Cincinnati Hills League

Weekly Report

Wrestling: Three CHL schools traveled to Madeira on Saturday to participate in the Bob Kearns Madeira Invitational. Reading came away with the championship trophy. Madeira finished 4th and Wyoming, 9th. There were 20 teams entered.

Champions Runner-Ups

113 lbs. Zach Rouen (Reading) 113 lbs. Louie Beard (Wyoming)

157 lbs. Chris Davidson (Madeira) 138 lbs. Blake Opichka (Madeira)

165 lbs. Elijah Peterson (Reading) 144 lbs. Caden Otto (Madeira)

157 lbs. Malachi Jackson (Reading)

285 lbs. Luke Freund (Wyoming)

Bowling: Four CHL schools entered the Back To School Bash at Fairfield Lanes. Results will be posted as soon as they are available. Madeira, Reading, Taylor and Wyoming all participated.

Girls Basketball: After the holiday break the competition is heating up. In the CHL race Madeira stands at 5-0 (9-1 overall) and Indian Hill matches them at 5-0 (6-2). They will face off against each other this coming Tuesday at Madeira.

Boys Basketball: League competition really ramps up now thst everybody is back to school. Wyoming leads in the standings 4-0 (7-0 overall). Deer Park and Madeira are both 3-1. The Cowboys and Wildcats will face off for the first of two games on Tuesday Jan. 13th at Wyoming.

Holiday Hardwood Classic

Taylor and Wyoming took part in the two day basketball extravaganza over the holiday weekend held at The Cintas Center on the Xavier campus. Taylor lost to Holy Cross and Wyoming beat DI Centerville 55-46. The Cowboys are now 6-0 on the season.

Kellen Wiley was named player of the game in the victory over the Elks.

Winter Sports continue into Holiday Season

Boys Bowling Spotlight

Deer Park’s Joe Mil

While Mariemont’s team remains undefeated at 6-0, Deer Park’s senior Joe Mil winds down a fantastic career for the Wildcats. Joe set a school record this week, firing a single game 289 score. For those that do not follow bowling, 300 is a perfect game. Joe also holds the school two game series record of 504. Joe was CHL player of the year last year as a junior. He was first team all CHL both as a sophomore and junior. As a freshman Joe had a 192 game avg. and was named 2nd team all conference. His sophomore year the game avg. rose to 205. Last year Joe’s averaged 216 pins a game and this year so far he has a 215 game average.

CHL Wrestlers step up to compete in prestigious SWOWCA Classic

Four of the six CHL wrestling schools competed against the big boys this weekend. The tournament included all the big DI schools in SW Ohio. Wyoming, Indian Hill, Reading and Taylor held their own against top notch competition.

Luke Freund, 285 from Wyoming was SWOWCA Heavyweight Champion.

All six CHL wrestling schools had undefeated wrestlers going into this weekend’s tournaments.

285 lbs. Luke Freund, Wyoming 10-0 with 10 pins

175 lbs. Brady Volz, Finneytown 5-0 with 5 pins

157 lbs. Malachai Jackson, Reading 5-0

150 lbs. Evan Mercurio, Indian Hill 2-0

144 lbs. Caden Otto, Madeira 7-0

138 lbs. Blake Opichka, Madeira 10-0 with 9 pins

120 lbs. Cannon Bergeron, Taylor 4-0

CHL Hoops

Boys Basketball: Wyoming, Madeira and Deer Park are all currently undefeated in league play early in the season. Wyoming has won the CHL title the last three years. They have accumulated a 41-1 CHL record and 72-10 overall record over that span.

Leading Hoopsters:

Antonio White, Deer Park: 35.5 PPG-1st in CHL, 9.0 RPG-4th, 4.5 SPG-1st.

Noah Wentz, Taylor: 20.0 PPG-2nd in CHL, 50% 3-PT %-1st.

Ryan VonderMeulen, Reading: 19.5 PPG-3rd in CHL, 8.5 APG-1st.

Blake Larkin, Taylor: 19.0 PPG-4th in CHL, 65.4 FG%-3rd.

Kellen Wiley, Wyoming: 17.5 PPG, 6.0 APG-3rd, 63.6 FG%-4th, 1.5 BPG-3rd (Last year's player of the year in CHL)

Tahj Ingram, Deer Park: 8.5 APG-1st in CHL, 8.0 RPG-5th.

Girls Basketball: Madeira stands at 4-0 (5-1 overall). Indian Hill is also undefeated at 5-0 in CHL play. Reading is 3-2 (5-2). Mariemont and Madeira tied for the CHL crown last season.