Others who resigned as boys head coaches following the just-concluded season were Mike Lee (Minster), Rick Hickman (Parkway) and Scott McEldowney (Versailles).
• Nann Stechschulte also has resigned as Minster’s girls varsity coach. She amassed 440 wins in 27 seasons with the Wildcats and won Division IV state titles in 2004 and 1998. Her Minster teams won 18 sectional, nine district and three regional titles.
Stechschulte’s overall career win total is 524, which includes 84 wins at Oak Hills prior to landing at Minster.
• Northmont grad and Tiffin freshman Drew Hickman ran on the mile relay that was the difference-maker in the Dragons winning their first NCAA Division II indoor national track and field championship at Pittsburgh, Kan. Tiffin needed to place second or win the final race to clinch the team title. The Dragons were second (3:10.59) with Hickman running a 47.50 split.
Hickman likely would have contended for the D-I state 400 title at Northmont last season, but was sidelined for good with a hamstring injury midway through the season.
• Valley View grad Andy Zellner (2-1) tossed his first career complete-game shutout in the University of Cincinnati’s 1-0 defeat of visiting Northwestern this past Saturday. The junior gave up consecutive infield singles to begin the game but allowed just one base runner after that. He struck out the side in the ninth inning.
• The District 9 coaches all-star basketball games will be Thursday-Friday at Troy High School. On Thursday it’s the girls combined Divisions I-II-III game at 6:30 p.m., followed by the boys Divisions I-II-III game at 8. On Friday it’s the D-IV girls at 6:30 p.m. and the D-IV boys at 8. Proceeds benefit the Dayton Children’s Hospital.
• The South Central Ohio League is nearing an end. Clinton County schools Wilmington, Clinton-Massie and East Clinton have until May 1 to decide whether to leave the SCOL and join the Southern Buckeye Athletic Conference.
Those three were told last month that current SCOL members Chillicothe, Hillsboro, Greenfield McClain, Miami Trace and Washington Court House all would form a new league in 2017-18 without them and likely include Jackson City Schools.
Current SBAAC members are Amelia, Batavia, Bethel, Blanchester, Clermont Northeastern, Felicity, Georgetown, Goshen, New Richmond, Norwood, Western Brown and Williamsburg.
• Dominion Academy (Dayton), East Dayton Christian, Spring Valley (Centerville) and Temple Christian (Dayton) have been accepted as charter members of the new Ohio Valley Christian Conference. They’ll join DePaul Cristo Rey (Cincinnati), Immaculate Conception Academy (Norwood) and Mars Hill Academy (Mason).
The seven-team, non-Ohio High School Athletic Association members will OVCC play in 2016-17.
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