News Releases for Additional Information on the 16 State Semifinalists
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OHIO HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ews elease 4080N Roselea Place, Columbus, OH 43214R • Commissioner Daniel B. Ross, Ph.D. (614) 267-2502 • FAX (614) 267-1677 • www.ohsaa.org For Release March 12, 2006 Contact Bob Goldring, Assistant Commissioner Winter Release #4 OHSAA GIRLS BASKETBALL STATE TOURNAMENTS (All Game at Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus) Thursday, March 16 Friday, March 11, Continued Girls Basketball-Semifinals Girls Basketball-Semifinals 1:00 Div. IV: Berlin Hiland (24-2) vs. Fort Loramie (24-2) 6:00 Div. I: Cincinnati Mt. Notre Dame (23-3) vs. Pickerington 3:00 Div. IV: Patrick Henry (25-0) vs. East Canton (23-2) Central (23-3) 6:00 Div. III: Youngstown Ursuline (21-4) vs. Sugarcreek 8:00 Div. I: Wadsworth (23-3) vs. Solon (22-3) Garaway (24-2) 8:00 Div. III: Plain City Jonathan Alder (24-2) vs. Castalia Saturday, March 18 Margaretta (24-1) Girls Basketball-Finals 10:45 Division IV Friday, March 17 2:00 Division III Girls Basketball-Semifinals 5:15 Division II 1:00 Div. II: Morrow Little Miami (26-0) vs. Mentor Lake 8:30 Division I Catholic (16-10) 3:00 Div. II: Copley (22-4) vs. Warsaw River View (24-1) WHAT: 31st Annual Girls State Basketball Tournaments WHEN/WHERE: Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus (555 Borror Dr., corner of Lane Avenue and Olentangy River Rd.) TIME/EVENTS: Semifinals—Thursday in Divisions IV and III and Friday in Divisions II and I; Finals— Saturday in all four divisions. The complete schedule is listed above. TICKETS: $10.00 tickets remain for each session (both semifinal games in the same division each day equal one session; each final equals one session) and are currently on sale at the Ohio State Athletic Ticket Office in the southeast corner of the Schottenstein Center (1-800-GO-BUCKS or 614-292-2624). Game day tickets can be purchased at the Value City Arena ticket office, which is located in the southeast corner of the arena. MEDIA CREDENTIALS: Fax requests to Bob Goldring, OHSAA Director of Information, at 614-267-1677 prior to noon Tuesday. If not already received, all credentials will be held at the Fred Taylor Room, located just off the Northeast Rotunda entrance (corner facing Olentangy River Road and the Fawcett Center). Information will be posted on the OHSAA web site (www.ohsaa.org) regarding the status of your application. Once on the home page of the web site, go to “OHSAA News & Media,” and the information will be available on that page. A list will also be posted of those media members who have been approved for credentials. The approved list will be posted by 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday. MEDIA PARKING: If not already received, parking passes will be held for media members at an area hotel. Information will be posted on the OHSAA web site. Parking is at a premium and not all requests will be honored. FAN PARKING: Free parking is available at the lots around the Schottenstein Center, including the Buckeye lots, which are located at the north end of Fred Taylor Drive just off of Ackerman Rd. Free shuttles will transport fans who park in those lots to and from the arena. Additional information on spectator parking is posted on The Ohio State University Transporation and Parking Services web site: (www.tp.ohio-state.edu/alerts/OHSAA/ohsaaindex.shtml). DIRECTIONS: To get to Value City Arena, take State Route 315 to the Lane Avenue exit. If coming from the north, turn left (east) onto Lane Avenue; if coming from the south, turn right (east) onto Lane Avenue. At the first intersection, turn left (north) onto Fred Taylor Drive and you will see the arena on the right. A second route is to take State Route 315 to the Ackerman Road exit, located just north of the Lane Avenue exit. If coming from the north, turn left (east) onto Ackerman Road; if coming from the south, turn right (east) onto Ackerman. At the first main intersection, turn right (south) onto Fred Taylor Drive and you will see the arena on the left. HOTELS: A list of Columbus-area hotels along with telephone numbers is posted on the OHSAA web site (www.ohsaa.org). TELEVISION: The Ohio News Network will cablecast all four championship games live on Saturday. ONN will also provide updates during the semifinals and will have special pre- and post-game championship reports. The Ohio News Network is Ohio’s 24-hour cable news, weather and sports channel. For a complete ONN channel listing, visit the ONN web site at www.OhioNewsNow.com. Various stations throughout the state may telecast the semifinal games on a tape-delay basis. Check local list- ings for coverage details. RADIO: WPTW in Piqua (1570 AM) will carry all 12 games in the tournament live and WQKT in Wooster (104.5 FM) will carry all four championship games live on Saturday. Other stations around the state will also cover selected teams from their area on a game-by-game basis. Check local listings for coverage details. — MORE — OHSAA WINTER SPORTS TOURNAMENTS -2-2-2 STATE TOURNAMENT COACHES/MEDIA TELECONFERENCE MARCH 13: A State Tournament Teleconference featuring the head coaches of the 16 state qualifiers will be held on Monday, March 13. Each head coach will be on the teleconference for 15 minutes. The question-and-answer sessions begin at 10:00 a.m. and will conclude at 2:15 p.m. The OHSAA will provide a teleconference moderator. The exact schedule is listed below. Media members interested in participating in the teleconference are requested to contact Bob Goldring via e-mail ([email protected]) for further details. 10:00 to 10:15 Div. IV - Berlin Hiland 12:10-12:25 Div. II - Morrow Little Miami 10:15 to 10:30 Div. IV - Fort Loramie 12:25-12:40 Div. II - Mentor Lake Catholic 10:30-10:45 Div. IV - Patrick Henry 12:40-12:55 Div. II - Copley 10:45-11:00 Div. IV - East Canton 12:55-1:10 Div. II - Warsaw River View 11:05-11:20 Div. III - Youngstown Ursuline 1:15-1:30 Div. I - Cincinnati Mt. Notre Dame 11:20-11:35 Div. III - Sugarcreek Garaway 1:30-1:45 Div. I - Pickerington Central 11:35-11:50 Div. III - Plain City Jonathan Alder 1:45-2:00 Div. I - Wadsworth 11:50-12:05 Div. III - Castalia Margaretta 2:00-2:15 Div. I - Solon WEB SITE: The OHSAA will post box scores from the tournament immediately following each game. Once you access the web site (www.ohsaa.org), go to “Sports & Tournaments” followed by “ Basketball-Girls.” TV STATIONS PLANNING LIVE SHOTS: Regulations at the Jerome Schottenstein Center do not allow sta- tions to run cable in the arena since the arena has been prewired. Therefore, stations who plan to go live either must pay a connection fee to use one of the open connector positions, or you must be self-supporting (no con- nections into the arena) and go live from the parking lot west of the arena where a special area has been reserved for satellite trucks and there are production pedestals. A third option is that the Schottenstein Center has base- band fiber routing to two Satellite Teleports in the Columbus area for “C-Band” uplinking. Contant UNITS A/V Chief Engineer Chris Pezzutti (614-292-6990) for rates and scheduling details. If you plan on going live, please call Mark Smith, video coordinator at the Schottenstein Center, at 614-688-5359, to final- ize ALL plans. RETURNING TO VALUE CITY ARENA: For the sixth time in seven years, the state tournaments will be held at Ohio State’s Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center. The OHSAA is in the second year of a three- year contract with the arena to host the state wrestling, girls basketball and boys basketball tournaments. Last year the OHSAA agreed to move the tournaments to OSU’s St. John Arena due to a conflict with the Buckeyes men’s ice hockey team, which hosted conference playoff games. Of the 24 girls state tournaments held prior to 2000, every one was held at Ohio State’s St. John Arena (243 games) with the exception of 1986, when the finals were played at the University of Akron’s James A. Rhodes Arena. The $105 million Schottenstein Center was named after the late Jerome Schottenstein, a Columbus native whose leadership as chairman was the source of the growth and success of the Schottenstein Stores Corporation, Value City Department Stores and Value City Furniture. The arena, which is the largest in the Big Ten Conference, has a capacity of approximately 19,230 for the OHSAA state tournaments. PREVIEW: Six former state champions, including one from last year, comprise the field for the 31st annual OHSAA Girls State Basketball Tournaments, the sixth to be held in Ohio State’s Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center. The returning champ is Berlin Hiland, which won the Division IV title last year. The other former titlists are Pickerington Central (the all-time Ohio leader in girls championships with six), Cincinnati Mt. Notre Dame and Wadsworth in Division I, Warsaw River View in Division II and Youngstown Ursuline in Division III. Division I: Two former champions are joined by a school making its third straight appearance and a newcom- er in the big-school division. In the first matchup, fourth-ranked Cincinnati Mt.