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Springfield track teams showing potential
Caleb Lloyd is confident he could do what few others have done — pull away from his older sister Cassandra in a running race.“Oh, yeah; I feel like I could beat her,” Caleb said, laughing during Friday’s Edwin Moses/Dayton Relays at Welcome Stadium. “She actually inspired me.”Of course big sis ...
Welcome home, North-South Classic?
Steve Channell made a lot of believers when he turned around the Miamisburg High School football program in just one season. The Ohio High School Football Coaches Association is counting on him to work that reboot magic again. Channell, the past president of the statewide OHSFCA, was the vocal force ...
Badin’s Krause headed to Thomas More
The regular signing period for basketball and most other sports began last week and extends through Aug. 1. Here are just a few of the many area seniors who have recently signed or are planning to do so to play at the next level: Badin senior Houston Krause has committed ...
Wayne’s Peterson on the right track
Anything that Lovell Peterson does on the football field doesn’t surprise his teammates and coaches at Wayne High School. But what he did earlier this year sure did. “At first, I felt like I didn’t want to disappoint my family,” said the highly recruited 6-foot-4, 290-pound four-year starter. “But it ...
Northmont’s Mangen balances athletic prowess with academics
Playing sports has always come easy for Troy Mangen. Football, basketball, baseball was his natural progression. Maintaining an equally high academic standing was another ballgame. “I’m not going to say school has come naturally for me,” said Mangen, Northmont High School’s 6-foot-5, 225-pound senior. “I definitely have had to work ...
Schools to vote on another competitive balance proposal
Ohio High School Athletic Association Commissioner Dr. Dan Ross has never waffled about separation of public and private schools: He’s not in favor. But does what’s in place need to be addressed? Oh, yeah. “We have some of the best tournaments in the country,” Ross told about 250 Southwest District ...
OHSBCA honors area girls, boys
Olivia Augsperger of Twin Valley South and Jackson Center’s Gerald “Trey” Elchert are among the senior sons and daughters of active Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association members to be awarded scholarships of $1,000. Their fathers are TV South boys head coach and athletic director Tony Augspurger and Jackson center ...
The truth out, finally Holtrey speaks out
Through it all, Troy Holtrey remained silent. Why? Because that’s what he was told to do.He remains loyal to his community and his profession. But the collateral damage from an unaccountable boosters fund while he was athletic director has cost him his passion, coaching Springboro High School boys basketball.No one’s ...
Bias going out a winner
Hank Bias knew it was time, three years ago. “If I had to do it all over again, that would be the time to step away,” said Bias, who resigned after 13 years as Fairmont High School’s boys varsity basketball coach last week. “We were at the top of our ...
Fairmont must fill both hoop coaching positions
Makayla Waterman was anchored in math class. She didn’t want to believe what text messages and classmates were insisting: Fairmont High School girls basketball coach Tim Cogan was leaving. “I was like, ‘I’ll give everybody $50 if he leaves,’ ” she recalled. “I thought, there’s no way. I couldn’t believe ...
Payne to succeed Asbeck as Fenwick AD
Fenwick High School has landed a familiar figure to become its next high school athletic director: Jon Payne. Currently the AD at Fairborn High School, Payne will succeed Fenwick AD Mike Asbeck following the end of this school year. Fenwick incoming principal Andy Barczak made the announcement on Friday. “I ...
Cogan leaves Fairmont girls for Carroll boys
Tim Cogan resigned as head coach of the championship Fairmont High School girls basketball team on Thursday and within hours was named the head boys varsity coach at Carroll. That capped an eventful 24 hours for Fairmont athletics, which started when Hank Bias announced his resignation as the varsity boys ...
Starkey to resign from St. Henry
Jeff Starkey is returning home. That means St. Henry High School is the second Midwest Athletic Conference team that will have a new football coach this fall.Starkey will resign as the Redskins head coach this morning. He announced last week that he’ll be the high school principal at LaBrae, just ...
Simmons’ goal to ‘Keep Dayton on the rise’
Five Dunbar High School guards have taken their considerable basketball talents to the next level and beyond.Jaaron Simmons will do the same for Alter.“They’re doing good things,” said Simmons about Dunbar grads Norris Cole (Heat), Daequan Cook (Bulls), Geron Johnson (Memphis University), Ryan Bass (Oakland) and Andre Yates (Creighton).“I’m going ...
Spartans pitcher commits to BG
It didn’t take long for Bowling Green State University to win over Waynesville pitcher Carly Allen. Spotted at a summer tournament with her Miami Valley Xpress 16U team, a couple of BG clinics later and the Falcons had a verbal commit for the Class of 2015. “I couldn’t have asked ...
3-part series follows Dunbar’s season
As the point guard of the Dunbar’s high-end offense, Amos “A.J.” Harris is used to drawing a lot of opposition attention.But he never before had experienced anything like this just-completed season.“It affected me a little bit,” said the sophomore guard of a three-part Time Warner Cable Sports series that documented ...
Wahle, Snyder out at Carroll, Sidney
Carroll and Sidney both are in need of head boys varsity high school basketball coaches. That brings the number of area boys coaches who have left since the end of the season to at least five.Dennis Wahle said he wasn’t renewed at Carroll High School following five seasons as head ...
Minster’s Moore named La Salle coach
Jumping from Midwest Athletic Conference football to the Greater Catholic League South Division is quite a leap. That’s what former Minster High School head coach Nate Moore will do this fall. Moore was named La Salle’s head coach last week. “Trust me, I wouldn’t apply for this job if I ...
Hot shooter foils Versailles in state final
Kyle Ahrens’ superb play helped carry streaking Versailles into the state basketball championships. But on Saturday he was asked to do the impossible: stop Ottawa-Glandorf’s TJ Metzger.“You wanted to get a hand in his face at all times because he was going off non-stop,” Ahrens said following Versailles’ crushing 67-46 ...
Alter’s Petrocelli goes out a winner
The pay is better elsewhere. The players, passion and program second to none.That’s what some lucky coach will inherit when Alter High School fills its vacant boys basketball head coach position sometime this spring.If you’ve followed area boys hoop at any time during the last 50 years, you know all ...
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