

Waynesville took 15 shots to five by Ottawa-Glandorf. Waynesville outscored its six tournament opponents 25-0. The defense, led by junior goalkeeper Gracyn Armstrong, did the rest. It was Whitaker’s team-best 16th goal of the season and her first since the third round of the playoffs. “She had a bunch of shots earlier in the game. “It was only a matter of time,” senior defender Kate Handle said. When she turned, she had a great angle, and I believed that it would go in.” and I knew that she could hit it because we do it in practice all the time. If you don’t hit the shot, you don’t, but I took it and I made it. “This is the state championship,” said Whitaker, who committed to Tusculum University in May. After a corner kick, she corralled a loose ball in the center of the penalty box, let it drop to her feet, touched it once and then drilled it into the top of the net as one defender raced at her. Senior Emma Whitaker’s scored the only goal with 27:38 to play in the game. I’m just grateful to be on this team, and I just knew this was the year.” Ever since June, we’ve been coming out and and getting better. I’m just incredibly proud of us because we put all of our effort into this. “I’m speechless because every year we go into the season with our main goal of winning the state championship,” senior defender Savanna Amburgy said, “and we’ve never gotten this far in school history. Waynesville High School’s girls soccer team claimed the school’s first state team championship in any sport by beating Ottawa-Glandorf 1-0 in the Division III final at Field on Friday (November 12, 2021). Get the latest on Dayton each day with your Dayton Daily News newspaper subscription.*Article written by David Jablonski for the Dayton Daily News.ĬOLUMBUS - Those signs honoring state championship teams outside cities across Ohio, Waynesville can put one up now. Read in-depth special reports on everything from nuclear waste in Ohio to Dayton street gangs and slain missionary and environmentalist Dorothy Stang.Keep up with military news from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and events at the National Museum of the U.S.Find out which local manufacturers are adding jobs, how local retail sales and gas prices compare to the national averages, and which companies are getting military contracts.Read it on paper or on the go and find out what’s up around town: Today you can get the news of Dayton and the Miami Valley first with a Dayton Daily News subscription. And its sister paper, the morning Journal-Herald, was the launch pad for Erma Bombeck’s wildly successful career as a columnist, author, and speaker. It was, in the form of 1898’s Dayton Evening News, the first paper in James Cox’s eventual Cox Enterprises media empire. The Dayton Daily News has been the start of some big things.
