An athletic director resigned, a 60-game win streak is intact and more
Need your sports fix now that all of Cincinnati’s professional teams are in the off-season? Let’s whip around the Tristate to see what is happening in the world of high school sports.
Hamilton HS fires its athletic director amid scandal.
Athletic Director Bill Stewart resigned on Friday after the OHSAA ruled the school violated rules regarding player eligibility. A member of the school’s basketball team should not have been permitted to play on the team because that player did not have a parent living in Ohio.
The result? Hamilton’s 8-4 season is in severe jeopardy.
Any game in which the player participated must be forfeited, and the player cannot play again for Hamilton unless a parent lives in Ohio.
Sixty consecutive wins for Mount Notre Dame girls basketball.
With a win over Mercy McAuley, MND clinched its program’s 60th win in a row on Thursday. The win moved the school into fourth place on the all-time consecutive wins list. Kalida High School’s 59-game winning streak in the 1988-1990 season now rests in fifth place. MND has have three remaining regular season games before looking to extend the record even further in the postseason.
MND’s 28-0 run last season was unfortunately cut short due to COVID-19, although the program did claim its seventh state title in 2019.
Harrison HS embrace girls wrestling.
For the first time in school history, Harrison HS is home to a boys wrestling and girls wrestling team. In freshman Chloe Dearwester’s estimation, this couldn’t have happened at a better time.
Dearwester, a competitor on both the boys and girls team, became the first girl to win a varsity wrestling match in school history. It’s an opportunity Dearwester has been training for since she was 10 years old. According to the Southwest Ohio Conference official website, Dearwester is 4-0 on the season with three pins to her name. Her opportunities to compete should only increase in the coming years; there are around 500 girl wrestlers in the state of Ohio today.
