Since everyone seems to have a fascination with HS basketball lately, here are the local All-State honors for D1 & D2. NW Ohio has the player of the year in D1 & D2 (even though D2 has 3 Players of the Year).

D1 Player of the Year: Marc Loving, SJJ
D1 Co-Coach of the Year: Ed Heintschel, SJJ

D1 First Team: Marc Loving, SJJ; Nigel Hayes, Whitmer
D1 Second Team: Mark Donnal, Anthony Wayne
D1 Honorable Mention: Austin Gardner, SJJ; Ricardo Smith, Whitmer; Clemmye Owens, Rogers; Keith Towbridge, CCHS


D2 Co-Player of the Year: Vitto Brown, Bowling Green

D2 First Team: Vitto Brown, BG
D2 Third Team: Jordan Lauf, Napoleon


http://www.limaohio.com/sports/article_4...l?mode=jqm

Confessing to having watched the B10 championship game and proud that a couple local kids will be playing for those teams in the future.
Can someone fill in the details for me?

Loving: O$U
Hayes: Wisc.
Donnel: Mich.
Gardner: Findlay
Smith: ?
Owens: Bethune Cookman
Towbridge: Football somewhere right?
Brown: ?
Lauf:

I know there are others...

Along with a future Rocket Jordan Lauf earning some recognition (D2 Third Team), so is fellow future Rocket Zach Garber, who was named D4 co-Player of the Year.

http://www.limaohio.com/sports/local/art...f6878.html

Marc Loving was named Mr. Basketball. Following other Toledoans William Bufford and Jim Jackson.

Didn't Jackson win it twice?

(03-20-2013 08:58 PM)MotoRocket Wrote:  Didn't Jackson win it twice?

His were the first two awarded. O$U has more than any other. Last year's went to college in Wheeling but there were a couple went to or ended up at MAC schools. There was even one guy won it, didn't even go to college.

(03-20-2013 08:58 PM)MotoRocket Wrote:  Didn't Jackson win it twice?

Yep. Either '88 & '89, or '89 & '90.

Lebron James won Mr. Basketball 3 times! I still firmly believe had he gone to college, he would have chosen Toledo

(03-21-2013 11:39 PM)inductchuck16 Wrote:  Lebron James won Mr. Basketball 3 times! I still firmly believe had he gone to college, he would have chosen Toledo

Football, basketball and just for the heck of it, tennis.

No surprise here, Rogers won tonight in the Final Four and will play Mentor tomorrow night at 8:30.

Great job by a team that has taken down the favored and advantaged.
One more win, for the little guy, for the brass ring.
Little guy on the right...

(03-22-2013 09:29 PM)rocketpete Wrote:  Great job by a team that has taken down the favored and advantaged.
One more win, for the little guy, for the brass ring.
Little guy on the right...

Where did I see a blurb about an all-star game being held at BG High next week? Anyone have details?

(03-22-2013 09:29 PM)rocketpete Wrote:  Great job by a team that has taken down the favored and advantaged.
One more win, for the little guy, for the brass ring.
Little guy on the right...

Okay, Brecksville would probably be considered "advantaged," but I don't think the same would be said for Walnut Hills. I think they are part of Cinci's public school system. Next is Mentor. They're not hurting for money either.

Interesting sidebar. Rogers is one of the smallest schools in the division. Mentor's boys enrollment is about 1000. Rogers under 400.