Can't cover basketball without your help
By
Stephen Forsha-sforsha@gmail.com
Dear friends, family and readers,
What a regular season of high school basketball that just wrapped up in Highland County. There were county rivalry matchups, neighboring county showdowns, routs, overtimes, buzzer beaters, and pretty much any type of game a basketball fan could think of.
With the season taking place from the late stages of November until sometime in March, I just want to let all my friends know that yes, I am still alive. Sorry for all the missed phone calls or events I was unable to attend due to my schedule of covering basketball games. I would say I was at work, but if you love a job as much as I do, you won't work a day in your life.
To my favorite proofreader, the season is nearing to a close. It is tournament time, and in a few weeks (hopefully not too soon), basketball will be finished and I owe you some dinners for your patience and fixing of all my typos. I bet the word "wit" (should've been "with") was found about 2,000 times for the simple fact I didn't pay attention in high school typing and somehow made it through four years of college and five years in this business typing with thumbs and two fingers on each hand. Maybe it is called pecking, instead of typing. But anyways, thanks for all the help!
(Really for not being a basketball fan, I know she read about almost every game that appeared in the paper and online of The Highland County Press.)
But man, I have had some fun!
For the regular season, I would say the two most exciting games I can remember attending were the Peebles Indians pulling out the win on a basket with 1.2 seconds remaining, when Andrew Seaman knocked down the game winner on an inbounds pass play at Lynchburg-Clay High School to keep Peebles' undefeated streak alive at 16-0. Nobody deserved to lose that game.
The tie for most exciting game was McClain Tigers at Miami Trace Panthers boys basketball, where the Tigers made the largest comeback I have ever witnessed in five years of covering high school basketball as either an intern, staff writer or sports editor. Never have I watched a team trail by 21 points and then gain the win.
Freakin' amazing is all I can say.
But this has been a crazy year all around. According to the record books, Hillsboro lost to the Washington Blue Lions at Hillsboro High School, but if you look at the archives of the HCP or search for it online at www.highlandcountypress.com, what I witnessed was a Hillsboro win over the Blue Lions. No matter what anyone tries to tell me, missing paperwork or not, the Indians were winners that night! Trust me, read the story; they really did win. I promise you, I was there. They won. HHS scored the most points. When the game ended their point total was higher than Washington's! So even if the OHSAA had to play spoiler, I just wanted to let everyone know the Indians won that night. Really, they did. The score was 76-63, Hillsboro. Seventy-six is higher than 63, so that means Hillsboro won, right? Wait, don't tell me basketball is like golf and the lower score is better. If so, I have really messed up a lot of game winners this season. I really hope the winner is the team with the MOST points after the game is completed and not decided by a bunch of old men wearing suits, a part of a athletic board in the state. Just saying, I saw Hillsboro win that night, that is all.
Well, I hope the sarcasm was sensed there; if not, I suck at this. Anyways, I just want to say thanks to the coaches who sent emails, returned phone calls (either at the office or on my cell), or faxed over results to me this season. Also, thanks to Wayne Bowman for putting all of the Fairfield girls stats online, and a SUPER big thank you to Greenfield's Karen Yeager. Karen is a life saver for me for the fact she calls in the results for every McClain boys and girls game final, along with stats, to me. Another way she is a life saver is that she always has a tub full of cookies at the scorers' table, providing me with a sugar burst I need to get through the night of writing the game stories. So Karen deserves two thanks and two thumbs up for all the help she provides me with the stats from McClain.
So again, to everyone who has sent stats, pictures or returned phone calls or emails, or just sent a simple note or enjoyed my writings ... Thanks!
Lately I have become good friends with my car as I have been traveling to tournament games at Adena, Valley and Southeastern High Schools. I wish my car was like the car on "Night Rider" just so it could tell me I have no sense of direction and may have taken the wrong turn once or twice in any given trip. But the thing is that I always find another way home!
Well, the car is warming up, so I better wrap this up before the car runs out of gas. As for me, I am just getting started. With the regular season in the rearview mirror and the tourney in full swing, it is time to get back on the tournament road and see what twists and turns the tourney road takes. I just hope I have the right map this time around!
Stephen Forsha is the sports editor of The Highland County Press.[[In-content Ad]]
What a regular season of high school basketball that just wrapped up in Highland County. There were county rivalry matchups, neighboring county showdowns, routs, overtimes, buzzer beaters, and pretty much any type of game a basketball fan could think of.
With the season taking place from the late stages of November until sometime in March, I just want to let all my friends know that yes, I am still alive. Sorry for all the missed phone calls or events I was unable to attend due to my schedule of covering basketball games. I would say I was at work, but if you love a job as much as I do, you won't work a day in your life.
To my favorite proofreader, the season is nearing to a close. It is tournament time, and in a few weeks (hopefully not too soon), basketball will be finished and I owe you some dinners for your patience and fixing of all my typos. I bet the word "wit" (should've been "with") was found about 2,000 times for the simple fact I didn't pay attention in high school typing and somehow made it through four years of college and five years in this business typing with thumbs and two fingers on each hand. Maybe it is called pecking, instead of typing. But anyways, thanks for all the help!
(Really for not being a basketball fan, I know she read about almost every game that appeared in the paper and online of The Highland County Press.)
But man, I have had some fun!
For the regular season, I would say the two most exciting games I can remember attending were the Peebles Indians pulling out the win on a basket with 1.2 seconds remaining, when Andrew Seaman knocked down the game winner on an inbounds pass play at Lynchburg-Clay High School to keep Peebles' undefeated streak alive at 16-0. Nobody deserved to lose that game.
The tie for most exciting game was McClain Tigers at Miami Trace Panthers boys basketball, where the Tigers made the largest comeback I have ever witnessed in five years of covering high school basketball as either an intern, staff writer or sports editor. Never have I watched a team trail by 21 points and then gain the win.
Freakin' amazing is all I can say.
But this has been a crazy year all around. According to the record books, Hillsboro lost to the Washington Blue Lions at Hillsboro High School, but if you look at the archives of the HCP or search for it online at www.highlandcountypress.com, what I witnessed was a Hillsboro win over the Blue Lions. No matter what anyone tries to tell me, missing paperwork or not, the Indians were winners that night! Trust me, read the story; they really did win. I promise you, I was there. They won. HHS scored the most points. When the game ended their point total was higher than Washington's! So even if the OHSAA had to play spoiler, I just wanted to let everyone know the Indians won that night. Really, they did. The score was 76-63, Hillsboro. Seventy-six is higher than 63, so that means Hillsboro won, right? Wait, don't tell me basketball is like golf and the lower score is better. If so, I have really messed up a lot of game winners this season. I really hope the winner is the team with the MOST points after the game is completed and not decided by a bunch of old men wearing suits, a part of a athletic board in the state. Just saying, I saw Hillsboro win that night, that is all.
Well, I hope the sarcasm was sensed there; if not, I suck at this. Anyways, I just want to say thanks to the coaches who sent emails, returned phone calls (either at the office or on my cell), or faxed over results to me this season. Also, thanks to Wayne Bowman for putting all of the Fairfield girls stats online, and a SUPER big thank you to Greenfield's Karen Yeager. Karen is a life saver for me for the fact she calls in the results for every McClain boys and girls game final, along with stats, to me. Another way she is a life saver is that she always has a tub full of cookies at the scorers' table, providing me with a sugar burst I need to get through the night of writing the game stories. So Karen deserves two thanks and two thumbs up for all the help she provides me with the stats from McClain.
So again, to everyone who has sent stats, pictures or returned phone calls or emails, or just sent a simple note or enjoyed my writings ... Thanks!
Lately I have become good friends with my car as I have been traveling to tournament games at Adena, Valley and Southeastern High Schools. I wish my car was like the car on "Night Rider" just so it could tell me I have no sense of direction and may have taken the wrong turn once or twice in any given trip. But the thing is that I always find another way home!
Well, the car is warming up, so I better wrap this up before the car runs out of gas. As for me, I am just getting started. With the regular season in the rearview mirror and the tourney in full swing, it is time to get back on the tournament road and see what twists and turns the tourney road takes. I just hope I have the right map this time around!
Stephen Forsha is the sports editor of The Highland County Press.[[In-content Ad]]