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Week 9 Ohio High School Athletes of the Week

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Week 10 Ohio High School Athlete of the Week Nominees

* Keegan Sell, Garfield (Garrettsville) Football
Senior carried the ball 13 times for 324 yards (averaged 24.5 yards per carry) and five TDs and caught a 37-yard TD pass in a 60-25 win over Brookfield. Also had 20 tackles and a forced fumble. Has 1,126 yards rushing and 20 TDs and 159 tackles, 25 TFL, five forced fumbles and four fumble recoveries this season.
 
* Vaughn Harber, St. Francis DeSales (Columbus) Boys Golf
Senior set a new golf state tournament record and won a D-I title with a two-day total of 135 (rounds of 69 and 66) at OSU’s Scarlett Course. His 135 broke the previous record of 141 set by Whitehall-Yearling's Brian Bridges and Toledo Bowsher’s Steve Stone, both in 1985.
 
* Tess Bucher, Hoover (North Canton) Girls Tennis
Senior won her school’s first tennis state championship, defeating Westlake’s Amara Brahmbhatt 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 in the OHSAA Division I state singles championship. Finished state runner-up last year and placed fourth as both a freshman and a sophomore.
 
* Mia Hammond, New Albany Girls Golf
Sophomore shot four-under-par over two days to set the OHSAA D-I individual state tournament record and tie the overall record at the girls golf state tournament on the Gray Course at The Ohio State University. Hammond’s 136 (rounds of 67 and 69) matches the 136 (68-68)that Eaton’s Sarah Willis shot at the 2016 D-II state tournament. The previous Division I state tournament record was set by Katie Hallinan from Cincinnati Walnut Hills with a 137 (68 and 69) in 2017.
 
* Emma Wagner and Pratyusha Chauduri, Mason Girls Tennis
Tandem won the school’s first doubles trophy, defeating New Albany’s Richie Francois and Paige Cornelius, 6-0, 6-1, in the D-I doubles state championship. Wagner, a freshman, and Chauduri, a sophomore, were the first Mason tandem to play for a doubles state title and won each of their four matches at the state tournament in straight sets.
 
* Amiya Bowles, Bexley (Columbus) Girls Tennis
Sophomore won her second straight D-II state singles title, earning a 6-1, 6-2 decision over Cincinnati Indian Hills’ Martha Thompson in a rematch of last year’s state championship match. Bowles is the 14th two-time state champion in state history, and her title is the seventh singles state title in Bexley history, tying the school with Shaker Heights Hathaway Brown for the most singles state titles.
 
* Newton Hoops, Unioto (Chillicothe) Football
Senior completed 13-of-15 passes for 262 yards and six TDs in a 56-8 win over Southeastern. Has thrown for 2,343 yards and 29 TDs this season.
 
* Arya Chabria and Yasemin Bilgin, Columbus Academy (Gahanna) Girls Tennis
Tandem out-lasted Shaker Heights Hathaway Brown’s Summer Mu and Kate Mills, 7-6(6), 4-6, 7-5, in the Division II doubles state championship match. Chabria and Bilgin won their school’s third doubles state championship and first since 2012.
 
* Logan Sutto, Anthony Wayne (Whitehouse) Boys Golf
Senior shot a five-under-par round of 66 on the final day of the D-I golf state tournament to lead the Generals to their first state title and secure a two-day total of 136, which was good for a second place individual finish and broke the previous state tournament record of 141 set by Whitehall-Yearling's Brian Bridges and Toledo Bowsher’s Steve Stone, both in 1985.