COLUMBUS — Three state wrestling individual tournament appearances, three opening round victories. Upper Sandusky senior Noah Clary (182) always has won his first match at Ohio high school wrestling's biggest stage, and on Thursday at the 81st annual state tournament, that trend continued.

COLUMBUS — It is often said that pins are rare at the state wrestling tournament. Carey’s Tanner May (170), however, bucked that trend by pinning Lorain Clearview’s Julian Colbert at the 5:00 mark of the Division III championship preliminaries to advance to the championship quarterfinals Friday.

The top two seeds are into the semifinals, along with a couple of lower-seeded individuals, as the Wyandot Match Game Invitational bowling tournament opened this weekend at Wyandot Lanes. Top-seeded brothers Allen and Don McLaughlin both went 2-0 on the opening weekend, as did No. 11 seed Al Garvin and No. 13 seed Eric Miller in the double-elimination tournament.

Upper Sandusky’s fifth-grade girls basketball team won the Mid-Ohio Basketball League championship and has a 21-1 record while also competing in the Central Ohio Basketball Association.

The Upper Sandusky High School cheer competition team placed second in the Division 4 OASSA State Championships at St. John’s Arena. There were 22 teams that qualified in the regionals to go on to compete in the state championship.

Upper Sandusky’s Abigail Fogle was a first-team pick in Division II, and Carey’s Sydney Kin earned first-team honors in Division IV on the All-Northwest district girls basketball team voted on by the media and released Wednesday evening.

Upper Sandusky’s Jevon Dible was a first-team pick to the All-Northwest District team in Division III as selected by area media members and released Wednesday evening. Dible, a senior guard and the District 6 player of the year, averaged 15.0 points per game during the regular season to lead the Rams and was tops in the team with averages of 6.6 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 2.5 steals per game.

FOSTORIA — All season long, one of the goals of the 2017-18 Mohawk boys basketball team has been to accomplish what the program’s teams of the past weren’t able to. The Warriors defeated Carey twice, and the first victory was their first over the Blue Devils in what was believed to be at least five years.

SYCAMORE — It took two years for Mohawk senior Daniel Price to get back to the state wrestling tournament. Now that he has made it again, he wants to take advantage of his last opportunity.

Their goals this weekend may be slightly different, but Upper Sandusky seniors Noah Clary and Connor Johnston are ending their high school wrestling careers in the place every Ohio high school wrestler aspires to be: the state tournament.