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T2 COVER STORY FOSTORIA REVIEW TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012 

Coach Cara Noel 

reigns over Arcadia 

boys basketball 

By SCOTT COTTOS 

SPORTS EDITOR 

ARCADIA — Coach Cara Noel’s early assessment of her team 

sounded much like any other that one might hear in the early preseason. 

“I have good kids,” she said. “They work hard, they listen and 

they try to do what I tell them the best they can, so I can’t complain.” 

There’s a big difference, though, in those words coming from a 

female coach: She’s talking about the boys varsity team at Arcadia 

High School. 

She knows the deal. She’s believed to be one of just a handful of 

women coaching boys basketball in Ohio, making it notable in itself. 

“I’m definitely a minority,” she said. “I’m not the only. I’m not the 

first. I’m definitely the first for this area.” 

But so far, the situation is as she wants it. The prevailing attitude 

toward her coaching the boys 

squad seems to be “so what?” 

Which means there’s no 

road block to progressing 

toward the goal she has: to 

make the boys basketball program 

at her alma mater, which 

has largely struggled in recent 

years, one that’s about competing 

and winning. 

“It shouldn’t make any difference,” 

said Arcadia girls 

coach Randy Baker, who 

coached Noel, recommended 

she apply for the position and 

is considered by Noel as her 

main mentor. “The game is 

the game. It shouldn’t be a big 

deal. Hopefully it’s not.” 

Said Noel: “The parents have been really supportive. I’m from the 

area. It’s Arcadia. I’m from here. Everyone knows me. They know my 

family. So it’s not like I’m a female outsider coming in and trying to 

change things. I would like to say I’m in the system. I’m just going 

from girls to boys and that happens all the time. The only difference 

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“The parents have 

been really supportive. 

I’m from the area. It’s 

Arcadia. I’m from here. 

Everyone knows me. 

They know my family. So 

it’s not like I’m a female 

outsider coming in and 

trying to change things.” 

COACH CARA NOEL, 

ARCADIA BOYS BASKETBALL 

Photos by DOUG CAMERON / for the Review Times 

CARA NOEL, a former standout player at 

Arcadia, directs traffi c as head coach of the 

boys basketball team at her alma mater.

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Queen 

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is I’m a female coach going to the boys 

side.” 

Noel said she doesn’t expect her 

sex to arise as a question of her ability 

to coach the team. 

“I don’t anticipate having a real 

issue with somebody just because I’m 

a female,” she said. “If I do, I’m probably 

just going to let it go by because 

that’s ignorance and I’m just not going 

to give that energy.” 

Kevin Keefe, a senior on the basketball 

team, said he wondered what 

it would be like to have a woman as 

coach but he’s had no problem with it. 

Some previous members of the squad 

are not playing this year, but he didn’t 

attribute that to having a woman as 

coach. 

“I think it’s because we went 

from kind of less-disciplinary coach 

to a coach who is more disciplinary 

because she can’t stand losing,” Keefe 

said. “She doesn’t want us to be the 

team that’s, ‘Oh, it’s Arcadia,’ we’re 

going to lose. She wants us to evolve 

and become this team that’s going to 

be the foundation for future years.” 

Noel’s interest in again helming 

her own program, her interest in 

seeing success at Arcadia and the boys 

position coming open at the school 

all seemed to align themselves in her 

favor last spring. 

Her possible path toward coaching, 

however, became apparent to Baker, 

the highly successful girls coach who 

is entering his 30th season at Arcadia, 

years before Noel’s 1999 graduation 

from the school. 

“She was my coach on the floor 

when she came in as a freshman,” he 

said. 

After handling the point guard 

position for Baker and gaining Division 

IV honorable mention All-Ohio 

recognition as a senior, Noel played 

at both Baldwin Wallace and Ohio 

Northern before becoming a student 

assistant at the latter. 

She returned to Arcadia and 

coached the seventh-grade girls in 

the Baker-directed system for two 

seasons before coaching Fostoria 

High School’s varsity for one season. 

She then went back into the college 

ranks, becoming a graduate assistant 

at Bluffton and then an assistant coach 

at Rose-Hulman before reuniting with 

Baker as his junior varsity coach for 

the last two seasons. 

“I’ve hop-scotched around, but I 

am loyal, I tell you,” she said with a 

laugh. “It doesn’t seem like it, but I 

am.” 

A large loyalty for her is to the 

teachings of Baker, though he dismisses 

the notion of having an influence. 

“Everything we do comes from 

someone else. Everybody steals 

things from other people,” he said of 

CARA NOEL, 

Arcadia’s fi rst-year 

boys basketball 

coach, instructs her 

team at practice. 

the coaching business. “She didn’t get 

much from me except stressing fundamentals 

and working hard.” 

That’s a good starting point, 

though. Noel said she’s learned 

nuances from Baker from being on 

his bench the last two seasons. But 

she said her biggest lesson has been 

to hang her team’s hat on man-to-man 

defense, which she noted is rooted 

mostly in effort. 

“There’s a reason a lot of his games 

are low-scoring — just because that’s 

what he works on and that’s what he 

prides himself on,” Noel said. “I do, 

too. I wasn’t the best defender when 

I was in school, but looking back 

now I wish I had 

worked a little bit 

harder on it. It’s 

just work. You 

don’t have to have 

talent, you don’t 

have to have skill, 

per se. You’ve just 

got to have effort 

and a little bit of 

basic knowledge 

of help-side stuff. 

It comes down to 

how hard do you 

want to work and 

how well do you 

want to stop your 

opponent. I think 

everyone’s equal 

on the defensive end.” 

Not everyone is equal athletically, 

though, and that’s what has long been 

the intrigue for Noel in coaching boys. 

“Nothing against my own gender, 

but males are just naturally stronger, 

faster and jump higher,” Noel said. 

“They develop bigger, faster, stronger 

and I just wanted to experience 

having a chance to coach boys. I like 

the speed of the game. It’s faster.” 

“I had confi dence that 

I could start a new 

tradition here and bring 

over a little bit from 

the girls perspective 

of just always, always 

competing. Whether it’s a 

down year or an up year, 

you always compete.” 

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The idea of her coaching Arcadia’s 

boys actually came about flippantly. 

“Once I learned that (previous 

coach) Dan Furlong was retiring, I 

talked to Baker about it,” said Noel, 

who teaches at Blanchard Valley 

Center Schools in Findlay. “I was 

like, ‘Yeah, I should apply.’ And he 

was, like, all serious and said, ‘You 

should. You’d be good at it.’ I said, ‘I 

guess I’ll think about it.’” 

A day before the deadline for applying, 

she still hadn’t done so, however. 

“(Baker) called me up and said, 

‘What are you going to do? You said 

you’d think about it and you haven’t 

applied yet. Have you made up your 

mind?,’” Noel 

said. “I said, ‘No, 

not really.’ And 

he’s, like, ‘OK, 

you can still be 

my JV coach (if 

you’re not the 

boys coach). Just 

let me know what 

your plans are.’ 

After that, I was 

like, ‘I might as 

well.’” 

Her mind is 

set on building 

from the ground 

up and changing 

the mentality in 

the program. 

“I know where the program’s been 

in the past, when I was a student here 

under Dave Lewis and where it could 

be at and where it’s been under X 

amount of coaches since Dave Lewis 

left (in the late 1990s),” Noel said. 

“There hasn’t been a consistent coach 

who started a program here — I’m 

talking the elementary boys, which 

I will start.” 

Then there’s the mentality sur- 

COACH CARA NOEL, 

ARCADIA BOYS BASKETBALL 

rounding the boys program. 

“I had confidence that I could start 

a new tradition here and bring over a 

little bit from the girls perspective of 

just always, always competing,” she 

said, referencing another Baker influence. 

“Whether it’s a down year or an 

up year, you always compete. I think 

Baker has, what, three losing seasons 

in 30 years? So there’s always a chance 

to win, no matter who you’re playing 

and no matter what kind of year you’re 

having. That’s the type of mentality 

the girls bring in. It doesn’t matter 

who you play. The game’s 50-50; 

you’re either going to win or you’re 

going to lose. It doesn’t matter who 

you play.” 

Keefe, who is out until late December 

due to a leg fracture suffered 

during football season, said Noel has 

conveyed that very message and has 

brought a sense of discipline that he 

has noticed Baker’s teams as having 

had in past years. 

“She’s a lot more strict, and I think 

that’s coming from coach Baker, who 

is a very strict, fundamental coach,” 

he said. 

“Just getting the kids to know how 

to work is the biggest thing,” Noel 

said. “And I have two rules that I had 

to make sure I laid down: No walking 

— that would be a Baker rule that 

I’ve inherited and taken on as my own; 

and a Dave Lewis rule that I’ve taken 

on — being clean shaven.” 

The latter, she said, “is a discipline 

thing, and we’re going to be classy.” 

Keefe said the team hasn’t had difficulties 

in adapting to Noel’s manner. 

“I believe we like it,” he said. “I 

can’t speak for the rest of the team, 

but I like it. I feel like it’s right — it’s 

the right direction for the team.” 

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SW enters second year under coach Rutter 

The 2011-12 season was one of change for St. Wendelin’s 

boys. 

First-year coach Jim Rutter came in with new ideas, 

including an intent to quicken the pace of his team’s 

game. That, combined with a copious amount of youth 

on the roster, brought some growing pains and a final 

record of 4-17 overall and 2-9 in the Midland Athletic 

League. 

“We got better as the year went on,” Rutter, who 

formerly coached for several years at Fostoria High 

School and in the lower levels at St. Wendelin. “Anytime 

you come in with a big difference in style, there’s 

a learning curve there. We struggled early with going 

at a faster pace, but as the year went on we did a better 

job with it.” 

Familiarity with everything has been a plus in the 

preseason, Rutter said. 

“This year when I throw something out there, they 

know what I’m talking about,” he said. “I think the 

things I’ve been seeing on the floor since Nov. 2 have 

been encouraging.” 

While three players who were starters for at least 

When St. Wendelin’s girls won 95 games and 

reached a Division IV regional final between 2006 and 

2011, they had a trait that winners normally possess. 

They expected to win. 

Last year, in what coach Aaron Smith called “a full 

rebuilding year,” the senior-less Mohawks finished 

strong and ended up with records of 10-10 overall and 

5-5 in the Midland Athletic League. 

That experience and string of success leads Smith 

to believe that his club should again have a winning 

mentality. 

“Unlike last year, when we were just trying to 

compete, we’re taking the floor expecting to win,” 

he said. “We need to get our swagger back. We kind 

of lost that.” 

Smith hopes a first-half record like last year’s 2-8 

can be avoided, but like season the schedule is chockful 

of tough opponents such as Elmwood, Liberty-Benton, 

Hopewell-Loudon, New Riegel, Carey and Mohawk. 

“We have everybody back,” Smith said. “But nobody 

really lost anybody. We’re going to have to play good 

basketball to get some wins.” 

Rutter Miller Walters 

part of the season return, the Mohawks have no one 

person who will carry the load, Rutter said. He’ll be 

counting on a team effort on a nightly basis. 

“There are a number of kids who can do a number 

of things,” he said. “There are a lot of kids who can 

give us positive contributions.” 

A team leader and solid contributor will be senior 

Zach Miller, a 6-footer who was a starter for most 

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Smith want his Mohawks to expect to win 

Smith Fondessy Saalman 

The Mohawks are led by a pair of seniors whom 

Smith considers to be among the MAL’s best: 5-foot- 

11 off guard Colleen Fondessy and 5-3 point guard 

Heather Saalman. 

Fondessy was the league’s No. 2 scorer last season 

at 14.5 points per game while adding 7.1 rebounds 

and 2.7 steals. Saalman was good for 9.9 points, 3.1 

assists and 2.7 steals. 

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of last season. Also back after having 

seen starting roles in 2011-12 are 

junior Gabe Walters (6-3) and sophomore 

Nick Shumaker (5-11). 

Miller is joined in the senior class 

by 6-0 Terrance 

Bello and 5-11 

Matt Decker, both 

of whom saw most 

of their time with 

the junior varsity 

last season. 

Along with 

Walters, Brady 

Rutter (5-10), the 

coach’s son, returns as a junior. Among 

the other juniors, Dalton Murray 

(6-0) played almost entirely on the 

junior varsity squad last year, while 

Smith 


“I’d say Colleen and Heather are as 

ood as any two players in the league,” 

mith said. “We 

ust need to build 

round them.” 

Smith also 

ooks for a contined 

presence near 

he basket from 

senior Ali Mowrey, 

a 5-8 senior who 

last year put up 

10.9 points and 7.3 

rebounds. 

Smith will look 

for further senior 

contributions from 

“There are a lot of kids 

who can give us positive 

contributions.” 

Kate Whetsel (5-1), Sami Birkmire 

(5-9), Shelby Emerine (5-5) and Beth 

Hay (5-5). 

St. Wendelin’s junior class includes 

Taylor Williams (5-0), Morgan Hay 

Nick Root (5-8) and Steven Murray 

(5-10) were full-time JV players. 

Also in the junior class are Nash 

Baker (6-0), who missed all of last 

season with a knee injury, and Brad 

Buhrow (5-8), who has returned to 

basketball after wrestling last year. 

Moving up from the junior varsity 

are sophomores Jacob Fretz (6-0), 

Cole Frankart (5-11) and Donovan 

Scudder (5-9). 

JIM RUTTER, 

ST. WENDELIN BOYS HEAD COACH 

“Unlike last year, when 

we were just trying to 

compete, we’re taking the 

fl oor expecting to win. We 

need to get our swagger 

back.” 

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Peter Campbell 

could help as 

a 5-9 freshman 

who “has a lot of 

the qualities you 

like a point guard 

to have,” Rutter 

said. 

All in all, 

Rutter said, a key 

to his club’s success will be how well 

his players mesh into a unit. 

“A lot’s going to depend on what 

they want to do,” he said. 

(5-7) and Edy Mowrey (5-7), while the 

sophomores are Meghan Reiter (5-6), 

Makenzie McAfee (5-9) and Sicily 

Leiter (5-6). 

The Mohawks’ freshmen are Allie 

Rutter (5-9), Krystal Krout (5-7), 

Mikayla Gilliland (5-4), Kamryn Troike 

(6-2) and Hunter Weidner (5-11). 

Smith hopes his squad took strides 

AARON SMITH, 

ST. WENDELIN GIRLS HEAD COACH 

toward improvement 

through a 

rigorous scrimmage 

schedule that 

include go-arounds 

with perennial 

state power Berlin 

Hiland and bigger 

schools such as 

Clyde, Solon and 

Cuyahoga Falls 

Walsh Jesuit. 

“Those were 

tough scrimmages 

and we got it handed to us pretty good,” 

Smith said. “But we learned the level 

we need to get to and the speed we 

need to get to, to be a competitive 

team.” 

ST. WENDELIN 

PATRICK RILEY / for the Review Times 

ST. WENDELIN’S boys team includes: (front, from left) Matt Decker, Terrance Bello, Zach Miller; (middle, from 

left) Brad Buhrow, Peter Campbell, Donovan Scudder, Brady Rutter, Nick Root, Steven Murray; (back, from left) 

head coach Jim Rutter, Nash Baker, Cole Frankart, Dalton Murray, Gabe Walters, Nick Shumaker, Jacob Fretz, 

assistant coach Doug Guillen, manager Dominic Guillen. 

PATRICK RILEY / for the Review Times 

ST. WENDELIN’S girls team includes: (front, from left) Heather Saalman, Shelby Emerine, Samantha Birkmire, 

Colleen Fondessy, Ali Mowrey, Beth Hay, Kate Whetsel; (back, from left) manager Sydney Johnson, manager 

Hannah Burns, head coach Aaron Smith, Sicily Leiter, Allie Rutter, Kamryn Troike, Edy Mowrey, Makenzie 

McAfee, Morgan Hay, Taylor Williams, manager Hannah Kelbley, assistant coach Steve Geroski. 

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Redmen have new look for upcoming season 

Fostoria High School’s boys started putting up big 

numbers on the first day of practice. 

Fifty-two players took to the gym floor, which, of 

course, encouraged ninth-year coach Rick Renz. 

“We must be doing something right because that’s 

the biggest turnout in my career — not even close,” 

he said. 

Of course, not everyone could be kept, but the 

turnout did provide some depth to the program and 

a challenge to anyone who thought he was a lock to 

return after last year’s campaign, which ended with an 

overall record of 8-13 and a Northern Buckeye Conference 

mark of 7-7. 

“We told them the first day, ‘Just because you were 

on the team last year, that doesn’t mean you’re safe.’” 

Renz said. 

As it turns out, the Redmen have just three players 

back from last season, rendering a new look to 

the Redmen. 

“We’re going to have as inexperienced of a team as 

we’ve seen since my first year here,” Renz said. “We 

have a lot of great kids on this team. It’s just going to 

Last season was as difficult as it comes for Fostoria 

High School’s girls, who lost every one of their 21 

games. 

But coach Mat Swortchek sees light at the end of 

the tunnel, and he knows its reached with a combination 

of patience and diligence. 

“There’s no quick fix for 0-21,” he said. “It’s a 

long process. But the kids have bought into that and 

the coaches have bought into that. I believe we’re in 

the process of turning it around. The kids want it to 

happen.” 

Numbers are actually up in the Lady Red camp, 

and for the returning players “if anything, I think 

they were motivated” by the winless 2011-12 season, 

Swortchek said. 

That meant getting after the hard work it takes to 

get better, Swortchek said, and the players responded 

by flocking to the gym in the summer, which included 

participating in a summer league at Otsego. 

The pain of consistent losing isn’t something the 

players want to continue experiencing, he said. 

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FHS remains young a season after sophomores 

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said. 

FHS also 

brings back 

6-0 sophomore 

Dom Fuller, who 

split last season 

between the 

junior varsity and 

the big squad. 

The Redmen 

will have two 

other seniors in 

5-9 Garrett Sferro 

and 5-8 Tony 

Ticey. 

Hunter Abell 

(6-4) heads the 

junior class, 

though he has very little varsity expe- 

FHS 



letter after averaging 5.1 points and 

4.7 rebounds per game. 

Another key returnee is 5-7 sophomore 

point guard Erica Moore, 

who contributed 

team highs of 6.2 

points and 5.2 

rebounds. 

Also back are 

5-8 junior Taylor 

Tucker, 5-5 junior 

Eliza Sanchez 

and sophomores 

Jada Hampton 

(5-9) and Alexus Smith. Hampton 

averaged 5.5 points last season, 

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Fostoria’s junior class includes 

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rience. The other juniors are 6-1 Drew 

Stennett and 5-9 Voshon Cousin. 

Joining Fuller in the sophomore 

class are 5-8 Deandre Cannon and 

6-3 Rayshon Martin. 

Offensively, Renz said, the Redmen 

will run when they can. But the real 

staple of Renz’s program is always 

defense, and that 

RICK RENZ, 

FOSTORIA BOYS HEAD COACH 

“We’re still concentrating 

on the basics but in a 

different concept.” 

will be of the 

utmost importance 

this season 

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“We have kids 

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ruptive as possible for the other team.” 

(5-5), the sophomores are Lila Lenz 

(5-7), Sydney Vilaisack (5-4), Justice 

Lentz (5-8) and Kaila Schmeltz 

(5-6) and the freshmen are twins 

Denae James (5-7) and Derae James 

(5-7), Juliana Sanchez (5-6), Akiya 

Foster (5-5) and Makylee Vasalle- 

Parker (5-6). 

Swortchek said that with the experience 

gained by 

MAT SWORTCHEK, 

FOSTORIA GIRLS HEAD COACH 

younger players 

last year, he had 

some groundwork 

to build 

on at the start 

of this season’s 

practices. 

“We’re radically 

ahead of 

where we were last year,” he said. 

“We’re still concentrating on the 

basics but in a different concept. 

“The biggest thing is the kids 

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it’s going to be a process.” 

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Drew Stennett, Rayshon Martin; (back, from left) assistant coach Aaron Sheets, Deandre Cannon, Garrett Sferro, 

Kaleb Bemis, head coach Rick Renz. 

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ARCADIA — It will be a season of new beginnings 

at Arcadia High School this winter. 

Cara Noel was named the Redskins coach in June, 

becoming the first female head coach in Blanchard 

Valley Conference boys basketball history. 

She will be faced with a major challenge, taking 

over a program that hasn’t been able to build much 

success over the years. The Redskins have not had 

a winning season since 2001-02 when they finished 

12-10. 

Arcadia started 6-5 last season, but then suffered 

an eight-game losing streak on its way to a 7-14 overall 

record. 

Noel will not have many experienced players. Of 

the 13 players in the program, 10 are underclassmen. 

Kevin Keefe Jr. is the only letterwinner returning 

from last season’s squad. A 6-foot-3 senior post, Keefe 

averaged 5.1 points and 6.2 rebounds per contest. 

Seth Bauer, the only other senior on the squad, will 

likely see time at guard. 

Kodak “Kody” Rebarchek brings potential to the 

point guard spot. Noel expects him to fill a key role 

REDSKINS | GIRLS 

ARCADIA — There will be big expectations in Arcadia 

this season as the Redskins appear to have the makings 

of a strong team in Randy Baker’s 30th season as 

head coach. 

Baker has guided the Arcadia girls program to a 419- 

224 record under his tutelage. 

The Redskins, who started last season with 14 consecutive 

victories, finished the year 19-4 overall with a 

7-2 mark in the Blanchard Valley Conference. They were 

defeated 36-31 in the district final by New Riegel. 

Arcadia’s only BVC losses were to Arlington and Liberty-Benton 

which both advanced to the state tournament 

in Division IV and Division III, respectively. 

Arcadia will have one of the top point guards in Ohio 

Division IV girls basketball in senior Miranda Palmer, 

and Baker will be able to surround her with plenty of 

other talent. Palmer, a third-team all-state, first-team 

all-district and first-team all-BVC pick, leads all returning 

BVC players with 17.3 points per game and 3.8 steals 

per contest last season. She also averaged 2.8 rebounds 

and 2.8 assists. 

Junior wing Courtney Cramer scored 13.1 points and 

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on the team and for the program over the next two 

seasons. Noel also likes what she sees from sophomore 

guard Josh Ireland, who displays solid court awareness 

offensively. 

Three sophomores on the roster include Dylan 

Conine (forward), Garrett Cooper (guard) and 

Hayden Ramsey (forward). Freshman Chad Baker 

(forward), Jacob Keefe (post), Trevor Lucius (guard), 

Logan Metzger (guard), Clint Recker (forward) and 

Shae Watkins (post) fill out the roster. 

Point guard Palmer returns to lead Redskins 

Baker Palmer Cramer 

grabbed 4.6 rebounds per game and was named secondteam 

all-BVC. Molly Glick, now in her sophomore season, 

added 9.8 points and 6.3 rebounds per contest. Senior 

Regina Fox (4.2 ppg, 2.1 rpg and 2.3 apg) will join Palmer 

in the backcourt. 

Junior Rebecca Kirian returns in the post after pulling 

down 7.3 rebounds and scoring 3.5 points. Sophomore 

Maddie Mock will provide depth. She scored 1.3 points 

and brought down one rebound per game in limited playing 

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Low numbers and other factors have made for 

truggles in recent years. 

“People told me there were going to be difficulies,” 

first-year coach Chad Garberich said. “But you 

lways think you can be the one to make the differnce.” 

Only one player with significant varsity experince 

returns in two-year letterwinner and 5-foot-9 

senior Kennedy Hossler, who averaged 3.5 points and 

2.2 rebounds per game last year as the Bobcats went 

4-17 overall and 1-10 in the Midland Athletic League. 

With a lack of ballhandling skills and length, experience 

won’t be the only thing Bettsville will have to 

overcome this year. 

“The boys play hard and we’re physical,” Garberich 

said, “Our biggest weakness are our ball skills. 

In our scrimmages, we turned the ball over like 42 

times and we have no size. 

Losing Dominic Miccichi and his 15.8 points 

and 10.6 rebounds per game, Dominic King’s 10.6 

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confidence in a team that traditionally has struggled 

in that area. 

“They give up on themselves to easily,” Garberich 

said. “They turn the ball over, and they hang their 

head and they pout and don’t sprint back on defense. 

“Our goal is to stay competitive. We’ll go the whole 

four quarters. We have a lot of nonconference games 

that we can win. There will be some games in the 

MAL where we will have chances to compete.” 

Other expected contributors for Bettsville are 

seniors Tommy Kipps (6-2), Logan Robinson (6-1) 

and Jacob Grine (5-11), juniors Kenneth Stander 

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Royals hope to build off last year’s success 

BLOOMDALE — Coming off of a 12-11 season, 

coach Ty Traxler inherits an Elmwood boys basketball 

team that appears to have some promise for the 

upcoming 2012-2013 season. 

Traxler, now in his fifth season, has developed 

his program well and the Royals have been a solid 

team year-in and year-out as shown by Traxler’s 52-35 

career record. 

Elmwood is coming off of a strong Division III tournament 

run. The Royals defeated Carey and upset Fostoria 

to win a sectional before falling to Lima Central 

Catholic in a district semifinal. The sectional title was 

Elmwood’s first during Traxler’s tenure. 

Zach Foster and Aaron Arnold give Traxler two 

players he can rely on. Foster, a 6-foot-1 guard, is back 

after pouring in 7.9 points, grabbing 3.6 rebounds and 

dishing out 2.4 assists per game. He earned honorable 

mention All-Northern Buckeye Conference and honorable 

mention District 7 awards last year. 

Arnold, a 6-5 junior wing, is also expected to play 

a major role for the Royals. Last season he pumped in 

6.9 points, 6.4 rebounds and had 1.7 assists per game. 

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Three other senior letterwinners also return for 

Elmwood. Mica Robinson (6-3, 1.4 ppg.) and Austin 

Hoiles (6-2, 1.0 ppg.) will each see time in the post. 

Michael Chapman, a wing, also returns. 

Sebastian Baxter, a junior guard, will give the 

Royals another scoring option with his athletic ability 

and shooting prowess. Senior wing Derick Mobus 

will be counted on to provide strong perimeter defense. 

Chris Carr, a 6-5 senior, and Sawyer Haines, a 6-4 

junior, will provide depth in the post. 

ROYALS | GIRLS 

Experience, depth strengths for Elmwood 

BLOOMDALE — In his first year, coach Doug 

Reynolds made quite a mark on the Elmwood girls 

basketball program. 

Coming off of a 7-15 record during the 2010-2011 

season, Reynolds’ team showed massive improvement 

with a 13-9 record and an 8-6 mark in the Northern 

Buckeye Conference. 

Now with several letterwinners returning, Reynolds 

hopes his Royals can have a breakout season and 

be in the discussion for the NBC title. 

Elmwood will be without the services of graduated 

leading scorer Sierra Beckford, however. Beckford led 

the Royals by pouring in 16.4 points per game in her 

senior year last season. 

Reynolds will return to his lineup several experienced 

players that he hopes will give his team superior 

depth. Brittany Gross, a senior, is back after 

averaging 8.4 points and grabbing 5.8 rebounds per 

contest. 

Seniors Brittany George (6.4 ppg), Tori Hillard 

(3.8 ppg) and Emily Smith (2.1 ppg) also return. 

Junior Kristen Curtis (6.0 ppg, 5.6 rpg) returns 

Reynolds Curtis Gross 

inside for the Royals. Marissa Swavel put in 2.5 points 

per game for Elmwood as well. 

Three juniors are expected to come in and contribute 

for the Royals in Tiffany Hillard, Courtney Emmitt 

and Reyghan Rosendale. 

Aside from finding a go-to player to replace Beckford, 

Elmwood should have plenty of strengths. 

Reynolds expects his team to play fast and utilize 

its depth. He also hopes the loss of Beckford will be 

buffered by balanced scoring from his other players. 

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FINDLAY — Findlay High’s boys basketball team 

is smaller this season. 

But Jim Rucki’s expectations aren’t. 

“Obviously you don’t have to replace a 7-footer very 

often. I’m not sure how you do that,” Rucki said. 

“But we have four solid players back. Since we 

started practice, our guys have been working hard 

and doing a nice job.” 

Last year’s 16-6 slate raised Rucki’s record at Findlay 

to 197-92, moving him past John Stozich (193-99) 

and into second place behind Carl Bachman (342-101) 

on the list of Findlay High basketball coaches. 

Rucki will field a relatively young team this season. 

But it is not a group lacking varsity experience. 

Joseph Davidson, a 6-7 forward, (6.1 points, 5.4 

rebounds) is the lone senior veteran on the roster. But 

6-1 junior Michael Clark (8.1 points, 2.2 rebounds) and 

6-3 junior Adam Twining (4.6 points, 2.9 rebounds 

have been playing varsity ball since they were freshmen 

and 6-3 junior Austin Gutting (6 points, 3.3 

rebounds) 6-3) was one of eight players to see action 

in all 22 games last season. Junior Nick Kairys (5-9) 

also saw some varsity action a year ago. 

FINDLAY — With a 66 percent career winning 

ercentage, Findlay High girls basketball coach Connie 

yon is all over the Xs and Os of the sport. 

What she likes about the 2012-13 version of the Troans 

goes beyond the blackboard. 

“The chemistry in this group is remarkable,” Lyon 

said. “Their energy is good, they’re an extremely positive 

group and their personalities and work ethics are great. 

This is a fun group to be around.” 

Three seniors return from a team that went 11-11 

last season, and there’s a deep junior class Lyon will be 

counting on as well. 

Findlay should be strong in the paint with the return 

of Christina McQueen and Taylor Stanfield. 

McQueen, a 6-foot-3 senior who has signed a national 

letter of intent with Gardner Webb University, earned 

second-team all-Three Rivers Athletic Conference honors 

last season after averaging 12.5 points, 9.4 rebounds and 

2.6 blocked shots per game. Stanfield was also a force 

inside, especially the first half of the 2011-12 season. 

Findlay also returns excellent size and experience 

on the wing in 5-11 senior guards Nicole Muehl (10.5 

Rucki 

Clark 

Davidson 

Rucki has some big shoes to replace, however, especially 

in the middle, where 6-11 center C.J. Gettys 

averaged 20.5 points, 9.1 rebounds and 2 blocked shots 

per game. Kairys and 5-8 junior Braden Miller are 

competing for the fifth- and sixth-man spots. Duke 

Gobrecht, a 6-4 junior, will help out in the post along 

with 6-2 senior Montrel Moss. 

Juniors Boden Fisher (6-1) and Zach Haynes (6-0) 

add depth on the perimeter, along with sophomore 

3-point threat Grant Niswander. 

TROJANS | GIRLS 

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Zoe Swisher, a 5-6 junior point guard, will likely 

round out the starting lineup. 

Jacey Hardesty, a 5-7 guard who also saw varsity 

action last season, heads up a big junior class that also 

includes Lexi Blatnik (5-8), Joslyn Bendt (5-6), Sarah 

Wintrow (5-7), Sarah Thomas (5-9), Jenny Vielhaber 

(5-9) and Nola Jackson (5-10). 

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BASCOM — Having lost four starters to graduation 

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Loudon boys is hoping to overcome experience with 

hustle and versatility on the offensive end. 

Thankfully for third-year head coach Adam Smith, 

the Chieftains’ leading scorer returns for his senior 

season. Six-foot junior Alec Gregg scored 13 points 

to go with 3.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game last 

year for the Chieftains, who went 13-9 overall and 8-3 

in the Midland Athletic League. 

Hopewell-Loudon’s season ended with a loss to New 

Riegel in the sectional finals. 

“He’s going to have to run point guard for us this 

season,” Smith said of Gregg. “That will be a little 

different role for him, but he will be able to handle it. 

“So far, the younger kids are getting more comfortable 

with how we do things and they are starting to 

realize we should look into the post first.” 

The Chieftains want to counter their lack of experience 

with playing fast in transition and big in the 

frontcourt. Defensively, they will play a multitude of 

defenses, trying to keep the opposition off guard and 

to produce turnovers. 

BASCOM — Expectation are high this season for the 

Hopewell-Loudon girls, as the Lady Chieftains return 

nine players who earned varsity letters last season. 

Hopewell-Loudon last season posted records of 17-5 

overall and 7-3 in the Midland Athletic League. 

The Lady Chieftains ended their season with a loss 

in the sectional final to eventual regional finalist New 

Riegel. 

“We have set high expectations around here this 

year,” coach Rod Daniel said. “We are growing and 

getting better every day. We are showing improvement 

in the scrimmages and I feel we are definitely getting 

better as a team.” 

Hopewell-Loudon has high expectations not only 

because of the experience returning, but the Lady Chieftains 

know the size of their lineup will pose some issues 

for opposing defenses. 

Among the players returning this year is 6-foot 

senior Cassandra Hohman, who led the team in scoring 

last season with 12.2 points while also grabbing 5.9 

rebounds per game. 

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“We like to get out and run,” Smith said. “We do 

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quick shot before trying to get it into the post, though.” 

Other returnees for Hopewell-Loudon are 5-10 

senior Adam Black (2.0 points, 2.0 rebounds per 

game), 6-1 sophomore Ryan Lommerse (4.0 points, 

3.0 rebounds) and 6-3 sophomore Brock Hill. 

Other Chieftains who will see playing time include 

juniors Nick Scaife (5-11) and Ben Bodart (6-foot) and 

5-11 sophomore Garret Sendelbach. 

CHIEFTAINS | GIRLS 

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Rohrbach (8.7 points, 7.7 rebounds), 5-10 Lauren Trumpler 

(8.9 points, 3.8 rebounds), 5-6 Racquel Hossler 

(2.7 points, 3 assists), 5-6 Kailey Coleman, and 5-5 

Marissa Reinhart. 

Six-foot-1 Courtney Burns will look to improve on 

a junior season in which she scored 10.2 points and 

nabbed 7.8 rebounds per game. 

Other juniors being counted on for contributions are 

5-11 Hope Brickner and 5-7 Aleta Daniel (3.0 points, 

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o build on the progress they made last year. 

The Raiders will depend on experience that Lakota 

oach Tim Walsh thinks will propel them to the upper 

alf of the Midland Athletic League. 

“We are a bit more experienced than we have been,” 

Walsh said, “These same kids, a lot of them were playing 

varsity two years ago. They took their lumps back 

then, now they’ve matured, they have experience and 

they’ve gotten a little bit bigger.” 

Lakota will have to overcome a lack of consistent 

shooting and rebounding with the loss of leading scorer 

and rebounder Nick McDole, whose 10 points and 5 

rebounds per game will be missed. 

“We’ve (only) got a couple of post players; other than 

that we’re very guard oriented,” Walsh said. “Obviously, 

my concern right now is if we will be able to rebound 

effectively.” 

Walsh expects third-year starter Kody Brewer to 

do much of the teams scoring this year. The 6-foot-1 

senior averaged 7.5 points per game in addition to his 

KANSAS — Quickness and post play will the 

ame of the game for Lakota’s girls this season. 

Raiders coach Mike Miller expects progress this 

ear after a 4-18 overall record and 1-9 league mark 

n his second year as coach. 

“We’re a little quicker this year,” Miller said of this 

year’s squad, “so I think our defense will be better 

and our post play will be better.” 

Miller is wary of his team’s ability to score from 

the outside, but if he gets his way most of the scoring 

will be coming from inside the paint. 

The Raiders will miss the 12.9 points and 6.9 

rebounds per game of Jessica Hoffman, who was lost 

to graduation last year, but they will count on 5-foot-4 

senior Stephanie Miller, who led the team with 3.6 

assists per game last year and will play a key roll in 

the getting the ball to the right spots. 

Also, 5-10 sophomore Katie Park, who averaged 

5.7 rebounds a game in only a little more than half 

of a varsity season last year, will be important to 

improving the team’s post play. 

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Six seniors are back to lead Blue Jackets 

NEW RIEGEL — Coming off of a stellar 18-4 season, 

New Riegel will be looking for another strong campaign 

in 2011-2012 with the return of six senior letterwinners. 

While having six returning seniors sounds all fine 

and dandy for the Blue Jackets, New Riegel will need to 

replace some big time talent that graduated. 

The Blue Jackets will be without four of their top 

five scorers from a season ago including first team All- 

Midland Athletic League players Cody Kinn (15 points, 

5.9 rebounds per game) and Ryan Schalk (10.5 ppg, 47 

3-pointers). 

Brandyn Reinhart is the Blue Jackets’ top returning 

player. A 6-foot-4 senior, Reinhart led all of New Riegel’s 

returning players with 10.5 points and 5.7 rebounds per 

contest last season. 

Also expected to supply major contributions for the 

Blue Jackets are seniors Andrew Hohman (4.6 ppg, 3.1 

rpg), Brady Hall (3.1 ppg, 2.5 rpg), Korey Williams (4.2 

ppg), Nick Wank (4.1 ppg) and Josh Nye (2.7 ppg). 

Hohman only played in nine games last season due to 

a broken arm. Nye saw the floor in just 11 varsity contests 

as he split time with the junior varsity unit. 

NEW RIEGEL — No need to rebuild at New Riegel 

this season. 

Veteran girls basketball coach Steve Lucius welcomes 

back six returning letterwinners from last year’s 

outstanding team that posted a 21-4 overall record that 

included a 9-1 mark and outright Midland Athletic 

League championship. 

Lucius, who has a career record of 483-131 in 27 

seasons as head coach at the school, has a pair of all-conference 

players back in Taylor Kirian and Kara Scherger. 

Kirian, a 5-foot-9 junior forward, landed a spot on 

the all-MAL second team last winter after netting 11.2 

points with 5.8 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game. 

Scherger, meanwhile, had an outstanding freshman 

year for the Blue Jackets. The 5-5 sophomore guard 

was honorable mention all-league after doing a little bit 

of everything. She netted 8.7 points with 2.9 rebounds, 

3.2 steals and 2.0 assists per game. 

Junior forward Lauren Ladd (6-0) tossed in 8.6 

points and grabbed a team-high 7.4 rebounds per 

game, while sophomore forward Taylor Arbogast 

(5-9), scored 7.0 points with 5.4 rebounds, 2.0 assists 

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Also hoping to break the lineup are junior Jake Dryfuse 

and seniors Josh Burns and Jacob Schalk, who each 

played on the junior varsity squad a season ago. 

Similar to years past, coach Todd Aichholz, who 

owns a 93-38 career record in seven years at New Riegel, 

expects his athletic team to create opportunities in transition. 

With so many players having played high school 

basketball for four years, Aichholz will also have plenty of 

depth, which will create competition in both practice and 

games and help his team improve as the season goes on. 

BLUE JACKETS | GIRLS 

Blue Jackets loaded with talent, experience 

Lucius Scherger Kirian 

and 1.5 steals per contest. 

The returning quartet also helped the Blue Jackets 

earn a spot in last year’s Division IV regional final. 

Senior guard Abby Cassidy (5-6) and junior guard 

Morgan Noftz (5-5) also lettered last season; the duo 

combined for 2.7 points and 4.0 rebounds per game. 

Seniors Ebony Bayward (5-7) and C’aira Conley 

(5-11) could see action at forward. Lauren Zoeller 

(5-4) and Ruth Ann Schreiner (5-2) are candidates 

at the guard spot.


TIFFIN — Chemistry is key for any team that wants 

to be successful. It will be even more important for coach 

Ted Willman’s Calvert boys squad, which includes a 

large number of unproven upperclassmen. 

The Senecas lost six players to graduation who 

accounted for almost 75 percent of the team’s offensive 

production a year ago. Calvert finished last season with a 

record of 18-5 overall and placed second in the Midland 

Athletic League at 9-2. Willman said the early part of 

this season will be about finding who plays best together. 

“We’re going to be young,” Willman said. “We’ll be 

laying a lot of kids to find out, chemistry-wise, who’s 

laying well with who and with what positions. A lot of 

t’s going to come down to chemistry.” 

The one position Willman will not have to worry 

bout filling will be point guard, where Nick Warnement 

returns for his third year at the helm of the Seneca 

offense. The 6-foot-2 senior averaged 15.8 points per 

game in his junior campaign and earned MAL player 

of the year, District 6 player of the year and honorable 

mention All-Ohio honors. 

Fellow seniors Jared Thompson (6-0), Brian Gruss 

TIFFIN — Experience and depth are rarely found 

ogether in basketball at the high school level. Gradution 

and low turnout can deny teams the chance to 

reach their full potential. That will not be the case this 

season for Tiffin Calvert. 

The Senecas lost only one senior to graduation and 

return the top four scorers from last year’s team that 

finished the season 12-10 overall and 6-4 in Midland 

Athletic League play. Coach Tim Ritzler believes the 

combination of experience and talent give his team 

the opportunity to have a special season. 

One of those juniors is returning starter Olivia 

Smith. The 5-foot-7 point guard averaged a teamhigh 

12.9 points per game as a sophomore en route 

to earning first-team All-MAL and second-team All- 

Northwest District honors. 

The team also welcomes back top shooter Megan 

Funkhouser. The 5-foot-5 senior was a second-team 

All-MAL pick and honorable mention all-district selection 

after averaging 10.5 points per game last season. 

Juniors Nicole Bickley (5-11) and Kate Brickner 

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Tornadoes must fi ll several holes this season 

TIFFIN — The loss of six seniors and four starters 

is enough to make many coaches uneasy for the 

upcoming season. Tiffin Columbian coach Bill Beaston 

is not panicking, though. 

The Tornadoes lost 43.0 points per game to graduation 

of the starting lineup of last year’s team that 

finished 9-12 overall and 4-6 in the Northern Ohio 

League. Even with many questions unanswered, 

Beaston is excited about his squad. 

“The bulk of the guys played together on the (junior 

varsity) team last year and they had a really successful 

season,” Beaston said. “The thing I like the most about 

them is that they work really, really hard and they’re 

super competitive.” 

The team will have some returning experience in 

the senior pair of Bryce Lonsway (5-7) and Connor 

Conley (5-11). Lonsway averaged 11.2 points per game 

and was named second team All-NOL and honorable 

mention All-Northwest District last season. Conley 

will be a weapon on the perimeter, where he shot 31 

percent from 3-point range last season. 

A trio of juniors will help fill the offensive void the 

Tornadoes lost to graduation. Josh Flint (6-0), Donovan 

Walker (6-0) and Ryan Lynch (5-10) combined 

TIFFIN — Lofty expectations are not on the mind 

of first-year Tiffin Columbian coach Katie Fazekas. She 

inherits a Tornadoes squad that finished the 2011-2012 

campaign with a record of 6-15 overall and 1-9 in the 

Northern Ohio League. 

In her first year on the job, Fazekas said, she would 

like to finish near the top of the league, but she is 

more focused on her team developing as the season 

progresses. 

“The biggest goal is just to improve,” Fazekas said. 

“I told them ...that I want to be better at Christmas 

than we are now and I want to be better entering tournaments 

than we were at Christmas. They’re working 

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Leading the way will be two-year letterwinner Jocelyn 

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Dryfuse averaged 12.1 points and 7.2 rebounds per 

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Despite the number of players who will be seeing 

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confident that will not be a problem. 

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Sophomore Valesha Province (5-5) will be handling 

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Bishop welcomes back three letterwinners 

VAN BUREN — Marc Bishop entered his first 

eason in 2011-12 as Van Buren head coach with an 

mpty cupboard. 

Still, the Black Knights squeezed out at a 4-18 

verall record with a 2-7 Blanchard Valley Confernce 

mark. 

Bishop’s squad did end the season on a high note 

f sorts with a win over Lakota in the Division IV 

ectional semifinals. 

Bishop, a University of Findlay graduate, will also 

ave three letterwinners to build on for the 2012-13 

ampaign. 

Ryan Adolph, a 5-foot-11 forward, and Matt DeVore, 

a 6-1 center, are expected to provide senior leadership 

to the inexperienced roster which includes only three 

underclassman. 

Adolph earned all-BVC honorable mention a season 

ago after averaging 11.9 points, 4.4 rebounds — both 

team highs — and 1.2 assists per game. 

He was a .507 field goal (102 of 201) shooter and 

led the Black Knights at the free throw (42 of 58, .724 

percentage) during the regular season. 

VAN BUREN — More players in the program and 

ore experienced players on the court this season 

hould mean more victories for Van Buren’s girls basetball 

team. 

At least that’s what fourth-year coach Mike Daniels 

opes. 

Daniels returns six returning letterwinners from last 

year’s team that struggled to a 3-18 overall record that 

included a 1-8 mark in the Blanchard Valley Conference. 

Unlike some area schools who are having trouble 

ielding a junior varsity team, with 21 girls out for the 

port this season the Black Knights will field not only 

varsity and junior varsity team, but a freshman team 

s well. 

Three guards and three post players are back for the 

Black Knights. Senior guard Kristen Tropf leads the list 

of returnees. The 5-foot-3 three-sport athlete knocked 

down 12.1 points per game for the Black Knights last 

season. 

Senior guard Morgan Flick (5-4) is back after netting 

4.1 points with 3.0 assists per contest while junior 

Robyn Flick (5-3) also has experience at guard. 

Bishop Ry. Adolph Roberts 

DeVore, a senior, played in just nine games, averaging 

5.2 points and 3.2 rebounds. Junior Daniel Roberts, 

a 5-8 guard, averaged 5.7 points per game and 

hit 16 3-pointers. 

Senior forwards Brady Lucas (5-11) and Brennon 

Swain (6-1) will be relied on to make an impact. Mitch 

Bayer is also a senior guard. There is also juniors 

Aaron Franklin, Jimmy Irving and Mac Williams as 

well as sophomores Draeton Fasone, Adam Endicott 

and Ross Adolph. 

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Daniels has six returning letterwinners 

Daniels M. Flick Tropf 

Daniels will be looking for increased scoring at the 

post from senior Kaleigh Frampton (5-10) and junior 

Paige Sudlow (5-6). Frampton netted 5.5 points per 

game while Sudlow chipped in 4.9 per outing. Junior 

Madi Endicott (5-7) is also back and will see action in 

both the guard and forward spots. 

A group of four sophomores round out the varsity 

roster. Lauren Wise (5-7), Nichole Miller (5-5) and 

Rachel Wymer (5-6) will line up at guard while Abbey 

Phillips (5-9) is a post player. 

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Birchmeier takes over Wildcats’ reins 

VANLUE — It’s safe to say Vanlue had its sights 

set higher than an exit in the sectional finals last 

season. 

After a 17-3 regular season, the Wildcats 

dropped their first postseason matchup 54-47 to 

Ada. 

Still, Vanlue finished tied for third in the 

Blanchard Valley Conference at 7-2, one game 

behind co-champions Arlington and Liberty-Benton. 

All four losses came to opponents with more 

than 15 regular season wins, 

Dean Birchmeier steps in for his first season 

as head coach. 

Zach Garber headlines the Wildcats’ group of 

five seniors,. He’ll look build on his 800 career 

points before he sets off to play for the University 

of Toledo Rockets. 

Standing at 6-foot-10, Garber scored an even 20 

points while grabbing 12.4 rebounds last season. 

His monster stats earned him a first-team All- 

Blanchard Valley Conference nod as well as a first- 

VANLUE — Coming off of consecutive seasons 

in which the Vanlue girls basketball team has gone 

4-17, veteran coach Todd Richards will be looking for 

improvement with four seniors and four returning letterwinners 

on his roster. 

However, in order for the Wildcats to win more 

games, they will have to find more scoring punch. 

Vanlue will be without its top three scorers from 

a season ago in Savannah Engard (9.7 ppg), Kelsie 

Ward (6.4) and Jenny Hendricks (5.6). Those three 

players accounted for 21.7 of the Wildcats’ 33.2 points 

per contest. 

There are three players that Richards is counting 

on to step up. 

One is Katie Thomas. The 5-foot-9 senior post 

scored 5.4 points per contest and led Vanlue with 6.9 

rebounds and 2.4 steals while shooting 46 percent 

from the field. 

Another key player will be 5-8 senior guard Logan 

Frey. She averaged three points and four rebounds 

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Fellow senior Josh Clymer (6-4) chipped in 5.3 

points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game. 

Seniors Linden Smith (5-9, 2.8 ppg), Lee Summers 

(5-8, 2 ppg) and Nick Hagerty (6-0, 1.4 ppg) 

return to add depth at guard. 

Rounding out the roster are juniors Colton 

Huston (6-0) and Jacob Coldren (6-2), who will 

provide depth at forward while Hagerty will be 

worked in at guard. 

WILDCATS | GIRLS 

Richards welcomes back four seniors 

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5-10 senior post Kayla Cornette, who moved into the 

Vanlue district, is a tall, athletic player that is capable 

of playing any position. 

Also returning are senior Taylor Kloepfer (5-9, 2.0 

ppg, 2.0 rpg) and sophomore Haley Bonham (5-8, 

1.0 ppg, 2.0 rpg). Filling out the Wildcats’ roster are 

junior guards Heather Gerschutz (5-4) and Chelsea 

Gerschutz (5-4). Senior Aleshia Ross (5-5), sophomore 

Kate Clymer (5-9) and freshman Jackie Kloepfer 

(5-9) will each provide depth in the post.


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Hometown boy 

Photos by KENT TARBOX / for the Review Times 

VANLUE CENTER ZACH GARBER 

(33) powers his way to the basket in 

a Blanchard Valley Conference game 

against McComb during the 2011-12 

season. A 4.0 student and a four-sport 

athlete who could fi nish his prep 

career with 16 varsity letters, Garber 

relishes the camaraderie and team 

closeness a small school can offer. 

Garber living the dream as a Vanlue senior 

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VANLUE — Zach Garber’s basketball 

talents have taken him from one 

side of the country to the other. Even 

to Europe and back. 

But in today’s “transfer-for-sports” 

mad world, where prep athletes often 

shuttle from school to school like 

slam-dunking mercenaries, Garber 

sticks to a refreshingly noble and wellgrounded 

ideal. 

As far as he is concerned, there’s 

no place like home. 

“The more I thought about it, the 

more I knew I had to stick it out,” 

Garber said. 

“I just couldn’t leave my friends.” 

A 6-foot-10 center with good hands, 

quick feet and an excellent all-around 

game, Garber averaged 19.7 points 

 

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He shot 62 percent from the field, 

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Ohio and 

second-team 

all-Ohio recognition. 

Garber has 

spent his summers 

playing 

AAU ball for an All-Ohio Red Team 

that included several top-notch Division 

I college recruits such as Toledo 

St. John’s Marc Loving (Ohio State), 

Toledo Whitmer’s Nigel Hayes (Wisconsin), 

Mansfield Senior’s Keon 

“This is the last year (the other 

seniors on the team) can all be 

together like this ... I think you 

need to enjoy high school and do 

as many things as you can.” 

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VANLUE BASKETBALL PLAYER 

Napoleon’s 

Jordan Lauf, 

who along 

with Garber 

has signed a 

national letter 

of intent to 

play for the 

University of 

Toledo. 

Garber’s 

AAU commitments 

with 

the All-Ohio Red Team, which didn’t 

include a two-week trip to Italy for a 

tournament against some of the top 

European Junior teams, kept him 

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Garber 


pretty busy. 

“After the state basketball tournament 

(March 22-24), I was not home 

one weekend until June,” Garber said. 

“It was pretty nuts for a while. 

s soon as I got back (from Italy) 

e had a tournament in Columbus, 

then one in Minnesota, then Virginia, 

then another in Columbus, then Fort 

Wayne, then Columbus again, then 

San Francisco, and then Cincinnati. 

“The rest of June, I was off.” 

With a little creative manipulation 

of residency requirements, an 

issue the Ohio High School Athletic 

Association hears plenty about 

every season, Garber and some of 

his AAU teammates 

could form 

an extremely talented 

high school 

basketball team. 

Garber knows 

that idea has been 

out there. 

“I heard the 

rumors,” he said. 

“I heard I 

was going from 

anywhere in the 

BVC (Blanchard Valley Conference) 

to Findlay to Toledo St. John’s to 

Toledo Whitmer to Dayton Dunbar 

to Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary ... all 

kinds of schools.” 

Instead, one of the state’s best big 

men will play at one of Ohio’s smallest 

schools. 

Garber has seen other parts of the 

world and most of the country. He’s 

gone toe-to-toe with some of the best 

players in the game. 

But sitting at the dining room 

“We’ll never get this 

year back. Hopefully, we 

can enjoy it while we can 

because before you know 

it, it’s gone.” 

table in the family home, Garber 

looks the part of exactly what he 

wants to be, a normal, average American 

teenager enjoying the final year 

of his high school career. 

“My friends and I painted ourselves 

for volleyball games and we’ve 

dressed up in old (basketball) uniforms 

like John (his step-father John 

Kloepfer) used to wear. 

“I went to every (high school) 

event I could. I’m enjoying all the 

experiences,” Garber said. 

“I’ve been here since third grade. 

The other seniors on this team — 

Linden Smith, Lee Summers, Dylan 

Watson and Josh Clymer — and I 

have played together since fourth 

grade and we got another senior who 

hasn’t played basketball since eighth 

grade, Joe Wagner, out this year. 

“This is the last year we can all 

be together like this before we go 

off to college and 

ZACH GARBER, 


do other things. I 

think you need to 

enjoy high school 

and do as many 

things as you 

can.” 

Garber is 

embracing that 

philosophy to the 

max, and not just 

on a basketball 

court. 

A 4.0 student, Garber will likely 

be valedictorian of his class. He was 

junior class president, a member of 

Vanlue’s quiz bowl team, he shows 

dairy cattle at the fair in 4-H, and, 

“because of my mom,” plays trombone 

in the school’s concert band. 

Athletically, he’s left his mark in 

more than one sport. 

Garber was a second-team all-BVC 

pick at defensive end this fall. He had 

12 tackles for losses, an interception 

and has been Vanlue’s punter. 

“It’s our senior year, our last year together. 

We want to enjoy this year because people 

graduate and go their separate ways and 

you lose that bond that you have.” 

ZACH GARBER, 


“We may not have been very successful,” 

Garber said of Vanlue’s 1-9 

season. “But we had fun. I got to 

play with friends and we won our 

last game.” 

In the spring, he pitches and plays 

first base for the baseball team and 

qualified for state in the discus in 

track. 

“Barring any unforeseen injury,” 

as he puts it, Garber will graduate 

with 16 varsity letters. 

“That’s something not many 

people can say they’ve done.” 

Garber’s versatility could be an 

asset. 

“I think it’s a common misconception 

that college (basketball) coaches 

don’t want kids playing football,” 

Garber said. 

“At UT, they said they like the 

physicality football players bring to 

basketball. I’m not afraid of contact. 

I always joked that my favorite part 

of football was hitting people and 

punting. 

“Now-a-days, it seems that a lot of 

big men like stepping out and shooting 

the ball. With me, playing football 

and all, I don’t mind the physical 

stuff.” 

Garber can expect a lot of physical 

play this season as opponents double- 

and triple-team the 6-10 senior. But 

the way Garber sees it, he’ll have a lot 

of his friends there to help him out. 

“We want to be successful,” 

Garber said. “But we want to have 

fun, too. 

“It’s our senior year, our last year 

together. We want to enjoy this year 

because people graduate and go their 

separate ways and you lose that bond 

that you have. 

“We’ll never get this year back. 

Hopefully, we can enjoy it while we 

can because before you know it, it’s 

gone.” 

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handles the ball 

for Fostoria High 

School during a 

game in the 2011-12 

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saw considerable 

playing time in her 

freshman season. 

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Makenzie McAfee eyes 

the basket during a 

2011-12 season contest. 

The 5-foot-9 McAfee 

returns to the Mohawks 

as a sophomore. 

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