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High school athletic conference in Ohio, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Sandusky Bay Conference is a high school athletic conference in the Sandusky Bay area of north central Ohio. It is affiliated with the Ohio High School Athletic Association.
Members
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The SBC has 22 full members schools located within Erie, Huron, Ottawa, Sandusky, and Seneca counties. The schools range in size from Division 2 to Division 7. The reasonably short travel distances and limited range of sizes promotes tight competition throughout all sanctioned sports and a long history of membership with several rivalries. Several member schools have won state championships.
Member schools
Future members
Former members
Former members who returned to the SBC with the 2016 and 2018 expansions are outlined in those sections.
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Athletic competition
The conference was established in 1948 and offers competition in the following sports:
- baseball; boys
- bowling; boys & girls
- cross-country; boys & girls
- basketball; boys & girls
- cheerleading; boys & girls
- football; boys
- golf; boys & girls
- soccer; boys & girls
- softball; girls
- swimming; boys & girls
- diving; boys & girls
- tennis; boys & girls
- track & field; boys & girls
- volleyball; girls
- wrestling; boys
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League history
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1940s
- 1948: The SBC is formed with inaugural members Danbury, Elmore, Genoa, Gibsonburg, Oak Harbor, Port Clinton & Fremont St. Joseph CC.
- 1949: Port Clinton leaves and is replaced by Clyde.
1950s
- 1950: Sandusky St. Mary CC joins.
- 1956: Genoa leaves to help form the Northern Lakes League.
- 1957: Danbury leaves.
- 1958: Elmore leaves and is replaced by Tiffin Calvert and Carey.
- 1959: Gibsonburg leaves.
1960s
- 1960: Lakota & Mohawk join.
- 1963: Carey leaves and is replaced by Margaretta & Gibsonburg, who rejoins after a four-year absence.
- 1966: Tiffin Calvert leaves.
- 1968: Huron & Fostoria St. Wendelin join.
1970s
- 1972: Gibsonburg, Lakota & Oak Harbor leave to form the Suburban Lakes League. St. Wendelin also leaves the league. They are replaced by Sandusky Perkins & Tiffin Calvert, who rejoins the league.
1980s
- 1980: Port Clinton leaves the Great Lakes League and rejoins after a 31-year absence.
- 1986: St. Joseph CC & Tiffin Calvert leave to help form the Midland Athletic League. They are replaced by Edison, who left the Firelands Conference, and by Oak Harbor, who returns from the SLL.
2010s
- 2013: On February 1, St. Mary CC announced they would be forming a new league called the Sandusky River League in 2014-15 with Calvert (who instead joined the TAAC), Lakota, New Riegel, Old Fort & St. Joseph CC. St. Wendelin would join them later. This league's intent was to have 8 football-playing members and 2-3 non-football schools. This league will ultimately give a home to the remaining MAL schools.[1]
- 2014: On December 10, the SBC announced plans to expand.[2] Invitations were accepted by Lakota, New Riegel, Old Fort, Fremont St. Joseph Central Catholic, Sandusky St. Mary Central Catholic & Fostoria St. Wendelin Catholic (all of which now play in the Sandusky River League), Tiffin Calvert, a former member of the SBC now a member of the TAAC, and Vermilion, currently a member of the West Shore Conference.
- 2016: On March 16, Clyde principal William J. Webb and the Northern Ohio League announced that the NOL will merge into the SBC for the 2017-18 school year. Bellevue, Norwalk, Sandusky, Shelby, Tiffin Columbian, and Willard will become the league's newest members.[3][4]
- 2017: Both Gibsonburg and Danbury announced that they would leave the TAAC and return to the SBC for the 2018-2019 school year. In April 2017, St. Wendelin announced that it would close in June following the 2016-2017 school year.[5]
- In July 2017, North Union announced they would be leaving the Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference to join the Central Buckeye Conference. This prompted the MOAC to invite Shelby as a replacement, which they accepted. The Whippets would spend only one year in the SBC.[6]
- 2019: In August 2017 Hopewell-Loudon announced that they would leave the Blanchard Valley Conference for the Sandusky Bay Conference in the 2019-2020 school year after being offered an invitation to replace Shelby.[7][8]
2020s
- 2021: On May 20, 2021, the school board at Woodmore announced they were going to accept the Sandusky Bay Conference's invitation to join their league for the 2023–24 school year.[9] It is speculated that Woodmore will play in the SBC's River Division with schools of similar enrollment size.
- On May 26, 2021, the school board at Oak Harbor announced they would be leaving the SBC and accepting the Northern Buckeye Conference's invitation to replace Woodmore.[10]
- On July 19, 2021, St. Mary CC announced that they would be playing football in the Northern 8 Football Conference for the 2021 and 2022 seasons, with the intention to return to 11-man football at some point.[11]
- 2023: On October 20, 2023, St. Joseph Central Catholic announced they would play 8-man football in the Northern 8 Football Conference beginning in 2024. They join fellow SBC members Danbury and St. Mary CC in the 8-man circuit.[12]
- 2024: In January 2024, Northwood and the SBC announced that the Rangers would be joining the River Division for the 2025–26 school year.[13] Northwood had been a member of the Toledo Area Athletic Conference since 2000. The SBC River will then be split into a North Division (Danbury, Gibsonburg, Northwood, SJCC, SMCC, and Woodmore) and a South Division (Calvert, Hopewell-Loudon, Lakota, New Riegel, and Old Fort).
Conference split
On February 11, 2025, it was reported that the school boards at ten of the Lake and Bay division schools (Clyde, Columbian, Norwalk, Perkins, and Sandusky of the Lake along with Bay members Bellevue, Edison, Huron, Port Clinton, and Vermilion) were going to vote to withdraw from the SBC and begin their own league with two divisions for the convenience of scheduling.[14] On May 7, these schools announced they would begin play in the 2026-2027 school year as the Northern Ohio Conference.[15] The River division will retain the SBC name going forward.
2025
In November 2024, the Northern 10 Athletic Conference (N10) announced that they intended to expand their league from its current eight schools to 14 schools (12 football playing schools) competing in two divisional alignments.[16] The N10 later announced on February 26, 2025 that they had invited six schools to join their league: Hopewell-Loudon, Lucas, New Riegel, Old Fort, Tiffin Calvert, and Willard.[17][18] Willard and New Reigel accepted the N10's invitation to join for the 2026-2027 school year on March 12, 2025.[19][20] Calvert, Hopewell-Loudon, and Old Fort were included in a statement on March 28, 2025 that they were joining New Riegel, Willard, and Lucas from the Mid-Buckeye Conference in the N10 for the 2026-2027 school year.[21]
In March 2025, Ottawa Hills announced they would be joining the SBC in 2026-2027.[22]
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League Timeline
Championships
Championships
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Championships - Multi-division Era
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Divisional Championships - Fall Sports
Divisional Championships - Winter Sports
Divisional Championships - Spring Sports
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External links
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