
team of Dallin Stirling, Kollin Buckner, Rose in fifty-fourth place in the event,
Aiden Lentz, and Cole Dougherty, fol- Tri-Valley’s Jaedyn White finished six-
lowing in second. John Glenn’s team of tieth, and John Glenn’s Clare Coll was
Camden Rice, Brody Tuttle, Alex Apple- sixty-sixth, while Paige Calendine round-
garth, and Jude Hugebeck finished sixth ed out the event roster in seventy-third
in the event. Mayville’s team of Caleb place.
Camp, Evan Becker, Evan James, and In the Boys 50 Yard Backstroke, with
Greyson Hearing took eighth place. a winning time of 26.10, was AJ Lawler
Stella Fuhriman finished second for from Tri-Valley, with TV’s Garrett Stirling
the Scotties in the Girls 50 Yard But- in fourth, Dallin Stirling, Cole Dough-
terfly with teammate Savannah Brooks erty, and Kollin Buckner finishing sixth
finishing third. Lady Panther Leila Hawk through eighth for Tri-Valley. Teammates
finished sixth in the event, with Tri-Val- Aiden Lentz and Owen Harney took elev-
ley’s Sarah Jacoby following in seventh, enth and twelfth in the event. Maysville’s
and teammate Kylie Martin finishing fif- Evan Becker finished thirteenth, fol-
teenth. John Glenn’s Iyla Herron finished lowed in fourteenth by Scottie swimmer
sixteenth in the race, with Maysville’s Coen Fuhriman, with Caden Blake and
Grace Rush right behind in seventeenth. Bryan Jiang as TV’s sixteenth and nine-
A pair of Scottie swimmers, Camryn teenth place finishers. John Glenn’s Bro-
Maysville’s top swimmer, Leila Hawk, prepared for her record-breaking performance at the Northeast Cunningham and Raegan Berry, swam dy Tuttle finished twentieth, Maysville’s
Classic (submitted). Matthew Dotson in at 23rd and 24th, respectively, with Caleb Camp finished twenty-first, and
teammate Bri Clark finishing 28th. West Lil’ Muskie Alex Applegarth finished
2026 North East Classic Finals (1/17) Mount Vernon 52 – 38, took down John Muskingum’s Alana Gebhart and Genna twenty-second. TV Swimmer Adam Hus-
On Saturday at the C.T. Branin Na- Glenn 67 – 22, and beat Bloom Carroll Rose took 34th and 35th in the event. tey finished thirty-first, with Maysville’s
tatorium in Canton, where they hold 54 – 36. Dara Wilson finished 37th for Tri-Valley, Evan James in thirty-third, and Logan
the OHSAA State Championships each and Ginger Blagg finished 40th for John Heemeyer finishing thirty-fourth for Tri-
year, several area teens took part in the Frosty and Fun FIVE Pentathlon Glenn High School. Madison Hirtle fin- Valley. Lil’ Muskie Camden Rice finished
Northeast Ohio Classic. (1/10) ished 48th for Maysville, with Tri-Valley’s thirty-seventh, Maysville’s Troy Luburgh
Tri-Valley’s AJ Lawler competed and The Zanesville Muskingum County Allison Scurlock tying for 49th place in finished fourtieth, and TV’s Eli Woytko
finished in sixth place in the 100 Yard YMCA hosted the Frosty and Fun FIVE the competition. Maysville Lady Pan- finished the event in forty-second place.
Backstroke, and he also finished in Pentathlon on Saturday. Over a dozen ther Olivia Rusnak took 51st place, John Camden Lenox from Bishop Rosecrans
eighth place in the men’s 200 Yard IM. Ohio teams competed, including Tri- Glenn’s Clare Coll finished 59th, and Tri- finished forty-fifth, John Glenn’s Jude
TV teammate Garrett Stirling finished Valley, Canal Winchester, River View, Valley’s Jaedyn White finished 60th. Hugebeck finished forty-seventh, West
28th in the Men’s 100 Yard Butterfly Maysville, Ridgewood, Cambridge, Lick- AJ Lawler finished first in the Boys Muskingum’s Ryder Rose finished fifty-
and 33rd in the Men’s 200 Yard Free- ing Valley, Crooksville, Newark High 50 Yard Butterfly with a time of 25.40, third, and Maysville’s Greyson Hearing
style. Owen Harney finished 22nd in the School, John Glenn, West Muskingum, with teammates Garrett Stirling, Dallin finished fifty-eighth.
Men’s 100 Yard Breaststroke. Savannah Lakewood, Bishop Rosecrans, North- Stirling, and Aiden Lentz finishing fourth Leila Hawk finished second for
Brooks finished 23rd in both the Wom- ridge, and Johnstown-Monroe. through sixth, respectively. Scottie Kol- Maysville in the Girls 50 Yard Breast-
en’s 100 Yard Freestyle and the Wom- For the women’s teams, Canal Win- lin Buckner finished eighth in the event, stroke, with Tri-Valley’s Camryn Cunning-
en’s 200 Yard IM. Scottie Sarah Jacoby chester took first place with 115 points, with fellow TV swimmers Coen Fuhri- ham and Savannah Brooks directly be-
finished 33rd in the Women’s 100 Yard Tri-Valley came in second with 114 man and Cole Dougherty finishing elev- hind her, while teammate Sarah Jacoby
Backstroke. points, Maysville placed third with 41 enth and twelfth. John Glenn’s Brody finished in sixth place. Tri-Valley’s Stella
For Maysville, Junior Leila Hawk fin- points, River View landed at fourth with Tuttle swam in at thirteenth place, with Fuhriman finished ninth, while her team-
ished 12th in the Women’s 500 Yard 25, Newark tied for fifth place with 19 Scottie Owen Harney finishing fifteenth. mate, Kylie Martin, tied for fourteenth
Freestyle (she was 17 out of 47 in the points, sharing the position with John- Lil’ Muskie Alex Applegarth came in at place, and Bri Clark finished seven-
combined sites just missing making the stown-Monroe. twentieth, while Tri-Valley swimmers teenth. West Muskingum’s Raegan Ran-
top 16 for the finals) and 31st in the The men’s teams had Tri-Valley taking Logan Heemeyer and Bryan Jiang tied dles finished eighteenth in the event, and
Women’s 200 Yard Freestyle, setting a the win with 164 points, Licking Valley in for twenty-first place. Maysville’s Evan John Glenn’s Iyla Herron finished twenty-
new school record of 2:05.63 (she was second with 66, Canal Winchester with James took twenty-fifth place, with Tri- third. Scottie swimmer Raegan Berry
43 out of 72 in the combination of Akron 34 points in third, Newark High School Valley swimmer Caden Blake follow- finished twenty-ninth, while Maysville’s
& Canton sites). finishing fourth with 25 points, River ing in twenty-sixth, and his teammate Grace Rush finished thirty-first. Dara
View taking fifth with 20 points, John Adam Hustey taking twenty-eighth. Evan Wilson took thirty-ninth place for Dres-
Multi-Meet (1/14) Glenn coming in at sixth place with 12 Becker finished in thirtieth place for den, while Madison Hirtle took fortieth
On Wednesday, Tri-Valley hosted a points, Maysville finishing seventh with Maysville, with teammate Caleb Camp for Maysville, and West M’s Genna Rose
home meet against Mount Vernon, Cam- six points, Lakewood in eighth with four in thirty-fourth. Eli Woytko swam in at finished forty-fourth. Lady Panther Olivia
bridge, Bloom Carroll, and John Glenn. points, and Ridgewood in ninth place thirty-fifth for Tri-Valley, John Glenn’s Rusnak followed in forty-fifth position.
The Scotties men’s team beat Mount with two points. Camden Rice took thirty-seventh, while John Glenn’s Addy Dailey finished fifty-
Vernon 65 – 29, defeated Cambridge 80 Individually, Maysville’s Leila Hawk West Muskingum’s Owen McKenzie took first, while TV’s Allison Scurlock finished
– 7, and took down Bloom Carroll 72 – finished second overall for the girls with forty-fifth, and Camden Lenox swam in fifty-third, and Lil’ Muskie Clare Coll took
19. 27 points, Tri-Valley’s Stella Fuhriman at forty-seventh for Bishop Rosecrans. fifty-seventh. Scottie swimmer Jaedyn
The girls’ team for Tri-Valley beat took third place with 26 points, and Jude Hugebeck took forty-eighth place White came in at sixtieth place, West