Cowboys Keep Trying At Mariemont

From Coach King

What do you do when your tallest girl is 5'10" and the opposing team has a solid 6'3" girl who can catch and shoot really well?  Coach Jeff King is still trying to figure that one out.
On Dec. 20th, the 8th Grade Girls Basketball Team lost to an undefeated Mariemont team 23-40.  Lauren Metz led the scoring with 13 points, followed by Kayla Hampton with 6 and Emily Dudek and Isabelle Judge each with 2.  The girls made a valiant defensive effort in a very physical game, trying multiple defenses and assignments.  Lauren Metz drew the "big" assignment aided by different combinations of Isabelle Judge, Kelsey Lackey, Emma Postallian and Emma Jacquemin.  Putting the pressure on the guards were Kayla Hampton, Emily Dudek, Crissy Gallick and Tatyana Palmer.
The girls play their next game on Jan. 7th at home with Reading.

So now we all know where we need to be on January 7th.  Let's turn out and show the Middle School Girls our support.

Hall of Fame Holly

We've known it all along, but now it's official - Cincinnati style.  Wyoming alumna Holly Porter Little ('93) has been elected to be inducted into the LaRosa's High School Sports Hall of Fame.  Look out for more information on the June ceremonies.

From the newspaper:
Six all-time great athletes and a legendary coach are the 2012 electees to the Buddy LaRosa’s High School Sports Hall of Fame.

The seven latest additions will be officially inducted into the Hall during June ceremonies at WCET-TV studios Downtown.The hall is in its 38th year of recognizing area high school athletes and coaches. It has honored 237 individuals since its founding in 1975.

The 2012 inductees are: Adrienne Hundemer (Dayton, Class of 1994); Jackie Kemper (Mercy, Class of 1981); Michael Muñoz (Moeller, Class of 2000); Michelle Muñoz Trenz (Mason, Class of 2001); Holly Porter Little (Wyoming, Class of 1993); Tad Schroeder (Withrow, Class of1954) and coachRayKues (St. Henry, Bishop Brossart and Silver Grove, 1984-2009). Michelle and Michael are the 10th sibling set to be inducted into the hall.

Holly Porter Little, Wyoming: A multi-sport standout at Wyoming, she excelled in basketball, where she still holds 10 school records, including career scoring (2,026 points), rebounding (1,095) and steals (503). Her basketball excellence continued at Boston College, where she was named Big East Rookie of the Year, third team All-Big East and set Big East freshman records. She had 2,047 career points and 902 career rebounds at Boston College.

Holly is also a Boston College Hall of Famer.  The following is from the BC Eagles website:
A dominating rebounder and dead-eye shooter, her stellar play helped boost Boston College women's basketball to BIG EAST and national stature and success.
BIG EAST "Rookie of the Year" as a freshman, she followed with All-BIG EAST honors in each of her succeeding varsity seasons.
Set a school standard for rebounds with 902 in 108 varsity games (8.4 average). Scored 1957 career points, an impressive 18.1 per game output, as she sunk 47.5 % of her field goal attempts.
A skilled player in every aspect of the game, she led the team in steals for three seasons (196 total) and was credited with 182 career assists.
Inducted into the Boston College Varsity Club Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003.

Languishing in Logo Limbo

 As we have a small break in the Winter action, I thought this would be a good time to pass along a question we received the other day from a '75 alumnus. 

I have a question: is the Wyoming Logo a

1) cowboy,

2) a cowboy riding a horse, or,

3) a Horseshoe?

After 56 years, I'm still not sure.  Thanks!

 

Now I know the more smart-alacky among you will want to answer "Yes".  While that may bring some level of smug satisfaction to you, please think about this poor guy.  56 years of that nervous anxious feeling in the pit of his stomach, the cold sweats, and the night terrors.  Let's get this man some relief.

Cowfish Can't Ace the Aves

On Thursday, December 20th, The Cowfish were at Sycamore where the divers faced both Milford and Sycamore and the swimmers went up against Sycamore.

From Coach Pete

Final Results: 

Men-Wyoming   56pts.

         Sycamore  46pts 

Women-Sycamore-89pts  

              Wyoming-48pts

Combined Team - Sycamore-148pts 

                              Wyoming-120pts.
The Cowfish started fast with an impressive win in the 200yd. Medley relay.  The team of Lia Thomas, Philip Brocker, Nick Denson, and CarsonBurt finished 1st but could not match Sycamore's team depth throughout the swim/dive meet.  Our double event winners, Carson Burt in the 200 and 500 yd. Free, Philip Brocker in the 50yd. and 100yd.Free, Nicholas Denson in the 100yd. Individual Medley and 100yd. Breastroke.  Our single event winners Samantha Cambell in the 1 mtr. Dive event, Charlie Donnelly 25yd. Breastroke, Rebecca Prangley 50yd. Breastroke, and Lia Thomas 100 Fly.  The 200yd. Free relay team of Philip Brocker, Nicholas Denson, Lia Thomas and Carson Burt finished the meet with a victory.

 

  

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Boys' Varsity Basketball Review

The Wyoming Boys' Varsity Basketball Team has won two in a row.  On Saturday, December 15th, The Cowboys dominated at Lockland with a 67-42 final score.  Ahmed Frost pulled down 19 points.  Ben Kurtz and Mark Akinbi both put in 13, while Kurtz led the team in rebounds with 7.  Mason Rogers had 9 and Will Marty contributed 7.  Walker Lewis added 5, and Nolan Prevish put in 1. 

On Friday, December 21st, the boys were on the road again.  This time Taylor was the site of the whipping dealt by the Cowboys.  They won with a 45-31 final.  It looks like the scoring was spread around.  Ben Kurtz and Mark Akinbi were scoring twins again, both with 9.  Ahmed Frost and Walker Lewis both put in 7.  Will Marty and Mason Rogers also mirrored each other with 4 points each.  Ian Toerner was not to be left out and he added 1.  Mark Akinbi led team in rebounds with 14, while Ben Kurtz also had double digit rebounds with 10. 

Competition is great.  It helps to keep things interesting.  (And almost anything could be more interesting than regurgitating game stats from the CHL website.)  Breaking bad news to the, uhh... non-winners of any competition an be difficult.  That's what makes this so hard... the fans of Boys' High School Basketball are getting beat down by the Middle School Girls Basketball team.  Have you seen their game summaries and highlights?  They're pretty good.  Lots of action words in there as can only be written by someone who was at the game, who knows the game, and who knows the players.  So, consider this half-time.  You have a choice here.  You can keep going letting me post stats from the CHL site as I get them, or you can decide to get in the game and send in great summaries, highlights, and photos.  Don't let a bunch of puny Middle School girls embarrass you.

JV Girls' Basketball Downs the Devils

"Auto-Focus" Arch Cunningham sent in some great shots of the Saturday, December 22 JV Girls' Basketball win against Reading.  I don't know the final score.  I don't know the team's record.  I don't know the players names or stats.  If you know any of the above, feel free to share.  If you think these JV athletes deserve some adulation and recognition then it's up to you to make it happen.  You can decide to be the one to send in game summaries, highlights or photos. 

Thanks to Arch Cunningham for the pictures

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Varsity Girls Start the Holiday Break with a Win

Saturday, December 22, the Girl's Varsity Basketball hosted the Reading Blue Devils.  With a final score of 47-35 it will be a Blue, Blue Christmas indeed for Reading.  (I know it's a lame reference, but with a name like the Blue Devils, how could I pass it up?).  The Cowboys outscored Reading in every quarter except the last.  Emily Wadds lead the scoring with 18.  (18, for all you mathletes out there is more than half of Reading's 35, just sayin').  She also led in rebounds with 8.  Ashli O'Neal scored 17 (17 is half of Reading's 35, and now I'll stop with the number nonsense).  6 of those were from her 12 Free Throw attempts.  Natalie Burchard brought in 5.  The trio of Morgan Cunningham, Katie Sena, and Kelsey Brunsman each put in 2, and Hailey Stewart finished up the scoring with 1.  After the break, the Girls return to action on January 5th when they travel to Finneytown to deliver a New Year knock-out to the Finneytown squad.

(The above game summary came from strictly from stats found on the CHL website.  Have you noticed the recent game summaries from the Middle School Girls' Basketball.  There are bringing in action verbs, multi-syllable adjectives and adverbs.  I'm not trying to knock my own pathetic, dry-as-toast writing here, but as a matter of pride don't the Varsity Girls deserve writing as good or better than those puny Middle Schoolers?  Hint, this is the part where you say to yourself 'Yes! Yes they do, and I'm going to be the one to send in great write-ups to the Round-Up'.)

Thanks to Arch Cunningham for the pictures.

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Revenge Best Served Wet

Tuesday, December 18th, the Cowfish were hosted by Mariemont where they extended their undefeated season.  Coach Pete sent us the following report.

 

Final Score
Wyoming 160 pts (5-0)
Mariemont 121 pts

This was an exciting swim meet for the W.M.S. Cowfish.  Last year we lost this meet by 1 point and the team was out for revenge this year.  All the swimmers and divers competed like Champions and cheered their teammates onto the victory!!  The Swimmer of the Meet--Isabella Getgy, for the outstanding swims in the 200 yd. and 500 yd. freestyle.  Isabella's swims in these tough events was for team points and she had her best swim times.  Great Team Swimmer!!  On Thurs. the team travels to Sycamore High School, to take on this mighty team.  The warm-ups start at 4:00 diving is 1st at 4:30 then swimming starts around 5:00.  Come out and cheer on the  W.M.S. Cowfish during their last dual meet of the season!!

 

Go Cowfish!!

Coach Pete

 

 

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Cowboys Can in Canton

From Heather Lethander

Canton Brings a Christmas Record!

11 Men and 11 Women from our team travelled to Canton, Ohio last weekend to compete in the Canton City Schools’ Christmas Invitational. The purpose of travelling to this meet is two-fold. First, it allows our top swimmers to compete against other top programs in the state at the venue where the annual State Championship Meet is held. Second, this is a prelims-finals meet just before the intense Holiday Training portion of the season. Our top swimmer of the day was Junior Jonathan Rutter who came in 2nd in the 100 Breast with a time of 59.21 and 3rd in the 500 Free with a 4:44.22, breaking the old school record from 2001. Other swimmers competing in the finals were senior, Brennan Burt in the 200 Free. Junior Caroline Duke in the 100 Fly and Sophomore Max Chou in the 100 Fly. The Men’s 200 Medley Relay (Max Chou, Jonathan Rutter, Ian Nyberg, and Brennan Burt) came in 5th place and the Men’s 400 Free Relay (Max Chou, Carson Skidmore, Jonathan Rutter and Brennan Burt) placed 7th. The Cowboys will be travelling to Dayton this Saturday, Dec. 22nd to compete against Dayton Oakwood at 6 pm. The meet will take place at Beavercreek YMCA and will include diving.

Diving Results

The Diving Team has also had a couple meets over the last week. Congratulations to Will Courtney on his performance at the Comet 11 Dive Meet held at Sycamore this weekend. Courtney scored 6^th out of 20 divers with a score of 232.65. The divers also competed at the UC Dive Invitational last week and Will Courtney placed 4^th with a score of 146.75. Vera Bostwick was 15^th with a score of 131.70.

The divers will be competing at Dayton Oakwood on Saturday as well.

Wyoming v. Dayton Oakwood

We will be travelling to Dayton to compete against Oakwood on Saturday, Dec. 22^nd. Please be at the High School at 4:30 pm for the bus. The meet will begin at 6:00 pm at the Beavercreek YMCA located at 560 Grange Hall Road Beavercreek, OH 45430

Girls Basketball Awfully Close

On Saturday, December 15th, the Varsity Girls' Basketball Team hosted Taylor and came up just shy of the win.  Wyoming went into half-time up by one, but were out-scored in the 4th quarter.  Final Score was 29-30.  Ashli O'Neal scored 13 points, with Morgan Cunningham right behind gher with 10.  Emily Wadds put in 4, and Kelsey Brunsman rounded out the scoring with 2.  They are now 2-5 on the season and 2-2 in the League.