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Press Sports Editor sports@presspublications.com In a number of ways, Woodmore’s first fall season in the Sandusky Bay Conference River Division was about what you might expect.

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Press Contributing Writer sports@presspublications.com Woodmore made some noise in the postseason last year. Is the Wildcats track team up for an encore? If Woodmore’s performance thus far is any indication, this could be one of its best teams.

At the Division III girls state cross country meet, Woodmore senior Ava Beam finished 12th out of 176 runners, earning All-Ohio status. Beam was in sixth place at the first split (5:42.7), seventh place at the second split (11:57) and finished in 19:06.7. 

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Press Sports Editor sports@presspublications.com Behind four top-five finishes, Eastwood won the Northern Buckeye Conference Meet. The Eagles had seven runners finish in the top 13 and easily won the meet with 23 points, followed by Woodmore (40) and Genoa (86).

Press Sports Editor sports@presspublications.com Second, second, second, second, second, third, fourth and fifth. Those are some of the finishes that Woodmore has had at the cross country invitationals in which it has competed.

When Woodmore junior Jordan Beam handed the baton to her teammate junior Olivia Vogelpohl for the final leg of the Division III 4x800-meter relay, the Wildcats were in trouble.

Woodmore track’s youth movement continued when sophomore Azure Travis made her state debut and took fifth place in the 100-meter hurdles with a time 15.18 and took fourth in the 300-meter hurdles clocking a time of 44.6 on Saturday, setting school records in both events.