Jewett Youth Basketball closes with flair and design

By Ed Banks Harrison News-Herald Sports Writer JEWETT - The Busby Wildcat Center may be razed in the near future,

but on Saturday the teams refused to submit without first burning down the barn.

To say that the cham - pionship game played on Saturday was a “real barn burner”, does not justify the efforts of the young athletes. If you were one of the seasonal fans who decided to not return for the season finale, you missed the best game of the center’s existence!

Over the 2023 season, the Spartans and the Hornets finished regular season in the one and two positions. That lent the right to play in Saturday’s championship game.

The Hornets would go undefeated through the season, and the Spartans only lost to both the Hornets and Bandits during the regular season play. The teams were both equally competitive, and both were led by two of the league’s best and consistent overall players. Kingston Smith and Colson Crothers are also the league’s number one and two top scorers. Smith would hold 141 points, and Carothers 122 going into the championship game.

To be fair, to the balance of the league’s high scorers (those with over 50 points), who helped their teams during the play-off race, here are J B Visser (Knights) had 61 points, Trenton Blawut (Bandits) 65 points, Logan DeWeese (Bandits) 69 points, Bently Slocum (Wildcats) 56 points, Dalton Cumings every month. 5-8 p.m. from Page 6

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• UMWA LOCAL #1304 meeting, Saturday, April 1, at the Hopedale American Legion. Breakfast at 9:30 a.m., meeting at 10 a.m.

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(Warriors) 60 points, and Grant Thaxton (Vikings)

70 points. By Saturday’s game end, Smith had added 26 points to his total and Crothers added 22. Those totals may not be totally all conclusive, but they sure reflect the player’s abilities.

The very close scoring in Saturday’s contest by quarters played out 4 to 2 - Hornets, 14 to 12 - Spartans, 24 to 18 - Spartans, and a 29-to-29 tie to complete regulation. During the final 1 minute and some change, the Spartans had played to a 7-point lead (8 points being the highest game-point difference by the Spartans). From there, Smith would go on to hustle 4 points off two field goals, and 1 point off a charity offering. In transition, Smith, with under 10 seconds remaining, made good on a left-side short-jumper to put the Hornets up by 2 points and by a score of

29 to 27.

Then came Crothers. With just under 4 seconds remaining, he would fire a “Hail-Mary buzzer-beating” half-court shot to send the game into overtime. With that, the championship game had a total of 58 points scored in regulation, with each team owning 29 of the total.

The overtime period saw the Spartans score first, and the Hornets answered. The game once again would seesaw until once again, they would momentarily tie, before the Spartans went up by 1. The Hornets scored their last bucket, while leaving the score at 34 to 33 with about 3 and ½ seconds remaining. Crothers would get a second opportunity to work his magic, but the shot was unsuccessful.

The Hornets then became the Jewett Wildcat/Busby Center’s 2023, and final League Champions.

by Terri Brock • terrabellafarm@yahoo.com

My busiest months are March through October.

• THE OHIO Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) requires each county Job and Family Services agency to complete a plan on a biennial basis – currently for fiscal years 2024 and 2025. ODJFS also requires that a public hearing be held prior to completion of the plan. Harrison County JFS’s public hearing about this plan will be held Wednesday, April 5, during the Harrison County Commissioners’ regular public meeting in the Harrison County Courthouse (10 a.m).

This past year was really unusual for me because I still had tomatoes ripening and beans growing at the very end of October and even into the first few days of November. What a blessing that was to have fresh veggies that far into the year!

My grandmother’s philosophy was to plant anything that grows above ground after May 15 and below ground in March and April. Both of my grandmothers lived in the same planting zone that I am in now. So it’s comforting to me to be able to use the same principles in my gardens as they did many years ago. I feel as if I am still carrying on their traditions. I primarily grow the same vegetables every year. Different varieties, along with my tried and true, but basically the same things. I’ve tried growing a couple of different things, like Okra for example, and of the seed that was given to me, only a few produced anything. That happens sometimes; it’s just a part of life. I am always learning new things, and mistakes like that are part of that.