To the veterans go the spoils on this year’s Star Beacon Ashtabula County Boys Golf Team.
Of the 11 players on the team, nine are seniors. That is a sharp departure from last year, when seven members of the all-county squad were underclassmen.
One of the veterans is Conneaut senior Andrew Bunnell. With his average of 39.7 strokes per nine holes, Bunnell repeats as the Star Beacon Ashtabula County Coach of the Year.
This year’s team is dominated by Geneva, which finished second overall in its first year in the Premier Athletic Conference and won the conference tournament. Its coach, Brad Ellis, has been chosen Coach of the Year for the second straight year.
The Eagles produced the only male golfer from Ashtabula County to reach the district tournament in senior Chris Kelner, who is a part of the team. They also placed one of two underclassmen on the team in junior Michael Schubert, who is also one of five holdovers from the 2008 team.
The Geneva contingent on the team also includes senior Derek Kovach, another repeat member of the team. Rounding out their representation are seniors Randy Jackson and Kyle Kapudjija.
Two members of the Pymatuning Valley squad that earned its second straight Northeastern Athletic Conference championship were chosen. They are seniors Neil Guman and Mac Thurber.
Jefferson has two of the repeat members of the team. They are Eric Holodnak and Jared Jacobs, both seniors.
The team is completed by Lakeside’s Justin Shinault. He is the other junior on the squad.
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Experience leads way as seniors dominate squad
Only two players on team won’t graduate in spring
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Comforts of home
A trip home led to a meteoric improvement for Ohio State Buckeye Mallory Kreider, who destroyed her personal best in the 5,000 meters (3.1 miles) by 52 seconds Friday night during the Spire Division I Indoor Track and Field Invitational.
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Look out for Lakeside
Lakeside coach Rob Pisano has been waiting for this moment. And waiting. And waiting.
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Falcons fall
As the Jefferson Falcons’ rise to respectability under first-year coach Jeremy Huber continues, they have continuously improved on certain aspects of their game.
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A case for the offense
Forget offense versus defense. When Edgewood hosted Conneaut on Friday night, It was offense versus offense. And the Warriors won, 69-59.
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Familiar refrain for Torok & Co.
Geneva boys basketball coach Scott Torok is no Bill Murray. However, he may feel like a character in the actor’s movie “Groundhog Day.”
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Perry raids Harvey
The Perry boys can celebrate the fact they have now won twice in a row, and they deserve to do that. But along with Friday’s 66-54 win against visiting Harvey came a sight that nobody ever wants to see.
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Scholastic Statistics:
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Lakeside 89, Madison 76
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Scholastic Schedule:
SATURDAY, FEB. 11
Girls Basketball
n Madison at Chardon (1)
n Lakeview at Edgewood (1)
n Conneaut at Jefferson (6)
n Lakeside at Riverside (1)
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Riverside sneaks past Edgewood
Riverside wrestling coach Scott Blank learned a good deal of what he knows from Edgewood coach Greg Stolfer as a former Warrior great. Thursday, he used a bit of that knowledge to get the better of his old coach as the Beavers bested the Warriors, 31-28, at Edgewood.
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Madison rolls past Geneva
Madison recovered from coming out on the short end of a pin in the first match of the night by taking six of the next seven matches against Geneva and capped the night with pins from their last pair of grapplers in dismantling the Eagles, 49-17.
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