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Hawken’s Axel Neely finishes as state runner-up

Axel Neely
Steve Hare
By Steve Hare

Hawken senior Axel Neely settled for second place as he fell in the OHSAA Division II state championship match on Saturday in Wooster.

Neely cruised into the semifinals with a pair of wins on Friday, and then punched his ticket to the championship match with a come-from-behind 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 win over Springfield Northwestern’s Aiden Yeager in the semis.

Gahanna Columbus Academy’s Nason Lo ended Neely’s state tournament run with a 6-0, 6-0 win in the finals.

Orange sophomore Illia Shcherbakov defeated Yeager in the third-place match, 5-7, 7-5, 6-0. Shcherbakov’s only loss of the tournament was to eventual state champion Lo in the semifinals.

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Steve Harehttp://www.ohiovarsity.com
Steve Hare is the Chagrin Valley Conference's Sports Information Director. He also created and publishes OhioVarsity.com, an online publication dedicated to providing hyperlocal coverage to area high school athletic programs. Hare began covering high school sports for the Lake County News Herald in 1997. Hare attended Willoughby South High School through the middle of his senior year, then graduated from Berkshire High School in Burton in 1986. He played football, wrestled and was an all-Geauga county baseball player (1986). He lives in Chardon with his wife Paulette and their children.

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