A hoops holiday
OK It’s Friday night and you are getting off work.
If you are like most people, you probably have the next three days off. Unfortunately, some sports writers have to work on Christmas Day.
All of your Christmas shopping is done and you want to take in some basketball action. OK, OK it’s not a look at the BVC, I’ll admittedly state I know so little about them at this point in the season I didn’t even know the conference slate wasn’t being played this weekend.
We’ll simply call this: Hoops for the holiday. Here are the best basketball games on tap for this weekend around The Courier coverage area.
Friday night games
Upper Sandusky at Shelby -- So you want to see future Ohio State Buckeye Jon Diebler in action this year huh? Well you probably are going to have to watch the Ram senior phenom on the road if I understand it right tickets to see Upper Sandusky at home are in short supply. The Rams don’t feature the largest gym in the area so your best bet to see him this season on his way to trying to break Jay Burson’s scoring record would be to call ahead and secure tickets to a road game. Cha-Ching!
Liberty-Benton at Patrick Henry -- Two terrific basketball programs with a pretty goold rivalry in recent years renew ties on Friday night. SO fsar Liberty-Benton’s closes game was a 66-37 win over Arlington and they are allowing just 30.5 points per game on defense. After a season-opening loss to SLL-favorite Elmwood, the Patriots have reeled off four straight victories and are playing some pretty impressive defense themselves. Expect a low-scoring battle.
Napoleon at Findlay -- The Trojans (4-0 overall, 2-0 GBC) play their final Greater Buckeye Conference game until Jan. 12. They’ll have three straight non-conference foes before coming back to league play. With two of their last three GBC games being against Lima Senior the Trojans can’t afford any stumbles. Napoleon has had a mixed bag of results with wins over Holgate (19-14) and Eastwood coupled with losses to Defiance, Lima Senior and Sandusky. The Cats desparately need a win in the conference.
Saturday Games
Van Buren at Elmwood -- Van Buren will put it’s 4-0 record on the line against neighborhood rival Elmwood in a Saturday Night Special. Coach E.J. Frost’s Black Knights have yet to challenged and are allowing right around 37 points a game. Elmwood is also playing very well and will likely be 5-0 if they can beat Gibsonburg tonight. Elmwood has to be a prohibitive favorite but you can’t count out a surprise from the Black Knights.
Vanlue at Hopewell-Loudon -- Coach Dan Hartsel’s Vanlue Wildcats will try and continue their unbeaten run through the Midland Athletic League when they travel to Bascom Saturday night. The Wildcats are 5-1 and are 3-0 against MAL teams with 4 more games against MAL teams yet to play. Not a bad start for the “Small School That’s Big on Learning” Hopewell-Loudon has struggled and lost three straight heading into Friday night’s game against Bettsville. This could be a good one.
NOTEWORTHY:
HAPPY NEW YEAR?: There’s just one event dotting the area sports slate on Dec. 31. The University of Findlay women’s basketball team hosts Bellarmine in the GLIAC vs. GLVC Challenge in a 4 p.m. game on New Year’s Eve. That game should draw all of like …. 25 fans probably. No offense to the new coach but the Oilers are 3-9 and aren’t exactly tearing it up. Here’s a thought for the people at the GLIAC and GLVC…if you want to draw attention to your women’s basketball programs by playing a challenge…DON’T schedule it at 4 p.m. on New Year’s Eve. That’s just stupid.
On that note pass me a Pabst Blue Ribbon…bottom’s up!
NEWSWORTHY:
Northwest Ohio Wrestling Results and Info
Findlay Courier Local Sports for Thursday
Fostoria Review Times Sports for Thursday
WBL Cracking down on Unsportsmanlike Behavior
Ottoville boys overcome slow start to beat Antwerp
PH baseball coach Greg Inselmann will go into Hall of Fame
Lima News weekend basketball capsules
Lima News Sports for Thursday
Playing time added for basketball players
Bucyrus area basketball capsules
If you are like most people, you probably have the next three days off. Unfortunately, some sports writers have to work on Christmas Day.
All of your Christmas shopping is done and you want to take in some basketball action. OK, OK it’s not a look at the BVC, I’ll admittedly state I know so little about them at this point in the season I didn’t even know the conference slate wasn’t being played this weekend.
We’ll simply call this: Hoops for the holiday. Here are the best basketball games on tap for this weekend around The Courier coverage area.
Friday night games
Upper Sandusky at Shelby -- So you want to see future Ohio State Buckeye Jon Diebler in action this year huh? Well you probably are going to have to watch the Ram senior phenom on the road if I understand it right tickets to see Upper Sandusky at home are in short supply. The Rams don’t feature the largest gym in the area so your best bet to see him this season on his way to trying to break Jay Burson’s scoring record would be to call ahead and secure tickets to a road game. Cha-Ching!
Liberty-Benton at Patrick Henry -- Two terrific basketball programs with a pretty goold rivalry in recent years renew ties on Friday night. SO fsar Liberty-Benton’s closes game was a 66-37 win over Arlington and they are allowing just 30.5 points per game on defense. After a season-opening loss to SLL-favorite Elmwood, the Patriots have reeled off four straight victories and are playing some pretty impressive defense themselves. Expect a low-scoring battle.
Napoleon at Findlay -- The Trojans (4-0 overall, 2-0 GBC) play their final Greater Buckeye Conference game until Jan. 12. They’ll have three straight non-conference foes before coming back to league play. With two of their last three GBC games being against Lima Senior the Trojans can’t afford any stumbles. Napoleon has had a mixed bag of results with wins over Holgate (19-14) and Eastwood coupled with losses to Defiance, Lima Senior and Sandusky. The Cats desparately need a win in the conference.
Saturday Games
Van Buren at Elmwood -- Van Buren will put it’s 4-0 record on the line against neighborhood rival Elmwood in a Saturday Night Special. Coach E.J. Frost’s Black Knights have yet to challenged and are allowing right around 37 points a game. Elmwood is also playing very well and will likely be 5-0 if they can beat Gibsonburg tonight. Elmwood has to be a prohibitive favorite but you can’t count out a surprise from the Black Knights.
Vanlue at Hopewell-Loudon -- Coach Dan Hartsel’s Vanlue Wildcats will try and continue their unbeaten run through the Midland Athletic League when they travel to Bascom Saturday night. The Wildcats are 5-1 and are 3-0 against MAL teams with 4 more games against MAL teams yet to play. Not a bad start for the “Small School That’s Big on Learning” Hopewell-Loudon has struggled and lost three straight heading into Friday night’s game against Bettsville. This could be a good one.
NOTEWORTHY:
HAPPY NEW YEAR?: There’s just one event dotting the area sports slate on Dec. 31. The University of Findlay women’s basketball team hosts Bellarmine in the GLIAC vs. GLVC Challenge in a 4 p.m. game on New Year’s Eve. That game should draw all of like …. 25 fans probably. No offense to the new coach but the Oilers are 3-9 and aren’t exactly tearing it up. Here’s a thought for the people at the GLIAC and GLVC…if you want to draw attention to your women’s basketball programs by playing a challenge…DON’T schedule it at 4 p.m. on New Year’s Eve. That’s just stupid.
On that note pass me a Pabst Blue Ribbon…bottom’s up!
NEWSWORTHY:
Northwest Ohio Wrestling Results and Info
Findlay Courier Local Sports for Thursday
Fostoria Review Times Sports for Thursday
WBL Cracking down on Unsportsmanlike Behavior
Ottoville boys overcome slow start to beat Antwerp
PH baseball coach Greg Inselmann will go into Hall of Fame
Lima News weekend basketball capsules
Lima News Sports for Thursday
Playing time added for basketball players
Bucyrus area basketball capsules
posted by --J-- @ 6:26 AM
1 Comments:
At 6:46 AM,
Anonymous said…
Not directly involved with your topic, but you attached an article from the Celina paper regarding the WBL's sportsmanship policy. I think it's a great idea. Student behavior has really gotten poor over the last 20 years. Some of the credit goes to these college students who act like idiots at the games and scream and yell, most don't know a thing about the sport they are watching.
I'm also amazed at the lack of respect shown to officials. It filters right down to the kids.
JDee
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