Cincinnati Hills League

Rain Bytes Thursday

Keep checking this on days in which weather could be a factor in any cancelled varsity contests.
Reading- Finneytown softball has been postponed to 5/12.
Indian Hill-Walnut Hills softball has been postponed to 5/10.
Deer Park-New Richmond baseball cancelled
Madeira baseball vs. Lockland & Cincinnati Christian has been cancelled.
Madeira at Taylor tennis postponed to 5/13
Finneytown-St. Xavier "C" tennis cancelled
Mariemont-Milford tennis cancelled
Reading-Norwood baseball cancelled
If you do not see your team listed and are not sure if they will play, contact your school.

City & State Polls, Reading #1 In The State

For the first time this season, the CHL has a number one ranked team in the state. Reading's baseball team is #1 in the State Division IV poll. In the city Division II-IV Baseball poll, Mariemont is 5th, Reading 7th, Madeira 9th, & Wyoming 10th. In the city Division II-IV Softball poll, Madeira is 4th & Reading 10th. The Division II Boys' tennis poll has five CHL teams in the top 10. Indian Hill is 2nd, Wyoming 3rd, Madeira 6th, Finneytown 8th, & Mariemont 9th. In the State Division II Boys' Tennis poll, Indian Hill is ranked 2nd. Track & Field has a strong showing in the city polls with CHL teams leading the way. The Girls' Division II-III poll has Mariemont again on top. Wyoming is tied for 2nd & Indian Hill is 4th. Likewise in the Boys' Division II-III poll, Finneytown continues to lead. Wyoming is 2nd, Indian Hill 3rd, & Deer Park 8th.

The Hits Parade

The month of April saw the largest number of visits to the CHL Website in our two year history. We had a total of 57,207 visits last month. Our recording year is August 1st to July 31st. Since August 1st, the CHL Website has had 327,143 visits. That more than doubles the total from the whole first year of the Website. Thanks to all for your support!

CHL Basketball Coaches & Athletes Honored

The Greater Cincinnati Basketball Hall of Fame is sponsoring the 12th annual Hall of Fame High School Achievement Banquet on Wednesday, May 7th. It will be held at the Holiday Inn Eastgate. Four members from the CHL will be honored. Angie Edmonds of Wyoming will be honored as the Division II Girls' Coach of the Year. Jeoff Gabbard of Deer Park will be honored as the Division III Boys' Coach of the Year. Honored as Players of the Year will be Shalena Hawkins of Finneytown (Division II) and Ori Harrison of Deer Park (Division III). Congratulations to Coach Edmonds, Coach Gabbard, Shalena, & Ori!

Week 6 Baseball Report

For the Mariemont Warriors, third time was charm! After losing their first two league games of the season to Madeira & Wyoming, the Warriors clinched a tie for the league title, beating Deer Park 17-2. The next day, they won it outright by beating the Wildcats 20-9. It is the first baseball title for Mariemont since 1998. They won one other CHL baseball title in 1989. Mariemont finished with a 12-2 league record and they are 13-4 overall. Reading will be no worse than 2nd in the league. The Blue Devils are 10-3 in the league (17-3 overall) and are riding a 10 game win streak. Reading has a make-up game with Finneytown on Tuesday. That game will decide if the Blue Devils will share 2nd place or have it by themselves. Madeira finshed the league with a 10-4 mark (14-7 overall). There are 16 games scheduled the last regular week of the season. Besides the Reading-Finneytown game, the only other league game left is Indian Hill at Wyoming. That game will decide 4th place. Those two games are the SID Games of the Week.
Cameron Malone of Madeira has taken over as the league batting leader (40 or more at bats) with a .508 average. Cory Woodward of Reading is 2nd with a .491 average. Matt Taylor of Indian Hill leads with 8 home runs and teammate Ryan Murphy is 2nd with 7. Garrett Edwards is 1st in RBI's with 28 and Malone is 2nd with 27. Cory Woodward has the best ERA (15 innings pitched) of 0.62. Brian Baird of Mariemont is 2nd (0.93). Woodward, Stuart Simons & Billy Masur of Mariemont have 4 wins each. Woodward & Simons have 44 strikeouts each. Check out complete stats under Statistics.
The post season tourney has been set up. More information on that later this week. In the meantime, you can check out the match-ups in the OHSAA SW website under Links.

Week 6 Softball Report

Madeira put the icing on the cake by going 14-0 to win their first ever CHL softball title. The Amazons now have won 15 in a row and are 19-1 overall. They have dominated their opponents outscoring them 210-26. Reading & Wyoming are tied for 2nd with 10-3 league marks with one league game to go. The Cowboys have won four in a row, including three league games. There is a light schedule this final regular week of the season. Eight games are to be played. Reading-Finneytown & Indian Hill-Wyoming are the last two league games. Because it will decide 2nd place with Reading & Wyoming, these two games are the SID Games of the Week.
Lauren Cupp of Reading is the new hitting leader with a .522 average. Suzie Murdock of Madeira slipped to 2nd with a .507 average. Murdock leads in home runs with 8 and RBI's with 36. Teammate Sarah Hammitt is 2nd in home runs (7) & RBI's (35). Hammitt continues to be the best pitcher in the league. She has 16 of Madeira's 19 wins. That doubles 2nd place Stacie Bradford of Deer Park. Hammitt has 145 strikeouts with Bradford & Becca Conn of Indian Hill 2nd with 97 each. Gretchen Staubach of Madeira has the best ERA (0.78). Hammitt is 2nd with a 1.02 ERA. Check out complete stats under Statistics.
The post season tourney has been set up. More information on this will come out later this week. In the meantime, you can check out the match-ups on the OHSAA SW website under the LInks.

Week 6 Boys' And Girls' Track & Field Report

This is the last week for track & field before leagues. There is a light schedule this week. Finneytown & Reading will be at the CHCA Invite on Tuesday & Wednesday. Wyoming will split their team to go to Anderson & LaSalle Invites on Wednesday. Thursday, the full Wyoming team will be at LaSalle Invite. Also Thursday, Deer Park will host a tri-meet with Madeira & Summit. Saturday, the last invitational of the season will be at Batavia. Deer Park, Indian Hill, & Mariemont will be there.
This past week, Marimeont hosted it's annual Steve McKee/Kiwanis Invitational. Once again, this is one of the best run meets in Cincinnati. The home team girls took home their 5th major invite title of the season. Mariemont out-distanced 2nd place Indian Hill by 35 points, 122-87. Madeira was 7th, Finneytown 8th, Wyoming 9th, & Taylor 10th. The Lady Warriors had five 1st places. Mackenzie Fields won the 100 Hurdles & High Jump. Aggie Howland won the 100 Dash and Hanna Flessa won the discus. The Mariemont 4 X 100 Relay was also 1st. Aubrey Rogers of Indian Hill was 1st in the 200 Dash and the Indian Hill 4 x 200 & 4 X 400 Relays also finished 1st. Lauren Dehan of Madeira was 1st in the 3200 Run & Kaitlin Worthington of Finneytown was 1st in the Shot Put. Finneytown continues a run of it's own in boys' track & field. The Wildcats were 1st at Mariemont with 91 points, 17 better than 2nd place Dixie Heights. Indian Hill was 5th, Mariemont 8th, Deer Park 9th, Taylor 11th, & Wyoming "B" 12th. Finneytown had four 1st places. Marquis Brookins won the 100 Dash, Brad Besserman the 3200 Run, & Kendall Ross the 110 Hurdles. The Finneytown 4 X 100 Relay team also finished 1st. Chris Porst of Mariemont won the high jump. At the Seven Hills Invitational, Reading boys were 5th and Reading girls were 6th.
MacKenzie Fields of Mariemont had a busy week by herself. MacKenzie is the best girl pole vaulter in the city and one of the best Division III vaulters in the state. She won the pole vault at two Division I dominated meets, Loveland & Princeton. Mackenzie also competed Tuesday at the CHCA Invite. At that meet, she cleared a personal best and school record 11' 9". She attempted 12'3" which would be the city record. She barely missed getting that.
Check out the track & field stats under Statistics and the Run CHL website under Links.

Week 6 Boys' Tennis Report

Indian Hill & Wyoming are both 4-0 in league play. The two teams will meet Thursday to determined the league champ. Indian Hill has won every tennis title since the league formed in 1985. Wyoming, who has played a strong non-league schedule, will be trying to break that streak. Finneytown finshed 3rd in the league with a 3-2 mark. The Wildcats are 10-6 overall. Check out the league stats under Statistics.
Next week will be starting the sectional match play for singles & doubles. More information on that will coming in the next few days.

CHL Accomplishments

Mariemont was stopped from clinching the CHL Baseball title by Madeira Monday, losing 11 to 8. The bigger story from that game is that Madeira coach Jack Kuzniczci got his 300 career victory. Congratulations to Jack!
Maria Disbennett was Maria Gallo went she attended Reading High School from 1996-2000. At Reading , she played soccer, baskeball, softball. She played her softball under current Reading coach Mike Day. Maria is in her first year as the Finneytown varsity softball coach. So she has two shots at beating her high school coach. The first of the Disbennett-Day battles goes to Coach Day. Reading beat Finneytown 14-4 on Wednesday. The second part of the battle of coach & athlete will be Friday at Finneytown.
Kaitlin Worthington, Finneytown senior, has been one of the best shot put athletes in Cincinnati the last couple of years. At the Finneytown Invitational this season, she had a put of 37' 2" to break her own school record. It's rare in track & field to have throwers be equally as good in running, much less middle distance or sprints. But Kaitlin has also excelled on the track. She was district champion last year in the 800 Run to go along with her runner-up in the shot put. This season, she has scored points for her Lady Wildcat team in most invitationals in the 800. She runs a sub 2:30 most of the time. And if that was not a busy enough schedule for her, she is also on the Finneytown 4 X 200 & 4 X 400 relay teams. Kaitlin will be attending Wisconsin Lutheran University next year where she will play volleyball & be on the track & field team.
Madeira junior Lauren Dehan was an outstanding runner in junior high. Her first two years of high school she played on the soccer & basketball teams, but she couldn't find her niche. So, Lauren took up running again at the end of her sophomore year. This past fall, she won the CHL league cross country title and was the league Runner of the Year. She went on to win the Division III District Cross Country title, was 9th at the regional meet, and 35th at her first state cross country meet. Her best 5 kilometer race time was at the districts, 19:33. She has carried over that success into the track & field season. Lauren has focused this season on the two longest track races, the 1600 & 3200 runs. She has placed 1st or 2nd in every meet this season in the 1600. Her best time has been 5:27 at Deer Park. In the 3200 run, she was 3rd at the first meet of the season against mostly Division I girls at the LaSalle Invite. Since that time, she has been undefeated in the 3200. Her best time was at the Mariemont Invite (11:44). Her goal this season is to compete in the state meet. Off the track, Lauren is carrying a 4.5 GPA and is very involved in several school activities.
If you have any stories on current or former CHL athletes or coaches, email the SID at the address below.

CHL Non-League Spring Sports Corner

We will be covering one non-league sport this spring. Lacrosse is played at three CHL schools, Indian Hill, Mariemont, & Wyoming. Indian Hill & Mariemont have had teams for the last couple of years. This is Wyoming's first year with the sport.

Cable Television Links

Two public access studios, ICRC TV and Waycross Community Media, will at various times during the season cover CHL teams. We will update the Website with any broadcasts. Instead of putting the playback schedule each time, you can get the schedule through the access websites or call the studios. ICRC will also televise sports events on their website.
ICRC - icrctv.com or 772-4272
Waycross - waycross.org or 825-2429

2006-2007 Wrap Up

This past season was a good one for the CHL. Several teams and athletes did very well. Here is the breakdown of the successes by season:
FALL Wyoming won the boys’ league golf title for the 5th straight year. Indian Hill won the Sectional Tourney with Wyoming 2nd. Besides Indian Hill & Wyoming, Finneytown & Madeira had golfers qualify for districts. In volleyball, Wyoming went undefeated in league play. Reading made it to the Division III Regional Semi-Finals. Indian Hill girls' tennis team went 7-0 in league play to win their 10th straight title. The Lady Braves sent a doubles team to state. Wyoming boys & girls both won the cross country championships in the CHL. Indian Hill girls won the Division II District title and Mariemont girls were runner-up in the Division III District. Mariemont & Finneytown both had runners at the state meet. Boys’ soccer saw Finneytown go undefeated in the league but Madeira made it all the way to the state semi-finals in Division III. Girls’ soccer had Mariemont winning its first ever soccer title. Reading had the farthest run in the tournament going to the Division II District finals. Indian Hill, Deer Park, Reading, & Wyoming all made the football playoffs. Indian Hill won the league title for the 3rd year in a row.
WINTER Wrestling had Reading & Madeira as two of the best Division III teams in Southwest Ohio. Reading won the league title for the 6th time in the last 8 years. The Blue Devils also won the Division III Sectional Tournament and Reading, Madeira, Indian Hill, & Wyoming all sent wrestlers to the state meet. Wyoming boys’ basketball dominated the league. The Cowboys made it to the District Semi-Finals in Division II, while Madeira made it to the same level in Division III. Mariemont girls won the league title in basketball. The Lady Warriors had a great rivalry with Reading. Reading lost to Mariemont twice during the regular season, but beat them in the Division III Sectional Finals. The Lady Blue Devils made it to the District Finals. The most successful winter sport was swimming. Wyoming boys won the league title for the 5th time. Indian Hill, Mariemont, & Wyoming all had swimmers & divers at the state meet. Mariemont girls’ swim team edged Wyoming by 3 points for the league title. At the Division II Sectional Meet, Wyoming was 1st, Mariemont 2nd, & Indian Hill 3rd. It was the same order at the District Meet. With the three teams having several swimmers and divers at the Division II State Meet, it was no surprise that they all finished in the top 7. Indian Hill was runner-up at state for the 6th straight year. Mariemont finished 5th and Wyoming 7th. The only CHL state champs for the 2006-2007 year came at this meet. Indian Hill junior Margaret Fish won the 100 Backstroke and 200 IM. Indian Hill senior Amanda Smith won the 100 Breaststroke.
SPRING Baseball had its first ever three-way tie for the baseball championship in the CHL. Indian Hill, Madeira, & Wyoming shared the title with 11-3 records. Madeira became the only CHL school to reach the state championship in two team sports this season. Soccer made it to the state semi-finals in the fall and the baseball team repeated in the spring. Softball saw Deer Park dominate most of the spring until a late season injury to their star pitcher Casey Brookbank ended their hopes for a league title. Reading ended up winning the championship for the 2nd straight year. For the 4th time this school year, the Lady Blue Devils advanced farther than any other CHL team in state competition. Reading advanced to the Division III Regional Semi-Finals. The boys’ track championship ended up with a tight three-way battle. Madeira edged Finneytown for the title with Wyoming only 9 points behind. The Wyoming girls’ track team easily defended their championship. 18 CHL athletes made it to the state meet, with 8 receiving all-state honors.