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When they’ve had success against us is when they’ve been able to get pressure on us. “We’ve had success when our guys have been attacking up the floor. It’s sort of a situation where you have to fight a fire with fire and go right at them.” Leading Eastmoor are guards Daivon Barrow (9.2 points per game), Doug Richey (10.4) and Ron Tanner (8.5) and forward John Draper (10.4). DeSales used a balanced scoring attack against London, led by Tevin Cox’s 14 points. Charles Chandler (13 points), Clinton James (11) and Kenny Cooper (10) gave DeSales four players in double figures. The Stallions do not have a player averaging in double figures in points. “That’s nice because we’re not too reliant on one guy to do everything,” Albright said. “We have to get everyone involved.” The winner plays at 9 p.m. March 10 in a district final at the Fairgrounds against sixthseeded Granville or Mifflin. •The eighth-seeded girls basketball team played third-seeded Hilliard Bradley in a Division II district semifinal March 1. The Stallions opened the tournament with a 65-43 win over Sparta Highland on Feb. 15 before beating seventh-seeded Bexley 46-43 on Feb. 23. “You obviously hope you can hit a stride when the tournament comes,” coach Brian Cromwell said. “Even with some losses at the end of the year we started to play well, especially defensively. We still have to knock down more shots. We shot about 28 percent against Bexley.” The district semifinal winner plays in a district final against top-seeded Olentangy or Lakewood at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 3, at Ohio Dominican. The winner of that contest plays on Tuesday, March 8, in a regional semifinal at Springfield against Cincinnati Indian Hill or Dayton Carroll. The regional semifinal winner returns to Springfield on March 11 to play in a regional final against Cincinnati Wyoming, Dayton Chaminade Julienne, Kettering Alter or Springfield Kenton Ridge. •Cooper Staton of the swimming and diving team concluded his high school career at the Division II state meet on Feb. 25 in Canton. After winning the state title
ington Central in a district semifinal March 2. The winner faces top-seeded Reynoldsburg or No. 12 Hilliard Davidson in a district final at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 5, at Liberty. The district champion will play in a regional semifinal at 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 8, against Fairborn or Liberty Township Lakota East at Otterbein. Brookhaven improved to 15-5 by beating Westerville South in the second round, as Bates-Hatcher returned and scored five points. Senior post player Chanae Ward led the way with 16 points, junior Jasmine Johnson scored 10 points and senior Travecia Franklin added nine. Sophomore Renee Cheeks and freshmen Marquita Brown and Aarin White also have become key players for coach Reggie Lee during a season that he acknowledges has had more adversity “than any year that I can remember” because of injuries and off-the-court issues. “It makes you focus more,” Lee said. “I love the way the girls are hanging in there. We’re coming together.” •The second-seeded Northland boys basketball team will play Olentangy Liberty at 4:15 p.m. Saturday, March 5, at the Fairgrounds Coliseum in a district semifinal. The winner plays thirdseeded Upper Arlington or Westerville Central in a district title at 9 p.m. March 11 at the Fairgrounds. The Vikings improved to 21-1 with victories over Groveport 87-27 on Feb. 23 at Hilliard Bradley and Franklin Heights 75-36 on Feb. 26 at Jonathan Alder to begin the district tournament. Liberty was 16-6 after beating Delaware 54-51 in a secondround game Feb. 26 at Jonathan Alder. Nine players scored for Northland against Franklin Heights, led by Trey Burke (16 points) and Devon Scott (15). Burke recently was named the district’s Player of the Year and Scott made the third team. Nick Archer scored 14 points and Frank Longhino and Andy Yazrombek both added 11 to lead Liberty past Delaware. The postseason hopes of both Brookhaven and Beechcroft ended last week. The Bearcats lost to the Cougars twice during the regular season but won 57-44 in the third meeting, which came in the first round of the district tournament Feb. 23 at Delaware. Brookhaven then was beaten by Westerville North 52-47 in a second-round game on Feb. 26 at Worthington Christian Middle School. The Cougars finished 12-9 overall and third at 9-5 in the City League-North Division. Northland (14-0) and Centennial (11-3) took the top two spots, and Brookhaven (7-7), Mifflin and Whetstone (6-8), Columbus East (2-12) and Linden-McKinley (1-13) rounded out the standings. Beechcroft will lose six seniors, including Martise McLaurin and Austin Davenport. McLaurin averaged 22 points, 7.7 rebounds and 4.9 blocks. Among the top returnees next year should be sophomores Khaleed Franklin and Maurice Hale and freshman Tyrek Pugh. “(Brookhaven) beat us in all phases of the game and kind of outscrapped us a little, which is uncharacteristic of us,” Beechcroft coach Scott Davis said. “Our (junior varsity) team had a decent year and we started two sophomores most of the season and a freshman for half of the year.” The Bearcats finished 11-11 overall and will lose four seniors, including Devon Montgomery (11.4 ppg). Montgomery made honorable mention all-district along with junior Khalid King (14.2 ppg) and sophomore Randal Clarkson (11.5 ppg). Brookhaven won six of its first seven but lost its final five of the regular season. King missed the final two games of the regular season with a finger injury. “We had a lot of hand and muscle injuries,” coach Hali Robinson said. “Every time we played Beechcroft (during the regular season) they played very, very good. This was actually the first time we played them when (we were healthy).” •The Brookhaven boys bowling team finished 17th (3,377) at the 18-team district tournament Feb. 26 at HP Lanes behind champion Westerville Central (4,168). Senior Evan Marshall finished 30th (556) and junior Sam Pellitier tied for 45th (536). The Bearcats finished fourth (3,996) at the 24-
DeSales sophomore Kate Miltko won the vault and finished second in the all-around to lead the gymnastics team to its second consecutive district title Feb. 26 at Worthington Kilbourne. The Stallions will compete in the state meet on Friday, March 4, at Hilliard Bradley.
in the 50-yard freestyle (20.98 seconds) last year, Staton finished second in the 50 free (20.75) behind Hunting Valley University School’s Andrew Malone (20.5) and was third in the 100 free (47.1) as Canal Winchester’s Sam Decker (46.1) won. The 200 free relay of Will Gish, Edward Cordek, James Walsh and Staton was 15th (1:33.68) behind champion University School (1:24.64). The same four competed on the 400 relay, which finished 19th (3:25.57) in a preliminary. Riley Savage was 20th in diving (210.45 points) as Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy’s Danny Moorehead won (432.35). The Stallions scored 37 points to place 16th behind champion University School (377). On the girls side, Suzanne Hrabowy was 12th in the 100 butterfly (59.61) behind champion Sarah Koucheki of Gates Mills Hawken (55.22), and she was 14th in the 100 free (53.69) behind champion Katie Joseph (51.45) of McDonald. Andrea Acquista was fourth in diving (437.75) behind champion Natalie Ritter (454.8) of Columbus Academy. Andrea Devakul was 19th (1:00.91) in a preliminary in the 100 backstroke. The 400 free
relay of Hrabowy, Kara Goodman, Amy Shomo and Devakul was 24th (3:55.77) in a preliminary. The girls team scored 23 points to place 27th behind champion Hawken (334). •Payton Gutierrez of the wrestling team will compete at the Division II state tournament Thursday, March 3, through Saturday, March 5, at Ohio State. Gutierrez finished fourth at 103 pounds at district, which concluded Feb. 26 at Columbus East. The top four placers in each weight class advanced to state. Gutierrez advanced despite losing to Minerva’s Nathan Smith 4-3 in overtime in a thirdplace match. Gutierrez helped DeSales score 33 points to place 19th behind champion Olentangy (158.5). It is the second state appearance for Gutierrez, who was 02 last season. He enters with a 30-10 record and opens against Canton South’s D.J. Schoeppner, who is 40-2. Also competing at district were Jason Allen (145, 1-2), R.J. Ball (215, 0-2), Ian Ferguson (152, 2-2), Tony Moore (189, 12), R.J. Martin (135, 1-2) and Lee Wilson (125, 1-2). www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com
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Top stories Boys, Girls Basketball: ThisWeek’s writers have previews and recaps of all the area district tournament games. Wrestling: Central Ohio will be well represented at the 74th state tournament. Look for previews for all the area wrestlers. Swimming: The state meet is complete and central Ohio returned from Canton with plenty of first-place hardware. Bowling: Westerville Central’s boys and girls teams earned state berths by both taking home district tournament titles for the first time in program history. Gymnastics: The DeSales gymnastics team won a second consecutive district meet days after attending the funeral of a former teammate.
Quotable “I think the girls wanted to do well in honor of Milena and they came here and had one of our best overall days of competition.” — DeSales gymnastics coach Misty Lloyd-Matthews on her team’s district title days after attending the funeral of former teammate Milena DiMichaelangelo.
Note of the week The Upper Arlington girls swimming and diving team won its seventh state title in a row.
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team Eastland Lanes sectional Feb. 18 to advance to district, as freshman Netronne Backus (fourth, 662), Marshall (seventh, 642), senior Travis Stokes (tied for 10th, 610) and Pellitier (12th, 595) were the top scorers. “We had three kids bowl 600 or better (at the sectional),” coach Todd Norman said. “It’s great for the school and exciting for the kids to make it to district.” Also competing at the boys district tournament was Northland sophomore Trent Ranson (79th, 490). At the girls district tournament, Vikings freshman Bradishia Foster placed 29th (513), Brookhaven senior Madison Morris was 54th (454) and Beechcroft junior Nellie Jones finished 95th (308). The Brookhaven boys tied Centennial (10-3) for third in the 14-team Central Ohio High School Bowling Conference-Central Division. Northland tied Ready and Watterson for fifth (8-5) and Beechcroft tied Mifflin for eighth (5-7). Hartley (13-0) won the league title. Northland tied Hartley and Ready for second in the 12-team COHSBC-Central girls standings behind Watterson (11-0). Brookhaven tied Columbus Academy for fifth (6-5) and Beechcroft was ninth (3-7). On Feb. 15, the Northland girls beat Briggs (1,711-1,602) and the Brookhaven boys lost to Walnut Ridge (2,155-2,114) in the City finals. •None of the three local wrestlers who competed at district last weekend advanced to the state tournament. Senior Harold Mintsop (171) and junior Adam Bray (119 pounds) each went 0-2 for Northland at the Division I district tournament Feb. 25-26 at Hilliard Darby. The last time the Vikings had a district qualifier before this season was in 2005-06. At the Division II district tournament Feb. 2526 at Columbus East, Beechcroft’s Amos Gweh (160) finished 1-2. After becoming the school’s first district qualifier since 2004-05, Gweh scored one point for the Cougars as they tied for 41st behind champion Olentangy (158.5). Brookhaven, which didn’t have any Division I district qualifiers, placed sixth (114.5) at the City League tournament Feb. 12 at Columbus South behind champion Marion-Franklin (202). Northland tied Walnut Ridge for eighth (105) and Beechcroft placed 11th (51). Mintsop, Bray and junior Andrew Love (145) all won City titles for the Vikings and senior Dionte Stephens (135) placed fourth. Placing for the Bearcats in the City were senior Tavonte Burney (fifth, 171), juniors Jesse Curry (fourth, 189) and Savon Banks (third, heavyweight), sophomores Jalen Bonner (fourth, 140), Ke’Ore Turner (fourth, 119) and Devin Williams (sixth, 160) and freshman Devonte Lewis (fifth, 112). Beechcroft had three City placers in Gweh (third), freshman Joseph Brandon (sixth, 135) and junior Juwaun Patterson (fifth, 140).
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Schools announce coaching vacancies The following schools are seeking coaches: Delaware — Football. Send résumé to athletics director Clint Fetty at fettycl@dcs.k12.oh.us. Hilliard Darby — Girls golf, assistant junior varsity boys soccer. Send résumé to Chad Schulte, athletics director, Hilliard Darby High School, 4200 Leppert Road, Hilliard, 43026 or e-mail chad_schulte@hboe.org. Olentangy — Girls soccer. Send résumé to athletics director Jay Wolfe at jay_wolfe@olentangy.k12.oh.us by March 4.
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GAMES OF THE WEEK BOYS: Top-seeded Westerville South, second-seeded Northland and third-seeded Upper Arlington are among the Division I boys basketball teams that will compete in district tournament semifinal games Saturday, March 5, at the Fairgrounds Coliseum. GIRLS: Olentangy Liberty will play host to all three Division I district finals on Saturday, March 5. Game times are 1 p.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.
58 in four overtimes Feb. 26 in a Division I second-round district tournament game. GIRLS Columbus School for Girls’ Enri Small had 26 points, 17 rebounds and three assists in a 47-34 win over Newark Catholic in a Division III second-round district tournament game on Feb. 24.
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