Ohio Cardinal Conference 2024/25

Who wins the league in 2024/25?

  • Ashland Arrows

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Lexington Minutemen

    Votes: 15 78.9%

  • Mansfield Madison Rams

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • Mansfield Senior Tygers

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • New Philadelphia Quakers

    Votes: 2 10.5%

  • West Holmes Knights

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Wooster Generals

    Votes: 1 5.3%
  • Total voters
    19
 
In this school year so far it would appear the Lexington group has established themselves as football players over basketball. Their top players have all made visits to D1 college sidelines this season.
 
I don't want to or can't speak for the Lex kids. But from what I've heard they're still basketball guys while in high school. Fogle has garnered a lot of attention in football this past year. With Big Ten offers and probably most notably Georgia. So that may sway him. Seven Allen has had some interest in both football and basketball. He also had a very successful AAU season with Ohio Buckets. I would think he pursues basketball. Caudill is a football guy who is getting some Div I looks. But I hear he just loves to compete no matter the sport. Then you have Husty and Legron which had very good AAU campaigns this past spring and summer should be ready for basketball. Throw in 6'8 Yugovitch, and the Hughes twins and Lex will be just fine.
 
Returning from OCC honors

First Team
Brayden Fogle, Jr. Lexington
Ja’Kyevion Roane, Sr. – Mansfield Senior
Brady Bowen, Sr. – Wooster
Paxon Ediger, Jr. – Ashland
Seven Allen, Jr. – Lexington

Second Team
Gabe Baith, Jr. – Ashland
Joe Caudill, Jr, - Lexington
Anthony Carmean, Sr. – Wooster

Honorable Mention
Nathan Bernhard, Jr – Ashland
Gavin Husty, Sr. – Lexington
Latrell Hughes, Jr. – Lexington
Cam Kuhn, Sr. – Madison
Rashad Reed Sr., So. – Mansfield Senior
Reid Wells, Jr. – New Philadelphia
Tre Edwards, Jr. - Wooster
 
Lexington's non conference basketball schedule for 2024/25 and it's a tough as hell schedule! Don't have all the dates in front of me, but here is the non-conference...
Clear Fork 11/29
@ Dover
@ Ontario 12/21
@ Shelby 12/28
@ Sandusky 1/4
Sandusky Perkins 1/11
Dover @ Lex
Rocky River Lutheran West @ Smithville Battle of the Berkey

Cincinnati Princeton
Berlin Hiland

Plus the OCC schedule.

Dover will be in league officially in 25/26 for all sports except football. Could be football now . I've seen they will play all OCC teams in football next season.

If Lex goes 20-2 with that schedule I'd be. surprised, but they will be battle tested for sure.
 
Big Lex Fan said:
Lexington's non conference basketball schedule for 2024/25 and it's a tough as hell schedule! Don't have all the dates in front of me, but here is the non-conference...
Clear Fork 11/29
@ Dover
@ Ontario 12/21
@ Shelby 12/28
@ Sandusky 1/4
Sandusky Perkins 1/11
Dover @ Lex
Rocky River Lutheran West @ Smithville Battle of the Berkey

Cincinnati Princeton
Berlin Hiland
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I can help.

Clear Fork 11/29
@ Dover 12/7
@ Ontario 12/21
@ Shelby 12/28
@ Sandusky 1/4
Sandusky Perkins 1/11
Dover 2/25
Rocky River Lutheran West @ Smithville Battle of the Berkey 2/2
Cincinnati Princeton 2/8
Berlin Hiland 2/14
 
Big Lex Fan said:
Lexington's non conference basketball schedule for 2024/25 and it's a tough as hell schedule! Don't have all the dates in front of me, but here is the non-conference...
Clear Fork 11/29
@ Dover
@ Ontario 12/21
@ Shelby 12/28
@ Sandusky 1/4
Sandusky Perkins 1/11
Dover @ Lex
Rocky River Lutheran West @ Smithville Battle of the Berkey

Cincinnati Princeton
Berlin Hiland

Plus the OCC schedule.

Dover will be in league officially in 25/26 for all sports except football. Could be football now . I've seen they will play all OCC teams in football next season.

If Lex goes 20-2 with that schedule I'd be. surprised, but they will be battle tested for sure.
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So who do you think Lex might lose to in the season
 
buckcc said:
So who do you think Lex might lose to in the season
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Only looking at their non league games. Clear should be a win. Dover is a traditional powerhouse winning 20+ games regularly, and they play them twice. Ontario and Shelby are local rivals where records do not matter. Sandusky returns a full roster that went 22-2 last season playing a D1 schedule. Perkins was Junior heavy last season and went 16-8. Lutheran West, Cincinnati Princeton and Berlin Hiland are normally prepared to win any game they play. Anywhere from 5-5 to 7-3
For the OCC games. They should be favored this season but we all know the OCC tough to go undefeated and specially in back to back years. Off nights and an outstanding performance is always likely during an OCC game. So it could be anything from 12-0 to 9-3
As for the entire regular season, if they win 17 or more games with this schedule they will have played some good basketball and should be ready for tournament.
 
spirit454 said:
Only looking at their non league games. Clear should be a win. Dover is a traditional powerhouse winning 20+ games regularly, and they play them twice. Ontario and Shelby are local rivals where records do not matter. Sandusky returns a full roster that went 22-2 last season playing a D1 schedule. Perkins was Junior heavy last season and went 16-8. Lutheran West, Cincinnati Princeton and Berlin Hiland are normally prepared to win any game they play. Anywhere from 5-5 to 7-3
For the OCC games. They should be favored this season but we all know the OCC tough to go undefeated and specially in back to back years. Off nights and an outstanding performance is always likely during an OCC game. So it could be anything from 12-0 to 9-3
As for the entire regular season, if they win 17 or more games with this schedule they will have played some good basketball and should be ready for tournament.
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That's a very good assessment that I basically agree with. What also matters is if the football playing guys are healthy for basketball.
I've heard Dover has graduated some pretty good players and may not be as strong as last season. Cincinnati Princeton is not necessarily a basketball power lately in the Cincinnati area. But they are probably 4x larger than Lex enrollment wise. But it's at Lex. So I think Lex could have a shot. Lex should take care of business against Clear Fork, Ontario, and Shelby. Shelby graduated several of there great players. Including Bruskotter, Lance and Ramsey. But they will have Devito. As "spirit" stated Berlin Hiland and Lutheran West will be tough outs for anyone. But Lex wanted to beef up the schedule and they did.

The OCC is always a meat grinder and going undefeated rarely happens especially to year's in a row. I look towards Mansfield Senior, Ashland, New Philadelphia and maybe Wooster as the biggest threats to Lex.

So I would put 17 wins as the over/ under for a win total for Lex. They will be battle tested for sure.
 
Big Lex Fan said:
That's a very good assessment that I basically agree with. What also matters is if the football playing guys are healthy for basketball.
I've heard Dover has graduated some pretty good players and may not be as strong as last season. Cincinnati Princeton is not necessarily a basketball power lately in the Cincinnati area. But they are probably 4x larger than Lex enrollment wise. But it's at Lex. So I think Lex could have a shot. Lex should take care of business against Clear Fork, Ontario, and Shelby. Shelby graduated several of there great players. Including Bruskotter, Lance and Ramsey. But they will have Devito. As "spirit" stated Berlin Hiland and Lutheran West will be tough outs for anyone. But Lex wanted to beef up the schedule and they did.

The OCC is always a meat grinder and going undefeated rarely happens especially to year's in a row. I look towards Mansfield Senior, Ashland, New Philadelphia and maybe Wooster as the biggest threats to Lex.

So I would put 17 wins as the over/ under for a win total for Lex. They will be battle tested for sure.
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If they are injured I’m sure their coach will find a way to rest them and get them healthy quick
 
Lexington Minutemen 2024/25 Schedule

Fri 29-Nov-24 Home D4 Clear Fork

Fri 06-Dec-24 Home D4 West Holmes

Sat 07-Dec-24 Away D3 Dover

Fri 13-Dec-24 Away D3 New Philadelphia


Tue 17-Dec-24 Away D3 Wooster

Fri 20-Dec-24 Home D3 Mansfield Senior

Sat 21-Dec-24 Away D4. Ontario

Fri 27-Dec-24 Home D3 Mansfield Madison

Sat 28-Dec-24 Away D4. Shelby

Fri 03-Jan-25 Home D3. Ashland

Sat 04-Jan-25 Away D3. Sandusky

Fri 10-Jan-25 Away D4. West Holmes

Sat 11-Jan-25 Home D4. Sandusky Perkins

Fri 17-Jan-25 Home D3 New Philadelphia

Fri 24-Jan-25 Home D3 Wooster

Sat 25-Jan-25 Home D3 Dover

Tue 28-Jan-25 Away D3 Mansfield Senior

Fri31-Jan-25 Away D3 Mansfield Madison

Sun 02-Feb-25 @ Smithville HS/ Battle of the Berkey D3 vs Rocky River Lutheran West

Fri 07-Feb-25 Away D3 Ashland

Sat 08-Feb-25 Home D1. Cincinnati Princeton

Fri 14-Feb-25 Home D6 Berlin Hiland
 
Ohio Cardinal Conference Boys Basketball, Week of 11/25-11/30

Wednesday November 27th
New Philadelphia at Zanesville

Friday November 29th
Clear Fork at Lexington
 
Foggle has an injured wrist from football. Any reports to the extent of the injury preventing his return until January or February?
 
Games for the Week of Dec. 2- Dec. 7

Tuesday December 3rd
Galion at Madison
New Philadelphia at Warsaw Riverview
West Holmes at Garaway
Wadsworth at Wooster

Friday December 6th
Ashland at Norwalk
West Holmes at Lexington
Wooster at Madison
Mansfield Sr. at New Philadelphia

Saturday December 7th
Clyde at Ashland
Lexington at Dover
Madison at Mount Vernon
Sandusky at Mansfield Sr.
 
Tuesday games...
Galion 42
Madison 47

New Philadelphia 66
Warsaw Riverview 36

Wooster 69
Wadsworth 46

Sugarcreek Garaway 81
West Holmes 46
 
Big Lex Fan said:
Tuesday games...
Galion 42
Madison 47

New Philadelphia 66
Warsaw Riverview 36

Wooster 69
Wadsworth 46

Sugarcreek Garaway 81
West Holmes 46
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Going to be a long year for WH, starting 4 sophomores and one junior,a couple sophomores show some signs of talent
 
Friday night...
West Holmes 44
Lexington 72

Ashland 50
Norwalk 47

Mansfield Senior 62
New Philadelphia 57

Wooster 64
Mansfield Madison 46
 
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Lex playing without Fogle may make them better in the long run. Players are forced to elavate there game and accept different roles. I don't know how good or bad Dover is, but I thought it was a nice win for Lexington. To travel for 2 hours for an afternoon game in a gym they probably haven't seen before is enough. Then you add the fact that Lex had a bad start down 7-0 and Seven Allen is saddled with 2 fouls then come back and win by double digits is pretty good. I am still hearing Fogle could be back around Christmas or New Years at the earliest.
Lex will have some tough games this month New Philadelphia, Wooster, and Mansfield Senior all on the road.
 
Big Lex Fan said:
Lex playing without Fogle may make them better in the long run. Players are forced to elavate there game and accept different roles. I don't know how good or bad Dover is, but I thought it was a nice win for Lexington. To travel for 2 hours for an afternoon game in a gym they probably haven't seen before is enough. Then you add the fact that Lex had a bad start down 7-0 and Seven Allen is saddled with 2 fouls then come back and win by double digits is pretty good. I am still hearing Fogle could be back around Christmas or New Years at the earliest.
Lex will have some tough games this month New Philadelphia, Wooster, and Mansfield Senior all on the road.
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Dover is really down this year, will probably finish around .500. Still a good win though for Lexington with all things considered.
 
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