Landers unanimous choice as Player of the Year Photo submitted.
Antwerp High School junior, Jagger Landers.
ANTWERP – Antwerp junior Jagger Landers was a unanimous selection as
the Paulding County Progress Player of the Year in voting by the county
coaches recently.
Landers topped all players in the county with 17.4 points per game and grabbed a team high 167 rebounds for the Archers.
“Jagger
is the ultimate team player,” stated Archer head coach Doug Billman.
“He has tremendous knowledge and understanding of the game and he
understands what the correct basketball play is at that moment. He faces
many double and triple teams and he continues to make the correct
DEFIANCE â Bryan dominated the fourth quarter against Paulding in the Grube Family Holiday Classic, and it turned into a victory.
The Golden Bears scored 22 points in the final frame, while going 6 of 8 from the field â including one 3-pointer â and 9 for 12 at the free-throw line, to post a 48-42 nonleague boys basketball win over the Panthers in day one of the tournament at Defiance High School.
Bryan (2-4) will face Wauseon (5-1) in the championship game at approximately 8 p.m. today at Defiance High School. Paulding (4-4) will play Tinora (1-1) beforehand at approximately 6 p.m in the consolation game. The Indians beat the Rams 46-29 in Mondayâs nightcap.
PAULDING â The Paulding Exempted Village Board of Education was presented information about remote learning during its meeting Tuesday evening. The board also was given an update on the Panther Virtual Academy, and an update about how students are using grant money to learn about engineering.
Superintendent Ken Amstutz shared that students at Paulding Middle School and Paulding High School will participate in remote learning from home on Monday and Tuesday, while students at Paulding Elementary and Oakwood Elementary will continue with in-person instruction those two days.
For middle/high school students, they will operate on a two-hour delay both days, with instruction beginning at 10 a.m. Teachers will be in their classrooms from 8-10 a.m. to answer questions via phone calls and emails prior to the start of classes at 10 a.m.