Clay contending, but still can’t get over the hump Published by sports@presspub. on Thu, 01/28/2021 - 12:33pm
By:
J. Patrick Eaken
Clay 6-foot-9 post Frank Waganfeald tries to score in 59-56 loss to Whitmer. (Press photo by Russ Lytle/www.Facebook.com/RussLytle/RHP)
Clay boys basketball coach David Rodriguez believed this could be the year that his Eagles were going to compete with the best in the Three Rivers Athletic Conference. The Eagles are competing, only they are not winning. Last year, Clay went 4-18 but lost by an average of seven points per game. This year, it is déjà vu.
Clay’s seniors have been playing basketball together since they were in the third grade. They are a tight-knit group who want to win, but they play in one of the toughest leagues in Northwest Ohio the Three Rivers Athletic Conference. Now, they are 2-7 and winless in three TRAC games. This group includes Keeghan Calkins, Zach Woollard, Scotty Woollard, Ethan Spears, Noah Hagdohl, Logan Heintschel, Jakob Morris and Frank Waganfeald. Waganfeald is a 6-foot-9 forward who averages 11 points and seven rebounds and Hagdohl is a 6-4 guard averaging 17 points and 6.5 rebounds, and they scored 31 points in a 54-44 loss to Southview at Rossford’s Martin Luther King Showcase. That’s typically how it goes, with those two averaging over 50 percent of the team’s points.