CHL News
Another Record Breaking Month For The Website
January became the 18th straight record breaking month for the CHL website. Views last month were 229,345. That is the 3rd highest total in any month since the website started in 2006. Our total at the half way mark of 2011-2012 year is 1,211,351. Thanks to all who support the website and thanks to our great advertisers.
Sectional Swimming & Diving This Week
Swimmers & divers will be the first to see post season action. The sectional meets will be this week. Here is the schedule:
Monday - Division II Diving Sectionals will be held at Miami University on Monday, February 6th. The competition will start at 6:00. For the girls, the top top two divers will automatically go to the district tourney. Twenty at large divers from two sectionals, base on their scores, will advance to the district. For the boys, the top two will advance to district plus 18 other divers at large from four sectionals based on their scores.
The Division II Boys Swimming Sectionals will be on Friday, February 10th. Finneytown, Taylor, & Wyoming will beat the Keating Natatorium sectional starting at 6:00. Indian Hill, Madeira, & Mariemont will be at the Mason sectional starting at 6:30. The top two swimmers in each event form each sectional will advance to the district meet. Also advancing will be 24 swimmers at large based on their times form four sectionals.
The Division II Girls Swimming Sectionals will be held at Mason High School on Saturday, February 11th. The top two swimmers in each event form each sectional will advance to the district. Also advancing will be the top 24 times from two sectionals meets.
Winter Sports Update 2/6 - 2/11
The girls basketball league title has been decided. The boys basketball race is close to being decided. Wrestling has leagues this week. Swimming & diving is the first to start post-season. Check out stats under each sport's link. Also check out stories on CHL teams under the In The News link.
GIRLS' BASKETBALL
Indian Hill clinched it's 4th straight league title. The Braves are 13-0 in the league with one game to go. Indian Hill is 15-3 overall. Wyoming is 2nd (10-3,13-5). Madeira is 3rd (9-3,12-6) & Reading 4th (7-6,9-9).
Indian Hill beat Deer Park 66-22. Nicole Bell had 21 points for the Braves. Sarah Arington added 16 points & Jessica Arington 10. The Braves clinched the title outright with a 51-29 win over Reading. Bell had her 3rd game over 30 points this season scoring 34. Reading beat Mariemont 46-40. Kelsey Lambdin had 11 points & 10 rebounds for the Blue devils. Allie King had 10 points off the bench. Meredith Garrison had 14 points off the bench for the Warriors. In a defensive battle, Wyoming beat Madeira 29-26. Michelle Jolson had 14 points for the Cowboys. Madeira beat Taylor 50-33. Olivia Benintendi & Emily Luther each had 11 points for the Amazons. Celia Kline added 10 points. Liz Mooney had 12 points for the Yellowjackets.
Here are the stat leaders. Only up to date stats will be posted:
Scoring Average - Nicole Bell, Indian Hill 22.6
Rebound Average - Inez Stewart, Finneytown 15.4
Assists Per Game - Bell 5.8
Blocks Per Game - Christina Dilly, Taylor 3.0
Steals Per Game - Bell 4.6
Eight games are scheduled for this week. The final five league games will be on Wednesday & Saturday. Madeira & Wyoming are still locked in a battle for 2nd in the league. Wednesday, Wyoming will be at Taylor & Indian Hill at Madeira. Saturday, Madeira will be at Mariemont.
BOYS' BASKETBALL
Madeira has moved into the drivers seat in the league race. The Mustangs are 10-0 in the league & 13-3 overall. Indian Hill is 2nd at 9-2 in league play & 12-4 overall. Finneytown (7-4,11-6) & Reading (7-4,10-5) are tied for 3rd. Deer Park is 10-6 overall. Andrew Benintendi got the winning basket with seconds to go as Madeira got by Indian Hill 58-57. Benintendi had 26 points and Isaac Rupe added 13. Austin trout had 23 points for the Braves. Steve Bell added 14 points & Teddy Kremchek had 12. Madeira had a 23-12 advantage after the first quarter and went on to down Finneytown 67-60. Benintendi had a career high 36 points. Kevin Costello had 11 for the Mustangs. Bally Butler had 18 points off the bench for the Wildcats. DeMarco Hunter added 12 points & 15 rebounds. It was a tough week for the Wildcats as they also lost to Reading 61-52. Four Blue devils were double figure scorers. Blake Durbin had 16 points, Tyler Estep 15, Corey Havens 12, & Caleb Cloud 10. Havens also had 13 rebounds. Bradley Nelms had 16 points & Tyrin Warner 11 for Finneytown. In a ICRC TV game, Mariemont beat Deer park 66-42. Reid Mahorney had 15 points & 10 rebounds for the Warriors. Nick Malone added 12 points & Matt Stewart 10. Brandon Reeves led the Wildcats with 16 points.
Here are the stat leaders. Only up to date stats will be posted.
Scoring Average - Andrew Benintendi, Madeira 24.1
Rebound Average - DeMarco Hunter, Finneytown 9.0
Assists Per Game - John Griggs, Indian Hill 5.4
Blocks Per Game - Markus Johnson, Deer Park 4.0
Steals Per Game - Benintendi & John Michael Wyrick, Madeira 2.3
There are eight league games scheduled for this week. Wins by Madeira over Taylor & Wyoming will clinch at least a tie for the league title for the Mustangs. Indian Hill, Finneytown, & Reading are battling for 2nd place. Finneytown will be at Wyoming on Tuesday & host Deer Park Friday. Indian Hill is at Deer Park on Tuesday & at Reading on Friday. Reading will be at Mariemont on Tuesday.
WRESTLING
Reading beat Blanchester 54-24 & Carlisle 58-10 at the Carlisle Super Tri meet. Double winners for the Blue devils were Taylor Bemerer, Austin Fitzhugh, Alex Dickman, Jamey Perdue, Ray Day, Ryan Roberts, Shane Roy, Joe Dilbert, & Kody Bray. Reading finishes the regular season 18-5.
Here are the league leaders in wins:
Jaemy Perdue (Reading) 30-2, Brandon Strochinsky (Taylor) 29-3, Joe Dilbert (Reading) 29-3, Chris Collins (Reading) 29-7, Mikey Gonzalez (Wyoming) 27-7, Tyler Williamson (Madeira) 26-9, James Tecco (Mariemont) 24-2, Alvi Ibarra (Maderia) 24-6, Chance Manzler (Maderia) 24-10, Riley Henderson (Mariemont) 23-6, Taylor Bemerer (Reading) 23-9, Adam Blum (Wyoming) 23-10, Jeff Williams (Taylor) 23-10, Xachary Telgkamp (Reading) 23-16
Pin leaders are Gonzalez 20, B. Strochinsky 20, Dilbert 18, Collins 17, Ryan Strochinsky (Taylor) 17, Alour Nyamor (Wyoming) 16, Ryan Roberts (Reading) 16, Austin Horwitz (Madeira) 16
The league championships will be at Deer Park High School on Saturday starting at 10:00. Reading will be looking for its 7th league title in a row.
SWIMMING & DIVING
There were no meets this past week.
Swimming & Diving stat leaders:
Girls
200 Medley Relay - Indian Hill 152.63
200 Freestyle Relay - Mariemont 1:39.84
400 Freestyle Relay - Mariemont 3:36.76
200 Freestyle - Hannah Vester, Indian Hill 1:57.10
200 IM - Claire Mongenas, Mariemont 2:11.25
50 Freestyle - Claire Gilmore, Mariemont 24.77
1 Meter Diving - Julie Kuzniczci, Madeira score-150.40
100 Butterfly - Alexandra Tracy, Indian Hill 1:01.39
100 Freestyle - Gilmore 53.92
500 Freestyle - Vester 5:12.32
100 Backstroke - Tracy 59.87
100 Breaststroke - Mongenas 1:05.39
Boys
200 Medley Relay - Indian Hill 1:41.83
200 Freestyle Relay - Madeira 1:32.08
400 Freestyle Relay - Wyoming 3:19.63
200 Freestyle - Nate Wagner, Mariemont 1:44.38
200 IM - Mack Rice, Indian Hill 1:54.74
50 Freestyle - Eric Lethander, Wyoming 21.80
1 Meter Diving - Nate Meyer, Taylor score-214.55
100 Butterfly - Rice 51.56
100 Freestyle - Wagner 46.81
500 Freestyle - Jonathan Rutter, Wyoming 4:50.68
100 Backstroke - Rice 51.88
100 Breaststroke - Rice 1:00.07
Check out the story above on the sectionals this week.
Weekly Update- Bowling 2/2
Bowling is a non-league sport. It takes five schools to have a team to make it a recognized CHL sport. Right now, four schools have boys' bowling, Deer Park, Reading, Taylor, & Wyoming. Deer Park, Reading, & Wyoming have girls' teams. Several high schools in the Cincinnati area have bowling teams. Most of them are Division I schools. Bowling is a state recognized sport. All teams compete in Division I.
Boys Results
Harrison beat Reading 2533-2337. Kevin Lykins had high series for Reading with a 392. Reading also beat Wyoming. There record is 8-9. Wyoming beat Clark Montessori. Freshman Jeremy Smucker had a 216 game & 385 series.
Girls Results
Harrison beat Reading 1962-1924. Becca Huff was high series for Reading with a 386. Reading also beat Wyoming. Wyoming beat Clark Montessori two different times. The Cowboys went up against D1 Mt. Notre Dame and ended edging the Cougars by 13 pins. Rachel Viacara had the high series for Wyoming with a 314. Wyoming now has a 5-9 record.
Here are the top eight averages:
Girls
1. Whitney Reardon, Reading 155.8
2. Kalina Procas, Deer Park 148.1
3. Haley Hodge, Deer Park 142.3
4. Rachel Viacava, Wyoming 140.4
5. Ginger Engel, Wyoming 129.1
6. Breanna Betsch, Reading 123.1
7. Katlin Siemers, Deer Park 121.8
8. Becca Huff, Reading 117.4
Top Games
Hodge 208, Engel 202, Viacava 200, Reardon 199, Procas 196
Top Two Game Series
Viacava 379, Reardon 376, Procas 347, Engel 347, Hodge 345
Boys
1. Ric McCormick, Deer Park 216.2
2. Kevin Lykins, Reading 201.5
3. Matt Brown, Wyoming 175.1
4. Will Hungarland, Deer Park 170.9
5. Nick Sand, Deer Park 169.0
6. Adam Childs, Reading 164.3
7. Jack Meier, Wyoming 159.3
8. Keith Franzoni, Reading 157.5
Note- Out of the 299 bowlers listed with averages, Ric is 3rd & Kevin is 30th.
Top Games
McCormick 268, Lykins 268, Sand 255, Brown 236, Childs 231
Top Two Game Series
McCormick 486, Lykins 477, Hungarland 436, Sand 433, Brown 417
Deer Park will be at Wyoming on Thursday at Brentwood Bowl. Reading will have home matches at Crossgate Lanes with Norwood on Thursday & Lakota West on Monday, the 8th. Taylor boys will be at St. Xavier on Friday and at Harrison on Tuesday the 7th at Harrison Bowl.
The sectional tourney will be February 15 (boys) & February 17 (girls). The two site will be Crossgate Lanes & Colerain Bowl. There will be a placement meeting on February 5th to decide which schools to go which site.
Weekly City Polls 2/2
Here are the weekly city polls ( (2) - last week's rank ) :
BOYS' BASKETBALL D2-4
5. Indian Hill (4)
7. Madeira (8)
GIRLS' BASKETBALL D2-4
3. Indian Hill (2)
10. Madeira (8)
GIRLS' SWIMMING/DIVING D2
1. Mariemont (1)
2. Indian Hill (2)
3. Wyoming (3)
5. Madeira (4)
9. Taylor (9)
BOYS' SWIMMING/DIVING D2
1.Wyoming (1)
2. Madeira (3)
3. Mariemont (2)
4. Indian Hill (4)
7. Taylor (8)
WRESTLING D2-3
3.Reading (4)
5. Wyoming (5)
T8. Deer Park (8)
We Welcome Our Newest Advertiser
Our newest advertiser is on our right side panel (refresh the page if you don't see it right away). Buckeye Running Company joins us on the CHL website. As in any of our ads, click on the ad and it will go to their website. There you will see a special coupon for CHL fans. It will get you 25% off any one item in their store. The coupon is good for all of 2012. Buckeye Running Company is located in Mason at 4200 Areo Drive. It is off the Western Row Road exit on I-71 and is where Tylersville & Western Row roads meet.
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Check Out Video On Cincinnati Sports Medicine Site
Most of you know that when you click on our website ads, it will bring up their websites. If you click on Cincinnati Sports Medicine, go to the right side of their front page and click on When To See A Sports Medicine Physician. Dr. Marc Galloway has great information for athletes, parents, & coaches on when it is an appropriate time to see a sports medicine doctor.
As always, we thank our website advertisers. These people are supporting high school sports. You can thank them by supporting their businesses.
CHL Sportsmanship Statement
Welcome to the Cincinnati Hills League
As members of the Cincinnati Hills League, we would like to welcome our fans and guests to our schools and athletic facilities this season. We appreciate your support and attendance at our events and remind all attendees that the use of tobacco and alcohol are prohibited at school sponsored events. Fans are not allowed on the fields of play and we ask you to respect our facilities and quality of play on the field. Positive sportsmanship will be shared between both teams during the competition and we ask for our fans to exhibit that same behavior. Cheer for your team, show respect for the officials and the support staff in place to make the event a positive experience for all in attendance.
We are friendly rivals; we respect the work and efforts shown by both teams. We are proud of our schools and are very appreciative of your support and attendance.
Thank you.
The Cincinnati Hills League
LINK TO THE WEBSITE
At the upper right of the website front page, you will see a link titled History. When you click on it, you will have a brief history of the Cincinnati Hills League. Then you will have links to every school year from 1985-1986 (the year the league was formed) to 2005-2006. These are years before the website was started. Those school year links will include standings from all the league sports and, in many cases, the all-league selections for the varsity sports. It's taken about a year to get this organized. Although, we have a lot of the information from the past years, we are missing some standings and all-league selections. When you read the introduction to the link, it will explain this further.
I would like to thank two people who helped with getting this information on the website. Jennifer Dillingham from Reading High School helped with scanning the info. Dave Carroll, our webmaster, got the link up and operating. We hope you enjoy the link and we invite any comments.
CHL 101, Part Two
The second part of our series on the CHL covers the website. The site started in August 2006. Our website is operated by Sports Websoft (their link is at the bottom of this page). They design the set-up of the site. If you check out other high school websites, you might notice similarities. Sports Websoft operates the GMC, FAVC, GCL, GGCL websites in the Cincinnati area. They also operate the Western Ohio Conference in the Dayton area. Sports Websoft also works with the Cincinnati Enquirer. Sports stats are automatically put on both our website & the Enquirer online site.
The Sports Information Director has several jobs to do for the website. The biggest job is to write the front page stories. Another job is to enter the sports schedules. Several are automatically put on to the site by the website operations person, but some have to be manually entered. For example, boys' & girls' basketball schedules are automatically put on the site, but the SID must manually add swimming & diving and wrestling. Likewise, those sports that have their schedules entered automatically will also have their sports scores entered automatically. This is done when the coach reports their results to the Enquirer. Other jobs of the SID include updating the All Sports Trophy points, entering all-league selections, keeping the sports champions up to date, entering the college commitments, adding team scores for certain sports ( and correcting wrong scores). Also, the SID works on the league history.
The next installment will have more information on the website. Our first bio of CHL personal will be on the site soon.
CHL 101, Part One
In the next few weeks, we will have articles to give you a behind the scenes look at the Cincinnati Hills League & the website. It's hoped that this will provide a good insight on how a league and website is run. Our first part will deal with the league's history and set-up.
In the mid 1980's, there was a big shake-up in the sports leagues in the Cincinnati area. Emerging from the shake-up came new leagues, one of those being the Cincinnati Hills League. The CHL officially began in the fall of 1985. The league had nine charter members. It included seven present schools plus CAPE & Loveland. Taylor joined the league in 1989 moving that number to ten. In 1994, CAPE dissolved as a school. A year later, Loveland left to join the FAVC. Since then, it's been the same eight schools. The league was part of a confederation of leagues based out of the Hamilton County Educational Services office. At the end of 2008-2009 school year, the CHL left HCES and is now independent of any other leagues.
The league is governed by the eight athletic directors and a Board of Control. The Board of Control is made up of the eight high school principals from the league schools. The league has a set of by-laws for the different sports. Any change in the by-laws has to be approved by the Board of Control, which meets 3-4 times during the school year. The athletic directors meet once a month during the school year. They take care of the day by day operations of the league. One AD is the president, a job that rotates among the eight AD's every school year. The current president is Tom Nerl of Mariemont. Other items that the athletic directors take care of include scheduling, tournament set-ups & locations, & overseeing all-league selections (made by the coaches). They make recommendations to the Board of Control on issues such as the league budget. The two people who are year round employees of the CHL are the league secretary and the sports information director. More details on these ten individuals will be posted in the coming weeks. Working on a seasonal basis (by sport) are the assigners of the officials.
Our next installment will be about the CHL website.
Information Is Complete For CHL State Champs
All of the individual and team state champs are now entered. The list is as complete as I can find. If anyone else knows any state champs to add, or corrections to be made, let me know. You can email the SID at the address below. Meanwhile, go to the State Champions link and check out all of our league state champs!
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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
