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Monday, November 30, 2009
Boys basketball preview: Belmont
This is another in a series of capsules previewing area high school basketball for the 2009-10 season:
BELMONT
Coach: Lyle Cole, third season
2008-09 record: 6-15 (1-7 Dayton City League)
Returning starter
Andre Williams, Sr. G, 5-6
Notable
Cole said things have been difficult in preseason practices because the team lost six players who would have been returners but transferred to other schools in the offseason. “It’s like starting over,” Cole said. “We had a wall in the house, then all of a sudden someone tore it down.” Williams, who averaged about 13 points per game last season, will lead the Bison with swift moves to the basket and ball-handling. Belmont will also get help from seniors Ryan Harris (6-1 forward) and Ricky Cooper (5-10 guard).
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Boys basketball preview: Northmont
This is another in a series of capsules previewing area high school basketball for the 2009-10 season:
NORTHMONT
Coach: Jim Brown, 13th season
2008-09 record: 12-10 (3-7 Greater Western Ohio Conference)
Returning starters
Zach Newsome, Sr. F, 6-4
Steve Newell, Sr. G, 6-1
Solomon King White, Soph. G, 5-9
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The Thunderbolts had to use last season to get some varsity experience. “When the season started,” Brown said, “we had one player who had ever played a varsity minute of basketball.” That was Newell, who enters his third season as a starter. Aside from White, Northmont will start two other sophomores, 6-3 Jamal Trammell and 5-9 Devon Carter. Trammell joined the varsity late last season from the freshman team and impressed coaches, and Carter is expected to be the team’s point guard. Northmont is lacking in some size but is athletic, and the Thunderbolts will get help in that area from Josh McClain, the super-athletic junior who is a top recruit at wide receiver. “A key part of our season will be how our two seniors play,” Brown said. “They have to play well.”
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Boys basketball preview: Troy
This is another in a series of capsules previewing area high school basketball for the 2009-10 season:
TROY
Coach: Tim Miller, 3rd season
2008-09 record: 4-17 (2-6 Greater Western Ohio Conference)
Returning starters
D.J. Martinez, Sr. F
David Wilson, Sr. G
Notable
Martinez (11.3 points per game) and Wilson (7.9) were the Trojans’ top two scorers last season, and they’ll lead a team heavy on sophomores and juniors. Martinez also averaged 7.1 rebounds and had his best game of the season against Butler and 6-foot-9 Wright State signee A.J. Pacher, when Martinez scored 25 points and added eight rebounds. “We have some good, quick kids who are athletes,” Miler said. “Our defense will become our offense, we’ll try to lock people down on the defensive end.”
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