http://locofan.northcoastnow.com Just another NorthCoastNOW.com weblog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:53:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en CUYAHOGA FALLS — Elyria Catholic’s dream basketball season is history. It’s over and it was historic. The Panthers (20-5) stayed with defending state champion Regina for a quarter Wednesday night. But the second-ranked Royals had too much power. They opened a big lead early in the second quarter and rolled to ... http://locofan.northcoastnow.com/2010/03/11/defending-champ-regina-and-its-d-i-recruits-too-much-for-ec/ CUYAHOGA FALLS — Elyria Catholic’s stay in the Division III regional tournament ended, for all intents and purposes, with 6:16 to go in the first half of Wednesday’s 68-45 loss to Regina. The defending state champion Royals (22-2) had just finished off a 13-0 run that turned a 13-8 deficit into ... http://locofan.northcoastnow.com/2010/03/11/ec-had-no-chance-after-a-bad-second-quarter/ EATON TWP. — Not many people figured Avon Lake would match up well against tall, talented, physical Brunswick in their Division I district semifinal Wednesday night. Not many other than Eric Smith and his Shoremen, who pulled off the near-perfect game plan in knocking off the second-seeded Blue Devils, 54-44, to ... http://locofan.northcoastnow.com/2010/03/11/shoremen-shut-down-brunswick%e2%80%99s-three-big-men-for-big-upset/ WESTLAKE — Brookside was overdrawn, maxed out, in the red. The balance was zero. The Cardinals couldn’t buy one in the first half. Brookside finally received some stimulus in the fourth quarter with Hunter Skolnicki leading the bailout effort with 18 points, but it was a day late and a dollar short ... http://locofan.northcoastnow.com/2010/03/11/boys-basketball-brookside-ends-up-in-the-red-versus-bay/ Elyria Catholic’s season is over, but Avon Lake’s is still going strong. The Panthers, making the school’s first appearance in a girls regional basketball game, lost 68-45 to defending state champion and second-ranked Regina on Wednesday in a Division III semifinal at Cuyahoga Falls High School. EC ends the season at 20-5, ... http://locofan.northcoastnow.com/2010/03/10/elyria-catholic-girls-fall-avon-lake-boys-move-on/ Elyria Catholic’s three seniors played varsity basketball when they were freshmen. But not very well. The Panthers finished 3-18 that season and who knew what the future held? Actually, they did, and so did present coach Eric Rothgery, who was junior varsity coach at the time. To them, the future looked pretty ... http://locofan.northcoastnow.com/2010/03/10/on-top-at-last-ec-seniors-never-lost-hope/ NORWALK — For more than 10 minutes Tuesday night, Southview had a leg up on sixth-ranked Toledo Waite. Then two things happened. The Indians slapped a full-court zone on the Saints and Natasha Howard, their 6-foot-3 post and Florida State recruit, went to work offensively. The combination produced bunches of Southview ... http://locofan.northcoastnow.com/2010/03/10/girls-d-i-regional-saints-keep-up-until-waite-turns-up-defense/ NORWALK — The list of disappointing things Scott Plzak saw Tuesday night was long. Plazak’s Southview team had more turnovers (35) than points (34) in its Division I regional clash with sixth-ranked Toledo Waite. The Saints shot less than 30 percent from the field, and nobody but Shanique Ogle did much ... http://locofan.northcoastnow.com/2010/03/10/turnovers-costly-southview-has-35-errors-and-only-34-points/ When Scott Plzak learned that Tierra Whitfield, his sophomore point guard from last season, was moving to Georgia, he knew who would take her place. Plzak just didn’t know how valuable Tanitra Smith was going to be. “We were at a shootout in Cleveland this summer,” Plzak said. “I don’t know the ... http://locofan.northcoastnow.com/2010/03/09/girls-basketball-regional-preview-southview%e2%80%99s-smith-took-control-at-point/ WELLINGTON - How sweet was it? Sweet enough to produce the biggest victory in the history of Elyria Catholic’s girls basketball program. Sweet enough to put the Panthers in a Division III Sweet 16 for the first time. The Panthers produced an incredible comeback in front of a full house at Wellington ... http://locofan.northcoastnow.com/2010/03/07/girls-district-basketball-elyria-catholic-rallies-to-reach-1st-regional/