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Undisputed and undefeated, the 10-0 Lady Blackhawks win outright WOAC girls basketball Championship. (Dale Barger photo)

CAMDEN – The Mississinawa Valley girls basketball team wrapped up a perfect 10-0 record in the Western Ohio Athletic Conference after a 65-35 win at Preble Shawnee to claim an outright 2025-26 League Championship.

The Blackhawks who shared the conference title with Arcanum and Tri-Village last year was able to navigate through the league this year with big wins at Tri-Village, Newton and Ansonia along with a home win over Arcanum.

The Lady Hawks wanted to make the game against Preble Shawnee special for their fans and had a goal that all everyone would play and take part in clinching the championship.

Makenna Hoggatt buried two triples early to help get the Hawks out to a fast start in championship game.

They did that by getting off to a good start racing out to a 25-7 first quarter lead connecting on 5 triples: two each from Seniors Makenna Hoggatt and Paige Emrick and one from sophomore Tenlee Woodbury.  Senior Brooklynn Seubert made her presence felt inside going for eight points while her younger sister, freshman Cassidy Seubert added two points.

Brooklynn added another six points in the 2nd period, while Emrick and Cora Hoggatt both chipped in triples as the Hawks took a 42-14 lead at the break

Preble Shawnee got seven points from Josie Mondello-Garrett to lead the Arrows at the half.  Also chipping in was Aubrey Unger with a triple and two points each from Ava Apkin, Lainey Hawley and Jenna Dixon.

All of Mississinawa Valley players saw action in this game and each of them would contribute in some way with 11 of the 13 players scoring in the contest.

With a running clock for much of the second half the Blackhawks held a 52-18 lead after the third quarter.

Preble Shawnee picked up their scoring pace in the final stanza with Mondello-Garrett scoring eight of her team high 15 points.  Aubrey Unger had seven of her 12 points in the frame as the Arrows nearly matched their three-quarter total with 17 points.

Varsity players for Mississinawa Valley were cheering on the reserve players every time they made a big play.

With all the starters watching from the bench the reserve players saw action in much of the 3rd and all of the 4th frame as they became their biggest cheerleaders recognizing each of them when they scored or made a big play.  Everyone participated and contributed in what would be a 65-35 win to claim the 2025-26 WOAC Conference Title.

“I thought it was neat how everybody got to play and contribute to tonight’s game,” Mississinawa coach Kirk Comer said after the game.

“It was nice to get everyone time on the floor to be a part of this. Everybody's been working well together in practice. A lot of times the people who do a lot of the hard work going against the varsity and the scout team don't get a lot of credit and tonight they were all able be a part of this championship game,” Comer added.

Seniors Brooklynn Seubert and Paige Emrick agreed with their coach on how special it was for everyone to be a part of the game.

“I'm just really proud of how far we've come. We had a great team last year, but I really think that this team this year is very disciplined and we play so well together as a team,” Paige Emrick said

Senior Brooklynn Seubert scored 17 points and has been a handful for most teams to slow down this year in the paint.

“It's always been a team effort, coach preaches team and when you look up at that scoreboard everybody's scoring and it usually says 16,15,14,13, everyone’s contributing and it’s never just one person who is scoring the most points. On almost every play, every single person on our team touches ball before we score and I’m so happy everyone got to be a part of it tonight,” Brooklynn Seubert stated.

On this night Seubert led the way with 17 points and Emrick had14, along with 9 other girls putting the ball through the net. 

It’s that type of teamwork that has led to a 17-4 overall record to complete their regular season schedule. The losses have come to some perennial powerhouse teams like Ft. Loramie, Versailles, Legacy Christian and Parkway.  While you want to win those games a loss now to those teams can valuable if you can learn from them and help prepare your team in post season.

Mississinawa finds themselves currently in 2nd place behind Russia in the OHSAA RPI rankings to determine the seeds in the upcoming tournament. 

Coach Comer feels with this group of kids they have potential to make a nice run in the tournament and in his 30 years of coaching it might be one of the best teams he’s had.

“I told the girls, about mid-season I've had a lot of success in 30 years coaching girls basketball.  I’ve had a lot of good teams and been blessed to coach a lot of great players, but I don't think I've had a better all-around team.   We're not there yet but for the seniors, we got to get as far as we can and just see where it takes us.  The first thing is they have to believe. No matter what the jersey says on the other team we've got to believe we're the better team and play together. They might have a better player or two … but I feel like we have the best team, and if we all play together, we can accomplish big things,” Comer concluded.

Seubert and Emrick speaking on behalf of their other senior teammates are ready to embrace that along with Trinity Reichard, Cora and Makenna Hoggatt as they have been playing together since the 3rd grade.

"I'm very proud of everyone as seniors on this team, it definitely been a goal for us to win a league WOAC championship, going into the eighth grade, that was the year they changed from the CCC to WOAC, and since then we’ve always wanted to win an WOAC championship title as seniors because we felt like we had something specialt,” Seubert explained.

While they are happy to get the league title they want more as the Blackhawks have won back-to-back District Championship and last year advanced to the Regional championship but was denied a trip to the state finals bowing out to Ft. Loramie. 

Senior Paige Emrick buried 4 triples and has been a steady offensive threat over the last three years for the Blackhawks. 

“The key for us is to continue to work hard and prepare for each game the same way, stay together and take it one game at a time,” Emerick reasoned.

It won’t be easy but the formula of playing together and sharing the ball has worked well thus far … now they just need to believe and take the next step in their journey and see where it will take them.

BOX SCORE

Score by Quarter
25 … 17 … 10 …13 – 65 Mississinawa
07 … 07 … 04 … 17 – 35 Preble Shawnee

Team Scoring

MV Geesaman 0-0-2/2 – 2, Woodbury 2-0-0/0 – 6, M. Hoggatt 2-0-0/0 – 6, Sanabria 1-0-0/0 – 3, Reichard 0-1-0/0 – 2, C. Seubert 0-1-3/4 – 5, C. Hoggatt 0-2-1/2 – 5, Livingston 0-0-1/4 – 1, Emerick 4-0-2/4 – 14, B. Seubert 0-5-7/8 – 17, Totals 9-11-16/24 – 65

PS Unger 2-2-2/2 – 12, Apking 0-1-0/0 – 2, Hawley 0-2-0/0 – 4, Dixon 0-1-0/0 2, Mondello-Garrett, 0-6-3/4 – 15, Totals 2-12-5/6 – 35

MV Seniors Cora Hoggatt, Paige Emrick, Brooklynn Seubert, Makenna Hoggatt and Trinity Reichard achieved a goal they set when they were I"n the eighth grade to win a WOAC Championship.

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South scored win over Dixie Friday night 59-45.  Parker Howard scored 10 points in game.  They also beat Carlisle 52-45 on Senior Night on Saturday improving to 9-9 on the year.  (Dale Barger photo)

NEW LEBANON – Twin Valley South boys basketball trailed Dixie at the half but gradually pulled away in the 3rd quarter, fought off a couple small Greyhound runs on their way to 59-45 WOAC win.

Dixie jumped out to an 8-3 lead by the 4:09 mark to start the game and things were looking good for the home team.  Senior Brayden Puckett dropped a triple and sophomore guard Caleb Russell added a three and a short pull up jumper in the lane to grab the 8-3 lead.

Panther senior Laiden Carver stole the ball and converted a fast break bucket to make it 8-5 at 2:41 but sophomore guard Cole Swafford got that back right away with a bucket to go up 10-5 with 2:22 left in the quarter.

After the good start the Hounds went cold, and South took advantage as Lucas Barlow scored two straight buckets at the rim and had all 5 of his points in the game in the quarter with the Panthers trailing 10-9 heading into the second quarter.

Dixie's Caleb Russell knocks down jumper in lane, had 11 1st half points, 14 for the game. 

Dixie and South deadlocked with 14 points each in the frame.  South got two triples and 8 points from Aiden White and 6 points from Trent Ray. Russell poured in 6 more points for the Greyhounds and had 11 at the half.  Freshman guard Mason Simonton had a triple, and 5 points and Senior Colin Day added a trey for the 14 points for Dixie hanging on to a one-point lead at the break 24-23.

Twin Valley South coach Kerry Crouch talked about his team’s first half performance.

“We had a different lineup to start the game, but we have full confidence in whoever we have out there starting the game, and we hung with Dixie in the first quarter. Then we got the starters back in the second quarter and I thought they did really well off the bench heading into half time down by one. We knew we were shooting a lot of threes and with a size advantage we needed to take advantage,”  Crouch stated.

The scoring pace after the half would go up another level with Twin Valley South exploding for 21 points in the third quarter as junior Parker Howard and Aiden White each had 6 points, Evan Day had 4, Carver 3 and Ray 2 as they looked to get the ball to the rim more.

Dixie did everything they could to keep pace adding 16 points with three triples; two from Simonton who had 8, a trey from Puckett, Russell had 3 and Day added 2 points, but they trailed 44-40 going into the final frame.

When South needed a bucket Trent Ray was the go to man. He had 18 in the game & created a cushion early in 4th with 3 straight buckets. 

Dixie still was in striking distance, but Twin Valley South looked to Trent Ray in the 4th quarter.  Ray attacked the basket on backdoor cut and used high low action for three straight buckets to go up 50-42.

The three’s that were going in for Dixie now weren’t falling and South expanded their lead to 53-42 before Simonton connected on his 4th triple of the night but trailing 53-45 with 2:37 left to go.

Dixie fouled late as Ray made 4 free throws and a layup, then White completed the scoring for the game for a 59-45 WOAC win for the Panthers.

Dixie Coach Nick Worley talked about his team executing and effort after the game.

“They're a big team, so we made the point to make sure we box out and rebound we didn't do very well in the second half. Credit those guys, though, they're, a bunch of bruisers, and we're a young team trying to figure out how to play defensively. We're having to play a little bit of zone this year, which we haven't done in a long time. Our kids battled and played hard but we just kind of ran out of gas today,” Worley explained.

Dixie Freshman Mason Simonton shows his range with this triple well beyond the arch.  He had 4 treys and 18 points to lead the Greyhounds.

Dixie gave glimpses of what their future might look like with a couple of young players leading the way with freshman Mason Simonton scoring 18 points, showing his range with 4 triples.  Sophomore Caleb Russell displayed an ability to drive to the basket or pull up for a jumper, and contributed 14 points for Dixie with both players drawing praise from Worley.

“Mason and Caleb, they're one of our top two scorers and the core of our program going forward and that's exciting. Caleb’s really taking the next step as far as the leadership role goes. We have two seniors, no juniors in the program, freshmen and sophomores, so our kids have to get in the weight room and keep building strength,  these young guys can hoop, which is very exciting,” Worley concluded.

Dixie fell to 2-7 in the WOAC, and after a loss to Fort Recovery Saturday night moved to 4-13 overall. The Greyhounds will travel to Legacy Christian on Monday night.

Twin Valley South was led by Trent Ray with 18 points, Aiden White 16 and Parker Howard 10.  The Panthers moved to 4-5 in the WOAC and had a big game at home Saturday night with Carlisle.

“We’re trying to change the culture here and as a first year coaching these guys it would be nice to get one against Carlisle on Senior Night. We're at eight wins right now, they had just five wins all of last year so I think we can possibly be 12 or 13 wins at the end of the year, which is huge for the program. I think we're going to continue to build off this every game. We just got to play four solid quarters from the start, and we'll be right there,” Crouch stated.

True to his words Twin Valley South did just that against Carlisle Saturday night.  After trailing 31-22 at the half the Panthers exploded for 17 points in the third quarter to take a one-point lead and then outscored Carlisle 13-7 in the final frame for a big 52-45 non-conference win to improve to 9-9 overall.  The Panthers have 4 regular season games left and a big test on Friday as they travel to take on 16-0 Tri-Village.

Box Scores

Score by Quarters

09 … 14 … 21 … 15 – 59 Twin Valley South
10 … 14 … 16 … 05 – 45 Dixie

Team Scoring

TVS – P. Howard 0-5-0/2 – 10, E. Day 0-2-1/2 – 5, A. White 3-3-1/1 – 16, L. Carver 1-1-0/0 – 5, L. Barlow 0-2-1/4 – 5, T. Ray 0-7-4/6 – 18, Totals 4-20-7/15 – 59

DIX – Swafford 0-1-0/0 – 2, Russell 1-5-1/2 – 14, Day 1-1-0/1 – 5, Simonton 4-3-0/0 – 18, Puckett 2-0-0/0 – 6, Totals 10-8-1/3 - 45

Lucas Barlow filled the gap for South in 1st quarter scoring five points for Panthers.
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Dixie's bench and crowd reacts at the Greyhounds got off to a strong start and finish to knock of Twin Valley South in WOAC action 33-30. (All Photos by Dale Barger)

NEW LEBANON – The Dixie girls basketball team started strong, disappeared and then finished strong for a 33-30 win over Twin Valley South in WOAC play.

With the long week of below zero temperatures and mountains of snow on the ground teams finally about to get back on the court have experienced slow offensive starts.

The Lady Greyhounds hit the court running as they raced out to a 16-4 first quarter lead behind two triples from Emma McQueen and one from Keegan Miller and both led Dixie with 6 points each in the quarter.  Kaylie McConnell and Ella Kreitzer both chipped in buckets as well for the 16 points.

Emma McQueen connected on two first quarter triples and had 9 points to lead Dixie to a league win over TV South.

Meanwhile South struggled to put the ball in the hoop like many teams during the freeze shooting just 2-for-15 both from Brylii Day and trailed 16-4 at the end of the first frame.

Fortunately for Dixie, Twin Valley South’s Brylii Day picked up two early fouls in the first quarter opening a door for Dixie coach Justin Keirns who ramped up the pressure.

“When Day got in foul trouble early and they pulled her we were able to pressure the ball a little bit and it helped our defense hold them in check and our offense to get going and we were hot … but then she (Day) came back in the 2nd period and we went cold,” Keirns stated.

Brylii Day draws the attention of two or three defenders to slow her down. Dixie held her below her scoring average with just 11 points to win the game. 

Day who scored 43 points in a single game this year and is 3rd in the league for scoring at 16.8 ppg, also leads the WOAC in rebounding with 15 per game made her presence in the paint known affecting Dixie guarded her defense and attack the basket on offense.

The hot start for Dixie disappeared, call it a combination of going cold and better defense by the Panthers who put up 10 points to close the gap to 16-14 at the half.

Amelia Suggs and Josie Butler both had 3 points each and Madison Nelson and Paityn Cross both added fielders for the Twin Valley in the frame.

South coach Kerry Crouch coming in knew it was going to be a battle and was pleased to see his team respond the way they did.

“Coming into the game we knew Dixie had improved a lot since the beginning of the year and we we're going be in for a battle with a large crowd on hand in this Friday night game.

South’s momentum flowed into the 3rd quarter as they wrestled the lead away from Dixie coming out and connecting on three straight triples the first one to go in front 17-16 from Madison Nelson, followed by one each from Amelia Suggs and Grace Childers for a 23-16 lead at 5:02 which please coach Crouch after seeing his team struggle to shoot in the first half.

Amanda Suggs knocks down a big three-pointer if to help South to a lead in 3rd quarter.

“We were 1-of-15 from three in first half and then hit our first three to start the third quarter. I give our girls credit for coming out battling and competing in kind of a hostile environment. You know, there's a lot of people here because it's Metro night and a varsity boys and girls double header going on,” Crouch explained.

While South had the momentum, the disappearing Dixie “Magic Show” would reappear as the Hounds out scored South 7-2 the rest of the quarter to trail by two, 25-23 heading into the final stanza.

Dixie coach Justin Keirns echoed Crouch regarding the environment and praised his girls for also handling and battling back themselves.

We told our girls this is going to be an emotional game, and whoever can control those emotions is going to come out on top. I think our girls stay pretty steady throughout. Every time they hit a shot, our girls didn’t bat an eye. People are going to hit shots. We're going to we're going to miss assignments. But it's on to the next one something we've been preaching this year, and our girls have done a fantastic job of that,” Keirns stated.

Dixie’s defense rose to the occasion in the 4^th quarter holding the Panthers to just five  points all from Brylii Day.

At the same time the Hounds defensive pressure and attacking the basket on offense would start to yield results for them.

Trailing 29-27, Emma McQueen stole the ball and was fouled on fast break and made two free throws to tie the game at 29.  Moments later Kendy Hypes added a bucket to give Dixie the lead again 31-29. 

Day added a free throw for South to close to 31-30.  Kylie McDonnell would also drain two free throws with 35 seconds left for Dixie to go up 33-30 and then held on for the thrilling win.

Junion Teegan Miller knocked down a floater in the lane and had 8 points for Dixie.

Coach Keirns talked about his team and what the win meant to them.

I think, obviously, going against South there's a little bit of a chirpiness’ that our girls play with. We’ve got a lot of history and they’re a very competitive team who plays hard. Coach Kerry does a great job with those girls. We’ve got a deep bench this year and a lot of credit to all those girls that come off the bench, they do a lot of different things for us. I just told the girls in the locker room, you know, one night it might be Bethany hitting shots. One night it might be Emma. Next night our point guard, Tegan, might get hot. She hit a couple early … tonight we got contributions across the board,” Keirns smiled.

Dixie was led Emma McQueen with 9 and Teegan Miller with 8 points for the Greyhounds who improved to 7-11 overall and 3-5 in the WOAC.  Dixie won just three games last year so there is evidence to the improvement for team and program and momentum building toward the post season for the Hounds.

“I couldn't be more excited this was a huge win for us. Looking at the RPi rankings right now, South is one above us with same record, so we really wanted to get this one  and it gives us a lot of momentum, even our losses. If you look at it, Valley View, it's a one-point game at halftime, we come out third quarter, we're cold, they're hot. It happens, you know, but a young team and we keep bouncing back, that's the one thing I've been proud of, especially since our Franklin game at the holiday tournament. Our girls are just playing hard and have no quit in them,” Keirns concluded.

It also helped that they have a little magic act on their side as well.

Box Scores

Score by Quarters

04 … 10 … 11 … 05 – 30 Twin Valley South
16 … 00 … 07 … 10 – 33 Dixie

Team Scoring

TVS – G. Childers 1-0-0/0 – 3, M. Nelson 1-1-0/0 – 5, A. Suggs 1-1-1/3 – 6, J. Butler 1-0-0/0 – 3, P. Cross 1-0-0/0 – 3, B. Day 0-5-1/3 – 11, Totals 4-8-2/6 – 30

DIX – E. Kreitzer 0-2-0/0 – 2, T. Miller 1-2-1/2 – 8, K. McConnell 0-1-2/2 – 4, E. McQueen 2-0-3/4 – 9, J. Hartmier 0-0-4/8 – 8, K. Hypes 0-3-0/0 – 6, Totals 3-7-10/18 - 33

Sophomore Jacie Hartmier hit some big free throws to help the Greyhounds down the stretch in win over South.
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Mississinawa soph guard Cole McGlothlin was able to get to the rim to help lead Hawks to win over Ansonia 62-27 in the RT 47 Battle.  He scored 20 points to lead all scorers.

UNION CITY – The Ansonia boys basketball team made the RT 47 battle with Mississinawa Valley interesting for one quarter before they ran out of steam while the Blackhawks continued to soar pulling away from an 18-14 lead to 36-16 at halftime.  The Hawks went on to claim a 62-27 win in this one.

While the Tigers offense was clicking in the first quarter and the gym was hot the Tigers went cold and scored just 13 points the remaining 3 quarters.

In the first match-up between the two teams back in December Ansonia battled till the end before falling late 44-34.

The Hawks got off to a fast start with Cing Scott scoring 8 of his 10 in the first quarter. 

Ansonia Soph Carson Tobe scores 7 points for the Tigers but the offense wasn't able to get on track in the rematch with Mississinawa.

Ansonia’s Carson Tobe had the hot hand early for the Tigers scoring all 7 of his points in the first quarter and he got help from Conner Riffle with 5 points but trailed MV 18-14.

Nothing went right for the Tigers in the second quarter, and the lid was tight on the basket and managed only one lay-up from Jacob MacNutt.

Mississinawa continued to put the ball in the hole with Cole McGlothlin finding his way to the rim.  He scored 8 points in the second quarter and had 12 in the first half.  He got help in the quarter from Jaxin Beanblossom with 5 points as the Hawks held a 36-16 at the half.

MV's Jaxin Beanblossom works his way into the paint, he scored 7 points for the Hawks.

McGlothlin duplicated his 2nd quarter output with another 8 points in the 3rd quarter as the Hawks lead grew to 50-24.

In the final frame Mississinawa got 4 points from Elliott Seubert who ended with 9 for the game.  They outscored Ansonia 12-6 in the final stanza and won the game 62-27.

Ansonia was led in the game by Jacob MacNutt with 8 points and Carson Tobe had 7.  The Tigers record fell to 3-11 overall and they are 1-6 in the WOAC.  They will host Preble Shawnee on Friday January 23rd.

Soph Guard Jason MacNutt scored 8 points for Ansonia ... the Tigers are a young squad and will only get better with time. 

Mississinawa was led by  Cole McGlothlin with 20 points and Cing Scott had 10 for the Blackhawks who improved to 7-7 overall and is 3-4 in the WOAC.  They will play at Bradford on Friday January 23rd.

Box Scores

Score by Quarters

14 … 02 … 05 … 06 – 27 Ansonia

18 … 18 … 14 … 12 – 62 – Mississinawa Valley

Team Scoring

ANS – Spence 1-0-0/0 – 3, C. Tobe 1-1-2/2 – 7, J. MacNutt 2-1-0/0 – 8, C. Riffle 1-1-0/0 – 5, G. Coppess 0-1-0/0 – 2, J. Schmitmeyer 0-0-0/0 – 2, Totals 5-5-2/2 – 27

MV – McGlothlin 0-9-2/2 – 20, Hanes 0-2-0/0 – 5, Beanblossom 1-2-0/0 – 7, Seubert 1-3-0/1 – 9, Amspaugh 0-0-2/2 – 2, Scott 0-4-2/2 – 10, Hardy 0-1-0/0 – 2, Wehrkamp 0-2-0/0 – 4, Houser 0-1-00 – 2, 2-25-6/7 – 62

Mississinawa junior Elliott Seubert powers his way to the basket in win over Ansonia. 
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Lucas Brenner was a difference maker as floor general for Franklin Monroe to go along with 24 points in 47-36 win over Newton. 

PLEASANT HILL – Newton battled Franklin Monroe needing a win to stay in the top tier of the WOAC boys basketball standings. But the Jets would get just enough separation in the fourth quarter in a possession type game to run out the clock for a 47-36 win.

Newton got off to a good start behind the play of senior guard Luke Cornett who came into the game as the 5th leading scorer in the WOAC at 16.2 ppg.  Cornett connected on two triples and a lay-up to give the Indians a 10-6 lead at the 3:36 in the opening frame.

Franklin Monroe closed the gap 12-10 on a triple from senior Maddox Skidmore and eventually tied the game at 14 to end the first quarter.

Newton senior guard Luke Cornett got the Indians off to a good start with 8 points, he encountered foul trouble and ended the game with 10 points in loss to Franklin Monroe.

The first quarter though took a toll on Cornett and Franklin Monroe’s Blake Riffell with both having to sit the bench with foul trouble.

With Cornett out Newton needed to pick up offense in other ways and would get six points in the second quarter from Rhett Koffer, a triple by Trent Robinson and a fielder from Ayden Kane.

Franklin Monroe got 10 of their 12 points from Lucas Brenner who led all scorers with 16 points at the half as the Jets clung to a 26-24 lead at the break.

While Cornett was back in the lineup in the 3rd quarter the defensive intensity by both teams was relentless at times and the scoring pace slowed even more.  Cornett scored two points, Koffer had three and two each from Kane and Isaac Hainline for a total of 8 points for the Indians in the 3rd quarter.

Blake Riffle found foul trouble in game at Newton but was able to provide need physicality, rebounding and scoring in the 4th quarter to help his team pull away from Newton.

Franklin Monroe got a couple of tough buckets from Evan Addis, four points from Brenner and a triple by Grady Myers for a 37-32 lead heading into the final stanza.

Back-to-back baskets from Blake Riffle and Evan Addis pushed the Jets lead to 41-32 to start the final frame.

Cornett though had to exit the contest shortly after with his 5th foul adding to Newton’s offense woes.

Two more back-to-back buckets from Brenner and Riffle gave Franklin Monroe a 45-34 lead giving Franklin Monroe the opportunity to milk the clock over the final few minutes and eventually a 47-36 win.

FM sophomore forward Evan Addis gave his team a boost hitting the boards and scoring 10 points of the Jets in win over Newton.

The game reflected two teams playing hard and leaving it all on the floor, both playing a similar type of game as expressed by Franklin Monroe coach Troy Myers.

“Honestly, our styles are more compatible than we are not. We were trying to play a possession game, and so were they. We had a guy in foul trouble and so did they,” Myers said after the game.

“I think our guys executed our plan defensively, but you could notice a big difference in the fourth quarter when Blake Riffle came in, he was grabbing rebounds off the rim and got a couple of scores for us. Once we got a bigger lead we were able to spread the floor the last three minutes and our guys played unselfishly and Lucas had some very nice passes when he got pressure allowing us to be able to seal the win,” Myers stated.

The FM cheerleaders had plenty to cheer about late in the game as the Jets won an exciting game with the Indians.

Lucas Brenner earned game high scoring honors with 24 points and made the tough baskets when the team needed them.  Evan Addis added 10 points as well.

Myers talked about their contributions.

“Lucas has gained a presence as a senior he's really being a floor general where before, he just kind of set the table for people and knows when he needs to make big plays for us.”

“I think Evan gives us a dynamic with more pressure on the rim as well, with his downhill ability and Grady obviously, with his shot making ability on the perimeter. With Braden out of the game Grady got loose there in the second half and made a big made a big shot for us,” Myers concluded.

With the win Franklin Monroe improved to 9-2 overall and 6-1 in the WOAC.  The Jets will host Randolph Southern Saturday night.

Newton was led by Rhett Koffer with 12 points and Luke Cornett had 10.  The Indians fell to 10-3 overall and 4-3 in the WOAC.  The Indians will travel to Fairlawn on Saturday.

Rhett Koffer gave the Indians some needed offense with 12 points  ... but the offense struggled in the 2nd half as both teams played suffocating defense.

Box Score

14 … 12 … 11 … 10 – 47 Franklin Monroe

14 … 10 … 08 … 04 – 36 Newton

Team Scoring

FM – L. Brenner 0-9-6/8 – 24, B. Riffle 0-2-0/0 – 4, E. Addis 0-5-0/0 – 10, G. Myers 1-0-1/2 – 4, M. Skidmore 1-1-0/0 – 5, Totals 2-17-7/10 – 47

Newton – R. Koffer 0-4-4/6 – 12, L. Cornett 2-2-0/0 – 10, S. Hainline 0-1-0/0 – 2, T. Robinson 1-0-0/0 – 3, I. Hainline 0-1-2/4 – 4, A. Kane 0-2-1/5 – 5, Totals 3-10-7/15 – 36

Newton Cheer squad pose in front of the student section in game verses Franklin Monroe. 
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