Best basketball players in your school history

[TribeManiac10]

For Peebles I dont think you can pick a easy #1. Blake Justice would probably be the favorite at this point for being the closest thing to a lock #1. He is the league's all-time leading scorer and he is the first guy from Peebles to ever play for a D1 team but you could throw in Marc Kremin, Andrew Seaman, Joe Ryan, Chuck Johnson, Michael Cheesbro, Dave Smalley, Kelly Copeland, the Justice twins, Josh Arey, Bob Huffman, etc. and make a strong arguement.

[Futurebkstar]

Several Fairland players come to mind!

Nathan Hughes,Ryan Ramey,Dean Wilks probably my top 3 though!Best team probably 1961 final 4 team!

Those were 3 really good players. Mid 90's Fairland had a good team with Paul Dillon, Mike Black, Ryan Wilgus, and etc..

[Futurebkstar]

Symmes valley
Danny Wilson-52 points in one game
Jerame Fuller-1300+ career points
Justin Myers-1000+ career points
Kris Tibbs-1000+ career points

Justin Myers took that team to the regional.

[BleedGreen]

Green - Rick Scarberry, Lafe Stidham, Chris Williams, Jason Blankinship, Greg Wheeler, Gary McClung, Ben Dyer, Tim and Jacob Yarnell....

SW - Brett Roberts, Brigham Waginger, Nick Aldridge

[bucknut53]

All I know is SHL so here are my picks

Fairfield- Vanwinkle
West Union- Blain Roush
Manchester- Billy Welch
Peebles- Michael Cheesbro
Lynchburg-Clay- Paul Cluxton
North Adams- Nathan Copas
Eastern- Buchler, you pick
Whiteoak- Robbie Barnett
Ripley-?
Fayetteville- ?

Really?? Cheesbro over Cremin, Arey, Johnson??? Peebles has had some dandies and Cheesbro was a good player, but sorry, I don't have him on the level of the 3 named above.

How would you have Arey in this category. Many other players have better numbers than him. And yes, Cheez should be considered in the same level as kremi and any other outstanding player list from Peebles. Get real!

[Ironman92]

Saying Eric Caudill was quick and could score doesn't give the idea of how good he was.

Adding to the Al Oliver stuff.....that was neat for sure having those guys in the house...glad I was there!

Oliver was also a 7 time all-star and at one time was the player with the most career hits not in the HOF. Also had 523 career doubles and over 1300 RBI. Late in his career he led the league in hits, RBI and batting average...finishing 3rd in the MVP voting.

[acfan]

What about Adam Weber from Peebles?

What about Mickey Wells from Manchester?

[Mohawknation33]

Northwest High School

A few that I have seen since early 90's
Andrew Ellis
Jerry Barlow
Kenny Crabtree
Chance Hiles
Jason Smith
Danny Smith
Ryan Copp
Shawn Campbell

A couple players from others schools I didn't notice
Travis Bradford from West was one of the best shooters I have seen
Eric Nordrum from Valley went to Brown University
Eli Parkes from Minford best all around athlete in this group by far
Derek Phipps from Valley was and still phenomenal ball player
Both Yates bros from Valley

[noreply66]

Best from manchester to name a few:
Combs,Blevins,Darnell,Quinlan.Scott(schools leading scorer),

Didn't a Shelton win the MVP of the SHL in the early 60s

[The Ghost of Swanker]

Northwest High School

A few that I have seen since early 90's
Andrew Ellis
Jerry Barlow
Kenny Crabtree
Chance Hiles
Jason Smith
Danny Smith
Ryan Copp
Shawn Campbell

A couple players from others schools I didn't notice
Travis Bradford from West was one of the best shooters I have seen
Eric Nordrum from Valley went to Brown University
Eli Parkes from Minford best all around athlete in this group by far
Derek Phipps from Valley was and still phenomenal ball player
Both Yates bros from Valley

Blatantly leaves Hank Leslie off the list...

[Omega]

"How about Jeff May who played for Blue Creek? Scored 50 points in a game, among other accomplishments."


Wow, that is a blast from the foggy past of almost 50 years ago.

Was not Blue Creek consolidated with Seaman and Franklin to form North Adams?
There was some great basketball played in the old township high schools back in
the 50's and 60's.

Any body remember the old Class A Scioto County Tournament?
It was a double elimination play in to reach the sectional tournament. Clay,
Green, and South Webster did batlle at the old Grant Gym.

[wuhs22]

I'm not sure of some of the older players but here is what I think from West Union.

Mark Danials
Blaine Roush
Deron Sizemore
Alan Clark
Sean Inman
Jeremy Bennington
Jordan Cox

I'm sure there are several that I'm leaving out, these are just ones that I have heard of or remember.

[TribeManiac10]

"How about Jeff May who played for Blue Creek? Scored 50 points in a game, among other accomplishments."


Wow, that is a blast from the foggy past of almost 50 years ago.

Was not Blue Creek consolidated with Seaman and Franklin to form North Adams?
There was some great basketball played in the old township high schools back in
the 50's and 60's.

Any body remember the old Class A Scioto County Tournament?
It was a double elimination play in to reach the sectional tournament. Clay,
Green, and South Webster did batlle at the old Grant Gym.

I dont know who Blue Creek consolidated with but geographically I think West Union would make sense. Franklin consolidated with Peebles.

[Mohawknation33]

Very good add-on to northwest in Hank Leslie, very good player. I can't believe I forgot him. There are several more dare I say old timers but how about

Marvin Smalley Early 70's I believe
There was another Ellis too but my memory fails me.

Keep adding more please and help me out.

[Ironman92]

Jackson Ironmen

Ed Spriggs early 60's 1st all state 1850ish points SEOAL POY

Harold Howe late 60's 1st team all state SEOAL POY played at Urbana

Allen Collins early 80's 1,000+ points (only 4 in JHS history)

Pat Stevens mid 80's went on to play and score over 1,000 pts at Wilmington College....knee injury kept him from over 1,000 in high school

Greg Harris late 80's 1st team all-state around 23.5 ppg as a sr

Willie Woodard early 90's SEOAL POY, led team to only SEOAL title since the late 60's...played at Lewis St (D2 near Chicago and Capital)

Matt Walburn early 90's co-starred with Woodard on the SEOAL title team and eclipsed over 1,000 career points

Brad Howe mid 90's 1600+ points 1st team all-state at least once.....went on to become Capital's all-time leader in 3 pointers for a while and scored over 1500 pts at Capital....SEOAL POY

Max Morrow mid 2000's 900+ points and led one of Jackson's best teams 17-3 in a near upset over the highly touted Logan Elm Braves in the sectional

Reid Arnold mid 2000's illness kept him from 1,000 career points.....played many minutes as a frosh

Dylan Newsome current is very near 1,000 points and is inch for inch one of the best players Jackson has ever had


Should've beens:

Jon McDonald....started many games as a frosh and would've definately been over 1,000 pts...transferred to Wellston after his soph year

Shane Wolford....started games as a freshman and then missed season time with late playoff runs in football and with conditioning and not playing his jr or sr year for 1/2 of the year

Kyle Ondera....contributed as a frosh very well against monster teams at the time lke Zanesville and Chillicothe.....transferred to Oak Hill...won state championship, final 4 MVP and eclipsed 1,000 points

Ryan Borden.....all-seoal as a soph scoring 18 ppg and then transferred to Oak Hill.......hit the 2 biggest shots in Jackson Co history in state championship game to sent into OT and double OT

Patrick Dill....was scoring 18 ppg with the Ironmen and going to be all-seoal....but quit team very late and moved to Pennsylvania

OTHERS: post 1983

Vince Jenkins, Vince Wolford, Jeff Coffey, Clayton Valentine, Ryan Bethel, Jared Humphreys, Morgan Dobbins

probably need to add Mike Rouse the 6'6 sharp shooter from the early 70's

Current senior Colt Chapman is better than some of those I have mentioned....I'll let him finish out his career first.

[Mohawknation33]

Mohawknation33 wrote:
Northwest High School

A few that I have seen since early 90's
Andrew Ellis
Jerry Barlow
Kenny Crabtree
Chance Hiles
Jason Smith
Danny Smith
Ryan Copp
Shawn Campbell

A couple players from others schools I didn't notice
Travis Bradford from West was one of the best shooters I have seen
Eric Nordrum from Valley went to Brown University
Eli Parkes from Minford best all around athlete in this group by far
Derek Phipps from Valley was and still phenomenal ball player
Both Yates bros from Valley


Blatantly leaves Hank Leslie off the list...

Blatantly? Don't think so

[eagles73Taylor]

Ironman, I agree about Caudill. He did everything at a high level. When Rio played OU he showed why he should have went to a bigger college. He outplayed OU's guards in that game hands down.

[Jesco White]

eagles73,

You are EXACTLY right about that OU-Rio game and the way "E" played!!! I was at the Convo for that match-up and he was definitely on his game. I've always liked Eric and his brother Larry a lot. I watched them play against my older brother while they were both at Eastern and he was at East when I was growing up. Later in life, I worked with them at Good Shephard Manor and played many pick-ups games with them in the gym at GSM.

[zebraman]

Green - Rick Scarberry, Lafe Stidham, Chris Williams, Jason Blankinship, Greg Wheeler, Gary McClung, Ben Dyer, Tim and Jacob Yarnell....

SW - Brett Roberts, Brigham Waginger, Nick Aldridge

you must add brian roach to greens list

[boomer633]

"How about Jeff May who played for Blue Creek? Scored 50 points in a game, among other accomplishments."


Wow, that is a blast from the foggy past of almost 50 years ago.

Was not Blue Creek consolidated with Seaman and Franklin to form North Adams?
There was some great basketball played in the old township high schools back in
the 50's and 60's.

Any body remember the old Class A Scioto County Tournament?
It was a double elimination play in to reach the sectional tournament. Clay,
Green, and South Webster did batlle at the old Grant Gym.

I dont know who Blue Creek consolidated with but geographically I think West Union would make sense. Franklin consolidated with Peebles.

Blue Creek ( I think it was called Jefferson HS) was consolidated with West Union. Winchester and Seaman high schools combined in the late sixties to form North Adams.