Kudos to FH team on winning title

BOUQUETS >> To the Fairport Harding High School girls bowling team, for capturing the Division II state championship on March 3.

It marks the first state team title in any sport for the Skippers since boys track and field repeated as Class A state champions in 1964 and 1965.

Fairport was sixth out of the qualifying round at Wayne Webb’s Columbus Bowl with a total score of 3,020.

The Skippers then defeated St. Mary’s Memorial and Bryan to advance to the state final against top seed Coldwater.

“I think we all just kept our heads up,” Skippers senior bowler Bella Coll said. “We went into (the qualifying round) confidently, knowing that we have the potential to make it through each round and to win.

“So our attitudes really helped a lot. We made sure that we acted as a team and helped raise each other’s selfesteem if we threw a bad shot. It was really just a lot of teamwork that helped us to get through it.”

In the final, the Skippers lost Game 1, 168-147, before charging back to capture the last three games and the match, 187-155, 190-169 and 201-166.

“It’s super awesome, and we’re all very excited about it that we have been able to have such a successful program and to finally be able to bring home a state title to the school and our community,” Coll said.

We congratulate Coach Jerry Rich and the girls bowling team for bringing a state championship back to Fairport Harbor.

BOUQUETS » To Lake-Geauga Recovery Centers Inc., for expanding services at its Chardon outpatient office.

The private, nonprofit agency provides a range of services for adults whose lives have been affected by their own or another’s use of alcohol, drugs, problem gambling or mental illness.

Licensed, trained professionals offer support, education and counseling to individuals, families, businesses, other service providers, and the community at large.

According to a news release, Lake-Geauga Recovery Centers’ intensive outpatient treatment at the 209 Center St. office has been expanded to include a daytime program to better meet the needs of the community.

The hours of the additional intensive outpatient treatment program are 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

“We are very pleased to offer these extended services to the community, especially in light of the growing opioid epidemic,” President and CEO Melanie Blasko said in a statement.

“Expanding hours of our most intensive outpatient level of care in our Chardon office will be a great convenience and will improve access for many people.”

We applaud Lake-Geauga Recovery Centers for making this decision.

BRICKBATS » To Ronald Wosky of Eastlake, after he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for rape and other sexual crimes against a boy.

Wosky received the prison term March 5 from Lake County Common Pleas Court Judge John P. O’Donnell.

The Prosecutor’s Office recommended a 15-year sentence for Wosky, who in January pleaded guilty to five felonies, down from the original 28-count indictment.

Wosky pleaded to rape, unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, disseminating matter harmful to juveniles, pandering obscenity involving a minor and attempted pandering of sexually oriented matter involving a minor.

O’Donnell ruled for consecutive sentences for the five felonies, totaling 20 years in prison for Wosky.

He also will be on community control for five years following his release from prison and must register as a Tier III sex offender.

We believe that Wosky deserves his fate for committing these reprehensible crimes.

BRICKBATS » To Ryan Johnson, the California pilot who flew to Ohio to have sex with a 13-year-old girl and was arrested by undercover police officers, after he received 18 months in prison for the crime.

Cleveland.com reported that Johnson, 33, of Camarillo, California, pleaded guilty last month to attempted unlawful contact with a minor.

He was sentenced Feb. 28 in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court in Cleveland.

Prosecutors have said Johnson, a pilot for a private company, flew to Akron last August and then drove to a park in the Cleveland suburb of Newburgh Heights for a planned rendezvous with a teen he’d exchanged explicit messages with on a chat site. He was instead met by members of the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

As a result of his arrest and prison sentence, Johnson is one pilot who’s going to be grounded for the next year and a half.