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TESTED NOVEMBER 2026 · OSCEOLA, PENN TOWNSHIP AND THE COUNTY RECORD REACHED
Boat racing was tested against the county park and regatta record and the open web: no regatta, powerboat race, hydroplane meeting or sail race on Baugo Creek, Baugo Bay, Lake Osceola or the St. Joseph River at Osceola appears in any record reached. The water's sporting record in the record is recreation, not racing — fishing, kayaking and tubing at Ferrettie/Baugo Creek County Park — and it is printed here as a pointer at that size, not inflated into a racing tradition the record does not hold. Bicycle racing was tested the same way: no cycle race, criterium, velodrome or race meeting seated in Osceola or Penn Township appears in any record reached, and no county bicycle-race record naming Osceola was returned. Each test therefore prints as what the row allows — a negative at racing strength, honestly sized: on the water and on the bicycle, Osceola's record is recreation and transport (the interurban-era and modern bicycle as carriage, in Transportation's keeping), and competition, if any ever ran, left no trace in the open record. The settler for any deeper test is the same for both: the Tribune's sporting pages and the county parks' event files.
Sources: County park and regatta searches and cycling-race searches for Osceola / Penn Township, run November 2026 — no race returned; the searches are printed as the evidence. Banked Sports (Ferrettie/Baugo Creek fishing, kayaking, tubing — recreation, pointed to, not retold). Settler named: South Bend Tribune sports file; St. Joseph County Parks event files.