During one stretch they played five games in six days, all against Class A teams like Cincinnati St. Xavier, and won them all by an average of 16 points. East Tech took an early lead and then held on to defeat Zanesville, 53-47, in one semi-final game. St. Henry High School (of St. Henry, Ohio) has qualified for the state tournament just five times since 1979, but on each occasion the Redskins have advanced to the championship game. The Tigers stretched their winning streak to 46 in a row before losing in the sixth game of the 1930-31 season. With just 32 seconds remaining Portsmouth took a 63-60 lead and held on to win the game and the state title, 63-62. This system remained in effect after the war and continues to this day. Hairston, just 26 years old at the time, had been at Waterloo High School previously in 1929, but he had moved on to other Lawrence County schools, a total of three others, to advance his teaching career. He was a hometown kid who lived out one boyhood dream, then another, then another. And if the folks at St. John Arena thought that they had seen a great game when North upset Middletown, then they were in for an even greater treat the next day. The Middies held Woodward without a field goal during the entire first quarter, and early in the second held a 14-2 lead, but then Woodward came storming back and by halftime trailed by only 16-14. In that championship game the Middies took no chances. Volunteer Help the coach manage this team. 160 high school basketball teams playing in one tournament in one location, the Edwards Gymnasium at Ohio Wesleyan. While not a big time scorer like the others, his passing was just as crisp, and as he moved into his second year on the team his performance improved accordingly. In the finals that year against Canton McKinley, the game was tied 16-16 after regulation play. Scheduling so many games was bound to cause a problem or two, and one did pop up. The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy. 69. In their two championship seasons they played an amazing 100 games, winning an even more astounding 97, including a then state record 56 in a row. That year they led all the way in the Class A championship game, a 25-20 victory over Canton McKinley. The Wildcats and the team from New Philadelphia High School battled back and forth throughout the game. Melvin, Nelson Groats basketball playing career ended when he enlisted in the U.S. Army, but he returned to the sport after his baseball days were over, calling Pitt basketball games on the radio from 1979 to 2019 alongside friend and fellow broadcaster Bill Hillgrove. About halfway through the 1933-34 season the Wonders winning streak was starting to attract some notice. Led by a freshman sensation by the name of LeBron James, the Fighting Irish burst onto Ohios high school basketball scene in 1999-2000 by going undefeated, 27-0, winning the Division III state championship and finishing 21, However, young Mr. James and his team from the Rubber City were just getting started. Jacobs, Noah Game Summaries. Playing in Class A, the Redskins completed a perfect season (26-0) in 1979 for coach Fran Guilbault by defeating defending champion Mansfield St. Peters, 64-57, in the title game to win the schools first basketball championship. The Tigers bid for a sixth state championship in 2001 ended with a loss in the Division II semi-finals. It would be three more years before the Middies again saw tournament action, but this time they were here to stay. Hamilton High School is one of seven schools that have won four OHSAA state boys basketball titles. He was also named Ohios Mr. The tournament was played at the Cleveland Arena in 1956, and the hometown fans were hoping to see their East Tech Scarabs knock off the Middies. 2022-2023 SEASON SCHEDULE 2022-2023 Scores Boys | Girls Team Rosters EBL Contact Information Stephen Shipley Elementary Basketball League Coordinator shipleys@bcsc.k12.in.us Need help with directions? The Official Athletics Site of the Columbus State Cougars. Columbus East in the seasons of 1966-67, 1967-68 and 1968-69 had an outstanding record of 70-1. Curtis McMahon played the pivot, and his uncanny ability to feed the ball to his teammates was just as important, if not more so, than his own ability to score. Not a problem. Men's Basketball at Quarterfinals University of North Georgia March 2, 2023 7:30 PM. When they clowned, they entertained, they rested and they agitated. Rawls, Javian The Wonders proceeded to win that game as well, 45-24. Middle Row Wilson Lane, Manager; Grady Smith, Roy Hickman, Howard Harris, Garnett Davis, Randy Bias, Robert Chapman, Manager. LUBBOCK, Texas - For the fifth-consecutive season, the No. Winter 2022-2023 Winter 2022-2023 Winter 2021-2022 Winter 2020-2021 . That time the Tigers defeated Hamilton High School, 57-39, to not only bring the first state basketball championship trophy to East High School, but also the first for the city of Columbus. It was a back and forth game throughout the contest. They opened with a thrilling 25-24 victory over Cincinnati Elder, and then knocked off Akron South, 30-25, in the quarter finals. Needless to say, with a schedule like this the Wonders games were not restricted to Friday and Saturday nights. He would come close to doubling that production in the tournament. With the four championships that Stivers won during the days of the Delaware Tournament, the Tigers had won eight state titles in the 15 years from 1916-1930. This was all part of their strategy, which was to see what the other team was capable of doing, sort of like scouting the opposition as they were playing them. In 1988 the classifications were reconfigured and renamed Division I-II-III-IV, Division I being for the biggest schools. In 2005, the Bulldogs finished 26-1 and took home their first Division I state championship, and only their second basketball title overall. Saige Stahl, Columbus East A three-sport athlete and Indiana State basketball commit, Stahl totaled 598 points her senior year, with 20 points in the sectional opener vs. East Central and. LeBron James continued his sensational play and was named a first team high school All-American, the first sophomore to ever achieve that distinction. The 6 8 center, a first team All-Ohio selection, was pouring in points at the rate of 28.1 per game. Their school nickname was the Little Generals, but it did not take long before their on court expertise, and antics, had earned the Waterloo basketball team a more deserving moniker the Waterloo Wonders. However, the thing that separates the Wonders from most of the other great teams in Ohio history is. Frasier, Joshua Being the second oldest of the Ohio high school tournaments, the boys basketball tournament is loaded with history. 1 seed in the East . Phillips, Tajh Teams like the national champion Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary team of 2002-2003, those great Middletown teams from 1956-1958, the undefeated Cleveland East Tech squads of 1958 and 1959 just to name as few. Winter 2015-2016 Winter 2014-2015 Winter 2013-2014 Schedule Coaches Roster Summaries & Headlines News Photos Videos Camps Team Links Team . All five starters from their state championship teams attended Division I colleges. Stivers High School won its first OHSAA Class A state championship in 1924. Portsmouth qualified for the Class A tournament in 1925-26-27-29, but did not advance to the finals until its tournament appearance in 1931. 74. At least fourteen people were injured and taken to nearby hospitals after a roof collapsed at a Columbus, Ohio, home near Ohio State University because too many people were standing atop the roof . Host team and 1-seeded Ohio State will also face 4-seeded East Tennessee State. In the 1984 Class A final Bishop Wehrle dropped a tough 66-62 decision to Monroeville. For instance, who can ever forget the excitement surrounding the team from Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary High School during its great run of success from 2000 to 2003? He ranks second in the basketball programs history with an average of 23.0 points per game. Watch this highlight video of the Columbus East (Columbus, IN) basketball team in its game Columbus East vs Franklin Community Game Highlights - Feb. 11, 2023 on Feb 13, 2023. In addition to the state championship, the Middies were also named national champions, a title they shared with Crispus Attucks High School of Indianapolis. The team did not qualify for the tournament the next two seasons, but in 1927 the Tigers made it as far as the quarter-finals, where they suffered only their second loss of the season in getting bounced from the tournament. Like Columbus Bishop Wehrle before them, over the next five seasons the Vikings would be just about unbeatable in the tournament. First Team - Ike Ramsier (Rittman), Dick Shrider (Glenford), Jim Weber (Pettisville) Sterling Pollock (North Canton), Paul Abbott (Lancaster St. Mary) Second Team - M. Burris (Smithfield), T. Christopher (Pettisville), R. Phillips (Cridersville), M. Stettler (Doylestown), E. Bennett (Eaton) Lott, Grant Basketball for the third straight time, the only player to ever earn that award three times. Tech then outscored the Quakers 23-9 in the second period and the game, for all practical purposes, was over as Tech continued to pull away to a 71-51 victory. , Daugherty, Wittrock Named Wooden Legacy Recipients. Neither team was able to score in the first overtime period. He made only one of the two foul shots. Kevin McCauley was the teams sixth man. 16 outstanding seasons. East lost to Cincinnati Hughes in the 1955 Class A semi-finals, but when the Tigers next returned to the tournament in 1963 there was a much different result. At other times, when they lost the opening tip off the Wonders would politely step aside and allow the other team a free shot at the basket. The Waterloo Wonders won that championship game, 25-22, over Oxford High School. The Big Blue was back in 1931, but got bounced by Canton McKinley in the first round of play. Kent hung with Middletown until late in the third quarter when the score was still deadlocked at 45-45, but Jerry Lucas then tossed in three consecutive two-pointers and the Middies were on their way. On 2/22, the Columbus East varsity basketball team lost their home conference game against Floyd Central (Floyds Knobs, IN) by a score of 66-56. James, Fermandez The Class B champion that year was Plattsburg, which downed Bellpoint, 16-15. He was selected No. Middletown had closed to within one point of Macomber when one of the Toledo players was fouled with just nine seconds left in the game. During the 2002-2003 season, LeBron James and the rest of the Fighting Irish were again at the top of their game. However, toward the end of the tournaments run one school did emerge as the first power or dynasty in Ohio boys basketball. They went up against Salem High School in the semi-finals. East Tech made it to the Final Four each of the next four seasons, advancing to the championship game twice. There is no additional information to display: After the game both coach Walker and McKinley head coach Bup Rearick agreed, along with most other knowledgeable basketball people around the state, that the 1955-56 Middies were perhaps the best team that they had ever seen. The following are the individual game scoring records during the Ohio High School Athletic Association state boys basketball tournaments (minimum 30 points scored). Columbus, IN / Columbus East: 11: Sammy Sass: C: 6-1: Jr. Upper Arlington, OH / Upper . Joining Lansaw on this select team were Don Bolton (F), Omer Blevins (F) and Milton Wells (G). Oliphant, Perry Numerous great players, and two legends Paul Walker and Jerry Lucas. Over those 16 seasons of their golden era the Middies won 342 games, while losing just 47, for a .879 winning percentage. Over the past two decades, Danny Brown has built a formidable girls basketball program at Columbus East. 2022-2023 Boys Varsity Basketball Roster; 2022-2023 Boys Basketball Seniors; 2022-2023 Boys Basketball Teams; Bruin Championships; 2019-2020 Boys Basketball Starting line ups; Their opponent in the first round of Class A play was Canton McKinley, who the Middies took to overtime before dropping a 40-38 decision. ET at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. Over the years there have been many great high school basketball players in Ohio, and it is difficult to compare players from different eras, but one would be hard pressed to find a better player over the decades of Ohio high school hoops than LeBron James of Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary High School. This game was just as exciting as Middletowns previous one, but Bellevue was able to hold on and defeat the Middies, 36-34, with a basket of their own in the games final seconds. Through the 2003-2004 season the Bulldogs had made a record 26 trips to the state tournament, and had advanced to the championship game nine times, yet had come away with just one state championship in 1984. Led by their star center, Jerry Lucas, who poured in 53 points for the game (still a semi-final record), Middletown outscored East Tech 61-39 over the last two quarters to post a 99-78 victory. The Redskins faithful had to wait 11 years for their team to make its next trip to the tournament, but this time they would quickly double their pleasure. Groat hit .286 for his career with 707 RBIs in 1,929 games and made the All-Star team in five seasons. This was Columbus, Ohio's first basketball championship for the high school category. That year the tournament consisted of three games. He added a second World Series ring with St. Louis in 1964. The next season the Vikings record of 18-9 was good, but not spectacular, as won-lost records go, but the team had played in several top tournaments around the country, taking its lumps along the way. Link to School Addresses BCSC EBL Facebook Page Coaches Concussion Testing https://www.train.org/cdctrain/course/1089818/ Returning to the title game in 2004 (this time in Div. The Scarabs advanced to the finals in 1967, but lost to Columbus Linden McKinley, 88-56. Today the term tournament refers to the Final Four, but it has not always been that way. The Tigers lost the Class A title game that year, 30-16, to Dayton Stivers, one observer describing the East performance as slow, sluggish and tired.The Tigers qualified for the tournament in both 1926 and 1933, then had to wait until 1951 for their next shot at a state championship. Clevelands Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School had had some previous success in the boys tournament as its predecessor, the all boy St. Joseph High School, but the Vikings had never been able to win the championship hardware. The official 2019-20 Men's Basketball Roster for the Columbus State University Cougars. The championship game, played that same evening before a standing room only crowd of 7,500, pitted Middletown against Bellevue. Columbus East High School is second only to Middletown in the number of OHSAA boys basketball championships won. Back in 1936, Newark High School qualified for the state tournament for the first time. Looking Back at the OHSAA's Basketball Championships, Divisional Breakdowns - 2022-23 School Year, Enrollment & Attendance Bylaw Resource Center, Conduct/ Character/ Discipline Bylaw Resource Center, International & Exchange Student Bylaw Resource Center, Joint Advisory Committee on Sports Medicine. 6:50 p.m. The next year the Tigers of coach Floyd Stahl capped a great 29-1 campaign with a 36-22 championship victory over Dover High School. Liking what it felt like to be at the top, the Bulldogs repeated their championship effort last year, finishing at 25-2 en route to a second consecutive Division I title and a #10 ranking nationally. Pierre, Kalen The Middies raced down the floor. This is rural farm country. East lost to Cincinnati Hughes in the 1955 Class A semi-finals, but when the Tigers next returned to the tournament in 1963 there was a much different result. The UPI College Basketball Player of the Year in 1952, Groat was also a two-time All-Southern Conference member. Try a week on us. Before the 1933-34 season there was little real reason to believe, or to even hope, that the local basketball team would be anything but decent, at best, that year. In 1987, the Vikings lost in the semi-finals, and in 1989 they again advanced to the championship game, this time in Division I. Other antics included the Wyman cousins sitting down at midcourt and starting up a game of marbles in the middle of the basketball game. Hamiltons fans would have to wait 51 years to see their team again in the state tournament, but it would be worth the wait. Again, quoting from Mr. Burdette: Wherever the Wonders played, fans flocked in droves to see their unusual style. When the team finally arrived at Jackson High School at 10:00 P.M. they were greeted by a still packed house, as nobody wanted to miss an opportunity to see the Wonders play. Playing 100 varsity games, some of them against college freshman teams, is incredible enough. Columbus East's stats have been entered for the 68-55 loss @ Franklin Community on 2/13/2023 7:30 PM. While the Tigers have only been in the tournament 10 times, they have made the most of their opportunities by advancing to the championship game on six occasions, winning five. The official website of Columbus East High School Olympians Athletics https://columbuseastathletics.org . The Wildcats last trip to the tournament came in 1981, when they lost a heart-breaker in the semi-finals, 83-81, to eventual Class AAA state champion Dayton Roth. Sometimes this comes in a short burst over a few years, other times it is spread out over many decades. First Youngstown East and then Cincinnati Roger Bacon fell victim to the Wildcats. It was a close game all the way, but Tech was never able to gain the lead and dropped a 59-52 decision. That game was tied 33-33 at the half, but the Middies outscored the Wildcats 22-12 in the third period, on their way to a 75-63 victory. The defeat halted the Middies win streak at 43 in a row, their first chance at an undefeated season ending at 24-1. Wiseman was not the scoring threat that his teammates were, but he could pop in a basket, and his points often came when they were least expected, but most needed. They easily disposed of Cleveland St. Ignatius, 58-42, in the quarter-finals and Cincinnati Withrow, 67-48, in the semis to earn a championship game match-up with undefeated, 28-0, Steubenville. That surviving program does not give the dates of the tournament, but it would have to have been played over a period of several weeks, even if the games were played daily. By the rules of the day, the second OT would be sudden death first team to score wins. Trabel, a . On 2/13, the Columbus East varsity basketball team lost their away non-conference game against Franklin Community (Franklin, IN) by a score of 68-55. On 3/3, the Columbus East varsity basketball team lost their neutral playoff game against Columbus North (Columbus, IN) by a score of 60-54. The Middies entered the tournament with a record of 22-1. MaxPreps is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. 2022-23 IHSAA Class 4A Boys Basketball State Tournament S14 | Columbus North, 60-54 (L) Columbus East vs. Columbus North, 66-56 (L) Columbus East vs. Floyd Central, Columbus East vs Floyd Central Game Highlights - Feb. 22, 2023, Columbus East vs Madison Consolidated Game Highlights - Feb. 17, 2023, Columbus East vs Franklin Community Game Highlights - Feb. 11, 2023, 68-55 (L) Columbus East @ Franklin Community, Columbus East vs Jennings County Game Highlights - Feb. 10, 2023, 74-48 (L) Columbus East @ Jennings County. And when they finally finished, only the opposing team had suffered. Back Row Daryl Lynch, Manager; Bob Hart, Head Coach; Eddie Ratleff, Alonzo Nick Connor, Randy Smith, Mel Fowlkes, Harry Hairson, Bob Chapman, Manager. In Class A the competition was almost as stiff during those first three decades of the OHSAA tournament. These five boys made up the Waterloo team over the next two seasons. In the semi-finals they led all the way to defeat Niles, 49-39. In the OT session the Trojans outscored the Bulldogs, 4-3, to take home the schools first state championship. Middletown High School was on top of the Ohio basketball world after the 1946 Class A tournament, having win 70 of its last 72 games; but, as an article in the. That school was Dayton Stivers, which won the Delaware Tournament four times in 1916, 1919, 1920 and 1921. We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here. If the score was particularly one-sided, they would occasionally bounce the ball hard off of the floor and into the basket, or even dropkick the ball from center court for a two-pointer. The Big Blue would play in three more big school championship games. Final score: Middletown 64, Kent 54. On 2/17, the Columbus East varsity basketball team won their away non-conference game against Madison (IN) by a score of 51-49. There is no additional information to display. In the 1978 Class AA finals the Trojans went up against the defending state champions from Cleveland Cathedral Latin. Men's Basketball. The 1956-57 Middletown victory parade rolled into Columbus for the state tournament sporting a record of 25-0 and a 50-game winning streak. Game Summaries. At the intermission the five starters jumped into coach Hairstons car and motored to the second game over at Jackson High School, leaving the seldom used bench players to finish the game against Chesapeake, which they did with Waterloo winning easily, 47-5. The Middies 99 points is still a tournament record, and the 177 point total is the second highest for any tournament game. Once they got to Columbus, West Unity won twice more before losing to Plattsburgh, 29-11, in the Class B semi-finals. Under the direction of coach Royner Green, the Middies advanced to the Class A championship game by defeating Martins Ferry, 38-34, in the semi-finals. Men's Basketball at Quarterfinals University of North Georgia March 2, 2023 7:30 PM. But despite the endless run of grandstand clowning, no one wrote them off as showoffs who lacked the basic skills of the game. However, their run of championships hit a bump in the road called St. Bernard Roger Bacon High School, which defeated the Fighting Irish, 71-63, to win the state championship. Coach Stahls Tigers were one better during the 1929-1930 campaign, as they completed a perfect 30-0 season with a thrilling 18-16 win over Akron East in the Class A finals. Both the semi-final and final games would be played the same day. If the shot was missed, they just as often gave the rebound back to the other team for another free shot. Coach John Broskies Scarabs had gone through the 1958 season undefeated, winning all 26 games. Stivers would qualify for the tournament again in 1932, 1935 and 1975, with their best finish being as the runner-up to Warsaw River View following a dramatic 77-72 overtime defeat in the 75 Class AA championship game. The Wonders followed no set pattern of play, had no favorite spots from which they took their shots. In their Class AA semi-final game that year the Scarabs scored 78 points, a point total that would have won all but one of the semi-final and final games ever played up to that time. Many of us have seen at least some of these players and teams in action, so it might come as a surprise to many of you to learn that the greatest Ohio high school basketball team of all-time spun its magic on Ohios hardwood courts more than 70 years ago, that the team came from a school that had just 26 boys, the tallest player was only 62 if that, and they played so many games in their second championship season that they did not have time to hold practice sessions once the season began outside of their 45 minute gym class. In this article will be reviewed the tournament histories of some of the other schools whose success has added rich and colorful chapters to the OHSAA boys basketball tournament. In their semi-final game the Middies were able to settle a couple of old scores when they defeated Canton McKinley, 29-28, on a last second basket. Dick Groat, a Pirates legend and integral member of the Pittsburgh sports landscape, died early Thursday morning at age 92, the club announced Thursday. Earlier this week, Brown announced that this, his 20th season at the helm of the. So accommodating, in fact, that for 1934-35 the Wonders schedule had more than doubled to 66 games. The Middies were also named the national champions for a second consecutive year, and this time they shared it with no one. Easts first trip to the tournament came way back in 1924. In the years 1968 and 1969 the Columbus East Tigers had seasons reminiscent of the East Tech run exactly 10 years earlier. Moore, Darnell Columbus East High School, Columbus (OH) Basketball Players - RealGM They won State Championships in 1968 and 1969 and were runner up in 1967. In 1971, Tech lost in the semi-finals to Dayton Dunbar; but, in 1972 they finally won another state championship, the schools third, by defeating Cincinnati Princeton, 78-67. It was almost uncanny. In 1962, Tech was again back in the championship game, this time squaring off against Hamilton Taft in a game of unbeatens. Since its great run of the late 50s-early 60s, East Tech has had three more shots at a state title. They stole Dick Groats World Series rings, but there are some things you just cant steal. Only six schools in that class would manage to win multiple state championships. In the 85 years of the OHSSA boys basketball tournament, Dayton Stivers three consecutive state championships has been equaled only once. Groat, who played 14 MLB seasons at shortstop, most memorably spent nine of those with the Pirates. The psychology behind this was incredible, for the opposing team was often unable to regain its composure and confidence after being treated in this manner. The injury came with 6:47 left in the Class 4A Sectional 14 first-round game, which Columbus East won 60-50 over East Central to move into Friday's semifinal against host Shelbyville. The Ohio High School Athletic Association ( OHSAA) is the governing body of athletic programs for junior and senior high schools in the state of Ohio.

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