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T2 COVER S<strong>TO</strong>RY FOS<strong>TO</strong>RIA REVIEW TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012<br />
Coach Cara Noel<br />
reigns over Arcadia<br />
boys basketball<br />
By SCOTT COT<strong>TO</strong>S<br />
SPORTS EDI<strong>TO</strong>R<br />
ARCADIA — Coach Cara Noel’s early assessment of her team<br />
sounded much like any other that one might hear in the early preseason.<br />
“I have good kids,” she said. “They work hard, they listen and<br />
they try to do what I tell them the best they can, so I can’t complain.”<br />
There’s a big difference, though, in those words coming from a<br />
female coach: She’s talking about the boys varsity team at Arcadia<br />
High School.<br />
She knows the deal. She’s believed to be one of just a handful of<br />
women coaching boys basketball in Ohio, making it notable in itself.<br />
“I’m definitely a minority,” she said. “I’m not the only. I’m not the<br />
first. I’m definitely the first for this area.”<br />
But so far, the situation is as she wants it. The prevailing attitude<br />
toward her coaching the boys<br />
squad seems to be “so what?”<br />
Which means there’s no<br />
road block to progressing<br />
toward the goal she has: to<br />
make the boys basketball program<br />
at her alma mater, which<br />
has largely struggled in recent<br />
years, one that’s about competing<br />
and winning.<br />
“It shouldn’t make any difference,”<br />
said Arcadia girls<br />
coach Randy Baker, who<br />
coached Noel, recommended<br />
she apply for the position and<br />
is considered by Noel as her<br />
main mentor. “The game is<br />
the game. It shouldn’t be a big<br />
deal. Hopefully it’s not.”<br />
Said Noel: “The parents have been really supportive. I’m from the<br />
area. It’s Arcadia. I’m from here. Everyone knows me. They know my<br />
family. So it’s not like I’m a female outsider coming in and trying to<br />
change things. I would like to say I’m in the system. I’m just going<br />
from girls to boys and that happens all the time. The only difference<br />
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“The parents have<br />
been really supportive.<br />
I’m from the area. It’s<br />
Arcadia. I’m from here.<br />
Everyone knows me.<br />
They know my family. So<br />
it’s not like I’m a female<br />
outsider coming in and<br />
trying to change things.”<br />
COACH CARA NOEL,<br />
ARCADIA BOYS BASKETBALL<br />
Photos by DOUG CAMERON / for the Review Times<br />
CARA NOEL, a former standout player at<br />
Arcadia, directs traffi c as head coach of the<br />
boys basketball team at her alma mater.
FOS<strong>TO</strong>RIA REVIEW TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012<br />
Queen<br />
Continued from page T2<br />
is I’m a female coach going to the boys<br />
side.”<br />
Noel said she doesn’t expect her<br />
sex to arise as a question of her ability<br />
to coach the team.<br />
“I don’t anticipate having a real<br />
issue with somebody just because I’m<br />
a female,” she said. “If I do, I’m probably<br />
just going to let it go by because<br />
that’s ignorance and I’m just not going<br />
to give that energy.”<br />
Kevin Keefe, a senior on the basketball<br />
team, said he wondered what<br />
it would be like to have a woman as<br />
coach but he’s had no problem with it.<br />
Some previous members of the squad<br />
are not playing this year, but he didn’t<br />
attribute that to having a woman as<br />
coach.<br />
“I think it’s because we went<br />
from kind of less-disciplinary coach<br />
to a coach who is more disciplinary<br />
because she can’t stand losing,” Keefe<br />
said. “She doesn’t want us to be the<br />
team that’s, ‘Oh, it’s Arcadia,’ we’re<br />
going to lose. She wants us to evolve<br />
and become this team that’s going to<br />
be the foundation for future years.”<br />
Noel’s interest in again helming<br />
her own program, her interest in<br />
seeing success at Arcadia and the boys<br />
position coming open at the school<br />
all seemed to align themselves in her<br />
favor last spring.<br />
Her possible path toward coaching,<br />
however, became apparent to Baker,<br />
the highly successful girls coach who<br />
is entering his 30th season at Arcadia,<br />
years before Noel’s 1999 graduation<br />
from the school.<br />
“She was my coach on the floor<br />
when she came in as a freshman,” he<br />
said.<br />
After handling the point guard<br />
position for Baker and gaining Division<br />
IV honorable mention All-Ohio<br />
recognition as a senior, Noel played<br />
at both Baldwin Wallace and Ohio<br />
Northern before becoming a student<br />
assistant at the latter.<br />
She returned to Arcadia and<br />
coached the seventh-grade girls in<br />
the Baker-directed system for two<br />
seasons before coaching Fostoria<br />
High School’s varsity for one season.<br />
She then went back into the college<br />
ranks, becoming a graduate assistant<br />
at Bluffton and then an assistant coach<br />
at Rose-Hulman before reuniting with<br />
Baker as his junior varsity coach for<br />
the last two seasons.<br />
“I’ve hop-scotched around, but I<br />
am loyal, I tell you,” she said with a<br />
laugh. “It doesn’t seem like it, but I<br />
am.”<br />
A large loyalty for her is to the<br />
teachings of Baker, though he dismisses<br />
the notion of having an influence.<br />
“Everything we do comes from<br />
someone else. Everybody steals<br />
things from other people,” he said of<br />
CARA NOEL,<br />
Arcadia’s fi rst-year<br />
boys basketball<br />
coach, instructs her<br />
team at practice.<br />
the coaching business. “She didn’t get<br />
much from me except stressing fundamentals<br />
and working hard.”<br />
That’s a good starting point,<br />
though. Noel said she’s learned<br />
nuances from Baker from being on<br />
his bench the last two seasons. But<br />
she said her biggest lesson has been<br />
to hang her team’s hat on man-to-man<br />
defense, which she noted is rooted<br />
mostly in effort.<br />
“There’s a reason a lot of his games<br />
are low-scoring — just because that’s<br />
what he works on and that’s what he<br />
prides himself on,” Noel said. “I do,<br />
too. I wasn’t the best defender when<br />
I was in school, but looking back<br />
now I wish I had<br />
worked a little bit<br />
harder on it. It’s<br />
just work. You<br />
don’t have to have<br />
talent, you don’t<br />
have to have skill,<br />
per se. You’ve just<br />
got to have effort<br />
and a little bit of<br />
basic knowledge<br />
of help-side stuff.<br />
It comes down to<br />
how hard do you<br />
want to work and<br />
how well do you<br />
want to stop your<br />
opponent. I think<br />
everyone’s equal<br />
on the defensive end.”<br />
Not everyone is equal athletically,<br />
though, and that’s what has long been<br />
the intrigue for Noel in coaching boys.<br />
“Nothing against my own gender,<br />
but males are just naturally stronger,<br />
faster and jump higher,” Noel said.<br />
“They develop bigger, faster, stronger<br />
and I just wanted to experience<br />
having a chance to coach boys. I like<br />
the speed of the game. It’s faster.”<br />
“I had confi dence that<br />
I could start a new<br />
tradition here and bring<br />
over a little bit from<br />
the girls perspective<br />
of just always, always<br />
competing. Whether it’s a<br />
down year or an up year,<br />
you always compete.”<br />
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The idea of her coaching Arcadia’s<br />
boys actually came about flippantly.<br />
“Once I learned that (previous<br />
coach) Dan Furlong was retiring, I<br />
talked to Baker about it,” said Noel,<br />
who teaches at Blanchard Valley<br />
Center Schools in Findlay. “I was<br />
like, ‘Yeah, I should apply.’ And he<br />
was, like, all serious and said, ‘You<br />
should. You’d be good at it.’ I said, ‘I<br />
guess I’ll think about it.’”<br />
A day before the deadline for applying,<br />
she still hadn’t done so, however.<br />
“(Baker) called me up and said,<br />
‘What are you going to do? You said<br />
you’d think about it and you haven’t<br />
applied yet. Have you made up your<br />
mind?,’” Noel<br />
said. “I said, ‘No,<br />
not really.’ And<br />
he’s, like, ‘OK,<br />
you can still be<br />
my JV coach (if<br />
you’re not the<br />
boys coach). Just<br />
let me know what<br />
your plans are.’<br />
After that, I was<br />
like, ‘I might as<br />
well.’”<br />
Her mind is<br />
set on building<br />
from the ground<br />
up and changing<br />
the mentality in<br />
the program.<br />
“I know where the program’s been<br />
in the past, when I was a student here<br />
under Dave Lewis and where it could<br />
be at and where it’s been under X<br />
amount of coaches since Dave Lewis<br />
left (in the late 1990s),” Noel said.<br />
“There hasn’t been a consistent coach<br />
who started a program here — I’m<br />
talking the elementary boys, which<br />
I will start.”<br />
Then there’s the mentality sur-<br />
COACH CARA NOEL,<br />
ARCADIA BOYS BASKETBALL<br />
rounding the boys program.<br />
“I had confidence that I could start<br />
a new tradition here and bring over a<br />
little bit from the girls perspective of<br />
just always, always competing,” she<br />
said, referencing another Baker influence.<br />
“Whether it’s a down year or an<br />
up year, you always compete. I think<br />
Baker has, what, three losing seasons<br />
in 30 years? So there’s always a chance<br />
to win, no matter who you’re playing<br />
and no matter what kind of year you’re<br />
having. That’s the type of mentality<br />
the girls bring in. It doesn’t matter<br />
who you play. The game’s 50-50;<br />
you’re either going to win or you’re<br />
going to lose. It doesn’t matter who<br />
you play.”<br />
Keefe, who is out until late December<br />
due to a leg fracture suffered<br />
during football season, said Noel has<br />
conveyed that very message and has<br />
brought a sense of discipline that he<br />
has noticed Baker’s teams as having<br />
had in past years.<br />
“She’s a lot more strict, and I think<br />
that’s coming from coach Baker, who<br />
is a very strict, fundamental coach,”<br />
he said.<br />
“Just getting the kids to know how<br />
to work is the biggest thing,” Noel<br />
said. “And I have two rules that I had<br />
to make sure I laid down: No walking<br />
— that would be a Baker rule that<br />
I’ve inherited and taken on as my own;<br />
and a Dave Lewis rule that I’ve taken<br />
on — being clean shaven.”<br />
The latter, she said, “is a discipline<br />
thing, and we’re going to be classy.”<br />
Keefe said the team hasn’t had difficulties<br />
in adapting to Noel’s manner.<br />
“I believe we like it,” he said. “I<br />
can’t speak for the rest of the team,<br />
but I like it. I feel like it’s right — it’s<br />
the right direction for the team.”<br />
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The 2011-12 season was one of change for St. Wendelin’s<br />
boys.<br />
First-year coach Jim Rutter came in with new ideas,<br />
including an intent to quicken the pace of his team’s<br />
game. That, combined with a copious amount of youth<br />
on the roster, brought some growing pains and a final<br />
record of 4-17 overall and 2-9 in the Midland Athletic<br />
League.<br />
“We got better as the year went on,” Rutter, who<br />
formerly coached for several years at Fostoria High<br />
School and in the lower levels at St. Wendelin. “Anytime<br />
you come in with a big difference in style, there’s<br />
a learning curve there. We struggled early with going<br />
at a faster pace, but as the year went on we did a better<br />
job with it.”<br />
Familiarity with everything has been a plus in the<br />
preseason, Rutter said.<br />
“This year when I throw something out there, they<br />
know what I’m talking about,” he said. “I think the<br />
things I’ve been seeing on the floor since Nov. 2 have<br />
been encouraging.”<br />
While three players who were starters for at least<br />
When St. Wendelin’s girls won 95 games and<br />
reached a Division IV regional final between 2006 and<br />
2011, they had a trait that winners normally possess.<br />
They expected to win.<br />
Last year, in what coach Aaron Smith called “a full<br />
rebuilding year,” the senior-less Mohawks finished<br />
strong and ended up with records of 10-10 overall and<br />
5-5 in the Midland Athletic League.<br />
That experience and string of success leads Smith<br />
to believe that his club should again have a winning<br />
mentality.<br />
“Unlike last year, when we were just trying to<br />
compete, we’re taking the floor expecting to win,”<br />
he said. “We need to get our swagger back. We kind<br />
of lost that.”<br />
Smith hopes a first-half record like last year’s 2-8<br />
can be avoided, but like season the schedule is chockful<br />
of tough opponents such as Elmwood, Liberty-Benton,<br />
Hopewell-Loudon, New Riegel, Carey and Mohawk.<br />
“We have everybody back,” Smith said. “But nobody<br />
really lost anybody. We’re going to have to play good<br />
basketball to get some wins.”<br />
Rutter Miller Walters<br />
part of the season return, the Mohawks have no one<br />
person who will carry the load, Rutter said. He’ll be<br />
counting on a team effort on a nightly basis.<br />
“There are a number of kids who can do a number<br />
of things,” he said. “There are a lot of kids who can<br />
give us positive contributions.”<br />
A team leader and solid contributor will be senior<br />
Zach Miller, a 6-footer who was a starter for most<br />
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11 off guard Colleen Fondessy and 5-3 point guard<br />
Heather Saalman.<br />
Fondessy was the league’s No. 2 scorer last season<br />
at 14.5 points per game while adding 7.1 rebounds<br />
and 2.7 steals. Saalman was good for 9.9 points, 3.1<br />
assists and 2.7 steals.<br />
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SW Continued<br />
from page T4<br />
of last season. Also back after having<br />
seen starting roles in 2011-12 are<br />
junior Gabe Walters (6-3) and sophomore<br />
Nick Shumaker (5-11).<br />
Miller is joined in the senior class<br />
by 6-0 Terrance<br />
Bello and 5-11<br />
Matt Decker, both<br />
of whom saw most<br />
of their time with<br />
the junior varsity<br />
last season.<br />
Along with<br />
Walters, Brady<br />
Rutter (5-10), the<br />
coach’s son, returns as a junior. Among<br />
the other juniors, Dalton Murray<br />
(6-0) played almost entirely on the<br />
junior varsity squad last year, while<br />
Smith<br />
Continued from page T4<br />
“I’d say Colleen and Heather are as<br />
ood as any two players in the league,”<br />
mith said. “We<br />
ust need to build<br />
round them.”<br />
Smith also<br />
ooks for a contined<br />
presence near<br />
he basket from<br />
senior Ali Mowrey,<br />
a 5-8 senior who<br />
last year put up<br />
10.9 points and 7.3<br />
rebounds.<br />
Smith will look<br />
for further senior<br />
contributions from<br />
“There are a lot of kids<br />
who can give us positive<br />
contributions.”<br />
Kate Whetsel (5-1), Sami Birkmire<br />
(5-9), Shelby Emerine (5-5) and Beth<br />
Hay (5-5).<br />
St. Wendelin’s junior class includes<br />
Taylor Williams (5-0), Morgan Hay<br />
Nick Root (5-8) and Steven Murray<br />
(5-10) were full-time JV players.<br />
Also in the junior class are Nash<br />
Baker (6-0), who missed all of last<br />
season with a knee injury, and Brad<br />
Buhrow (5-8), who has returned to<br />
basketball after wrestling last year.<br />
Moving up from the junior varsity<br />
are sophomores Jacob Fretz (6-0),<br />
Cole Frankart (5-11) and Donovan<br />
Scudder (5-9).<br />
JIM RUTTER,<br />
ST. WENDELIN BOYS HEAD COACH<br />
“Unlike last year, when<br />
we were just trying to<br />
compete, we’re taking the<br />
fl oor expecting to win. We<br />
need to get our swagger<br />
back.”<br />
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said.<br />
All in all,<br />
Rutter said, a key<br />
to his club’s success will be how well<br />
his players mesh into a unit.<br />
“A lot’s going to depend on what<br />
they want to do,” he said.<br />
(5-7) and Edy Mowrey (5-7), while the<br />
sophomores are Meghan Reiter (5-6),<br />
Makenzie McAfee (5-9) and Sicily<br />
Leiter (5-6).<br />
The Mohawks’ freshmen are Allie<br />
Rutter (5-9), Krystal Krout (5-7),<br />
Mikayla Gilliland (5-4), Kamryn Troike<br />
(6-2) and Hunter Weidner (5-11).<br />
Smith hopes his squad took strides<br />
AARON SMITH,<br />
ST. WENDELIN GIRLS HEAD COACH<br />
toward improvement<br />
through a<br />
rigorous scrimmage<br />
schedule that<br />
include go-arounds<br />
with perennial<br />
state power Berlin<br />
Hiland and bigger<br />
schools such as<br />
Clyde, Solon and<br />
Cuyahoga Falls<br />
Walsh Jesuit.<br />
“Those were<br />
tough scrimmages<br />
and we got it handed to us pretty good,”<br />
Smith said. “But we learned the level<br />
we need to get to and the speed we<br />
need to get to, to be a competitive<br />
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left) Brad Buhrow, Peter Campbell, Donovan Scudder, Brady Rutter, Nick Root, Steven Murray; (back, from left)<br />
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ST. WENDELIN’S girls team includes: (front, from left) Heather Saalman, Shelby Emerine, Samantha Birkmire,<br />
Colleen Fondessy, Ali Mowrey, Beth Hay, Kate Whetsel; (back, from left) manager Sydney Johnson, manager<br />
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Fostoria High School’s boys started putting up big<br />
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Fifty-two players took to the gym floor, which, of<br />
course, encouraged ninth-year coach Rick Renz.<br />
“We must be doing something right because that’s<br />
the biggest turnout in my career — not even close,”<br />
he said.<br />
Of course, not everyone could be kept, but the<br />
turnout did provide some depth to the program and<br />
a challenge to anyone who thought he was a lock to<br />
return after last year’s campaign, which ended with an<br />
overall record of 8-13 and a Northern Buckeye Conference<br />
mark of 7-7.<br />
“We told them the first day, ‘Just because you were<br />
on the team last year, that doesn’t mean you’re safe.’”<br />
Renz said.<br />
As it turns out, the Redmen have just three players<br />
back from last season, rendering a new look to<br />
the Redmen.<br />
“We’re going to have as inexperienced of a team as<br />
we’ve seen since my first year here,” Renz said. “We<br />
have a lot of great kids on this team. It’s just going to<br />
Last season was as difficult as it comes for Fostoria<br />
High School’s girls, who lost every one of their 21<br />
games.<br />
But coach Mat Swortchek sees light at the end of<br />
the tunnel, and he knows its reached with a combination<br />
of patience and diligence.<br />
“There’s no quick fix for 0-21,” he said. “It’s a<br />
long process. But the kids have bought into that and<br />
the coaches have bought into that. I believe we’re in<br />
the process of turning it around. The kids want it to<br />
happen.”<br />
Numbers are actually up in the Lady Red camp,<br />
and for the returning players “if anything, I think<br />
they were motivated” by the winless 2011-12 season,<br />
Swortchek said.<br />
That meant getting after the hard work it takes to<br />
get better, Swortchek said, and the players responded<br />
by flocking to the gym in the summer, which included<br />
participating in a summer league at Otsego.<br />
The pain of consistent losing isn’t something the<br />
players want to continue experiencing, he said.<br />
“We really tried to stress to them that the way not<br />
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Cousin, at 6-foot-2, could be a scoring threat from<br />
inside and out after averaging 9.9 points per game in<br />
2011-12.<br />
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said.<br />
FHS remains young a season after sophomores<br />
and freshmen saw most of the playing time, but six<br />
letterwinners return this year instead of just the one<br />
of 2011-12.<br />
The most experienced among the Lady Red is<br />
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“He knows the offense inside and<br />
out and he’s becoming a leader,” Renz<br />
said.<br />
FHS also<br />
brings back<br />
6-0 sophomore<br />
Dom Fuller, who<br />
split last season<br />
between the<br />
junior varsity and<br />
the big squad.<br />
The Redmen<br />
will have two<br />
other seniors in<br />
5-9 Garrett Sferro<br />
and 5-8 Tony<br />
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letter after averaging 5.1 points and<br />
4.7 rebounds per game.<br />
Another key returnee is 5-7 sophomore<br />
point guard Erica Moore,<br />
who contributed<br />
team highs of 6.2<br />
points and 5.2<br />
rebounds.<br />
Also back are<br />
5-8 junior Taylor<br />
Tucker, 5-5 junior<br />
Eliza Sanchez<br />
and sophomores<br />
Jada Hampton<br />
(5-9) and Alexus Smith. Hampton<br />
averaged 5.5 points last season,<br />
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“We’re going to have as<br />
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this team. It’s just going<br />
to take awhile for us to<br />
come together.”<br />
rience. The other juniors are 6-1 Drew<br />
Stennett and 5-9 Voshon Cousin.<br />
Joining Fuller in the sophomore<br />
class are 5-8 Deandre Cannon and<br />
6-3 Rayshon Martin.<br />
Offensively, Renz said, the Redmen<br />
will run when they can. But the real<br />
staple of Renz’s program is always<br />
defense, and that<br />
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“We have kids<br />
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have to develop is<br />
our team defense.<br />
“We’re just<br />
going to have to<br />
defend the heck<br />
out of the basketball<br />
and make<br />
ourselves as dis-<br />
ruptive as possible for the other team.”<br />
(5-5), the sophomores are Lila Lenz<br />
(5-7), Sydney Vilaisack (5-4), Justice<br />
Lentz (5-8) and Kaila Schmeltz<br />
(5-6) and the freshmen are twins<br />
Denae James (5-7) and Derae James<br />
(5-7), Juliana Sanchez (5-6), Akiya<br />
Foster (5-5) and Makylee Vasalle-<br />
Parker (5-6).<br />
Swortchek said that with the experience<br />
gained by<br />
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younger players<br />
last year, he had<br />
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to build<br />
on at the start<br />
of this season’s<br />
practices.<br />
“We’re radically<br />
ahead of<br />
where we were last year,” he said.<br />
“We’re still concentrating on the<br />
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“The biggest thing is the kids<br />
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ARCADIA — It will be a season of new beginnings<br />
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Cara Noel was named the Redskins coach in June,<br />
becoming the first female head coach in Blanchard<br />
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She will be faced with a major challenge, taking<br />
over a program that hasn’t been able to build much<br />
success over the years. The Redskins have not had<br />
a winning season since 2001-02 when they finished<br />
12-10.<br />
Arcadia started 6-5 last season, but then suffered<br />
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record.<br />
Noel will not have many experienced players. Of<br />
the 13 players in the program, 10 are underclassmen.<br />
Kevin Keefe Jr. is the only letterwinner returning<br />
from last season’s squad. A 6-foot-3 senior post, Keefe<br />
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Seth Bauer, the only other senior on the squad, will<br />
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ARCADIA — There will be big expectations in Arcadia<br />
this season as the Redskins appear to have the makings<br />
of a strong team in Randy Baker’s 30th season as<br />
head coach.<br />
Baker has guided the Arcadia girls program to a 419-<br />
224 record under his tutelage.<br />
The Redskins, who started last season with 14 consecutive<br />
victories, finished the year 19-4 overall with a<br />
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Arcadia’s only BVC losses were to Arlington and Liberty-Benton<br />
which both advanced to the state tournament<br />
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Arcadia will have one of the top point guards in Ohio<br />
Division IV girls basketball in senior Miranda Palmer,<br />
and Baker will be able to surround her with plenty of<br />
other talent. Palmer, a third-team all-state, first-team<br />
all-district and first-team all-BVC pick, leads all returning<br />
BVC players with 17.3 points per game and 3.8 steals<br />
per contest last season. She also averaged 2.8 rebounds<br />
and 2.8 assists.<br />
Junior wing Courtney Cramer scored 13.1 points and<br />
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Three sophomores on the roster include Dylan<br />
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Hayden Ramsey (forward). Freshman Chad Baker<br />
(forward), Jacob Keefe (post), Trevor Lucius (guard),<br />
Logan Metzger (guard), Clint Recker (forward) and<br />
Shae Watkins (post) fill out the roster.<br />
Point guard Palmer returns to lead Redskins<br />
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Junior Rebecca Kirian returns in the post after pulling<br />
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BETTSVILLE — Chad Garberich knew he was<br />
aking on a challenge as the new boys coach at Betsville.<br />
Low numbers and other factors have made for<br />
truggles in recent years.<br />
“People told me there were going to be difficulies,”<br />
first-year coach Chad Garberich said. “But you<br />
lways think you can be the one to make the differnce.”<br />
Only one player with significant varsity experince<br />
returns in two-year letterwinner and 5-foot-9<br />
senior Kennedy Hossler, who averaged 3.5 points and<br />
2.2 rebounds per game last year as the Bobcats went<br />
4-17 overall and 1-10 in the Midland Athletic League.<br />
With a lack of ballhandling skills and length, experience<br />
won’t be the only thing Bettsville will have to<br />
overcome this year.<br />
“The boys play hard and we’re physical,” Garberich<br />
said, “Our biggest weakness are our ball skills.<br />
In our scrimmages, we turned the ball over like 42<br />
times and we have no size.<br />
Losing Dominic Miccichi and his 15.8 points<br />
and 10.6 rebounds per game, Dominic King’s 10.6<br />
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“They give up on themselves to easily,” Garberich<br />
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“Our goal is to stay competitive. We’ll go the whole<br />
four quarters. We have a lot of nonconference games<br />
that we can win. There will be some games in the<br />
MAL where we will have chances to compete.”<br />
Other expected contributors for Bettsville are<br />
seniors Tommy Kipps (6-2), Logan Robinson (6-1)<br />
and Jacob Grine (5-11), juniors Kenneth Stander<br />
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ELMWOOD<br />
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Lake (H)*<br />
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Genoa (H)*<br />
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Genoa (A)*<br />
Eastwood (H)*<br />
Wauseon (H)<br />
Rossford (H)*<br />
Otsego (A)*<br />
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Eastwood (A)*<br />
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BLOOMDALE — Coming off of a 12-11 season,<br />
coach Ty Traxler inherits an Elmwood boys basketball<br />
team that appears to have some promise for the<br />
upcoming 2012-2013 season.<br />
Traxler, now in his fifth season, has developed<br />
his program well and the Royals have been a solid<br />
team year-in and year-out as shown by Traxler’s 52-35<br />
career record.<br />
Elmwood is coming off of a strong Division III tournament<br />
run. The Royals defeated Carey and upset Fostoria<br />
to win a sectional before falling to Lima Central<br />
Catholic in a district semifinal. The sectional title was<br />
Elmwood’s first during Traxler’s tenure.<br />
Zach Foster and Aaron Arnold give Traxler two<br />
players he can rely on. Foster, a 6-foot-1 guard, is back<br />
after pouring in 7.9 points, grabbing 3.6 rebounds and<br />
dishing out 2.4 assists per game. He earned honorable<br />
mention All-Northern Buckeye Conference and honorable<br />
mention District 7 awards last year.<br />
Arnold, a 6-5 junior wing, is also expected to play<br />
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Michael Chapman, a wing, also returns.<br />
Sebastian Baxter, a junior guard, will give the<br />
Royals another scoring option with his athletic ability<br />
and shooting prowess. Senior wing Derick Mobus<br />
will be counted on to provide strong perimeter defense.<br />
Chris Carr, a 6-5 senior, and Sawyer Haines, a 6-4<br />
junior, will provide depth in the post.<br />
ROYALS | GIRLS<br />
Experience, depth strengths for Elmwood<br />
BLOOMDALE — In his first year, coach Doug<br />
Reynolds made quite a mark on the Elmwood girls<br />
basketball program.<br />
Coming off of a 7-15 record during the 2010-2011<br />
season, Reynolds’ team showed massive improvement<br />
with a 13-9 record and an 8-6 mark in the Northern<br />
Buckeye Conference.<br />
Now with several letterwinners returning, Reynolds<br />
hopes his Royals can have a breakout season and<br />
be in the discussion for the NBC title.<br />
Elmwood will be without the services of graduated<br />
leading scorer Sierra Beckford, however. Beckford led<br />
the Royals by pouring in 16.4 points per game in her<br />
senior year last season.<br />
Reynolds will return to his lineup several experienced<br />
players that he hopes will give his team superior<br />
depth. Brittany Gross, a senior, is back after<br />
averaging 8.4 points and grabbing 5.8 rebounds per<br />
contest.<br />
Seniors Brittany George (6.4 ppg), Tori Hillard<br />
(3.8 ppg) and Emily Smith (2.1 ppg) also return.<br />
Junior Kristen Curtis (6.0 ppg, 5.6 rpg) returns<br />
Reynolds Curtis Gross<br />
inside for the Royals. Marissa Swavel put in 2.5 points<br />
per game for Elmwood as well.<br />
Three juniors are expected to come in and contribute<br />
for the Royals in Tiffany Hillard, Courtney Emmitt<br />
and Reyghan Rosendale.<br />
Aside from finding a go-to player to replace Beckford,<br />
Elmwood should have plenty of strengths.<br />
Reynolds expects his team to play fast and utilize<br />
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FINDLAY — Findlay High’s boys basketball team<br />
is smaller this season.<br />
But Jim Rucki’s expectations aren’t.<br />
“Obviously you don’t have to replace a 7-footer very<br />
often. I’m not sure how you do that,” Rucki said.<br />
“But we have four solid players back. Since we<br />
started practice, our guys have been working hard<br />
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Last year’s 16-6 slate raised Rucki’s record at Findlay<br />
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and into second place behind Carl Bachman (342-101)<br />
on the list of Findlay High basketball coaches.<br />
Rucki will field a relatively young team this season.<br />
But it is not a group lacking varsity experience.<br />
Joseph Davidson, a 6-7 forward, (6.1 points, 5.4<br />
rebounds) is the lone senior veteran on the roster. But<br />
6-1 junior Michael Clark (8.1 points, 2.2 rebounds) and<br />
6-3 junior Adam Twining (4.6 points, 2.9 rebounds<br />
have been playing varsity ball since they were freshmen<br />
and 6-3 junior Austin Gutting (6 points, 3.3<br />
rebounds) 6-3) was one of eight players to see action<br />
in all 22 games last season. Junior Nick Kairys (5-9)<br />
also saw some varsity action a year ago.<br />
FINDLAY — With a 66 percent career winning<br />
ercentage, Findlay High girls basketball coach Connie<br />
yon is all over the Xs and Os of the sport.<br />
What she likes about the 2012-13 version of the Troans<br />
goes beyond the blackboard.<br />
“The chemistry in this group is remarkable,” Lyon<br />
said. “Their energy is good, they’re an extremely positive<br />
group and their personalities and work ethics are great.<br />
This is a fun group to be around.”<br />
Three seniors return from a team that went 11-11<br />
last season, and there’s a deep junior class Lyon will be<br />
counting on as well.<br />
Findlay should be strong in the paint with the return<br />
of Christina McQueen and Taylor Stanfield.<br />
McQueen, a 6-foot-3 senior who has signed a national<br />
letter of intent with Gardner Webb University, earned<br />
second-team all-Three Rivers Athletic Conference honors<br />
last season after averaging 12.5 points, 9.4 rebounds and<br />
2.6 blocked shots per game. Stanfield was also a force<br />
inside, especially the first half of the 2011-12 season.<br />
Findlay also returns excellent size and experience<br />
on the wing in 5-11 senior guards Nicole Muehl (10.5<br />
Rucki<br />
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Rucki has some big shoes to replace, however, especially<br />
in the middle, where 6-11 center C.J. Gettys<br />
averaged 20.5 points, 9.1 rebounds and 2 blocked shots<br />
per game. Kairys and 5-8 junior Braden Miller are<br />
competing for the fifth- and sixth-man spots. Duke<br />
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with 6-2 senior Montrel Moss.<br />
Juniors Boden Fisher (6-1) and Zach Haynes (6-0)<br />
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Zoe Swisher, a 5-6 junior point guard, will likely<br />
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Jacey Hardesty, a 5-7 guard who also saw varsity<br />
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BOYS 2012-2013 <strong>SEASON</strong> SCHEDULE<br />
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Van Buren (A)<br />
Mohawk (H)*<br />
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Nov. 27 Vanlue (H)<br />
Nov. 30 Fostoria St. Wendelin (A)*<br />
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Dec. 11 Van Buren (A)<br />
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BASCOM — Having lost four starters to graduation<br />
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Loudon boys is hoping to overcome experience with<br />
hustle and versatility on the offensive end.<br />
Thankfully for third-year head coach Adam Smith,<br />
the Chieftains’ leading scorer returns for his senior<br />
season. Six-foot junior Alec Gregg scored 13 points<br />
to go with 3.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game last<br />
year for the Chieftains, who went 13-9 overall and 8-3<br />
in the Midland Athletic League.<br />
Hopewell-Loudon’s season ended with a loss to New<br />
Riegel in the sectional finals.<br />
“He’s going to have to run point guard for us this<br />
season,” Smith said of Gregg. “That will be a little<br />
different role for him, but he will be able to handle it.<br />
“So far, the younger kids are getting more comfortable<br />
with how we do things and they are starting to<br />
realize we should look into the post first.”<br />
The Chieftains want to counter their lack of experience<br />
with playing fast in transition and big in the<br />
frontcourt. Defensively, they will play a multitude of<br />
defenses, trying to keep the opposition off guard and<br />
to produce turnovers.<br />
BASCOM — Expectation are high this season for the<br />
Hopewell-Loudon girls, as the Lady Chieftains return<br />
nine players who earned varsity letters last season.<br />
Hopewell-Loudon last season posted records of 17-5<br />
overall and 7-3 in the Midland Athletic League.<br />
The Lady Chieftains ended their season with a loss<br />
in the sectional final to eventual regional finalist New<br />
Riegel.<br />
“We have set high expectations around here this<br />
year,” coach Rod Daniel said. “We are growing and<br />
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Hopewell-Loudon has high expectations not only<br />
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Among the players returning this year is 6-foot<br />
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KANSAS — After winning five games following a<br />
inless 2010-11 campaign, the Lakota boys are hoping<br />
o build on the progress they made last year.<br />
The Raiders will depend on experience that Lakota<br />
oach Tim Walsh thinks will propel them to the upper<br />
alf of the Midland Athletic League.<br />
“We are a bit more experienced than we have been,”<br />
Walsh said, “These same kids, a lot of them were playing<br />
varsity two years ago. They took their lumps back<br />
then, now they’ve matured, they have experience and<br />
they’ve gotten a little bit bigger.”<br />
Lakota will have to overcome a lack of consistent<br />
shooting and rebounding with the loss of leading scorer<br />
and rebounder Nick McDole, whose 10 points and 5<br />
rebounds per game will be missed.<br />
“We’ve (only) got a couple of post players; other than<br />
that we’re very guard oriented,” Walsh said. “Obviously,<br />
my concern right now is if we will be able to rebound<br />
effectively.”<br />
Walsh expects third-year starter Kody Brewer to<br />
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KANSAS — Quickness and post play will the<br />
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Raiders coach Mike Miller expects progress this<br />
ear after a 4-18 overall record and 1-9 league mark<br />
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“We’re a little quicker this year,” Miller said of this<br />
year’s squad, “so I think our defense will be better<br />
and our post play will be better.”<br />
Miller is wary of his team’s ability to score from<br />
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The Raiders will miss the 12.9 points and 6.9<br />
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BLUE JACKETS | BOYS<br />
Six seniors are back to lead Blue Jackets<br />
NEW RIEGEL — Coming off of a stellar 18-4 season,<br />
New Riegel will be looking for another strong campaign<br />
in 2011-2012 with the return of six senior letterwinners.<br />
While having six returning seniors sounds all fine<br />
and dandy for the Blue Jackets, New Riegel will need to<br />
replace some big time talent that graduated.<br />
The Blue Jackets will be without four of their top<br />
five scorers from a season ago including first team All-<br />
Midland Athletic League players Cody Kinn (15 points,<br />
5.9 rebounds per game) and Ryan Schalk (10.5 ppg, 47<br />
3-pointers).<br />
Brandyn Reinhart is the Blue Jackets’ top returning<br />
player. A 6-foot-4 senior, Reinhart led all of New Riegel’s<br />
returning players with 10.5 points and 5.7 rebounds per<br />
contest last season.<br />
Also expected to supply major contributions for the<br />
Blue Jackets are seniors Andrew Hohman (4.6 ppg, 3.1<br />
rpg), Brady Hall (3.1 ppg, 2.5 rpg), Korey Williams (4.2<br />
ppg), Nick Wank (4.1 ppg) and Josh Nye (2.7 ppg).<br />
Hohman only played in nine games last season due to<br />
a broken arm. Nye saw the floor in just 11 varsity contests<br />
as he split time with the junior varsity unit.<br />
NEW RIEGEL — No need to rebuild at New Riegel<br />
this season.<br />
Veteran girls basketball coach Steve Lucius welcomes<br />
back six returning letterwinners from last year’s<br />
outstanding team that posted a 21-4 overall record that<br />
included a 9-1 mark and outright Midland Athletic<br />
League championship.<br />
Lucius, who has a career record of 483-131 in 27<br />
seasons as head coach at the school, has a pair of all-conference<br />
players back in Taylor Kirian and Kara Scherger.<br />
Kirian, a 5-foot-9 junior forward, landed a spot on<br />
the all-MAL second team last winter after netting 11.2<br />
points with 5.8 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game.<br />
Scherger, meanwhile, had an outstanding freshman<br />
year for the Blue Jackets. The 5-5 sophomore guard<br />
was honorable mention all-league after doing a little bit<br />
of everything. She netted 8.7 points with 2.9 rebounds,<br />
3.2 steals and 2.0 assists per game.<br />
Junior forward Lauren Ladd (6-0) tossed in 8.6<br />
points and grabbed a team-high 7.4 rebounds per<br />
game, while sophomore forward Taylor Arbogast<br />
(5-9), scored 7.0 points with 5.4 rebounds, 2.0 assists<br />
Aicholz Reinhart Hohman<br />
Also hoping to break the lineup are junior Jake Dryfuse<br />
and seniors Josh Burns and Jacob Schalk, who each<br />
played on the junior varsity squad a season ago.<br />
Similar to years past, coach Todd Aichholz, who<br />
owns a 93-38 career record in seven years at New Riegel,<br />
expects his athletic team to create opportunities in transition.<br />
With so many players having played high school<br />
basketball for four years, Aichholz will also have plenty of<br />
depth, which will create competition in both practice and<br />
games and help his team improve as the season goes on.<br />
BLUE JACKETS | GIRLS<br />
Blue Jackets loaded with talent, experience<br />
Lucius Scherger Kirian<br />
and 1.5 steals per contest.<br />
The returning quartet also helped the Blue Jackets<br />
earn a spot in last year’s Division IV regional final.<br />
Senior guard Abby Cassidy (5-6) and junior guard<br />
Morgan Noftz (5-5) also lettered last season; the duo<br />
combined for 2.7 points and 4.0 rebounds per game.<br />
Seniors Ebony Bayward (5-7) and C’aira Conley<br />
(5-11) could see action at forward. Lauren Zoeller<br />
(5-4) and Ruth Ann Schreiner (5-2) are candidates<br />
at the guard spot.
FOS<strong>TO</strong>RIA REVIEW TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012<br />
TIFFIN — Chemistry is key for any team that wants<br />
to be successful. It will be even more important for coach<br />
Ted Willman’s Calvert boys squad, which includes a<br />
large number of unproven upperclassmen.<br />
The Senecas lost six players to graduation who<br />
accounted for almost 75 percent of the team’s offensive<br />
production a year ago. Calvert finished last season with a<br />
record of 18-5 overall and placed second in the Midland<br />
Athletic League at 9-2. Willman said the early part of<br />
this season will be about finding who plays best together.<br />
“We’re going to be young,” Willman said. “We’ll be<br />
laying a lot of kids to find out, chemistry-wise, who’s<br />
laying well with who and with what positions. A lot of<br />
t’s going to come down to chemistry.”<br />
The one position Willman will not have to worry<br />
bout filling will be point guard, where Nick Warnement<br />
returns for his third year at the helm of the Seneca<br />
offense. The 6-foot-2 senior averaged 15.8 points per<br />
game in his junior campaign and earned MAL player<br />
of the year, District 6 player of the year and honorable<br />
mention All-Ohio honors.<br />
Fellow seniors Jared Thompson (6-0), Brian Gruss<br />
TIFFIN — Experience and depth are rarely found<br />
ogether in basketball at the high school level. Gradution<br />
and low turnout can deny teams the chance to<br />
reach their full potential. That will not be the case this<br />
season for Tiffin Calvert.<br />
The Senecas lost only one senior to graduation and<br />
return the top four scorers from last year’s team that<br />
finished the season 12-10 overall and 6-4 in Midland<br />
Athletic League play. Coach Tim Ritzler believes the<br />
combination of experience and talent give his team<br />
the opportunity to have a special season.<br />
One of those juniors is returning starter Olivia<br />
Smith. The 5-foot-7 point guard averaged a teamhigh<br />
12.9 points per game as a sophomore en route<br />
to earning first-team All-MAL and second-team All-<br />
Northwest District honors.<br />
The team also welcomes back top shooter Megan<br />
Funkhouser. The 5-foot-5 senior was a second-team<br />
All-MAL pick and honorable mention all-district selection<br />
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Juniors Nicole Bickley (5-11) and Kate Brickner<br />
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Willman Thompson Warnement<br />
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Juniors Austin Ball (5-10) and Marcus Somers (6-0)<br />
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SENECAS | GIRLS<br />
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Ritzler Bickley Smith<br />
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After gaining varsity experience for the first time<br />
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role in their second season on the varsity squad.<br />
Seniors Marissa Horn (5-4) and Alanna Widman<br />
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Tornadoes must fi ll several holes this season<br />
TIFFIN — The loss of six seniors and four starters<br />
is enough to make many coaches uneasy for the<br />
upcoming season. Tiffin Columbian coach Bill Beaston<br />
is not panicking, though.<br />
The Tornadoes lost 43.0 points per game to graduation<br />
of the starting lineup of last year’s team that<br />
finished 9-12 overall and 4-6 in the Northern Ohio<br />
League. Even with many questions unanswered,<br />
Beaston is excited about his squad.<br />
“The bulk of the guys played together on the (junior<br />
varsity) team last year and they had a really successful<br />
season,” Beaston said. “The thing I like the most about<br />
them is that they work really, really hard and they’re<br />
super competitive.”<br />
The team will have some returning experience in<br />
the senior pair of Bryce Lonsway (5-7) and Connor<br />
Conley (5-11). Lonsway averaged 11.2 points per game<br />
and was named second team All-NOL and honorable<br />
mention All-Northwest District last season. Conley<br />
will be a weapon on the perimeter, where he shot 31<br />
percent from 3-point range last season.<br />
A trio of juniors will help fill the offensive void the<br />
Tornadoes lost to graduation. Josh Flint (6-0), Donovan<br />
Walker (6-0) and Ryan Lynch (5-10) combined<br />
TIFFIN — Lofty expectations are not on the mind<br />
of first-year Tiffin Columbian coach Katie Fazekas. She<br />
inherits a Tornadoes squad that finished the 2011-2012<br />
campaign with a record of 6-15 overall and 1-9 in the<br />
Northern Ohio League.<br />
In her first year on the job, Fazekas said, she would<br />
like to finish near the top of the league, but she is<br />
more focused on her team developing as the season<br />
progresses.<br />
“The biggest goal is just to improve,” Fazekas said.<br />
“I told them ...that I want to be better at Christmas<br />
than we are now and I want to be better entering tournaments<br />
than we were at Christmas. They’re working<br />
hard.”<br />
The promising news for Columbian is that only<br />
two seniors graduated from last year’s team, which<br />
means several players return with varsity experience.<br />
Leading the way will be two-year letterwinner Jocelyn<br />
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Fellow senior Michaela Miller (5-11) will enter the<br />
Beaston Lonsway Conley<br />
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team last season.<br />
Sophomores Derek Dryfuse (6-5) and Cody Daniel<br />
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scoring options in the low post.<br />
Dryfuse averaged 12.1 points and 7.2 rebounds per<br />
game last year at the junior varsity level.<br />
Despite the number of players who will be seeing<br />
varsity action for the first time this year, Beaston is<br />
confident that will not be a problem.<br />
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Senior letterwinners Megan Moore (5-6) and<br />
Marissa Ward (5-5), as well as junior letterwinner<br />
Payge Smith (5-8) will bring back vital experience to<br />
a team lacking in depth.<br />
Sophomore Valesha Province (5-5) will be handling<br />
most of the point guard duties, while juniors Sidney<br />
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Bishop welcomes back three letterwinners<br />
VAN BUREN — Marc Bishop entered his first<br />
eason in 2011-12 as Van Buren head coach with an<br />
mpty cupboard.<br />
Still, the Black Knights squeezed out at a 4-18<br />
verall record with a 2-7 Blanchard Valley Confernce<br />
mark.<br />
Bishop’s squad did end the season on a high note<br />
f sorts with a win over Lakota in the Division IV<br />
ectional semifinals.<br />
Bishop, a University of Findlay graduate, will also<br />
ave three letterwinners to build on for the 2012-13<br />
ampaign.<br />
Ryan Adolph, a 5-foot-11 forward, and Matt DeVore,<br />
a 6-1 center, are expected to provide senior leadership<br />
to the inexperienced roster which includes only three<br />
underclassman.<br />
Adolph earned all-BVC honorable mention a season<br />
ago after averaging 11.9 points, 4.4 rebounds — both<br />
team highs — and 1.2 assists per game.<br />
He was a .507 field goal (102 of 201) shooter and<br />
led the Black Knights at the free throw (42 of 58, .724<br />
percentage) during the regular season.<br />
VAN BUREN — More players in the program and<br />
ore experienced players on the court this season<br />
hould mean more victories for Van Buren’s girls basetball<br />
team.<br />
At least that’s what fourth-year coach Mike Daniels<br />
opes.<br />
Daniels returns six returning letterwinners from last<br />
year’s team that struggled to a 3-18 overall record that<br />
included a 1-8 mark in the Blanchard Valley Conference.<br />
Unlike some area schools who are having trouble<br />
ielding a junior varsity team, with 21 girls out for the<br />
port this season the Black Knights will field not only<br />
varsity and junior varsity team, but a freshman team<br />
s well.<br />
Three guards and three post players are back for the<br />
Black Knights. Senior guard Kristen Tropf leads the list<br />
of returnees. The 5-foot-3 three-sport athlete knocked<br />
down 12.1 points per game for the Black Knights last<br />
season.<br />
Senior guard Morgan Flick (5-4) is back after netting<br />
4.1 points with 3.0 assists per contest while junior<br />
Robyn Flick (5-3) also has experience at guard.<br />
Bishop Ry. Adolph Roberts<br />
DeVore, a senior, played in just nine games, averaging<br />
5.2 points and 3.2 rebounds. Junior Daniel Roberts,<br />
a 5-8 guard, averaged 5.7 points per game and<br />
hit 16 3-pointers.<br />
Senior forwards Brady Lucas (5-11) and Brennon<br />
Swain (6-1) will be relied on to make an impact. Mitch<br />
Bayer is also a senior guard. There is also juniors<br />
Aaron Franklin, Jimmy Irving and Mac Williams as<br />
well as sophomores Draeton Fasone, Adam Endicott<br />
and Ross Adolph.<br />
BLACK KNIGHTS | GIRLS<br />
Daniels has six returning letterwinners<br />
Daniels M. Flick Tropf<br />
Daniels will be looking for increased scoring at the<br />
post from senior Kaleigh Frampton (5-10) and junior<br />
Paige Sudlow (5-6). Frampton netted 5.5 points per<br />
game while Sudlow chipped in 4.9 per outing. Junior<br />
Madi Endicott (5-7) is also back and will see action in<br />
both the guard and forward spots.<br />
A group of four sophomores round out the varsity<br />
roster. Lauren Wise (5-7), Nichole Miller (5-5) and<br />
Rachel Wymer (5-6) will line up at guard while Abbey<br />
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Miller City (A)<br />
Liberty-Benton (H)*<br />
New Riegel (A)<br />
Hopewell-Loudon (H)<br />
Toledo Christian (H)<br />
Cory-Rawson (A)*<br />
Tiffi n Calvert (H)<br />
Arcadia (A)*<br />
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Vanlue (A)*<br />
Leipsic (H)*<br />
Lima Central Catholic (H)<br />
McComb (H)*<br />
Lima Shawnee (H)<br />
Hardin Northern (A)*<br />
Carey (H)<br />
Arlington (A)*<br />
Kalida (A)<br />
Bluffton (H)<br />
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Hardin Northern (A)*<br />
Cory-Rawson (H)*<br />
Lima Shawnee (A)<br />
Hopewell-Loudon (H)<br />
McComb (H)*<br />
Carey (H)<br />
Riverdale (A)<br />
Bluffton (A)<br />
Arcadia (H)*<br />
Elmwood (H)<br />
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Arlington (A)*<br />
Ayersville (A)<br />
Pandora-Gilboa (A)*<br />
Fostoria St. Wendelin (H)<br />
Liberty-Benton (A)*<br />
Patrick Henry (A)<br />
Vanlue (A)*<br />
New Riegel (H)<br />
Leipsic (H)*<br />
Upper Scioto Valley (A)<br />
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Dec. 27<br />
Jan. 4<br />
Jan. 11<br />
Jan. 12<br />
Delphos Jefferson (H)<br />
Kalida (H)<br />
Cory-Rawson (H)*<br />
North Baltimore (A)<br />
Arcadia (A)*<br />
Fostoria St. Wendelin (H)<br />
Tiffi n Calvert (A)<br />
Carey (H)<br />
McComb (H)*<br />
Leipsic (A)*<br />
Hopewell-Loudon (A)<br />
Jan. 18<br />
Jan. 19<br />
Jan. 25<br />
Feb. 1<br />
Feb. 2<br />
Feb. 8<br />
Feb. 9<br />
Feb. 15<br />
Feb. 16<br />
Feb. 20<br />
Van Buren (H)*<br />
Old Fort (A)<br />
Hardin Northern (H)*<br />
Arlington (A)*<br />
Ridgemont (A)<br />
Pandora-Gilboa (A)*<br />
New Riegel (H)<br />
Liberty-Benton (H)*<br />
Mohawk (A)<br />
Riverdale (A)<br />
(*) Conference game All games start at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted<br />
Nov. 23<br />
Nov. 27<br />
Nov. 29<br />
Dec. 1<br />
Dec. 6<br />
Dec. 8<br />
Dec. 11<br />
Dec. 13<br />
Dec. 20<br />
Dec. 29<br />
Jan. 3<br />
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New Riegel (A)<br />
Hopewell-Loudon (A)<br />
Arcadia (H)*<br />
Ridgemont (A)<br />
Arlington (A)*<br />
Maumee Valley C. D. (H)<br />
Old Fort (H)<br />
Pandora-Gilboa (A)*<br />
Marion Catholic (A)<br />
North Baltimore (H)<br />
Liberty-Benton (A)*<br />
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Feb. 14<br />
Upper Scioto Valley (A)<br />
Cory-Rawson (H)*<br />
Carey (H)<br />
Leipsic (A)*<br />
Lakota (H)<br />
Hardin Northern (H)*<br />
Van Buren (H)*<br />
Mohawk (A)<br />
McComb (H)*<br />
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VANLUE — It’s safe to say Vanlue had its sights<br />
set higher than an exit in the sectional finals last<br />
season.<br />
After a 17-3 regular season, the Wildcats<br />
dropped their first postseason matchup 54-47 to<br />
Ada.<br />
Still, Vanlue finished tied for third in the<br />
Blanchard Valley Conference at 7-2, one game<br />
behind co-champions Arlington and Liberty-Benton.<br />
All four losses came to opponents with more<br />
than 15 regular season wins,<br />
Dean Birchmeier steps in for his first season<br />
as head coach.<br />
Zach Garber headlines the Wildcats’ group of<br />
five seniors,. He’ll look build on his 800 career<br />
points before he sets off to play for the University<br />
of Toledo Rockets.<br />
Standing at 6-foot-10, Garber scored an even 20<br />
points while grabbing 12.4 rebounds last season.<br />
His monster stats earned him a first-team All-<br />
Blanchard Valley Conference nod as well as a first-<br />
VANLUE — Coming off of consecutive seasons<br />
in which the Vanlue girls basketball team has gone<br />
4-17, veteran coach Todd Richards will be looking for<br />
improvement with four seniors and four returning letterwinners<br />
on his roster.<br />
However, in order for the Wildcats to win more<br />
games, they will have to find more scoring punch.<br />
Vanlue will be without its top three scorers from<br />
a season ago in Savannah Engard (9.7 ppg), Kelsie<br />
Ward (6.4) and Jenny Hendricks (5.6). Those three<br />
players accounted for 21.7 of the Wildcats’ 33.2 points<br />
per contest.<br />
There are three players that Richards is counting<br />
on to step up.<br />
One is Katie Thomas. The 5-foot-9 senior post<br />
scored 5.4 points per contest and led Vanlue with 6.9<br />
rebounds and 2.4 steals while shooting 46 percent<br />
from the field.<br />
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FOS<strong>TO</strong>RIA REVIEW TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012<br />
PREP BASKETBALL PREVIEW<br />
Hometown boy<br />
Photos by KENT TARBOX / for the Review Times<br />
VANLUE CENTER ZACH GARBER<br />
(33) powers his way to the basket in<br />
a Blanchard Valley Conference game<br />
against McComb during the 2011-12<br />
season. A 4.0 student and a four-sport<br />
athlete who could fi nish his prep<br />
career with 16 varsity letters, Garber<br />
relishes the camaraderie and team<br />
closeness a small school can offer.<br />
Garber living the dream as a Vanlue senior<br />
By DAVE HANNEMAN<br />
FOR THE REVIEW TIMES<br />
VANLUE — Zach Garber’s basketball<br />
talents have taken him from one<br />
side of the country to the other. Even<br />
to Europe and back.<br />
But in today’s “transfer-for-sports”<br />
mad world, where prep athletes often<br />
shuttle from school to school like<br />
slam-dunking mercenaries, Garber<br />
sticks to a refreshingly noble and wellgrounded<br />
ideal.<br />
As far as he is concerned, there’s<br />
no place like home.<br />
“The more I thought about it, the<br />
more I knew I had to stick it out,”<br />
Garber said.<br />
“I just couldn’t leave my friends.”<br />
A 6-foot-10 center with good hands,<br />
quick feet and an excellent all-around<br />
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first-team<br />
all-Northwest<br />
Ohio and<br />
second-team<br />
all-Ohio recognition.<br />
Garber has<br />
spent his summers<br />
playing<br />
AAU ball for an All-Ohio Red Team<br />
that included several top-notch Division<br />
I college recruits such as Toledo<br />
St. John’s Marc Loving (Ohio State),<br />
Toledo Whitmer’s Nigel Hayes (Wisconsin),<br />
Mansfield Senior’s Keon<br />
“This is the last year (the other<br />
seniors on the team) can all be<br />
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Garber<br />
Continued from page T21<br />
pretty busy.<br />
“After the state basketball tournament<br />
(March 22-24), I was not home<br />
one weekend until June,” Garber said.<br />
“It was pretty nuts for a while.<br />
s soon as I got back (from Italy)<br />
e had a tournament in Columbus,<br />
then one in Minnesota, then Virginia,<br />
then another in Columbus, then Fort<br />
Wayne, then Columbus again, then<br />
San Francisco, and then Cincinnati.<br />
“The rest of June, I was off.”<br />
With a little creative manipulation<br />
of residency requirements, an<br />
issue the Ohio High School Athletic<br />
Association hears plenty about<br />
every season, Garber and some of<br />
his AAU teammates<br />
could form<br />
an extremely talented<br />
high school<br />
basketball team.<br />
Garber knows<br />
that idea has been<br />
out there.<br />
“I heard the<br />
rumors,” he said.<br />
“I heard I<br />
was going from<br />
anywhere in the<br />
BVC (Blanchard Valley Conference)<br />
to Findlay to Toledo St. John’s to<br />
Toledo Whitmer to Dayton Dunbar<br />
to Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary ... all<br />
kinds of schools.”<br />
Instead, one of the state’s best big<br />
men will play at one of Ohio’s smallest<br />
schools.<br />
Garber has seen other parts of the<br />
world and most of the country. He’s<br />
gone toe-to-toe with some of the best<br />
players in the game.<br />
But sitting at the dining room<br />
“We’ll never get this<br />
year back. Hopefully, we<br />
can enjoy it while we can<br />
because before you know<br />
it, it’s gone.”<br />
table in the family home, Garber<br />
looks the part of exactly what he<br />
wants to be, a normal, average American<br />
teenager enjoying the final year<br />
of his high school career.<br />
“My friends and I painted ourselves<br />
for volleyball games and we’ve<br />
dressed up in old (basketball) uniforms<br />
like John (his step-father John<br />
Kloepfer) used to wear.<br />
“I went to every (high school)<br />
event I could. I’m enjoying all the<br />
experiences,” Garber said.<br />
“I’ve been here since third grade.<br />
The other seniors on this team —<br />
Linden Smith, Lee Summers, Dylan<br />
Watson and Josh Clymer — and I<br />
have played together since fourth<br />
grade and we got another senior who<br />
hasn’t played basketball since eighth<br />
grade, Joe Wagner, out this year.<br />
“This is the last year we can all<br />
be together like this before we go<br />
off to college and<br />
ZACH GARBER,<br />
VANLUE BASKETBALL PLAYER<br />
do other things. I<br />
think you need to<br />
enjoy high school<br />
and do as many<br />
things as you<br />
can.”<br />
Garber is<br />
embracing that<br />
philosophy to the<br />
max, and not just<br />
on a basketball<br />
court.<br />
A 4.0 student, Garber will likely<br />
be valedictorian of his class. He was<br />
junior class president, a member of<br />
Vanlue’s quiz bowl team, he shows<br />
dairy cattle at the fair in 4-H, and,<br />
“because of my mom,” plays trombone<br />
in the school’s concert band.<br />
Athletically, he’s left his mark in<br />
more than one sport.<br />
Garber was a second-team all-BVC<br />
pick at defensive end this fall. He had<br />
12 tackles for losses, an interception<br />
and has been Vanlue’s punter.<br />
“It’s our senior year, our last year together.<br />
We want to enjoy this year because people<br />
graduate and go their separate ways and<br />
you lose that bond that you have.”<br />
ZACH GARBER,<br />
VANLUE BASKETBALL PLAYER<br />
“We may not have been very successful,”<br />
Garber said of Vanlue’s 1-9<br />
season. “But we had fun. I got to<br />
play with friends and we won our<br />
last game.”<br />
In the spring, he pitches and plays<br />
first base for the baseball team and<br />
qualified for state in the discus in<br />
track.<br />
“Barring any unforeseen injury,”<br />
as he puts it, Garber will graduate<br />
with 16 varsity letters.<br />
“That’s something not many<br />
people can say they’ve done.”<br />
Garber’s versatility could be an<br />
asset.<br />
“I think it’s a common misconception<br />
that college (basketball) coaches<br />
don’t want kids playing football,”<br />
Garber said.<br />
“At UT, they said they like the<br />
physicality football players bring to<br />
basketball. I’m not afraid of contact.<br />
I always joked that my favorite part<br />
of football was hitting people and<br />
punting.<br />
“Now-a-days, it seems that a lot of<br />
big men like stepping out and shooting<br />
the ball. With me, playing football<br />
and all, I don’t mind the physical<br />
stuff.”<br />
Garber can expect a lot of physical<br />
play this season as opponents double-<br />
and triple-team the 6-10 senior. But<br />
the way Garber sees it, he’ll have a lot<br />
of his friends there to help him out.<br />
“We want to be successful,”<br />
Garber said. “But we want to have<br />
fun, too.<br />
“It’s our senior year, our last year<br />
together. We want to enjoy this year<br />
because people graduate and go their<br />
separate ways and you lose that bond<br />
that you have.<br />
“We’ll never get this year back.<br />
Hopefully, we can enjoy it while we<br />
can because before you know it, it’s<br />
gone.”<br />
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NICK SHUMAKER started several games for St. Wendelin last season<br />
as a freshman and is expected to again be a primary contributor for the<br />
Mohawks this season.<br />
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FOS<strong>TO</strong>RIA HIGH SCHOOL’S Adonis Cousin looks to get a shot<br />
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Redmen as a senior after averaging 9.9 points per game as a junior.<br />
PREP BASKETBALL PREVIEW<br />
JADA HAMP<strong>TO</strong>N<br />
handles the ball<br />
for Fostoria High<br />
School during a<br />
game in the 2011-12<br />
season. Hampton<br />
saw considerable<br />
playing time in her<br />
freshman season.<br />
ST. WENDELIN’S<br />
Makenzie McAfee eyes<br />
the basket during a<br />
2011-12 season contest.<br />
The 5-foot-9 McAfee<br />
returns to the Mohawks<br />
as a sophomore.<br />
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