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Press Contributing Writer sports@presspublications.com For 16 years, Mike May has been the coach of the Oak Harbor Rockets.

After a 13-1 season and Division V state semifinal run by the football team, Oak Harbor’s season finally began on Dec. 21 hosting Sandusky Bay Conference Lake Division opponent Vermilion in a non-league match-up.

Two teams that once competed against each other decades back in the Suburban Lakes League are now ruling the roost in the Sandusky Bay Conference.

Press Sports Editor sports@presspublications.com Arguably the most decorated football player in Oak Harbor’s history, Clay Schulte has managed to take his game to new heights at the collegiate level and is set to enter his senior season with the Indianapolis Greyhounds.

        Oak Harbor junior guard Blake Booker grew up on South Bass Island, playing basketball for Put-In-Bay his freshman year.

You would never know driving down State Route 163 that there is a border between the Benton-Carroll-Salem school district and Genoa Area school district, but there is.

There’s no denying that the running game is the most dynamic aspect of Oak Harbor’s offense this season, and it all starts up front.

Joey Holifield, a third team All-Ohioan as a junior, knew that he was going to have to carry the load for the Cardinal Stritch boys basketball team his senior year.

Several years ago, Oak Harbor’s Jac Alexander led the Rocket football program back to its winning ways. Now he’s helped the Marietta Pioneers make history.

BY YANEEK SMITH