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For the sixth straight year since entering the Greater Miami Conference, Mason High School has once again claimed the conference’s top honor, the GMC All Sports Championship.  After a record setting sports season in 2011-12, this year's Comet athletic teams exceeded even the wildest of expectations.  Mason finished with a total of 227 points in the annual conference tally (a new 10 team era record), with a 50-point margin over 2nd place Sycamore (176.25).  

In 2012-13 the Comets earned the most GMC titles in one season by any school in the 47-year history of the league, winning 15 of the 24 team championships.  Mason teams won outright GMC titles in the following sports:  Cross Country (boys/girls), Soccer (boys/girls), Golf (boys/girls), Chess, Girls Basketball, Girls Bowling, Girls Swimming, Wrestling, Baseball, Track (boys/girls) and Tennis.

Not since Princeton's league supremacy 30+ years ago has one school experienced the measure of athletic success that the Mason Athletic programs have recently accomplished.  The Vikings dominated the All Sports Championship at the end of the 5-team era and then into a 6-team format with a record 11 straight titles (1976-77 thru 1986-87).  Lakota won 5 consecutive trophies with a streak that started in 1987-88 and lasted through 1991-92.  During the modern era, when the league expanded to 8 teams, and then 10-teams, Lakota West twice won three consecutive AST's while Sycamore earned the title four consecutive times.  Princeton has captured the most GMC All Sports Titles with 19, the last coming some 20 years ago.  

How the GMC Male athletes did at the State Track Meet:

Boys 4x800 Meter Relay

Second -  Mason                                               7:45.96    

Joey Stimler 12, Paul Dhyver 12 , Alexander Notton 12, Ethan Valentine 11

Boys 110 Meter Hurdles

Third  Asad Maiden         12 Mason                    14.40 

Boys 4x200 Meter Relay

Second  Mason            1:26.44  

Reece Pontious 10, Billy Chanatry 12, Robert Diehl 12, Juan Cummings 12

Boys 400 Meter Dash

Eighth   Halen Witcher   11 Princeton                49.05

Boys 300 Meter Hurdles

Sixth  Asad Maiden         12 Mason                    38.57 

Boys 800 Meter Run
Thirteenth  Ethan Valentine     11 Mason                  1:59.01

Boys 3200 Meter Run

Fifth  Tom Clark           11 Mason                  9:15.77

Seventh  Nick Grismer  10 Mason                9:18.77

Ninth  Matt Rice           12 Lak. East              9:20.91

Boys 4x400 Meter Relay

Second -  Mason            3:16.19  

Reece Pontious 10, Robert Diehl 12, Amit Maity 10, Asad Maiden 12  

Boys High Jump

Second  Jalin Marshall      12 Middletown             6-08.00 

Boys Long Jump

Sixth  Jalin Marshall      12 Middletown            22-09.50

Boys Shot Put

Ninth  Dylan Wiesman       12 Colerain              55-01.75

Twelfth  Todd Lewis          11 Sycamore              53-08.75 

Men - Team Rankings

3) Mason, 17) Middletown, 57) Princeton

How the Female GMC athletes did at the State Track Meet:

Girls 4x800 Meter Relay

First Place - Mason              9:11.06      

Delaney McDowell 10, Lauren Wood 12,Erin Brush 10, Olivia Gaus 12       

Girls 100 Meter Hurdles

Ninth  Jordan Horning      11 Mason                    15.39 

Girls 100 Meter Dash

Third  Autumn Heath        11 Lak. East                12.26

Girls 4x200 Meter Relay

Seventh Mason        1:43.02       

Beniria White 11, Emily Calvani 10, Chloe Knue 11, Briauna Keys 10

Girls 300 Meter Hurdles

Eighth  Jordan Horning      11 Mason                    45.41

Girls 800 Meter Run

Eleventh  Olivia Gaus         12 Mason                  2:16.35

Girls 200 Meter Dash

Fifth   Autumn Heath        11 Lak. East                25.06

Eighth  Samia Bell          12 Princeton                25.48

Girls 3200 Meter Run

Second Lauren Wood   12 Mason       10:21.03 

Third  Sam Siler           12 Sycamore              10:41.25

Girls 4x400 Meter Relay

Third Sycamore     3:52.52     

Anna Bailes 12, Allison Klonne 12, Sydney Larkin 12, Bianca Rhodenbaugh 12

Girls Long Jump

Thirteenth  Kellsa Mbah         11 Lak. East             16-00.75

Girls Pole Vault

Tenth  Jennifer Nelson     11 Mason                 11-00.00

Women - Team Rankings     

The Mason Baseball Team defeated Fairfield 6-0 on Monday evening, concluding their regular season with an undefeated 23-0 record.  This amazing accomplishment establishes the first time a Comet baseball team has gone undefeated in the regular season.  It also marks the first time any GMC team has finished conference play with an unblemished 18-0 record.  

Mason has dominated their opponents since play began in late March with a solid balance of great pitching, defense and hitting.  Offensively the Comets have outscored their opponents by a 211-36 margin.  Outstanding pitching and tight defense has held the opposition to a .164 batting average while the Comets hit .371 as a team.  Mason hurlers have tossed 6 shutouts and produced an incredible 1.38 ERA as a staff.  

The Comets are a senior laden team with 15 graduates on their 25-man roster.  Mason is currently ranked #17 in National polls and No. 1 in both the state and city polls.  The two-time GMC Champion Comets will begin their postseason journey on Thursday, May 16th when they host the winner of the Northwest/Walnut Hills contest.  Mason is the #1 seed in the upcoming Sectional Tourney. 

For the sixth consecutive year Mason’s boys’ and girls’ track teams captured GMC championships.  The boys tallied 190 points to second place Sycamore’s 93.  The Mason girls’ team had 183 points to second place Sycamore’s 149.  Results are posted on the track web pages.

Doubles – Second Place - Dylan Stern and Deepak Indrakanti (Sycamore) , Third Place - Alex Lebedev and Young-Jin Kang (Mason)