The Norwalk boys basketball team remained No. 3 for a second straight week in the Division I Associated Press state poll it was announced Monday.
The Truckers (17-0) had just one game last week, a 92-33 thumping on the road at Port Clinton Saturday minus starter Jeff Thomas. It was the 38th consecutive regular season win for Norwalk, which hosts Bellevue Friday and Perkins Saturday this week.
Columbus Northland (19-0) remained No. 1 in Div. I with 22 first place votes and 220 points. Cincinnati Walnut Hills (17-1) maintained the No. 2 spot with 179 points, but the Truckers are just two points behind at No. 3 with 177 points.
Norwalk can clinch the Northern Ohio League title outright Friday, which would mark a third straight league title for the first time in program history. It would be just the eighth team in the 68-year history of the NOL to win three or more straight titles.
How a state panel of sports writers and broadcasters rates Ohio high school boys basketball teams in the fifth of seven weekly polls, by OHSAA divisions, with won-lost record and total points (first-place votes in parentheses):
DIVISION I
1, Cols. Northland (22) 19-0 220
2, Cin. Walnut Hills (1) 17-1 179
3, Norwalk 17-0 177
4, Westerville N. 16-1 142
5, Tol. St. John's 15-3 122
6, Mentor 14-3 92
7, Cin. Moeller 17-2 76
8, Cle. St. Ignatius 12-3 64
9, Tol. Cent. Cath. 13-2 59
10, Tol. Whitmer 13-4 47
Others receiving 12 or more points: 11, Huber Hts. Wayne 20.
DIVISION II
1, Day. Thurgood Marshall (22) 17-1 229
2, Cols. Watterson 15-1 176
3, Cols. Brookhaven (1) 16-2 165
4, Trotwood-Madison 15-2 138
T5, St. Clairsville 14-1 103
T5, Day. Dunbar 15-4 103
7, Can. S. 16-2 91
8, Kettering Alter 14-3 79
9, Franklin 14-3 49
10, Akr. SVSM 9-7 32
Others receiving 12 or more points: 11, Tontogany Otsego 24. 12, Vincent Warren 21. 13, Granville 13. 13, Lima Bath 13.
DIVISION III
1, Cin. Summit Country Day (14) 17-1 217
2, Lima Cent. Cath. (4) 17-1 197
3, Findlay Liberty-Benton (2) 16-1 156
4, Ottawa-Glandorf 15-2 124
5, Bloom-Carroll 17-1 117
6, Ironton (2) 14-2 115
7, St. Bernard Roger Bacon (1) 16-3 86
8, Beachwood 13-2 85
9, Oak Hill 15-3 38
10, Versailles 14-3 27
Others receiving 12 or more points: None
DIVISION IV
1, Cle. VASJ (11) 13-2 190
2, New Madison Tri-Village (9) 18-0 184
3, Bristol (2) 13-0 139
4, Cols. Africentric 16-2 130
5, Old Fort 17-1 111
6, St. Henry (1) 15-3 110
7, Richmond Hts. 12-2 88
8, Ft. Recovery 15-2 74
9, Newark Cath. 14-3 68
10, Tol. Christian 14-1 61
Others receiving 12 or more points: 11, New Bremen 26. 12, Edgerton 15. 13, Beaver Eastern 13. 14, Convoy Crestview 12.
Comments
There are some big shooters in that division,way to go Truckers !