What a game!
What a game I got to see last night!
Leipsic’s Brittany Schroeder hit’s a basket at the buzzer and the Vikings beat Liberty-Benton 36-35. It was the first basketball game I’ve gotten to cover since 2005 and I’m glad I was there. It’s not that I dislike covering basketball. The way things worked out last year, with the NCAA wrestling tournament hosted by the University of Findlay coming just a week after the state wrestling tournament I didn’t have time for hoops.
Plus Mark and Dave suck up all the hoops glory at The Courier anyway.
Back to the action, Leipsic is now in first place all alone in the BVC with Van Buren. Arcadia, Pandora-Gilboa and Liberty-Benton each one game back. Leipsic still has Arcadia on the slate Feb.8 so its possible that the conference girls basketball champs could have 2 losses…talk about parity.
Should be an exciting finish to the girls basketball season.
Time to hit on a few topics…
GIRLS BASKETBALL SECTIONAL DRAWS: The sectional draws for girls basketball tournaments take place Sunday across the state. I will posted the entire Northwest District Draw here on Sunday night as soon as we get them together at The Courier. No one else will have the complete list Sunday except us…who loves ya baby?
TITLE IX: Ohio University has decided to cut three men’s sports and a women’s sport this week. The Bobcats will no longer field teams in men’s indoor and outdoor track and swimming and diving. They also cut the women’s lacrosse program. Here’s a link to yesterday’s wire story.
Title IX has been great for women’s athletics. It’s given girls and women many opportunities to compete in athletics that they might not have had without the law. But it has also gutted men’s athletics at the college level. Wrestling, track and field and swimming have all taken big hits over the years.
Are women’s just as interested in sports as men, especially at the college level. I say if you look at intramural and rec leagues in college I’d have to say no? What do you say?
MIDWEST ATHLETIC CONFERENCE: The Midwest Athletic Conference will go to an 8-game league schedule for football. The conference currently plays nine games within the conference with just one out of conference opponent. Each conference school will not play one other conference school on a rotating basis. The schedule will be similar to the Big 10 where not all Big 10 schools play all other schools in the conference. You can read about the plan here in the Celina Daily Standard.
The conference is going with the plan to help enhance the playoff chances of MAC schools.
Could a similar plan be worked out for the BVC? Nah.
DROPPING THE “W” AT WAPAKONETA: Wisconsin has sent a letter to Wapakoneta City Schools asking them to drop the use of their “W” logo the school had been using on their football helmets. Wisconsin has the design copyrighted and doesn’t want to allow high schools across the country to use their so-called “W” in motion design. Read the entire story here.
NEWSWORTHY:
NW Ohio Wrestling Results and Info
Findlay Courier Friday Sports (Includes Findlay High School boys basketball game and Leipsic’s last second win over Liberty-Benton)
Fostoria Review Times Friday Sports
Bowling Green Sentinel Tribune Sports
Bucyrus Telegraph Forum MAL roundup
Defiance Crescent News Sports
Jefferson zeroes in on Grove’s Maag
Galion swimmers dunk Upper Sandusky
Lima News Friday Sports
NOL Basketball Stats
Tiffin Advertiser Tribune Sports
Little Giants fall short against Lima Senior
St. Joseph stops Carey
Leipsic’s Brittany Schroeder hit’s a basket at the buzzer and the Vikings beat Liberty-Benton 36-35. It was the first basketball game I’ve gotten to cover since 2005 and I’m glad I was there. It’s not that I dislike covering basketball. The way things worked out last year, with the NCAA wrestling tournament hosted by the University of Findlay coming just a week after the state wrestling tournament I didn’t have time for hoops.
Plus Mark and Dave suck up all the hoops glory at The Courier anyway.
Back to the action, Leipsic is now in first place all alone in the BVC with Van Buren. Arcadia, Pandora-Gilboa and Liberty-Benton each one game back. Leipsic still has Arcadia on the slate Feb.8 so its possible that the conference girls basketball champs could have 2 losses…talk about parity.
Should be an exciting finish to the girls basketball season.
Time to hit on a few topics…
GIRLS BASKETBALL SECTIONAL DRAWS: The sectional draws for girls basketball tournaments take place Sunday across the state. I will posted the entire Northwest District Draw here on Sunday night as soon as we get them together at The Courier. No one else will have the complete list Sunday except us…who loves ya baby?
TITLE IX: Ohio University has decided to cut three men’s sports and a women’s sport this week. The Bobcats will no longer field teams in men’s indoor and outdoor track and swimming and diving. They also cut the women’s lacrosse program. Here’s a link to yesterday’s wire story.
Title IX has been great for women’s athletics. It’s given girls and women many opportunities to compete in athletics that they might not have had without the law. But it has also gutted men’s athletics at the college level. Wrestling, track and field and swimming have all taken big hits over the years.
Are women’s just as interested in sports as men, especially at the college level. I say if you look at intramural and rec leagues in college I’d have to say no? What do you say?
MIDWEST ATHLETIC CONFERENCE: The Midwest Athletic Conference will go to an 8-game league schedule for football. The conference currently plays nine games within the conference with just one out of conference opponent. Each conference school will not play one other conference school on a rotating basis. The schedule will be similar to the Big 10 where not all Big 10 schools play all other schools in the conference. You can read about the plan here in the Celina Daily Standard.
The conference is going with the plan to help enhance the playoff chances of MAC schools.
Could a similar plan be worked out for the BVC? Nah.
DROPPING THE “W” AT WAPAKONETA: Wisconsin has sent a letter to Wapakoneta City Schools asking them to drop the use of their “W” logo the school had been using on their football helmets. Wisconsin has the design copyrighted and doesn’t want to allow high schools across the country to use their so-called “W” in motion design. Read the entire story here.
NEWSWORTHY:
NW Ohio Wrestling Results and Info
Findlay Courier Friday Sports (Includes Findlay High School boys basketball game and Leipsic’s last second win over Liberty-Benton)
Fostoria Review Times Friday Sports
Bowling Green Sentinel Tribune Sports
Bucyrus Telegraph Forum MAL roundup
Defiance Crescent News Sports
Jefferson zeroes in on Grove’s Maag
Galion swimmers dunk Upper Sandusky
Lima News Friday Sports
NOL Basketball Stats
Tiffin Advertiser Tribune Sports
Little Giants fall short against Lima Senior
St. Joseph stops Carey
posted by --J-- @ 9:50 AM
5 Comments:
At 7:36 PM,
Anonymous said…
The question about interest levels between men and women where athletics are concerned is intriguing. Did men from the early stages of athletic contests compete in huge, lavish venues? Nope. They played in simple fields at a regional level. The joy of competition fueled the endeavor. Did women in the same regions live where no fields existed? I know it's not as simple as that and societal influences differ through the decades, but it seems as though women had access to the same facilities in the 1800's as did men. Move ahead to a time when people started to generate an interest in watching the men compete. Still no magnificent stadiums, just folks standing in the field watching. Popularity grew to the point where people would pay to watch highly skilled athletes compete; still, it all had humble beginnings. Once sporting events became televised and good money was to be made people wanted a piece of it who had little interest in the whole offer prior. Now, instead of letting the market determine the parameters it was decided to forego all that all demand equality. Gutless politicians cried "Yes, dear" and Title IX was born. I understand that women had some barriers in the past, but what about those men decades ago? Nowadays accomplished male wrestlers and track athletes who have worked their entire life get tossed aside in the name of false equality. A girl in a local town has a grant for rowing at a MAC school and she never distinguished herself in any way athletically during high school, opting to give sports up entirely during the latter stages of high school. She never even ROWED before. Meanwhile, roll up the mats and put away the spikes guys. Is that equality?
cdp
At 9:56 PM,
Anonymous said…
Other than a simple "Nah", in your opinion why wouldn't an 8-game slate work for the BVC? Using the MAC's format(hardly a rotation btw), Vanlue and Arcadia could get out of one 50+ point loss a year and play someone of their own caliber. Like wise, the top dogs get out of a glorified bye week. Another tweak the MAC did was give the schools the option of still playing against each other if the choose too. Let's say C-R and Arlington weren't schedule to play each other that season. They still could but it wouldn't count in the league standings.
Sounds like a good deal to me. Why wouldn't it be?
bob22
At 7:52 AM,
Anonymous said…
I think the schedule change would be great for the BVC. Only problem with that is all the powers of the BVC don't want to add more work in fixing the problem. It would also really help in having the opportunity to get another team into the playoffs. If this was in place 2 years ago Arlington could have gotten into the playoffs with another non conference game. It's really amazing how that extra non conference game can raise your computer point total. I am all for it, lets start the talk now and put it into place.
At 11:03 AM,
Anonymous said…
I believe Wynford also uses the "W in motion" on their helmets. I wonder if they received a letter from UW.
At 12:17 PM,
Anonymous said…
The "W" in motion that was shown on Lima TV was somewhat different than the one used by Wisconsin. It seemed like a bit of a stretch to claim license on it unless Wisconsin believes they have rights to red W's. I think that poster who mentioned Wynford's helmet is correct. The last time I saw them play they had a "W in motion" as I recall.
cdp
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