D.L.Burnworth

  What a great way to end the 2025–2026 girls' basketball season. Kettering Fairmont and Cincinnati Princeton left everything out on the floor and left the fans longing for more. Kamryn Lowe scored the game's first points, hitting a short shot in the paint to put Princeton up 2-0. From there, the excitement would grow until the roof in Dayton was almost blown off the place. The quarter ended with Fairmont up 18-7. Fairmont hit 6-14 from the floor, and the Vikings hit just 3-13. The quarter was up-tempo with enough defense to make things difficult on both offenses, at times. In the second quarter the Vikings cut into the lead by hitting 4–9 shots from the floor, cutting the lead to 25-19. In the quarter. Both teams would get six points apiece inside the paint. A big advantage in the quarter for the Vikings was that they got five second-chance points. For the Firebirds, they had a nice 4-point advantage on turnovers. After three, we had a one-point game with the Firebirds leadin...

  A tight start to this game would see both teams playing at a pretty fast pace with Ottawa-Glandorf taking a 15-14 lead. Both teams started out pretty intense and physical. Even though 29 points were scored in the quarter both teams had some nice defensive moments.  In the 2nd quarter Portsmouth quickness and defense started to slow down Ottawa-Glandorf allowing their offense to get some easy shots. Portsmouth hit over 70% of their shots in the half. The physicality from both teams continued but as the half grew older it was favoring Portsmouth, as O.G. went over three minutes without scoring a field goal. 15 points from superfast Keke Woods 6-6 from the field was a big difference in the half, for Portsmouth. There were ten lead changes in the half before Portsmouth took a seven point lead to the locker rooms, 31-24.   O.G. came out and scored the first three point of the third quarter and forced to fouls on the Trojans. With 5:34 left in the third Woods scored...

     Strasburg dominated the opening quarter using a nice passing game to set up easy scores and a defense that would make U. Conn's head coach Geno Auriemma smile. They killed a little over a minute of the quarter but missed a three but still led 11-5. The second quarter was more of the same suffocating defense, this time by both teams that led to some poor shooting. Neither team gave up an inch as they were physical resulting in just 9 points being scored. The Tigers would lead 17-8 at the half. 11 Forced turnover by the Tigers, and they held Russia to just 15% shooting in the half.  Ally Miller for the Tigers had 9 points and 7 boards in the half to lead her team.  The third quarter was all Tigers as their defense seem to play even better than they had in the opening half. They held Russia to just three points. The Tigers players switch on defense about as fast as the roadrunner ran back in those old cartoons. 31-11 was the score after three. The third q...

  What a game this one turned out to be Laurel would win by two points when Tristan Williams calmly sank two free throws with just four seconds left in the game and to put the final touch of icing on the cake Jordyn Meyer had a steal to seal the win.  The game was so close that it would see a total of 14 ties and 13 lead changes. For Laurel, it was their first state title and making it just a tad sweeter they did it against the defending state champs who entered the game undefeated. Meyer had a game high 26 points to go with 3 steals. Williams had 19 points and 8 assists. As a team Laurel shot 47.8% from the floor including 7-20 from three point land. They hit 69.2% from the free-throw line but went 4-4 in the second half. For Bellevue Ava Jakubcin-Theis led the way with 20 points and 8 boards. Carrington Savage checked in with 15 points. Kaitlyn Turinsky had a double, double, with 14 points and 10 boards.  Follow me on X  @DavidB27292  ...

  The Eagles flew to a 12 point lead after one quarter and never really looked back as they would win the state title by a 49-40 score. Janae Cain led the way with 17 points including 6-7 from the free-throw line.  Mychael Hanson chipped in with 15 points and 3 boards. Ja'kyiah Cook dominated the boards with a game-high 13 boards. For the Irish Melania Cornute had 13 points and 5 boards. She was backed by Tatum Smith 12 points. Sydney Ferguson led the team with 7 boards. The winners won the battle of the boards 34-21, and they also shot better from the floor  48.6% compared to 31.9% for the Irish.   Follow me on X  @DavidB27292

    St. Henry connected on 42.6% of their shots and held a solid Canton Central Catholic team to just 31.4% from the floor. Addy Homan paced the state champions with 20 points on 7-15 shooting. She also had three assists and three boards. Karlee Buschur chipped in with 11 points and 6 boards. She hit 5-6 free throws. As a team, St. throws. Henry hit 71.4% of their free throws, team. Ava Homan had a game-high 8 boards. St. Henry outscored 33-10 in the 2nd and third quarter Henry outscored Canton Central Catholic.  Sarah Belden scored 12 points in the loss though she was just 3-10 from the field. Grace Finefrock hit 3-6 from the floor ending with 9 points. Lily Belden had a team high 5 boards.  St, Henry had 11 assists as a team compared to 6 for Canton Central Catholic. St. Henry dominated the battle on the boards 37-19. The winners connected on 50% of their shots in the 2nd and 4th quarter. Canton Central Catholic was hot in the final quarter hitting 55% of their sh...

  Name: Brandon Knowles School/town: Akron Ellet Positions played: ATH Class 2026 Height and Weight: 6'2", 240 lbs Jersey Number: 0 Awards won or earned: Division 3 2nd team all-state HUDL LINK: v/2T5sqA Other sports played: Basketball Please post something from last season that sticks out to you. It can be from a game, practice, or something funny on the bus ride to or from the game. Any moment that sticks out to you . What were your feelings as you walked off the field for the last time as a high school football player? Walking off the field as a senior kinda hurt because I felt like I didn’t accomplish enough. As one of the top players, I never led them to a .500 or above season. What do you feel you will miss the most from playing high school football? What I feel like I would miss most is the practice with my teammates. We would have fun and just be kids and just grow together as people. What was the best part of the 2025 season? The best part was week 6; I caught my team...

  Name: Alexandra “Alex” Akins School/town: Hyde Park High School, Austin, TX Positions played: P, SS Class: 2028 Height: 5’7” Jersey Number: 1 Awards won or earned: VYPE 2026 Pre-Season Pitcher of the Year: Feb 2026 Line Drive Softball National HS Player of the Week Runner-Up: Feb 17, 2026 Austin Sports Journal 2026 Preseason All-Area Team (Austin-San Antonio metroplex) Austin Sports Journal 2026 Elite 50  (Top 50 Softball Players in the Austin-San Antonio Metroplex Across All Divisions) NFCA Top Performers 2026 No Hitter 2024/2025 TAPPS Div II State Champions 2024/2025 TAPPS Div II District 2 1st Team All District  USA 14U All-American Team: August 2025 2026 Alliance National Player Rankings Super Division: 9th BAA 16U (T3 class of 2028) 2026 Alliance National Player Rankings Super Division Top 100 P 16U Bomber Exposure: Super Division Pitcher of the Tournament!! All-Tournament Team!! 2nd Team All Tournament 2025 TCS Colorado Sparkler 16U 2nd Team All Tournament 2025 TC...

Drue Molenda Sequoyah Middle School / Edmond, OK. Positions played: RHP / 1B 2030 6’0” / 140 Jersey Number: #7 Awards won or earned: USA Softball All-American - 14U Champions Extra Innings Softball (EIS) Tier 1 Ambassador Full scholarship recipient—Amanda Scarborough's Advanced Pitching Angel Experience—12/2025 (1 or 2 recipients) 14U All-Tournament Team: Top Club National Spring Invite 16U MVP: CFL - 12th Annual El Gigante 8GG / 16U CHAMPIONS 16U All-Tournament Team: CFL - 12th Annual El Gigante 14U All-Tournament Team: CFL - Top Club National Championship 1st Female Recipient – Golden Arm Throwing Athlete of the Month; Oklahoma Throwing Athlete Association X LINK: https://x.com/druemolenda2030 Sports Recruits LINK: https://my.sportsrecruits.com/athlete/drue_molenda Instagram LINK: https://instagram.com/druemolenda2030/ Other sports played: AAU Basketball – UNITY 2030 Please post something from last season that sticks out to you. It can be from a game, practice, or something funn...