Powerful Warren Local visits GAHS Friday
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 12:47 pm
GAHS to host Warren Local juggernaut
Coach Tom Moore’s Gallia Academy High School Blue Devils will host powerful Warren Local Friday night in the 2012-13 Southeastern Ohio Athletic League basketball opener for both schools in the new GAHS gym at Centenary.
Warren finished second in last year’s SEOAL standings behind champion Portsmouth and handed the Blue Devils two of their worst SEOAL losses, 80-33 and 86-44 enroute to a 19-3 season mark and 8-2 finish in the SEOAL.
Warren lost four of five starters from last year due to graduation, but return Evan French and Reece Patton plus several members of last year’s SEOAL champion reserve team. Patton had 19 points, 10 rebounds, four steals and three assists in Tuesday’s victory over Ft. Frye. French also had a great game against Ft. Frye.
Dylan Laffingwell, the SEOAL’s MVP football player last fall is playing basketball again this winter after missing the 2011-12 campaign due to football injuries. A senior, Laffenwell is the son of Warren Principal Dan Laffingwell.
Other Warriors expected to see action against GAHS are Mike and Andrew Drayer, Michael Hall, and Adam Lang.
The Warriors are 2-0 so far this year and are favored to replace Portsmouth as the new SEOAL kingpin this winter. WLHS is averaging 68.5 points a game and giving up 40 per game. Gallipolis enters the game with a 1-1 record. The Blue Devils are averaging 49 points a game and giving up 47.
Gallipolis opened the season with a 56-40 win at Rock Hill and lost its home opener 54-42 to Fairland. Warren Local opened its season with an 81-43 win over Meigs and followed it up with a 56-37 win over Ft. Frye on Tuesday.
The Warriors have beaten Gallipolis six straight times since a 65-51 Blue Devil win on Jan. 16, 2009. Call it a blitz-kreig or juggernaut, but Warren’s powerful Warriors under the direction of Blane Maddox have tumbled the Gallians 67-42, 65-28, 64-50, 50-46, 80-33 and 86-44 the past three years.
Warren hits the boards hard, plays a tight man-to-man defense coupled with an offensive output from both the outside and inside.
It will be a triple-header with the freshman game at 5, followed by the reserve and varsity games.
In other area games Friday, Logan is at Chillicothe, Portsmouth at Jackson, Huntington St. Joe at Fairland, Waverly at Wheelersburg, Meigs at Wellston, and Eastern at Federal Hocking.
Saturday, Athens will tackle Chesapeake, Fairland will take on Boyd County and Wheelersburg meets Jackson in the first Newt Oliver Classic at the University of Rio Grande.
Other Saturday games include River Valley at Meigs, Vinton County at Trimble, Pt. Pleasant at Hurricane and Ironton at Portsmouth.
Coach Tom Moore’s Gallia Academy High School Blue Devils will host powerful Warren Local Friday night in the 2012-13 Southeastern Ohio Athletic League basketball opener for both schools in the new GAHS gym at Centenary.
Warren finished second in last year’s SEOAL standings behind champion Portsmouth and handed the Blue Devils two of their worst SEOAL losses, 80-33 and 86-44 enroute to a 19-3 season mark and 8-2 finish in the SEOAL.
Warren lost four of five starters from last year due to graduation, but return Evan French and Reece Patton plus several members of last year’s SEOAL champion reserve team. Patton had 19 points, 10 rebounds, four steals and three assists in Tuesday’s victory over Ft. Frye. French also had a great game against Ft. Frye.
Dylan Laffingwell, the SEOAL’s MVP football player last fall is playing basketball again this winter after missing the 2011-12 campaign due to football injuries. A senior, Laffenwell is the son of Warren Principal Dan Laffingwell.
Other Warriors expected to see action against GAHS are Mike and Andrew Drayer, Michael Hall, and Adam Lang.
The Warriors are 2-0 so far this year and are favored to replace Portsmouth as the new SEOAL kingpin this winter. WLHS is averaging 68.5 points a game and giving up 40 per game. Gallipolis enters the game with a 1-1 record. The Blue Devils are averaging 49 points a game and giving up 47.
Gallipolis opened the season with a 56-40 win at Rock Hill and lost its home opener 54-42 to Fairland. Warren Local opened its season with an 81-43 win over Meigs and followed it up with a 56-37 win over Ft. Frye on Tuesday.
The Warriors have beaten Gallipolis six straight times since a 65-51 Blue Devil win on Jan. 16, 2009. Call it a blitz-kreig or juggernaut, but Warren’s powerful Warriors under the direction of Blane Maddox have tumbled the Gallians 67-42, 65-28, 64-50, 50-46, 80-33 and 86-44 the past three years.
Warren hits the boards hard, plays a tight man-to-man defense coupled with an offensive output from both the outside and inside.
It will be a triple-header with the freshman game at 5, followed by the reserve and varsity games.
In other area games Friday, Logan is at Chillicothe, Portsmouth at Jackson, Huntington St. Joe at Fairland, Waverly at Wheelersburg, Meigs at Wellston, and Eastern at Federal Hocking.
Saturday, Athens will tackle Chesapeake, Fairland will take on Boyd County and Wheelersburg meets Jackson in the first Newt Oliver Classic at the University of Rio Grande.
Other Saturday games include River Valley at Meigs, Vinton County at Trimble, Pt. Pleasant at Hurricane and Ironton at Portsmouth.
