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Heistan steps down as girls coach at Shawnee

SHAWNEE TOWNSHIP — Jeff Heistan coached his older daughters when they played basketball, but he decided not to do it this time around.

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Sunday 03/31/2013
Abby Siefker leads Lima News Girls Dream Team
Posted: March 31, 2013

OTTOVILLE — It was a last-minute decision.

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Wednesday 03/27/2013
All-Stars get final prep experience
Posted: March 27, 2013

ELIDA — For some of Wednesday’s participants in the 37th annual girls District 8 All-Star basketball games at the Elida Fieldhouse, it wouldn’t be the last time they would step on a basketball court.

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Friday 03/15/2013
Fort Loramie gets past Ottoville in OT
Updated: March 16, 2013 - 9:33 am

COLUMBUS — Fort Loramie’s Darian Rose was hard to find for the first three quarters.

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Thursday 03/14/2013
Tom Usher: Wenzlick recalls state experience
Updated: March 14, 2013 - 1:47 pm

Ottoville has played in plenty of big games over the last four years.

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Wednesday 03/13/2013
State Preview: Ottoville to face Fort Loramie pressure
Updated: March 14, 2013 - 1:47 pm

OTTOVILLE — It’s been a big weekend for Ottoville coach Dave Kleman.

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Ottoville residents green with pride
Updated: March 14, 2013 - 1:47 pm

OTTOVILLE — Ottoville is already a pretty tight-knit village. But when one of its basketball teams makes a run to the state tournament, the community gets even closer.

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Tuesday 03/12/2013
Siefker, Kleman lead All-Ohio teams
Posted: March 12, 2013

Ottoville senior Abby Siefker was named the Division IV All-Ohio Player of the Year on Tuesday while Ottoville coach Dave Kleman was named Co-Coach of the Year.

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Saturday 03/09/2013
Ottoville stuffs Arcadia, earns state trip
Posted: March 09, 2013

ELIDA — No more coming up short.

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Monday 03/04/2013
Ottoville regrouped quickly after starter's injury
Updated: March 04, 2013 - 5:47 pm

OTTOVILLE — The 25-0 record says it’s been a perfect season so far for Ottoville’s girls basketball team. But even perfect seasons can include dealing with adversity.

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Sunday 03/03/2013
Bath’s Ruhe playing with a sense of urgency
Posted: March 03, 2013

BATH TOWNSHIP — Swat.

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Saturday 03/02/2013
Bath beats Celina for district title
Posted: March 02, 2013

PAULDING — Bath’s Jenna Hollar had only one point.

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Ottoville dominates district championship from start to finish
Posted: March 02, 2013

LIMA — Sometimes experience pays. And other times it pays off like a slot machine, with bells and sirens going off in every direction.

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Sharper-shooting Flyers win district title
Posted: March 02, 2013

ST. MARYS — Marion Local’s girls basketball team won its first three tournament games shooting a mere 35 percent from the field.

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Leipsic knocks off Patrick Henry
Posted: March 02, 2013

BENTON RIDGE — Leipsic’s girls basketball team beat upset No. 3-ranked Patrick Henry 43-38 in overtime to win a Division IV district championship at Liberty-Benton on Saturday.

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O-G girls nearly upset Archbold
Posted: March 02, 2013

KALIDA — With only one senior on the roster, it would seem the Ottawa-Glandorf girls basketball program might be a year away from success.

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Wednesday 02/27/2013
2012-13 girls basketball tournament brackets
Updated: March 22, 2013 - 7:25 pm

See sectional and district pairings from high school basketball games around the Lima region.

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Saturday 02/23/2013
Saturday's prep roundup
Posted: February 23, 2013

TONTOGANY — The third time was indeed a charm for the Lima Senior girls basketball team on Saturday, as the Spartans beat rival Findlay 60-58 in a Division I sectional final at Otsego. Findlay beat Lima Senior twice in the regular season.

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Ottoville, Kalida girls move to districts
Posted: February 23, 2013

BLUFFTON — Ottoville coach David Kleman worried about his team being stale early in the tournament, the way he felt they were in years past.

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Bath, Celina move on to D-II district
Posted: February 23, 2013

SPENCERVILLE — Somebody shrunk the floor.

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Allen East, O-G girls move to districts
Posted: February 23, 2013

BATH TOWNSHIP — Sometimes a hot start will carry through the entire game and such was the case in Division III sectional finals at Bath on Saturday night.

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Wednesday 02/20/2013
LCC, Bluffton advance to finals
Posted: February 20, 2013

BATH TOWNSHIP — You just have to do what you do best if you want to advance in tournament play.

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Tuesday 02/19/2013
Ottoville, Kalida advance in DIV sectional
Posted: February 19, 2013

BLUFFTON — There is no such thing as a perfect basketball game.

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Shawnee’s 15 3-pointers too much for Elida
Posted: February 19, 2013

SPENCERVILLE — Shawnee started the game with a 3-pointer.

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Delphos Jefferson, St. John’s move on
Posted: February 19, 2013

VAN WERT — To say Delphos Jefferson got off to a slow start just might be an understatement.

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Sunday 02/17/2013
Girls basketball tournament bracket - Division I - Findlay District
Updated: February 27, 2013 - 6:17 am

Local teams: Findlay, Lima Senior

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Girls basketball tournament bracket - Division IV - St. Marys District
Updated: February 27, 2013 - 6:17 am

Local teams: Ada, Hardin Northern, Marion Local, Minster, New Bremen, New Knoxville, Ridgemont, St. Henry, Upper Scioto Valley, Waynesfield-Goshen

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Girls basketball tournament bracket - Division IV - Lima District
Updated: February 27, 2013 - 6:17 am

Local teams: Continental, Columbus Grove, Crestview, Delphos Jefferson, Delphos St. John's, Fort Jennings, Kalida, Lincolnview, Ottoville, Parkway, Perry, Spencerville

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Girls basketball tournament bracket - Division III - Kalida District
Updated: February 27, 2013 - 6:17 am

Local teams: Allen East, Bluffton, Coldwater, Lima Central Catholic, Ottawa-Glandorf, Paulding,

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Girls basketball tournament bracket - Division IV - Findlay District
Updated: February 27, 2013 - 6:17 am

Local teams: Leipsic, Miller City, Pandora-Gilboa

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Girls basketball tournament bracket - Division II - Bucyrus District
Updated: February 27, 2013 - 6:17 am

Local teams: Kenton

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Girls basketball tournament bracket - Division II - Paulding District
Updated: February 27, 2013 - 6:17 am

Local teams: Bath, Celina, Elida, Shawnee, St. Marys, Van Wert, Wapakoneta

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Saturday 02/16/2013
TOM USHER: Top 25 Girls Players: A simple idea, a complicated list
Posted: February 16, 2013

It seemed like a simple idea at the time.

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Lima News' Top 25 girls players of the past 25 years
Posted: February 16, 2013

N orthwest Ohio has long been considered a talent mine for high school sports.

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Tuesday 02/12/2013
Lima Senior's Benjamin reaches 1,000 points
Posted: February 12, 2013

LIMA — Lima Senior’s girls basketball program only had to wait 17 days to celebrate what is normally a rare milestone.

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Saturday 02/09/2013
Lima Senior wins at St. Marys
Posted: February 09, 2013

ST. MARYS — It’s just a matter of time for Lima Senior junior Indiya Benjamin.

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Rare air: Ottoville’s Siefker pulls down 1,000th rebound
Posted: February 09, 2013

DELPHOS — Abby Siefker first swatted the ball away. A second later she ripped down the rebound.

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Tuesday 02/05/2013
Perry pressures Hardin Northern for win
Posted: February 05, 2013

PERRY TOWNSHIP — You never want to lose on senior night and Perry made sure it didn’t Tuesday night against visiting Hardin Northern at the Leonard V. Volbert gymnasium.

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Saturday 02/02/2013
Ottoville dominates, wins fourth straight PCL title
Posted: February 02, 2013

OTTOVILLE — It doesn’t get any better than this when it comes to winning league titles.

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Tuesday 01/29/2013
AP Girls Poll
Posted: January 29, 2013

Associated Press girls state basketball poll

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Saturday 01/26/2013
Ada holds off W-G in milestone showdown
Posted: January 26, 2013

ADA — One milestone was reached while another was put on hold when Waynesfield-Goshen and Ada met in girls basketball action Saturday afternoon.

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Tuesday 01/22/2013
AP Girls Basketball Polls
Posted: January 22, 2013

Girls Basketball

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Saturday 01/19/2013
Ottoville slips by Minster
Updated: January 19, 2013 - 10:54 pm

OTTOVILLE — There was a feeling in the air that something was going to eventually happen.

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Shepherd's 23 leads LCC past Shawnee
Posted: January 19, 2013

SHAWNEE TOWNSHIP — A good start, a strong finish and a steady play throughout the middle of a game is a formula for success at every level of competition.

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Wednesday 01/16/2013
Marquee Matchups: Local rivals square off
Posted: January 16, 2013

Shawnee (8-6, 4-0 Western Buckeye League) at Elida (6-7, 2-2 WBL), girls basketball

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Tuesday 01/15/2013
Shawnee girls roll past Fort Jennings
Posted: January 15, 2013

FORT JENNINGS—The definition of a team victory played itself out in favor of Shawnee on Tuesday night at Fort Jennings High School.

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Newest AP Girls Basketball poll
Posted: January 15, 2013

Associated Press girls state basketball poll

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Spartans’ playmaker: Benjamin averaging 16 pts, 6.9 assists
Posted: January 15, 2013

LIMA — Indiya Benjamin drives the left side of the lane and goes airborne.

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Wednesday 01/09/2013
Vince Koza: Niese building pitching resume, family
Posted: January 09, 2013

New York Mets pitcher Jon Niese signed a five year $25.5 million deal with his team at the beginning of last season.

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Tuesday 01/08/2013
Defensive switch leads No. 1 Ottoville past Bath
Posted: January 08, 2013

BATH TOWNSHIP — Ottoville wasn’t copying its strategy from anyone else when it beat Bath 50-31 in girls basketball on Tuesday night, its coach Dave Kleman said.

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Saturday 01/05/2013
Shawnee battles, falls short of Findlay
Posted: January 05, 2013

SHAWNEE TOWNSHIP — A couple ways to help overcome a size disadvantage is to play good defense and shoot the basketball well.

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Spartans win nail-biter over Elida
Posted: January 05, 2013

ELIDA—Elida wanted to get the last shot.

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Thursday 01/03/2013
Lima Senior struggles from floor in TRAC loss
Posted: January 03, 2013

LIMA — Lima Senior coach Vince Halliday knew his Spartans were going to be undersized heading into Thursday’s matchup against Notre Dame Academy.

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Thursday's prep roundup
Posted: January 03, 2013

DELPHOS — Coldwater outscored host Delphos St. John’s 17-7 in the fourth quarter to claim a 45-41 Midwest Athletic Conference win on Thursday in girls basketball action.

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Ottoville guards knock down shots, Kalida
Posted: January 03, 2013

KALIDA — It’s like a double-edge sword when trying to defend Ottoville.

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