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District Tournament Information, Sites and Dates. Central 1. Central 2. Central 3. Central 4. In two seasons the Bellpointers had won 67 of 68 games, including a then record 54 in a row, and two state titles. Winning two state titles was quite rare in those days, as seen by the fact that in the first 35 years of the OHSAA tournament Bellpoint would be one of only two schools to win two Class B championships.
Only six schools in that class would manage to win multiple state championships. While the most famous of these, Middletown High School, will be featured in an accompanying article, at this time we will tell the story of Dayton Stivers High School, the school that has won more state boys basketball titles than any other.
The team did not qualify for the tournament the next two seasons, but in the Tigers made it as far as the quarter-finals, where they suffered only their second loss of the season in getting bounced from the tournament. Beginning with the season Stivers High School went on a record setting run of success.
That year they led all the way in the Class A championship game, a victory over Canton McKinley. The next year the Tigers of coach Floyd Stahl capped a great campaign with a championship victory over Dover High School. The Tigers stretched their winning streak to 46 in a row before losing in the sixth game of the season. With the four championships that Stivers won during the days of the Delaware Tournament, the Tigers had won eight state titles in the 15 years from While only two schools can claim more OHSAA tournament championships, no school has been credited with more boys state basketball championships than the eight owned by Dayton Stivers High School.
Back in , Newark High School qualified for the state tournament for the first time. Like so many schools in so many sports, the Wildcats played like tournament veterans their first time out. They opened with a thrilling victory over Cincinnati Elder, and then knocked off Akron South, , in the quarter finals. Bridgeport fell victim to Newark, , in the semi-finals, and the Wildcats closed out their first successful run through the tournament with a championship game victory over Findlay High School.
In the Class A tournament the Wildcats were pummeled by Massillon Washington, , to earn a quick first round exit. However, it would be the other teams taking the door when Newark again qualified for the tournament in In the semi-finals Newark crushed a good Bridgeport team by the score of — up to that time the most points ever scored in a semi-final or final game.
The championship game that year was just a bit more closely contested. The Wildcats and the team from New Philadelphia High School battled back and forth throughout the game. Entering the fourth quarter the two teams were tied at The Wildcats did not qualify for the tournament the next two seasons, but were back at it again in , only to get bounced in the quarter-finals by Xenia Central, After building an eight-point halftime lead the Wildcats had to hold off the hard charging Bulldogs to nail down their third state championship, , becoming only the second school in the state to win as many as three basketball championships.
Since the earliest days of the OHSAA boys basketball tournament, a handful of schools have really stood out as having had great success. Sometimes this comes in a short burst over a few years, other times it is spread out over many decades. A few of these schools were mentioned in the preceding article. In this article will be reviewed the tournament histories of some of the other schools whose success has added rich and colorful chapters to the OHSAA boys basketball tournament.
Hamilton High School first played in the Class A state tournament in , losing in the quarter-final round. Finally, in , Hamilton put it all together. The next season Hamilton lost a close contest to New Philadelphia in a semi-final game, then did not return to the tournament until In the semi-finals they led all the way to defeat Niles, In the championship game against Toledo Central, the Big Blue rode a point second period outburst to a halftime advantage, then coasted home with a victory and their second state championship.
The Big Blue would play in three more big school championship games. In they fell to Columbus East, , but their next two championship game encounters would end on much more pleasant notes. John Jesuit to win its fourth state championship by a score of Only two schools have won more. In their Class AA semi-final game that year the Scarabs scored 78 points, a point total that would have won all but one of the semi-final and final games ever played up to that time. Unfortunately for East Tech, their opponent in that semi-final game was Middletown High School, led by the great Jerry Lucas, who at the time was just a sophomore.
The Middies drained the basket for 99 points that night, with young Mr. Lucas setting an all-time tournament record by scoring 53 points. Tech did not qualify for the tournament the next year, but beginning in the Scarabs would make the tournament six consecutive seasons. It would be awfully difficult, if not impossible, to top the Class AA state tournament for sheer thrills and excitement. East Tech took an early lead and then held on to defeat Zanesville, , in one semi-final game.
In the other, Columbus North shocked the basketball world by upsetting two-time defending state champion Middletown, , handing the Middies their first, and only, loss in three seasons.
Seldom have two teams been so evenly matched in a tournament final as were East Tech and Columbus North in And if the folks at St. John Arena thought that they had seen a great game when North upset Middletown, then they were in for an even greater treat the next day.
Tech and North fought back and forth during the entire game. Neither team was able to score in the first overtime period. By the rules of the day, the second OT would be sudden death — first team to score wins. North gained first possession of the ball in the second OT, but lost it on a bad pass.
East Tech then worked the ball down the court. Ed Ferguson passed the ball to Gerald Warren. Warren drove toward the basket, pulled up and, with just 34 seconds gone in the second overtime, canned a jump shot in the paint it give East Tech — and Cleveland — its first state basketball title, That year was the last time that the sudden-death format was used. They would repeat that incredible achievement in , finishing with a perfect record.
In the finals against Salem High School, the score was tied at after one quarter. Tech then outscored the Quakers in the second period and the game, for all practical purposes, was over as Tech continued to pull away to a victory.
East Tech made it to the Final Four each of the next four seasons, advancing to the championship game twice. In the Class AA finals Tech jumped out to a lead over Dayton Roosevelt, but the Scarabs could not hold it and missed a third consecutive title by a score of In , Tech was again back in the championship game, this time squaring off against Hamilton Taft in a game of unbeatens.
It was a close game all the way, but Tech was never able to gain the lead and dropped a decision. Since its great run of the late 50s-early 60s, East Tech has had three more shots at a state title. While the Tigers have only been in the tournament 10 times, they have made the most of their opportunities by advancing to the championship game on six occasions, winning five.
That time the Tigers defeated Hamilton High School, , to not only bring the first state basketball championship trophy to East High School, but also the first for the city of Columbus.
East lost to Cincinnati Hughes in the Class A semi-finals, but when the Tigers next returned to the tournament in there was a much different result. Now playing in Class AA, the Tigers swamped East Tech in the semi-final game, , then took the measure of Warren Harding, , to win their second state championship.
In the years and the Columbus East Tigers had seasons reminiscent of the East Tech run exactly 10 years earlier. East has only advanced to the tournament twice since then.
Joseph High School. Portsmouth High School was a perennial Class A participant in the earliest days of the OHSAA tournament, but the Trojans enjoyed their most tournament success during five tournament appearances from Portsmouth qualified for the Class A tournament in , but did not advance to the finals until its tournament appearance in In the finals that year against Canton McKinley, the game was tied after regulation play. It was a back and forth game throughout the contest.
With just 32 seconds remaining Portsmouth took a lead and held on to win the game and the state title, In the Trojans found themselves on the short end of a one-point Class AA championship game, dropping that contest to Hamilton Ross. Two years later Portsmouth made its final tournament appearance, losing in the Division II championship game to Dayton Colonel White by a score of Henry High School of St.
Henry, Ohio has qualified for the state tournament just five times since , but on each occasion the Redskins have advanced to the championship game. Playing in Class A, the Redskins completed a perfect season in for coach Fran Guilbault by defeating defending champion Mansfield St.
In both Division III and Division IV the Redskins suffered just one loss each season, but made sure not to have that loss come during the tournament, which they won each year to post back-to-back state championships. Henry High School was back in the Division IV championship game in , but this time suffered its only defeat in a title game, dropping a decision to Fort Jennings High School.
Returning to the title game in this time in Div. From to there was probably not a hotter basketball team in the state than the one from the now closed Bishop Wehrle High School of Columbus, coached by Chuck Kemper.
The Columbus team lost in the semi-finals in , but from to they were almost unbeatable in tournament play : — Class A state champion, — Division IV state champion, — Division IV state champion, — Division IV state champion. In , Bishop Wehrle again advanced to the Final Four, only to suffer a defeat in the semi-finals. Apparently, closing the school was the only way to completely stop this Division IV powerhouse.
Joseph High School had had some previous success in the boys tournament as its predecessor, the all boy St. Joseph High School, but the Vikings had never been able to win the championship hardware. In , the Vikings lost in the semi-finals, and in they again advanced to the championship game, this time in Division I.
Enter the school year and the new era of the co-ed Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School, with Mike Moran directing the boys basketball program. Like Columbus Bishop Wehrle before them, over the next five seasons the Vikings would be just about unbeatable in the tournament.
However, playing all of this top notch competition more than prepared the Vikings for the state tournament now in Division II and helped them play their way to a second consecutive championship. VASJ missed the tournament in , but came back the next year under new coach Ted Kwasniak to take their third state championship in four years when they defeated Wauseon in the Division II finals by a score of 73 to Joseph high schools had quite a run of success over a relatively short period of time.
However, with a break here or a key win there, Bishop Wehrle might have won as many as seven consecutive championships, and VASJ five in a row. That would have been truly incredible, but both schools are probably quite satisfied to have won four titles in a five year span, while VASJ, at least, looks forward to capturing championship 5 sometime soon.
Over the years the high school hoops fans of Ohio have been dazzled by the play of some truly great basketball players and teams. Teams like the national champion Akron St. Mary team of , those great Middletown teams from , the undefeated Cleveland East Tech squads of and just to name as few. That team was the one representing little Waterloo High School during the and seasons. Their school nickname was the Little Generals, but it did not take long before their on court expertise, and antics, had earned the Waterloo basketball team a more deserving moniker — the Waterloo Wonders.
Waterloo, Ohio, is located in Lawrence County at the southern most part of the state. This is rural farm country. Before the season there was little real reason to believe, or to even hope, that the local basketball team would be anything but decent, at best, that year. The first hint of future success may have come when Magellan Hairston returned to Waterloo High School as the basketball coach and principal in Hairston, just 26 years old at the time, had been at Waterloo High School previously in , but he had moved on to other Lawrence County schools, a total of three others, to advance his teaching career.
However, as a basketball coach his record was very good, showing only a dozen losses in six seasons. When the community built a real gym for the high school later in , the Waterloo team obliged by winning another county title during the campaign.
Two consecutive championships was a bit out of the ordinary for the schools of Lawrence County. This team, therefore, was getting a winning reputation, at least at the local level. They were now about to take their winning state-wide.
These five boys made up the Waterloo team over the next two seasons. There were at times as many as three or four other boys on the team, but for all practical purposes these five boys were the Waterloo Wonders for the next two seasons. In their two championship seasons they played an amazing games, winning an even more astounding 97, including a then state record 56 in a row. Playing varsity games, some of them against college freshman teams, is incredible enough.
However, the thing that separates the Wonders from most of the other great teams in Ohio history is how they did all of this. Think Harlem Globetrotters in a high school setting, without the tall guys, and you get something of an idea of what they were like.
They were great basketball players, with a great coach and a great system, who also knew how to have fun, a lot of fun, on the court. Amazingly, unlike the Globetrotters or even other high school teams, the Wonders had no set plays. Through hours of off season practice, on their own after completing their daily chores, the Wonders had, among other things, perfected a passing game unlike any seen before - or since. They instinctively knew where each other would be on the court, and the speed with which they moved the ball around baffled both opposing teams and the spectators trying to follow the action.
The Wonders followed no set pattern of play, had no favorite spots from which they took their shots. They roamed the court at will, free-lancing to the nth degree, and adapting their court tactics on the fly as the situation dictated.
More than 70 years later he still holds the Class B scoring record of 69 points for a three-game state tournament, as well as the record for most field goals in a Class B tournament, Wiseman was not the scoring threat that his teammates were, but he could pop in a basket, and his points often came when they were least expected, but most needed.
On those rare occasions when the Wonders fell victim to a fast break, it was not unusual for Wiseman to hold off two or three opponents until help arrived, often ending the threat himself by stealing the ball. Curtis McMahon played the pivot, and his uncanny ability to feed the ball to his teammates was just as important, if not more so, than his own ability to score.
And his scoring ability was almost second to none, as he was able to hook with both hands - and occasionally thrilled the crowd by blindly tossing the ball over his head for two points. He had a great knack for hiding the ball like a football quarterback, holding onto it until the last possible second before passing off to a teammate for an easy two-pointer.
One of the two corner players with Beryl Drummond , Wyman would hang out in the corner, apparently not involved in the play. Then, all of a sudden he had the ball and a split second later was either setting up shots for the others with his incredible passing, or he would toss in a two-handed set shot from the corner or break across the key for a left-handed hook. Beryl Drummond, a sophomore, was the youngest and least polished of the five as a player.
While not a big time scorer like the others, his passing was just as crisp, and as he moved into his second year on the team his performance improved accordingly. While the Wonders won 97 of games during their two momentous seasons, and often by wide margins, they just as often trailed at the half, especially when playing a tough opponent. This was all part of their strategy, which was to see what the other team was capable of doing, sort of like scouting the opposition as they were playing them.
This defensive strategy was apparently more than effective. The next season, playing twice as many games and a considerably tougher schedule, they still managed to maintain a winning margin that averaged more than 16 points. It was almost uncanny. Often the boys would go through an entire game having committed only one foul apiece. There were even a few games in which the team was never whistled for even one infraction. It was not just the fine shooting, the great defense and the slick passing, but also the other antics that the boys employed.
The stories of these antics have evolved into the thing of legend, but the simple and amazing truth is that they actually did most of them — as incredible as it may seem.
Often after winning the opening jump ball the Wonders would immediately give the ball to one of the players on the opposing team and invite him to take a free shot. The crowd roared, the officials bickered and the Wonders performed like Broadway veterans.
At other times, when they lost the opening tip off the Wonders would politely step aside and allow the other team a free shot at the basket. If the shot was missed, they just as often gave the rebound back to the other team for another free shot. The psychology behind this was incredible, for the opposing team was often unable to regain its composure and confidence after being treated in this manner. Other antics included the Wyman cousins sitting down at midcourt and starting up a game of marbles in the middle of the basketball game.
At other times two or three of the boys sat down on the bench for a breather in the middle of a game, grabbing some popcorn or a hotdog while the rest of the team remained on the court.
If the score was particularly one-sided, they would occasionally bounce the ball hard off of the floor and into the basket, or even dropkick the ball from center court for a two-pointer. Again, quoting from Mr. But despite the endless run of grandstand clowning, no one wrote them off as showoffs who lacked the basic skills of the game.
For when the Wonders clowned, it was for a purpose, a purpose as vital as passing, shooting and other phases of the game. When they clowned, they entertained, they rested and they agitated.
And when they finally finished, only the opposing team had suffered. Throughout the entire routine, the Wonders controlled the ball, protected their lead, and drilled a bit further into the frazzled nerves of their opponents.
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