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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Witt men fall to Kenyon, finish 13-13
Kenyon’s Jim Arce hit two 3-pointers in the final two minutes to carry the Lords past Wittenberg 65-60 in the quarterfinals of the NCAC tournament at Wittenberg on Tuesday, Feb. 24.
The Tigers finish the season 13-13, their first .500 season since 1967-68.
Wittenberg held a slim lead for most of the game, but it shot just 28 percent in the second half.
Kenyon got a major boost from the return to the lineup of its top two scorers, Bryan Yelvington and J.T. Knight. Neither played in Wittenberg’s victory over Kenyon on Saturday.
After the game, Wittenberg coach Bill Brown was asked if the experience his young team gained this year will pay off next year. Three freshman, Josh McKee, Alex Brandt and Michael Cooper, stayed in the rotation all season.
“We just haven’t improved during the year, and it’s just real disappointing,” Brown said. “Just because you’re a year older doesn’t mean it’s going to work out differently. Experience is a great thing, but you have to be in a position for the experience to be a plus for you.”
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Live updates from the Shawnee and Graham boys game
9:15 p.m.: Graham wins 66-54. The Falcons completed a second-straight 20-0 season and have now won 43 straight regular-season games. Shawnee finishes second in the CBC Kenton Trail Division to Kenton Ridge.
9:05 p.m.: Graham’s up 56-44 with 4:30 left in the game. Josh Schuler has 25 points. The Graham cheering section has started a “you can’t stop him” chant.
Unfortunately for the Braves, they’re right.
9:00: Graham 49-34 after three.
8:55: Graham’s up 49-34 with 1:03 left in the third quarter. The Falcons are scoring just about however they want. Shawnee didn’t make a shot from the field until four minutes were left. They also have five turnovers.
8:30 p.m.: Graham leads 29-22 at halftime. Josh Schuler, the area’s leading scorer, has a game-high 13 points. Steven Sarven has eight points for the Braves.
Graham was hurt by turnovers in the second quarter: six in all. Shawnee, meanwhile, had two rebounds to Graham’s seven.
The game was intense at the start, but teams just can’t carry on that intensity for the entire game. That was true for Shawnee as Graham kept its cool and rarely lost its focus.
8:20 p.m.: Graham’s up 20-16. Shawnee just called a timeout.
8:15 p.m.: Graham’s up 16-12 after one quarter. Josh Schuler came alive for the Falcons and scored nine points in about four minutes. The Falcons also forced six turnovers, all in the same four minute span. Shawnee was up 6-0 and 8-2 early.
8:07 p.m.: It’s tied 10-10. Graham is picking up the defense.
8:05 p.m.: Shawnee is up 6-0 right away. Graham has missed its first three shots.
7:40: Shawnee 54, Graham 53 RESERVE. Shawnee side is partying like it’s 1999, and the varsity game hasn’t even started yet. It’s going to be a fun two hours. We should be starting here right at 8 p.m.
7:25 p.m.: It’s a tied RESERVE game in the fourth quarter. I put reserve in caps so we don’t get confused. Hopefully the varsity game will start by 8 p.m.
7:10 p.m.: I’m already at the Shawnee at Graham boys basketball game. The JV game is tied at 26 at halftime. The stands are full and the fans are happy right now. It’s not quite standing-room only, but I think we’re heading there.
I had to park in the grass out by Selma Road, probably where I wasn’t supposed to. But that’s the benefit of owning a Ford F-150.
A win for the Shawnee boys gives them a share of the Central Buckeye Conference Kenton Trail Division title. Graham has already won the CBC Mad River Division and is going for a perfect 20-0 season.
I’ll be updating throughout the game. Check back for more details.
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Nov. 19, 1990: Sports Illustrated profiles Wittenberg
From the Sports Illustrated Vault on SI.com, a profile of the men’s and women’s basketball programs at Wittenberg (Nov. 19, 1990):
On the second night of school this fall, the incoming basketball hopefuls at Wittenberg in Springfield, Ohio, were invited to a casual affair at an apartment house where some of the senior members of the team lived. The offer conjured up visions of brews and pizzas and the chance to rub elbows with Brad Baldridge, the Tigers’ 6’9”, 205-pound Division III All-America center. But instead of getting the welcome mat, they were called on the carpet by Baldridge, who harangued the newcomers about the importance of winning. “I told them they were going to have to improve themselves, stay focused and perform if they were called upon,” he later said, “because the thought of losing makes me sick to my stomach.”
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College wrestler, 45, loses 200 pounds, gains new lease on life
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
A little over a year ago, Baldwin-Wallace College wrestler Terence Haynes weighed 430 pounds.
Today, he weighs 228 pounds, well under the NCAA-imposed limit of 285 pounds for a heavyweight .
The story doesn’t end there. If losing over 200 pounds in 11 months seems unbelievable, consider this: Haynes is 45 years old, and is believed to be the oldest collegiate wrestler in the country.
| Baldwin Wallace wrestler loses 200 lbs. to compete |
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Wooster to ‘go out and play for Corey’
From the Daily Record in Wooster:
WOOSTER — The best way for The College of Wooster men’s basketball team to honor the late Corey Cline is to go out and play their hardest in tonight’s home game.
That was the message grieving parents Doug and Lauren Cline delivered to the Fighting Scots team following practice late Monday afternoon. Their 3-year-old son, Corey, was killed in an auto accident on Congress Road in what the Wooster Post of the State Highway Patrol called a “chain of events.”
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Daily Tournament Fix — Feb. 24
Here’s your daily tournament fix for Tuesday, Feb. 24:
Tonight’s games: Girls D-IV — Yellow Springs vs. Ansonia, 6 p.m. at Brookville High School. Boys D-I — Tecumseh vs. Northmont, 7 p.m. at UD Arena; Boys D-IV — Catholic Central vs. Franklin Monroe, 6 p.m.and Cedarville vs. Jefferson, 7:30 p.m at the Vandalia Butler Student Activities Center, 7:30 p.m.
Short Takes: The Yellow Springs girls squad started the year 3-8 before winning six of their last eight games. … Tecumseh fell to Northmont 60-44 earlier this season. … It’s been an odd season at Catholic Central. The Irish started 0-8, then ran off five wins in six games. But since then, they’ve lost six in a row, including a 49-48 loss at the buzzer to West Liberty-Salem. … Cedarville hadn’t won a game since Dec. 20 against Ridgemont until Friday’s victory over rival Greeneview 64-61. They face the top-seed and D-IV ninth-ranked Jefferson tonight. … There are just four girls teams still playing in the Springfield area: Yellow Springs, Southeastern, Kenton Ridge and Graham.
Masked Marauders: “We’ve got two kids (Michael Butler and David Pritchett) with broken noses and both are wearing face masks,” Jefferson coach Art Winston said told the Metro Buckeye Conference web site after the tourney draw. “I’m excited to start. It’s about keeping focus because we haven’t won our league yet. Once we finish that up, we can start preparing for the tournament.”
Last night: Graham upset 15-5 Indian Lake to advance to a D-II sectional final at VB at 8:30 p.m. on Friday. Game was moved up from 7:30 p.m. to allow fans time to travel from the boys game at Troy on Friday to get to the girls game.
Chelsea Black had 12 points for the Falcons and Graham coach Christie Dodane said Black caused problems for the Lakers from the middle of the Falcons’ press.
“She did a good job anticipating at half court and really put on the pressure,” Dodane said. “She stepped up as a senior leader like she should.”
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On this date in area sports history …
Six years ago on this date, Feb. 24, 2003, the Shawnee boys basketball team beat Graham in the sectional tournament. Complete story on the jump.
Published Feb. 25, 2003
BRAVES FLATTEN FALCONS
SHAWNEE BOYS REACH FRIDAY’S SECTIONAL FINAL
By KEITH WALTHER, News-Sun Sports Writer
TROY — It was a matter of execution, precision basketball by the Shawnee boys basketball team.
The Braves did all the things necessary to advance along the tournament trail Monday night, playing superb defense and limiting mistakes while sharing the ball unselfishly on offense.
The result was a 64-40 rout of Graham by the Braves in the Division II sectional semifinal at Troy’s Hobart Arena.
The third-seeded Braves (14-6) advanced to play Tipp City, which beat Northwestern on Monday, at 8:30 p.m. Friday at Hobart for a sectional title. Graham’s season ends at 6-15.
“I think the thing we have relied the most on all year is playing good defense and the kids really did a good job of that tonight,” said Shawnee coach Dave Marshall. “We put some pressure on and forced some mistakes, got some steals. And we executed offensively — no matter what they threw at us.”
And, early on especially, the Falcons threw everything they could at the Braves. Graham’s main point of emphasis was on stopping — or at least slowing down — Shawnee’s high-scoring Ryan Short.
Using a box-and-one and other junk defenses, Graham held Short to six points in the first half but the Shawnee junior got loose for nine in the final two periods to finish with a game-high 15.
“I wasn’t able to get the ball much when they had the box-and-one going but I was able to get some good looks later because we really moved the ball around well as a team tonight,” said Short. “We weren’t going to take anything for granted. We knew that Graham had beat a top-seed (Kenton Ridge) two years ago and we knew what happened to Greenon (this year’s top seed who fell to Indian Lake in the first round). We just went out and played hard.”
“They are a very good team,” said Graham coach Brook Cupps. “You try to make other guys hurt you and they had guys that stepped up like (Richie) Fralick (12 points). But Short finds ways to score and he did that in the second half.”
Graham trailed 16-11 after one quarter and, when Jamey Nicholas sank a short baseline jumper to open second period play, the Falcons had visions of an upset.
“We lost to them by 10 at our place earlier this season so I never got the feeling from our guys that they didn’t think they could win,” Cupps said. “It was just a matter of doing the things we needed to do — like taking care of the basketball — and we didn’t do those things.”
Shawnee answered Graham’s challenge with a 7-0 run that gave it a 23-13 lead with 3:55 left in the first half. After Graham’s Myles Trempe canned a jumper, the Braves answered with another 5-0 outburst on a 3-pointer by Fralick and a driving layup by Andrew Daggett to make it 28-15.
The Braves would increase their advantage to 34-20 on back-to-back field goals by Eric Fleming with 5:30 left in the third. Graham, however, was still hanging around, trailing 52-37, when Short scored an old-fashioned three-point play with 4:08 to play and followed a minute later with a short jumper to make it 57-37 and put the game out of reach.
Garry Bair led Graham with nine points while Spencer Ferst and Trempe added eight points apiece. Sturgill finished with nine points for the Braves.
GRAHAM (40) — G. Bair 4 1-1 9, Ferst 3 2-4 8, Trempe 3 2-2 8, Rogers 1 0-0 2, Cupps 2 1-2 5, Jenkins 1 3-4 5, Evans 0 1-2 1. Totals: 15 10-16 40.
SHAWNEE (64) — Fralick 5 0-0 12, Short 6 3-5 15, Sturgill 3 1-2 7, Fleming 3 0-0 6, Haddix 4 0-0 8, Mounts 2 1-1 5, Stuckey 2 0-0 4, Daggett 1 0-0 2, Hasser 1 0-0 2, Wheeler 0 3-3 3. Totals 27 8-11 64.
Graham 11 18 30 40
Shawnee16 28 43 64
Three-point goals: Shawnee 2 (Fralick 2); Graham 0.
Records: Shawnee 14-6, Graham 6-15.
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