A complete group effort: Ontario girls join three-peating boys atop MOAC
MARION – Rachel Miller’s girls went “all in” against a Rachel Miller clone and didn’t flinch. Overcoming four firsts and three records from Shelby senior Princess Timko, Ontario used remarkable lineup depth to end Shelby’s five-year reign and give the Warriors a title sweep in the Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference track and field meet. BROKEN RECORD: Ontario breaks home run record in sectional championship win The two-day showcase concluded Thursday at Marion’s Grant Middle School with the Ontario boys riding seven firsts to a 162-132 winning margin over Clear Fork while the girls scored 141 points despite only two event champions to hold off Shelby (134.
5) and Clear Fork (128). It was the third boys title in Miller’s three years of overseeing Ontario’s entire program and the first conference title for the girls since Miller won three events and anchored a runner-up relay in the final year of the Northern Ohio League in 2017. Miller would go on to win a state title that year for Ontario in the 300 hurdles, which, oddly enough, she did not run in the NOL meet.
And while she didn’t need to compete in her specialty to impact those standings, she would probably tell you being part of this end to a conference title drought – nine years later – is more gratifying. “I think what makes us special is our depth,” Miller said of her girls. “We have people who will step up … they just will.
I call them ‘sleepers. ’ Other people won’t see them coming and they choose to show up and step up. “A big one who comes to mind is Jazlyn Johnson.
She had never gone over a hurdle until Monday, but we told her we were going to put her in the 300 hurdles and she got third. Six points in a race she had never run until today. We had people like that, in numbers, on our team.
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