He did not play JH football although the way defenses are pounding on him right now it might feel like it. And yes, he is a heckuva baseball player. He was one of, I think, 4 freshmen who started on the Blue Jays regional team last year.
I'm not as personally close to the game as I once was, but most years you could figure on 2-3 SCAL teams having the potential to reach a regional final. This year Riverside is off to a quick start, and Troy Christian is fairly strong as well and faces Russia in a couple weeks. Does the Wapak district go to the south west regional this year? If so there is probably a MAC school that could reach the finals as well.
According to this link, the Wapak district will once again go north to BGSU. The last time the Wapak district went south was 2019 when St Henry made it to state out of the SW district and Crestview made it out of the NW district. There have been several years where the Elida district winner goes to state through BGSU along with the Wapak district winner going to state through the SW regional. You can see how physically close some of these schools are, where if you send Wapak north, you don't get teams that are as close.
Troy Christian is the only team who can challenge them for the SW Ohio regional. No one else is close to that level. Not sure even they are at Russia’s level.
DSJ will probably come out of the Elida district, but Ottoville, Crestview, or Grove could win it too. There are always great games in the Elida district with those teams listed above. Usually a team from Toledo is undefeated coming into the BGSU regional but loses in the regional.
Ft Loramie?
Fort Loramie is going to be pretty bad, I think. Had a huge senior class last year. Bunch of new players and new coach.
Would be an absolute shame if so.
forgot that Loramie coach left ( do you remember where he went to?
do you know if there is talk to make MORE divisions in HS BB? heard that this past weekend
Hearing it is likely moving forward, but it has not been finalized yet, or at least not publicly released yet. I hate to go all in on an idea that may get tweaked between now and its public release.
You can pretty much attribute that to the coach.
I don't know why Ungruhn quit the program.
He quit mainly because of coach. We had some quit last year, a senior, three juniors, five sophomores didn't go out this year
Seems like inconsistency is going to be the story of the skins this year.
Not sure why players don't go out for a sport, sometimes don't like the coach sometimes just want a break between sports but it is not the coach's job to make the players like him but vice-versa.
I am one who also thinks we are lucky to have him. Not sure there has been a more successful coach in the MAC during his tenure in terms of wins, MAC titles, and a State title. Watch what you wish for.
Saw the NW districts were released tonight. Parkway is in the D-4 Elida district. Columbus Grove is D-3 this year. Elida district semis will be Crestview, DSJ, Miller City, Ottoville. Depending on Parkway’s draw, they could make some noise as this district is weaker than most years. Maybe they have enough to make it to districts?
This is a bad idea, 5 is the most. Stay at 4.
I did a little more digging over the weekend. My sources, which I believe should be accurate on the AD end, say they are aware this is moving forward but the final look and presentation is not close to being ready in their opinion. We shall see what the powers that be decide.
He and his family moved further north around Sandusky where his wife is from.