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2011/2012 Orrville Red Rider Basketball

  • Flash
    Better news for Orrvillites:

    http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stories/2011/12/18/loyal-to-his-roots.html
  • OQB
    great article!
  • BRF
    That is a cool story. The one picture of Knight looking so "down" was from back in HS when he broke his foot early in the season of his senior year. The bottom of the whole photo would show him wearing a cast.
  • RedRider1
    Heard Sly went off at practice yesterday......I'm sure a few challenges were laid down.

    Times have changed....can't just have 'Orrville' across your jersey and automatically win games. I think we saw that during football season. Have to out-work and out-execute your opponents.

    I dont know what coach blowing up will change....but some things you can control (effort, etc.) and some things you can't. I'm sure he felt better afterwards though.
  • Coach_08
    ^^Agreed hopefully it was a wake up call, with Wooster coming in tomorrow night.
  • RedRider1
    Time to define your season. Home against Wooster and at Clear Fork over break. Both winnable but who knows.

    0-6 heading into the meat of the OCC & a trip to Norwayne on Jan 10th would not be pretty.
  • thePITman
    Nice article.
  • BRF
    Correction: The picture of Bobby Knight looking so sad was from his Junior year. Here is an excerpt from a story I did about 5 years ago for OrrViews about events in our town from 1957:

    "In sports, OHS junior Bobby Knight, star of the basketball team, broke his foot. Young Knight was averaging 25.5 points per game after ten contests. Doctors believed that he had played his last two games with the break before it had become too painful to put weight on it. No one was more disappointed than young Bobby Knight, as you can see from the picture in a January issue of the Courier-Crescent!"
  • Coach_08
    RedRider1;1023823 wrote:Time to define your season. Home against Wooster and at Clear Fork over break. Both winnable but who knows.

    0-6 heading into the meat of the OCC & a trip to Norwayne on Jan 10th would not be pretty.
    Agreed need to get these next two and hopefully it gets the ball rolling for these guys.
  • Old Rider
    RedRider1;1023745 wrote:Heard Sly went off at practice yesterday......I'm sure a few challenges were laid down.

    Times have changed....can't just have 'Orrville' across your jersey and automatically win games. I think we saw that during football season. Have to out-work and out-execute your opponents.

    I dont know what coach blowing up will change....but some things you can control (effort, etc.) and some things you can't. I'm sure he felt better afterwards though.
    Im sure it made Smitty smile:)
  • OQB
    RedRider1;1023745 wrote:Heard Sly went off at practice yesterday......I'm sure a few challenges were laid down.

    Times have changed....can't just have 'Orrville' across your jersey and automatically win games. I think we saw that during football season. Have to out-work and out-execute your opponents.

    I dont know what coach blowing up will change....but some things you can control (effort, etc.) and some things you can't. I'm sure he felt better afterwards though.
    Glad to hear this!!!
  • RedRider1
    Coach Davault has said it for years...a team is defined by its seniors. It's up to them to lead on and off the court. They determine the direction of a team.

    I think we need to see a little less 'me' and a little more 'we.'

    Hopefully Wooster can bring that out.
  • Riderwannabe
    Orrville sports are are dying fast
  • Old Rider
    Riderwannabe;1024725 wrote:Orrville sports are are dying fast
    Yes they are!

    Lack of interest...lack of athletes...lack of work ethic...lack of knowledge of what it means to put on that Red Rider uniform and play like a champion with 110% effort every night out = lack of wins (and a loss to a WCAL school in football)!!
  • Coach_08
    ^^ That was a really good WCL team, but yes kids are different today they do not want to work hard for anything just want it given to them, sad!
  • Mr. 300
    High school sports are very cyclical. You will have down times, but will always rebound. Some spells might go longer than others, but in the end it will return.
  • Flash
    Words of wisdom from 300, but the yelling by the coach may have helped as the Riders win vs Wooster tonight. Exciting finish to the game with a Brenner slam and a Winters rejection of a dunk.
  • riders1
    60-51 thank you wooster :)
  • RedRider1
    Good to hear...let's turn it into a winning streak.

    Congrats to the coaches and players....
  • riders1
    Ohio Cardinal Conference (OCC)
    Lexington 3-0 6-0 59.2 45.5
    Wooster 2-1 3-3 53.7 60.0
    Mansfield Senior 1-2 5-2 70.9 62.3
    Ashland 1-2 2-3 51.5 52.1
    West Holmes 2-1 3-3 55.8 56.0
    Madison 1-2 1-4 54.4 64.4
    Clear Fork 1-2 3-2 49.2 45.0
    Orrville 1-2 1-4 52.8 60.8
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  • Old Rider
    Nice win for the Red Riders as we head into Christmas break.

    Merry Christmas to all!
  • Coach_08
    Nice win, well balanced scoring from Landis, Brenner and Summers!

    And to all a good night!!
  • Old Rider
    So whats the chances that when Orrville travels to Creston for a match-up against the Bobcats, we end up watching a football game played on the hardwood?

    With what I read in the paper the other day after Norwayne beat Northwestern (the blood bath game), it sounds like Coach West of Norwayne likes his boys to play physical..I like that.

    That is going to be an exciting atmosphere with some "hard" fouls I am sure!
  • OQB
    ^ who wins that game though?
  • Old Rider
    OQB;1029003 wrote:^ who wins that game though?
    Just like in football, it depends what Orrville team shows up to play?

    I would take Norwayne at this point, but if we play as we did against Woo...we will be OK!

    Press. Press. Press