Wormley to play in Ohio Div I basketball finals
Chris Wormley and the Whitmer Panthers advanced to the finals of the Ohio Division I basketball tournament with a 62-51 win over Lakewood St. Edwards today. He could face Taco Charlton and Pickerington Central in the finals if they advance past Fairfield. More footbal recruits left in the tournament than basketball. Besides Wormley, Whitmer plays 6-8, 300 lb Storm Norton, who will play football at Toledo and guard Leroy Alexander, a Nebraska football recruit. Whitmer's top player is junior Nigel Hayes, who has many D-1 basketball offers and is the younger brother of Ohio State defensive end, Kenny Hayes.
Finals are Saturday at 8:30 pm. Audio available here -
http://radio.securenetsystems.net/radio_player_large.cfm?stationCallSign=RMEDIA&pgmStart=true
Go Panthers!
Whitmer '73, Michigan '77.
Also worth noting that Magnuson is playing in the state finals in California today. Good luck to all of them.
/notfreakingoutaboutbasketball!!!
A 6'6" 280lb point guard? Don't wanna take a charge when he drives the lane.
March 23rd, 2012 at 10:50 PM ^
I heard the thug Wormley kicked a St. Ed's player while on the ground. Should fit your program well.
Whitmer would be the first Toledo team to win the state finals since Jim Jackson and Macomber did in the late 80s (IIRC). Go Panthers! Ed Heintschel's St. John's Titans have come close a couple times. Toledo needs to get off the state title schnide.
March 23rd, 2012 at 11:07 PM ^
He beat my St. Joe Vikings in the state final that year. :(
Jim is a great guy so it's hard to feel sorry for you :P Met him a few times as he is friends with my barber, and he's pretty chill.
March 23rd, 2012 at 10:49 PM ^
Whitmer is so much more talented than anyone else. If they dont' win I'll be shocked.
March 23rd, 2012 at 11:09 PM ^
Dayton Dunbar, a Division II team, is probably the best team in the state with one of the top freshman in the nation.
Dayton had already offered him before he played his first high school game.
After Dunbar/Taft in the regional final (most of you will remember Stanford and Washington) everything else in Ohio is a bit of an afterthought. Dunbar would manhandle any of the D1 teams in the state.
is that multiple sports are no longer encouraged or even permitted at some schools. A friend's son was a good football and basketball player coming out of junior high school and was told by both coaches at the high school that he would have to choose one.
They moved to a different district, I'm happy to say.
I think it's a shame--kids shouldn't be deprived of opportunities to compete. Does anyone really think Mike Martin would have been a better football player if he'd been kept out of wrestling? Or, more to the point, that he would have had a better high school experience?
in the Division 1 finals for Pickerington Central. We have two committments separated by one year playing against each other.
March 24th, 2012 at 12:40 PM ^
show the athleticism of our recruits, I do not know what does. This is awesome. DL and OL guys that play hoops.
March 24th, 2012 at 12:51 PM ^
Class C title game on now featuring a couple of former M targets:
Sean Sheldon 6'9'' forward from T. C, St Francis headed to William and Mary
Monte Morris 5'10'' Junior point guard out of Flint Beecher. Morris is a real nice player but M already has PG Derrick Walton out of Detroit Chandler Park Academy in the same class
Beecher running away with it early on
This should be a great match up can't wait to watch it, either way we win....GO BLUE!!!!!