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Post by dude on May 31, 2023 6:44:09 GMT -5
Last year's final Ohio Cardinal Conference Standings
Lexington 12-2 New Phil 12-2 Mansfield 11-3 Madison 6-8 Wooster 6-8 Ashland 4–10 Mt. Vernon 4–10 West Holmes 1–13
Returning OCC award winners
1st team Kyevi Roane - Mans Brayden Fogle - Lex
2nd team Seven Allen - Mad (rumors) Colton Slaughter - NP Elias Owens - Mans
HM Nathan Bernhard - Ash Elijah Hudson - Lex Will Kepple - Mad Owen Miller - NP Brandt Wells - NP Karion Lindsay - Mans Duke Reese - Mans
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Post by Big Lex Fan on May 31, 2023 14:58:38 GMT -5
Dude could could you add a poll to this thread. Thank you...
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Post by dude on Jun 4, 2023 21:34:52 GMT -5
Talk is that Seven Allen(Madison) and Jakob Legron(Mansfield) are enrolling at Lexington.
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Post by lozenger4 on Jun 4, 2023 21:43:06 GMT -5
Talk is that Seven Allen(Madison) and Jakob Legron(Mansfield) are enrolling at Lexington. I know kids transfer all the time to play with friends and title hunt, but that’s gotta be so tough for schools competing against them to know that the deck is stacked even more.
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Post by dude on Jun 5, 2023 6:50:35 GMT -5
Talk is that Seven Allen(Madison) and Jakob Legron(Mansfield) are enrolling at Lexington. I know kids transfer all the time to play with friends and title hunt, but that’s gotta be so tough for schools competing against them to know that the deck is stacked even more. With the open enrollment option that most schools have, it does allow for movement rather easily.
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Post by fanofthegame on Jun 5, 2023 7:01:32 GMT -5
There was a rumor that Ontario’s new coach is recruiting. If I were the OHSAA and I only had so many resources I’d investigate a school with two move ins before I went after a rumor. I’m not saying Lex’s coach recruited anyone. My bet is the kids just want to win and they see what’s going on there. It’s just funny that a rumor got discussion in one thread and nothing in a thread announcing two actual move ins.
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Post by dude on Jun 5, 2023 7:36:06 GMT -5
There was a rumor that Ontario’s new coach is recruiting. If I were the OHSAA and I only had so many resources I’d investigate a school with two move ins before I went after a rumor. I’m not saying Lex’s coach recruited anyone. My bet is the kids just want to win and they see what’s going on there. It’s just funny that a rumor got discussion in one thread and nothing in a thread announcing two actual move ins. That is exactly what it was on that thread that was titled Ontario Coach. I would doubt the OHSAA would waste their time on either of these thread topics. On this topic I heard talks that kids were changing, but not that anyone was recruiting them. One of the kids already lives in the district but had open enrolled out a few years ago. So he would simply be a kid returning to his home school. Kind of like what the Schroeder family could do if they returned to Shelby.
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Post by Big Lex Fan on Jun 5, 2023 15:23:59 GMT -5
There is a lot of talent in the sophomore group coming up. Not to mention some pretty good juniors and seniors. My question is who is going to be left out. If what's being said is true. Then I see a starting line up that includes 3 sophomores. Braden Fogle Joe Caudill Seven Allen Then Elijah Hudson and Gavin Husty. There are probably at least 4-6 others that could possibly start for alot of teams in the area. For Hamilton I guess it's a nice problem to have.
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Post by dude on Jun 10, 2023 12:01:30 GMT -5
There is a lot of talent in the sophomore group coming up. Not to mention some pretty good juniors and seniors. My question is who is going to be left out. If what's being said is true. Then I see a starting line up that includes 3 sophomores. Braden Fogle Joe Caudill Seven Allen Then Elijah Hudson and Gavin Husty. There are probably at least 4-6 others that could possibly start for alot of teams in the area. For Hamilton I guess it's a nice problem to have. Lex also has a set of twins in the sophomore class that are pretty good. They were injured to start last season so if they can be healthy it could add to the sophomores.
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Post by dude on Jun 11, 2023 21:01:46 GMT -5
Where does your school fit in?
Division numbers for '23-'24 DI: 346 or more (198 schools) DII: 193-345 (198 schools) DIII 121-192 (201 schools) DIV: 120 or less (202 schools)
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Post by Big Lex Fan on Jun 19, 2023 10:43:55 GMT -5
At Midwest Live Lexington will be matched up with Dayton Dunbar, Casstown Miami East, Westerville Central, and Medina. Each team looks like they will play at least 4 games. I also saw that Shelby will play two teams from Michigan, and Willard is there also.
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Post by Big Lex Fan on Jun 25, 2023 10:52:02 GMT -5
Saturday games at Midwest Live. Lexington 58 Dayton Dunbar 48
Westerville Central 73 Lexington 59
Lexington (1-1) Dayton Dunbar (1-1) Westerville Central (2-0) All 3 teams have 2 games today.
Lex had 5 sophomores on their 10 man roster.
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Post by edchambers on Jun 25, 2023 14:25:22 GMT -5
Medina 64 Lex 50
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Post by Big Lex Fan on Jun 25, 2023 17:10:42 GMT -5
Also Lex 63 Casstown Miami East 51 Lexington (2-2) Medina (3-1) Miami East (3-1) Dayton Dunbar (2-2) Westerville Central (2-2)
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Post by dude on Jun 26, 2023 5:38:14 GMT -5
Mount Vernon did a team camp at Findlay University and played 7 games. I was told one of their losses was to Northmor. Mansfield has been playing in open gyms. Madison had some summer scrimmages but canceled for low numbers. Ashland and West Holmes kids may be working more on football this summer. Have not heard anything from the new coach in Wooster.
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Post by unc4life on Jun 27, 2023 9:57:02 GMT -5
Ashland will go though a transition this year, although I'm not sure they will be worse then how they played last year. Would not shock me if most of not all the starting lineups for Ashland next year are Sophomores. The Sophomore and freshman classes are both strong and should lead to better results in the next few years.
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Post by dude on Jun 27, 2023 19:34:40 GMT -5
Ashland will go though a transition this year, although I'm not sure they will be worse then how they played last year. Would not shock me if most of not all the starting lineups for Ashland next year are Sophomores. The Sophomore and freshman classes are both strong and should lead to better results in the next few years. Ashland always seems to have a volume of freshman and sophs playing varsity every year.
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Post by unc4life on Jun 28, 2023 8:21:31 GMT -5
Ashland will go though a transition this year, although I'm not sure they will be worse then how they played last year. Would not shock me if most of not all the starting lineups for Ashland next year are Sophomores. The Sophomore and freshman classes are both strong and should lead to better results in the next few years. Ashland always seems to have a volume of freshman and sophs playing varsity every year. I think some of that is they have had some good players over the last few years, Luke Denbow and Grayson Steury both played as freshman. But I also think the program as a whole hasen't had the best numbers lately. I don't follow as closely to basketball as I have in the past, but I'm not sure they have more than 2 Seniors or Juniors for next year on the team. I do know they had 3 freshman playing varsity last year, and a bunch more on JV.
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Post by dude on Jun 28, 2023 10:10:31 GMT -5
Ashland always seems to have a volume of freshman and sophs playing varsity every year. I think some of that is they have had some good players over the last few years, Luke Denbow and Grayson Steury both played as freshman. But I also think the program as a whole hasen't had the best numbers lately. I don't follow as closely to basketball as I have in the past, but I'm not sure they have more than 2 Seniors or Juniors for next year on the team. I do know they had 3 freshman playing varsity last year, and a bunch more on JV. Over the last 10 seasons, Ashland has played 7 freshman and 10 sophs in a majority of their games. But in that time they have had 5 winning seasons and only won 5 tournament games. I could believe numbers will stay low when juniors and seniors see no chance to play.
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Post by unc4life on Jun 29, 2023 10:53:38 GMT -5
I think some of that is they have had some good players over the last few years, Luke Denbow and Grayson Steury both played as freshman. But I also think the program as a whole hasen't had the best numbers lately. I don't follow as closely to basketball as I have in the past, but I'm not sure they have more than 2 Seniors or Juniors for next year on the team. I do know they had 3 freshman playing varsity last year, and a bunch more on JV. Over the last 10 seasons, Ashland has played 7 freshman and 10 sophs in a majority of their games. But in that time they have had 5 winning seasons and only won 5 tournament games. I could believe numbers will stay low when juniors and seniors see no chance to play. I think Ashland had 7 seniors on the varsity roster this past season. I would argue they should have had 2.
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Post by dude on Jun 29, 2023 11:02:14 GMT -5
Over the last 10 seasons, Ashland has played 7 freshman and 10 sophs in a majority of their games. But in that time they have had 5 winning seasons and only won 5 tournament games. I could believe numbers will stay low when juniors and seniors see no chance to play. I think Ashland had 7 seniors on the varsity roster this past season. I would argue they should have had 2. They may have had 7 listed but 3 played and another 2 saw some time giving others a rest. The final 2 scored more in warmups then in their career in games.
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Post by Big Lex Fan on Aug 4, 2023 14:19:02 GMT -5
I've seen this week that Lexington has finalized there 22 game schedule. They will battle Gahanna Lincoln in January at Ohio Dominican College Martin Luther King Classic.
That gives Lex a pretty solid non-conference slate with Wadsworth, Ottawa Glandorf, Gahanna Lincoln. Plus Shelby, Clyde, Ontario, Galion and Clear Fork.
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Post by Big Lex Fan on Aug 4, 2023 15:30:29 GMT -5
I've seen this week that Lexington has finalized there 22 game schedule. They will battle Gahanna Lincoln in January at Ohio Dominican College Martin Luther King Classic.
That gives Lex a pretty solid non-conference slate with Wadsworth, Ottawa Glandorf, Gahanna Lincoln. Plus Shelby, Clyde, Ontario, Galion and Clear Fork.
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Post by dude on Oct 17, 2023 20:11:17 GMT -5
I've seen this week that Lexington has finalized there 22 game schedule. They will battle Gahanna Lincoln in January at Ohio Dominican College Martin Luther King Classic. That gives Lex a pretty solid non-conference slate with Wadsworth, Ottawa Glandorf, Gahanna Lincoln. Plus Shelby, Clyde, Ontario, Galion and Clear Fork. Looks like they are planning to challenge a very young squad this season. They could have as many as 4 or 5 sophomores in their varsity rotation.
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Post by unc4life on Oct 18, 2023 13:05:44 GMT -5
I've seen this week that Lexington has finalized there 22 game schedule. They will battle Gahanna Lincoln in January at Ohio Dominican College Martin Luther King Classic. That gives Lex a pretty solid non-conference slate with Wadsworth, Ottawa Glandorf, Gahanna Lincoln. Plus Shelby, Clyde, Ontario, Galion and Clear Fork. Looks like they are planning to challenge a very young squad this season. They could have as many as 4 or 5 sophomores in their varsity rotation. Ashland should be the same way. I wont be surprised if they start 5 sophomores.
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Post by shelbyrr11 on Oct 18, 2023 15:00:36 GMT -5
This is somewhat ancillary to Lexington and OCC talk, but Shelby is going to be playing OG on Dec 16th at Lima Senior. That should be a good barometer for speculation leading into the Dec 30th Shelby @ Lex game.
Also, I'm seeing Lexington has 10 games scheduled in December, and only 4 in February. Compare that to Shelby having 8 in December and 8 in February, including Willard a full six days after Lex's final regular season game (barring any makeup dates). I'm not drawing too much from any of that other than saying it's an interesting little quirk in the schedules I'm looking at.
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Post by dude on Oct 18, 2023 15:44:36 GMT -5
This is somewhat ancillary to Lexington and OCC talk, but Shelby is going to be playing OG on Dec 16th at Lima Senior. That should be a good barometer for speculation leading into the Dec 30th Shelby @ Lex game. Also, I'm seeing Lexington has 10 games scheduled in December, and only 4 in February. Compare that to Shelby having 8 in December and 8 in February, including Willard a full six days after Lex's final regular season game (barring any makeup dates). I'm not drawing too much from any of that other than saying it's an interesting little quirk in the schedules I'm looking at. Shelby should be a senior dominated team this year while Lex and Ashland will both be soph heavy. The OCC Commish always ends the season schedule early because in the past, Mt Vernon starts tournament in Central District a week before everyone else.
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Post by Big Lex Fan on Oct 18, 2023 16:29:59 GMT -5
Lexington 2023/24 Basketball Schedule
Fri 01-Dec-23 Away Clear Fork Sat 02-Dec-23 Away Clyde Fri 08-Dec-23 Home *Wooster Tue 12-Dec-23. Away *Mansfield Senior Fri 15-Dec-23 Home *Mansfield Madison Sat 16-Dec-23 Orrville HS Steve Smith Classic vs Wadsworth Fri 22-Dec-23 Away *Ashland Sat 23-Dec-23 Home Ontario Fri 29-Dec-23 Away *New Philadelphia Sat 30-Dec-23. Home. Shelby Fri 05-Jan-24 Home *West Holmes Sat 06-Jan-24 Home Galion Tue 09-Jan-24 Home *Mount Vernon Fri 12-Jan-24 Away *Wooster Sun 14-Jan-24 Ohio Dominican 8:00 vs Gahanna Lincoln Fri 19-Jan-24 Home *Mansfield Senior Tue 23-Jan-24 Away *Mansfield Madison Fri 26-Jan-24 Home *Ashland Fri 02-Feb-24 Home *New Philadelphia Fri 09-Feb-24 Away *West Holmes Fri 16-Feb-24 Away *Mount Vernon Sat 17-Feb-24 Home Ottawa Glandorf
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Post by shelbyrr11 on Oct 18, 2023 18:07:07 GMT -5
This is somewhat ancillary to Lexington and OCC talk, but Shelby is going to be playing OG on Dec 16th at Lima Senior. That should be a good barometer for speculation leading into the Dec 30th Shelby @ Lex game. Also, I'm seeing Lexington has 10 games scheduled in December, and only 4 in February. Compare that to Shelby having 8 in December and 8 in February, including Willard a full six days after Lex's final regular season game (barring any makeup dates). I'm not drawing too much from any of that other than saying it's an interesting little quirk in the schedules I'm looking at. Shelby should be a senior dominated team this year while Lex and Ashland will both be soph heavy. The OCC Commish always ends the season schedule early because in the past, Mt Vernon starts tournament in Central District a week before everyone else. Did not know that about the OCC scheduling. Makes sense given MV's presence. Shelby has a bit of magic going on with four starters likely going onto the collegiate level for sports (DeVito visited Marshall University for football in recent weeks). The recent comparable, local examples of those type of teams I can think of are the Norwalk state team and the Lex final four team from 5ish years ago. Even so, we will have two stretches of quality games to watch for. There's OG & Lex in December, and then Mansfield/Findlay in the same week in February. Even with Lex's youth status, it's hard to overlook how often Shelby gets burned by them in tournament play. Mansfield is always hanging around.
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Post by dude on Oct 23, 2023 11:11:43 GMT -5
Basketball pre-season is starting for some OCC schools today.
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