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Undefeated Tri-Village wins conference for 3rd year in a row.

NEW MADISON – The Tri-Village softball team went undefeated in the conference for the 3rd years in a row for a three-peat softball championship and heads up the list for All-Conference selections in 2026.

Tri-Village’s Emma Greer led the league in batting average at .675 and had 52 hits, 21 doubles, 7 home runs, 41 RBI, 19 BB and a .743 on base percentage to help lead the Patriots to a 3rd league title and was named the 2026 WOAC Player of Year for the 2nd straight season.

Tri-Village Emily Osborne’s team went 11-0 in the league for the 3rd straight year and won their 3rd straight conference title and she would be named 2026 WOAC Softball Coach of the Year for the 3rd time as well.

Here are the All-Conference Selections.

FIRST TEAM

Kylie Caldwell Ansonia

Bre'ana Walker Ansonia

Jordyn Garbig Arcanum

Matty Noe Arcanum

Hayven Evans Bradford

Bethany Himan Dixie

Ella Godfrey Mississinawa Valley

Kenady Thompson National Trail

Isabelle Prickett Newton

Mattie Colburn Preble Shawnee Lily

Bella Cherry Tri-County North

Lola Grieshop Tri-County North

Emma Greer Tri-Village

Caley McCarroll Tri-Village

Elizabeth Poling Tri-Village

SECOND TEAM

Abigayle Klingshirn Ansonia

Ava Thatcher Ansonia

Grace Fry Arcanum

Cameron Garbig Arcanum

Lilly Canan Bradford

Lola Sando Franklin Monroe

Gentry Newbauer Mississinawa Valley

Taylor Reynolds National Trail

Brynnasen Fiely Newton

Lily Jones Preble Shawnee

Alayna MtCastle Tri-County North

Hailey Burk Tri-Village

Camryn Osborne Tri-Village

Ryliee Caldwell Twin Valley South

Paityn Cross Twin Valley South

SPECIAL MENTION

Miley Walls Ansonia

Claire Hein Arcanum

Casey Bolen Bradford

Kaylie McConnell Dixie

Adrina Davenport Franklin Monroe

Cora Hoggatt Mississinawa Valley

Morgan House National Trail

Jersey Robinson Newton

Addie Campbell Preble Shawnee

Jordan Pinion Tri-County North

Aereonna Baker Tri-Village

Amelia Suggs Twin Valley South

FINAL LEAGUE STANDINGS

Congratulations to all the players earning all-league honors.

Tri-Village coach Emily Osborne wins her 3rd straight Coach of Year.

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2026 Baseball Final Standing.

ARCANUM – The Arcanum baseball team went undefeated in the conference this year in baseball and heads up the list in All-Conference selections in 2026.

Arcanum’s Regan Christ had a banner year starting 9 games with 9 wins so far this year on the bump for the Trojans.  The 9 wins is a school record for a pitcher in a season as Arcanum prepares for the post season. Christ also had a .026 ERA and has thrown 111 strikeouts.  Christ earned the WOAC 2026 Player of the Year.

Arcanum coach Randy Baker’s team won back-to-back conference titles and 4 out of 5 since the WOAC started.  Baker has 10 total league titles in his coaching career and was named the WOAC Coach of the Year.

Here are the All-Conference Selections.

FIRST TEAM

Regan Christ Arcanum

Bryce Kramer Arcanum

Kolton Quigney Arcanum

Dillon Phillips Dixie

Brayden Puckett Dixie

Bentley Manning Mississinawa Valley

Cole McGlothlin Mississinawa Valley

Kellen Laird National Trail

Mason Leal National Trail

Cole Alexander Newton

Rhett Koffer Newton

Austin Tippie Newton

Peyton Fannin Tri-County North

Gabe Heltsley Tri-County North

Dustin Miller Twin Valley South

SECOND TEAM

Sam Evers Ansonia

Kameron Ingle Ansonia

Bishop Cartwright Arcanum

Luke Stephens Arcanum

Colton Gambill Bradford

Garrett Williams Dixie

Rowen Yount Franklin Monroe

Elliott Suebert Mississinawa Valley

Grady Ott National Trail

Will Bowser Newton

Zarrin Walton Preble Shawnee

Ben Knife Tri-County North

Cole Marshall Tri-Village
Austin Burkett Twin Valley South

Laiden Carver Twin Valley South

SPECIAL MENTION

Karsen Weiss Ansonia

Ethan Kearney Arcanum

Bronson Schnurpel Bradford

Noah Thompson Dixie

Rohan Flory Franklin Monroe

Wyatt Stump Mississinawa Valley

Braylon Coffey National Trail

Brooks Flory Newton

Noah Nesbitt Preble Shawnee

Ryan Shively Tri-County North

Lucas Brown Tri-Village

Parker Howard Twin Valley South

FINAL LEAGUE STANDINGS

Congratulations to all the players earning all-league honors.


It was a good year for Randy Baker & his 20-3 Trojans now headed into post season.
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The Arcanum Girls won the 2026 WOAC Track & Field Championship.

Bradford – The Arcanum Girls Track team broke a 3-year run by Ansonia to win the 2026 WOAC League Championship.  They also won the league title in the first year of the WOAC 2022.

Arcanum won the title with 126 points with Ansonia finishing in 2nd place with 110.  Franklin Monroe was 3rd with 96 and Newton 4th with 65.

Not only did the Trojans win the league championship they made a clean sweep in the individual awards as well.

Arcanum's Savannah Miller is the 2026 WOAC "Runner of the Year" in Girls Track.

Arcanum’s Savannah Miller was named the WOAC Girls Runner of the Year.  She won the 100 and 300-meter hurdles along with bringing in points on a couple of relay teams.

Arcanum's Faith Wooten is the 2026 WOAC Athlete of the Year in Girls Track.

Arcanum’s Faith Wooten earned WOAC Field Events Athlete of the Year for the 2nd year in a row by winning both the Shot Put and Discus events.

Arcanum coach Jeff Raemachir is the 2026 WOAC Girls Track Coach of the Year.

Arcanum coach Jeff Rademachir was named 2026 WOAC Coach of the Year for the first time.

Individual Records Broken

Arcanum’s Brooklynne Eley won High Jump with record jump of 5’1”.

Arcanum's Savannah Miller running hurdles. (Jim Freeman photo)

Savannah Miller set a new 100-M Hurdles record in a time of 16.00 seconds, she also won the 300-M Hurdles as well.

Franklin Monroe's Sydney Baker won four events and set records in two.

Franklin Monroe’s Sydney Baker set records in 100M Dash 12.45, 200M Dash 25.50, was on 4x100M Relay team that set record and she won the pole vault competition.

Ansonia's London Reichert in 400M.

Ansonia’s London Reichert set a record of 59.76 in the 400M Run

Ansonia's Anna Yeomans in relay, she set record in 1600M Run.

Anna Yeomans of Ansonia also set a record in the 1600m run in 5:09.86.

Team Relay Records Broken

Newton’s 4x800 Meter Relay team of Claire Stull, Ellie Bradshaw, Gentri Deaton and Michaela Flora had a record  time of 10:31.15.

Franklin Monroe’s 4x100M Relay team of Mia Brookey, Hannah Wolfe, Qunicy Cox and Sydney Baker had a record time of 50.92

Twin Valley South’s 4x400M Relay team of Josey Butler, Grace Childers, Kelsie Maggard and Karsyn Roell had a record time of 4:20.09

Girls Field Events Results

Girls Shot Put

Girls Discus

Girls High Jump

Girls Long Jump

Girls Pole Vault

Girls Running Event Results

Girls 4x800

Girls 100 Hurdles

Girls 100 Dash

Girls 4x200

Girls 1600

Girls 4x100

Girls 400

Girls 300 Hurdles

Girls 200

Girls 800

Girls 3200

Girls 4x400

TEAM SCORES

Newton’s 4x800 Meter Relay team of Claire Stull, Ellie Bradshaw, Gentri Deaton & Michaela Flora set  a new record with a  time of 10:31.15.
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The Ansonia Boys Track Team ran away with their 3rd straight WOAC league Championship.

BRADFORD – The Ansonia boys track team won their 3rd straight WOAC Track & Field League Championship. They won the inaugural title the first year of the WOAC in 2021-22 and four out of the last five years.

The team scored 133 points for 1st place, Arcanum came in 2nd with 96, Newton 3rd with 89 and Tri-Village 4th with 83 points.

Cade Shellhaas set 3 new league records and holds 4 overall records winning four events at this year's conference track meet to lead his team to a 3rd straight title.

Ansonia’s Cade Shellhaas was a quadruple winner in pole vault, 110-meter hurdles, 300-meter hurdles and 200-meter dash and was named the WOAC Boys Runner of the Year for the 2nd year in a row.

Dom Black of Tri-Village set a new shot put record and finished 3rd in discuss to earn the 2026 Field Athlete of the Year.

Tri-Village’s Dominic Black was the Field Athlete of the Year by way of a record throw in the shot put of 53-3.75” and a 3rd place finish in the discus.

It's becoming a yearly thing for Ansonia Boys Track Coach Clint Neal who won Coach of the Year for a 3rd straight time and 4 out of the last 5 years.  

Ansonia boys coach Clint Neal earned his 2nd straight boys Coach of the Year award and was also the coach in 2022 when for that title as well. 

The following Athletes set WOAC records during the meet.

Charlie Weiss of Arcanum 21-5.75” long jump. Dom Black of Tri-Village 53-3.75” Shot Put. Cade Shellhaas of Ansonia 14.63 110-M Hurdles, 300-M Hurdles, 39.35, and the 200-M, 22.48.  Bennett Lehman of Ansonia 4:26.44, 1600m and 2:00.76 in the 800-M.

BOYS FIELD EVENTS RESULTS

Boys Shot Put

Boys Discus

Boys High Jump

Boys Long Jump

Boys Pole Vault

BOYS RUNNING EVENTS

Boys 4x800 Relay

Boys 110 Hurdles

Boys 100 Dash

Boys 4x200

Boys 1600

Ansonia's Bennett Lehman set a couple of records in the 800m and 1600m at the WOAC League Championship meet.

Boys 400

Boys 300 Hurdles

Boys 200

Boys 800

Boys 3200

Boys 4x400

TEAM FINAL SCORES

Arcanum's Charlie Weiss set a new WOAC Long Jump record with a jump of 21' - 5.75" (Jim Freeman photo)
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Arcanum repeats in baseball wins back-to-back WOAC Championships.

Story & Photos by Dale Barger

ARCANUM – The Arcanum baseball team ran the table in the WOAC this year, going a perfect 11–0 after a 9–0 win over Tri-County North at home. The victory clinched back-to-back league championships for the Trojans and their fourth title in the five-year history of the WOAC.

Coming into the spring, not many would have predicted a clean sweep for Arcanum given the holes they had to fill. Junior starting outfielder Jace Mote sustained a late-season, year-ending injury in basketball. On top of that, the Trojans lost starting pitcher Lucas Miller, who won seven games last season with a 0.64 ERA. There were real questions about how Arcanum would respond.

But under head coach Randy Baker, the Trojans’ program has consistently found ways to compete and overcome adversity. This year’s title marks the 10th league championship of Baker’s tenure.

In an era where league championships sometimes take a backseat to tournament runs, Baker reminded his team what they had just accomplished.

Arcanum coach Randy Baker holds up WOAC Championship trophy and explained to his team what it means to win a league title which he's done 10 times in his coaching career.

“We talked after the game and like I told them, we are playing two seasons: the league season and the tournament season,” Baker explained. “The first season is our league season, and our goal is to win the league. If we go undefeated, that’s great, but it’s a tough league to go undefeated because there are a lot of trap games. Twice this year we had to play three league games in a week, and that requires a lot of pitching. You have to have a lot of depth, and we did that this year and won some really tough games during those stretches.”

While Baker didn’t specifically talk about his own program, senior catcher Bryce Kramer did, offering a glimpse into why Arcanum has been so successful.

Senior catcher Bryce Kramer has been a solid 3-year player behind the dish for Arcanum.

“In coach Baker’s program there are no days off. If there’s a day off, it’s on the weekend,” Kramer said. “We’re putting in the work, 110% every single day. We’re coming in with the same energy and leaving with the same energy. All the guys put in extra work after hours. We’re in the gym, hitting in the cages and sometimes putting in three to four hours of practice.”

All that work paid off for Arcanum and for the six seniors who also won league titles as freshmen and juniors. Doing it together one more time as seniors made this championship even more meaningful.

“We didn’t think we were going to be as solid as we were last year due to the loss of a couple guys that were key to the team not being able to play,” Kramer admitted. “But we surprised ourselves, we worked really hard and some guys really stepped up, so winning it this year is really awesome.”

Regan Christ delivers for his team, 8 starts and 8 wins so far this year.

It doesn’t hurt to have another senior, Regan Christ, taking the ball in big games and delivering. Christ has started eight games this season — and won all eight.

Against Tri-County North, Christ went the distance, allowing just three hits and one walk while striking out 15. In his eight wins, he owns a 0.15 ERA and has fanned 99 batters.

Christ, who is headed to Ohio University to pitch next year, is savoring his senior season and winning a league title with his classmates.

“Obviously, it’s been a lot of fun. Winning a WOAC league title outright means everything — that’s all we can ask for in our first season — and to do that with these seniors is extra special,” Christ said.

Arcanum Seniors had a good night picking up their 3rd WOAC League Title in 4 years.

Arcanum honored its seniors before the game: Derek Longstreth, Cole Kessler, Kolton Quigney, Regan Christ, Bryce Kramer, and Ethan Kearney. Fittingly, each left a mark on the win.

• Longstreth had a hit and an RBI.
• Kramer once again controlled the game behind the plate.
• Quigney flashed the leather at shortstop and added 2 hits, 2 RBI, and a run scored.
• Kearney chipped in a hit and scored twice.
• Kessler collected 2 hits, 2 runs scored, and an RBI.
• Christ helped his own cause with 2 hits, 2 runs, and an RBI.

Christ has been an impact player since his freshman year, when his older brother — then a senior catcher — called the game for him behind the plate. Over the last three seasons he’s built that same kind of bond with Kramer, and together they’ve surpassed the 7–0 mark the Christ brothers shared in Regan’s freshman year, going 8–0 so far.

“You know, after three years we’re pretty much on the same page — especially this year,” Christ said. “He knows what I want half the time and that’s all you can ask from any catcher. We are completely in sync.”

Kramer echoed that connection.

“Considering it’s our third year together, we’re pretty much on the same page with everything we do — calling strikes, calling pitches, and just showing up together,” Kramer said. “He’s just consistent. Every single day he is consistent, and it starts the minute he steps on the field. He’s locked in and ready to go.”

Consistency also describes Baker’s program. With a league title secured and the “first season” complete, Arcanum now turns toward the second season with the tournament draw taking place this weekend.

“We’re going to enjoy this league title tonight and then get back to work tomorrow,” Baker said. “We just have to keep getting better. We’ve got to get some other pitchers throwing. We’ve had a couple rainouts, so we’ve got to get our pitching staff going again, because you never know in tournament what will happen — especially the further we go, where you might need four or five pitchers that can actually throw.”

“I’m very proud of the boys. It’s been a good first season, but we’re not done,” he added.

Christ and Kramer are on the same page there, too.

“Oh, it’s been so much fun this year,” Christ concluded. “Now it’s all about getting ready for tournament. That’s our main goal after winning the league — we definitely want to make a big run this year.”

Now standing at 17-2 overall, 11-0 in league the Trojans got to celebrate another WOAC crown.  But they know the work is just beginning. The first season ended in perfection. Now, with Christ on the mound, Kramer behind the plate, and a senior class that doesn’t believe in days off, Arcanum turns its full attention to the second season — and a tournament run they hope will be just as memorable.

The Arcanum boys baseball team knows how to celebrate after a big win.
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