This has been an impressive week for Whiteoak High School. Longtime baseball coach Chris Veidt was selected to the 2024 class of the Ohio High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame, and cross-country runner Landen Eyre won the Southeast District Division III Cross Country Championships at the University of Rio Grande for the second straight year.
It’s Hillsboro/McClain again
Jeff Gilliland Staff columnist
It was a pleasant surprise this week while I was perusing the Associated Press wire and saw that Hillsboro was ranked tied for No. 14 this week in the Division II AP Boys Basketball Poll.
According to second-year coach Miles Burton, it is the first time Hillsboro has been ranked since 1998-99 season.
The Indians are currently 14-2 and on a 10-game winning streak, with a big game coming up this week at 11-4 McClain. I wish could attend the game, because it would remind me of glorious days of old when Rick Van Matre was roaming was the McClain sidelines and anytime the Tigers and Indians squared off it was foregone conclusion that the gym would be packed, the students sections would be rocking, and the cheerleaders and hosting team’s pep band would fire things up even more.