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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Witt in rare role as spoiler
It’s not the position he’s used to, Wittenberg men’s basketball coach Bill Brown said, but it’s a reality he can’t ignore.
Used to playing for league titles, the Tigers will play the role of spoiler in the last two weeks. Being two games down with four to play, they aren’t mathematically eliminated, but even if they beat Ohio Wesleyan on Wednesday and Wooster on Saturday, they will still trail those teams by a game.
Then Wittenberg would need both OWU and Wooster to suffer an unlikely loss in one of their three remaining games.
What Wittenberg can shoot for is a first-round home game in the NCAC tournament.
“Our overall mindset is the tournament is wide open,” Brown said. “We have to keep focused on trying in the limited amount of time we have to practice at this time of the year to keep improving, both individually and collectively, because we still believe the tournament is wide open.”
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Witt trainer raising money for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Wittenberg head trainer Ellen Crosbie is training for her second marathon in support of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Her husband was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma last March.
On Saturday, at the 7:30 p.m. Wittenberg-Wooster game in Springfield, she will be selling raffle tickets in support of the cause, and the winner gets what she describes as a “Valentine’s gift.”
“Take a chance for your loved one,” she said.
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Ticket info for Witt-Wooster released
From Wittenberg’s Web site:
The Wittenberg University Tigers and the College of Wooster Fighting Scots, two of most successful men’s basketball programs in all of NCAA Division III, will renew their spirited North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) rivalry at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, in Wittenberg’s Pam Evans Smith Arena, and tickets are once again in demand.
Because Wittenberg officials anticipate another large and enthusiastic crowd - likely made larger by the Wittenberg’s first-ever Take A Kid To The Game Day, organized by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee - it is necessary to make several changes to the Department of Athletics’ standard ticket policy.
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State bowling records unavailable
SPRINGFIELD — The Kenton Ridge boys bowling team rolled a tremendous series as a team on Monday, Feb. 9, beating Tippecanoe 3,254-2,395.
After the match, the Cougars thought they may have bowled a state record for total pins by a team in a match. However, it turns out there is no way to tell if the score was, in fact, a state record.
Ohio High School Bowling executive director Greg Coulas said per Ohio rules, a conference can choose to bowl two regular games and two baker games, or two regular games and four baker games. He said they’ve got state records for the state championship, but not regular season matches.
He said the series, however, may be a CBC record.
“That kind of performance is very, very newsworthy,” Coulas said. “But we’ve had reports of bigger scores. It’s not quantifiable because the number of baker games rolled in each conference is different.”
Regardless, the Cougars are faring well heading into tonight’s big match against defending D-II state champion Stebbins.
“All the boys shot real well,” said KR coach Flip Lucas. “They all bowled tremendous last night. I just hope we can repeat it to have a chance against Stebbins.”
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Analyzing the NCAC race
With four games left, the most likely scenario in the North Coast Athletic Conference men’s basketball race is either Wooster or Ohio Wesleyan winning or tying for the title.
Three other teams, including Wittenberg, are within two games of the lead. The Tigers play both first-place teams this week.
Complete look at the five teams still in contention on the jump.
Wooster (15-6, 10-2 NCAC) — Remaining league games: Denison, at Witt, at Allegheny, Earlham.
Ohio Wesleyan (14-6, 10-2 NCAC) — Remaining league games: Witt, Earlham, at Oberlin, Allegheny.
Hiram (14-7, 9-3 NCAC) — Remaining league games: Allegheny, at Denison, at Kenyon, Oberlin. Kenyon (14-7, 8-4 NCAC) — Remaining league games: Oberlin, at Allegheny, Hiram, at Wittenberg.
Wittenberg (11-9, 8-4 NCAC) — Remaining league games: at Ohio Wesleyan, Wooster, at Wabash, Kenyon.
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Witt sponsoring ‘Take a kid to the game day’
SPRINGFIELD — Wittenberg University is sponsoring its first-ever ‘Take a Kid to the Game Day’ for its men’s basketball game against Wooster on Feb. 14.
All children ages 18-and-under will receive free admission to the game with the purchase on one $8 ticket by their parent.
The event will also feature NCAA mascot, JJ Jumper, and the second annual Pink Zone, which raises breast cancer awareness.
For more on this event, click here.
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On this date in area sports history…
On this date six years ago, Feb. 10, 2003, Jasmine House scored a career-high 51 points as the Kenton Ridge girls basketball team wrapped up their second straight CBC Mad River Division title with a 103-81 victory over Benjamin Logan.
House eventually went on to play at both the University of Toledo and Urbana University. Click the jump for the complete story.
Published in the Feb. 11, 2003 edition of the News-Sun:
KR FINDS MAD RIVER TITLE IS IN THE HOUSE
JUNIOR’S 51 POINTS SPARKS COUGARS WIN
RUSHSYLVANIA — Junior Jasmine House had the best game of her career at the right time as the junior scored a career-high 51 points and pulled down a game-high 16 rebounds to help Kenton Ridge defeat host Benjamin Logan 103-81 and win the Central Buckeye Conference Mad River Division girls basketball title Monday night.
Senior Jami Finney poured in 22 points and Stephanie Bennett scored 21 points, including four 3-pointers, to give the junior 73 3-pointers on the season.
“Jasmine played well tonight and Bennett and Finney had their 20 and they all played well this season,” praised Kenton Ridge coach Ed Foulk.
Kenton Ridge jumped out to a 24-14 lead after the first period and extended that lead to a 49-30 halftime margin.
The Cougars kept up the man-to-man defensive pressure in the second half and the Raiders never recovered as Kenton Ridge won its second straight Mad River Division crown.
“A division title is one of our first goals of the season,” commented Foulk who added that he believes his squad is ready for tournament time. “We have been improving as the season has gone along and we are peaking at the right time.”
The Cougars (19-1, 10-0) will face Eaton in the first round of the Division II sectional at Vandalia Butler at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Ashley Cummins scored 19 points, Margo Burnside had 18 and Brittany McDonald added 15 for Benjamin Logan (14-6, 8-2), which finished the regular season second in the Mad River.
KENTON RIDGE (103) — House 19 13-15 51, Finney 10 0-3 22, Kel. Beers 1 0-1 2, Bennett 7 3-4 21, Binz 1 0-0 2, Ken. Beers 0 5-6 5. Totals: 38 21-29 103.
BENJAMIN LOGAN (81) — Burnside 8 2-3 18, Ford 1 1-2 4, K. Clem 2 0-0 5, McDonald 6 0-0 15, Cummins 8 3-4 19, Woodward 3 0-0 6, Bednarki 2 1-4 5, McKirahan 1 0-0 2, J. Clem 2 3-4 7. Totals: 33 10-17 81.
Kenton Ridge 24 49 81 103
Benjamin Logan 14 30 57 81
Three-point goals: Kenton Ridge 6 (Bennett 4, Finney 2), Benjamin Logan 5 (McDonald 3, K. Clem, Ford).
Records: Kenton Ridge 19-1, 10-0 CBC Mad River; Benjamin Logan 14-6, 8-2.
Reserves: Kenton Ridge 46 (Morris 17), Benjamin Logan 38.
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