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The 8th Grade Grizzlies are now 5-0 with an easy win over Cloverleaf. Today will be a real test, last year their toughest match was a three set win over Revere. They play at Revere and yesterday at practice one of the Grizzlies best players hurt her ankle and went to the emergency room. They fear it might be torn ligaments which will put her out for the season. Also could affect her in Basketball as well. Hopefully it turns out to be only a bad sprain.
 
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Just thought I would update the 8th grade Grizzlies. The injury was not as serious as originally thought and the injured player returned after being out two weeks. The girls have continued on their roll and are now 11-0 with 3 regular season games and the tournament to play. They are really coming into their own now and have won the last four in 2 games and have not given up more than 6 points in any of them.
 
Final update on the 8th Grade Grizzlies. They finished up the season by winning the Brecksville 8th grade invitational, losing only one game in the tournament. They finished with a perfect 17-0 record( they did not lose a regular season match in either of the past two years-7th and 8th grade)and with the relative weakness of the High School team and the loss of 8 Varsity players to graduation, a few of these players will have a very good shot at contributing to the Varsity level next year. Hopefully they can bring the Grizzlies program up to the level of Tallmadge's and Green's in the next few years. :)
 
not to discourage you... but my basketball team went undefeated in 7th and 8th grade and during 4th-8th we only lost 5 games. two of those were to hudson (i'm still bitter!)
then at the high school level, the girls were just about average. they barely went over .500.
good luck to you though, i'd like to see tallmadge and wadsworth trade programs that they excell in (volleyball for basketball), but i don't see that happening.
 
SimplyADevil said:
not to discourage you... but my basketball team went undefeated in 7th and 8th grade and during 4th-8th we only lost 5 games. two of those were to hudson (i'm still bitter!)
then at the high school level, the girls were just about average. they barely went over .500.
good luck to you though, i'd like to see tallmadge and wadsworth trade programs that they excell in (volleyball for basketball), but i don't see that happening.
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Thank you for the good luck wish. I think the similarity between your class and this one is interesting. I also think part of the lack of success at the High School level must have had something to do with your coaching and system. As good as this class is in V-ball( and I have yet to see any that even come close talent wise), they are even better in basketball. I like our chances to do some special things in B-Ball come a year or two from now, they are that good and our system of player development and coaching at the HS level is outstanding. In V-Ball though we have no program at all and I am afraid the same thing will happen to this class in V-Ball that happened to yours in B-Ball. Our undefeated season was the result of these players all (I believe 9 of the 12 were from Sacred Heart in Wadsworth) learning in the CYO system in 4th thru 6th grade and the fact that athletically they are superior to any class I have ever seen. Unfortunately, there was very little coaching or development at all the last two years except in the off season. Quite a few of these players played JO V-Ball last year and this year over half will so there is hope. I guess all that can be said is we will have to wait and see what happens in the next few years, but if this class does not have an exceptional run in High School it will lay squarely at the feet of the HS program and their Coaching( or lack there of).

BTW, in grades 4th thru 6th this class won 5 CYO Championships. In the 4th grade they had three teams in three seperate divisions and all three won thier league championships. We then had to divide into two teams in 5th and 6th and both times had to play each other for the championship. These same girls also played in quite a few tournaments in 5th and 6th, although with only about half of the girls participating. They won all but one tournament game and that one they lost in the Championship game 55-53 to the Hamilton County all-star team in 6th grade. We played that game with 6 players as the other team members were at a championship soccer game that weekend. These were strictly Wadsworth Sacred Heart CYO girls. In seventh grade the entire group left Sacred Heart for the new 7th/8th grade school in Wadsworth and then in conjunction with 4 outstanding girls already in the public schools they comprised the 7th grade Grizzly team last year. That team was undefeated and really never was even challenged in a game.
 
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wow yahtzee sounds like the wadsworth girls will be a huge force to be reckoned with in a couple years! good luck to ya. i'm out of here anyway, so it doesn't matter too much :)
sadly, i truly feel tallmadge sports will decline tremendously when the class of 2003 graduates. in all sports except football, we will get considerably worse. football has hope though! i think all of our volleyball starters except 2 are seniors. girls basketball has 6 seniors (at least 4 starters). boys basketball loses rine, martin, harvey, and bauch but won't be in too bad of shape. softball and baseball, oh BOY i'm scared to see what happens when we leave. nightmare. and guys soccer loses 12 seniors. intense!
 
T-Town may be down for a little while, sometimes great individual classes hamper the next 2 following, as there is a lack of opportunity and those kids know it. However, Tallmadge has some great programs in Baseball, Boys Basketball, and Volleyball and I am sure they will develop that next group very quickly. Good programs always find away to rebuild and I am sure T-Town will do so quickly. As a little FYI your 8th Grade V-Ball team was one of the next best classes in the league along with Green's and Revere's. Talmadge had a few more star type players than Green, but Green had more depth. Revere will be interesting. They had a good mixture of both. If they have solid development and decent coaching in HS they will be a very good class as they are the next tallest in the league behind Wadsworth and also were the best fundamentally skilled all around.
 
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