Tag: Elida

OTTAWA — Delphos St. John’s started the Ottawa-Glandorf Winter Classic with an 82-54 boys basketball win over Dayton Dunbar in the first game on Saturday but it was all downhill after that for area teams.

ELIDA — There’s a hidden problem with having a once-in-a-generation talent in high school basketball.

Elida’s girls basketball team went from winless to tournament champions in, oh, about two days.

ELIDA — Elida changed from a winless girls basketball team to a defending champion in the course of just two nights.

ELIDA — Elida’s girls basketball players learned who they could count on when the going got tough in Wednesday night’s game.

Style points do not matter in basketball. Not in high school basketball. Not in college basketball. Not in the NBA.

BLUFFTON — The last time Shawnee won the Allen County Tournament in wrestling, some of its current wrestlers were not even in grade school yet.

Shawnee’s Beckett Bertke had the kind of game most players just dream about Saturday night.

SHAWNEE TOWNSHIP — Shawnee’s 60-46 girls basketball win over Elida in the Western Buckeye League opener for both teams on Thursday night was a classic case of the final score being closer than the game actually was.

ELIDA – On a day when college football coaches were getting Gatorade buckets emptied on them across the country to celebrate winning conference championships, Lima Central Catholic’s boys basketball team celebrated winning the Tip Off Classic its own way on Saturday night.