1-24-25 FRIDAY MORNING SPORTS

Todd Walker reports
Shawnee to host Wapak tonight on WIMA
OG girls continue dominance in WBL
OSU women bounce back from first loss
CBJ blown out by Hurricanes
Jags find new Head Coach

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the WYMA Sports Desk. Boys high school basketball Tonight,
our WYMA Microphones will be a lamping gymnasium as Shawnee
host Wapakanetta. The Indians lead the WBL at five and
O Defiance at Elia are a game back. Defiance is
at Kenton, Elias at Salina also tonight. In the Western
Buckeye League, Bath is at og. Turning to the Northwest Conference,

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Spencerville remains undefeated fourteen and oh overall four and oh
in the league. They're at Columbus Grove tonight. Also in
the NWC, LCC visits all In East and Bluffton is
home for Lincoln View. Tomorrow night we will have Spencerville
at Delpha Saint John's here on WYMA. Both teams enter
the weekend unbeaten. The Jays are thirteen and oh, four

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and oh in the MAC. They host Saint Henry tonight.
Marying Local and Minster are three and one in the MAC.
They're both home tonight for New Breeman and Parkway, respectively.
In the NWCC, Ridgemont is the leader at five and
o usvus four and one. Those two meet tonight in McGuffey,
All so a game back in the lost column the
Pioneers of Temple Christian. They're at Elgin tonight. Also, Perry

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is at North Baltimore. Putnam County League leading Kaleida takes
on Lipsick tomorrow. Wildcats are three and own the league.
Miller City, just a game back, will be at Continental tonight.
Ottoville still just one PCL loss. They'll host Fort Jennings
this evening, and the BBC Liberty Benton is undefeated in
league play at six and oh fourteen and one overall.

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They are off tonight. Two teams right behind them in
the league standings meet at Arlington tonight, as the Red
Devils host Pandora Gilboa and Lima Senior is off tonight.
They will be in Grand Rapids tomorrow at Aquinas College
to take on Grand Rapids Northview. The Spartans are eleven
and one on the season and five and oero in
the Toledo City Athletic League Girls basketball. Last night in

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the Western Buckeye League, OG stayed on top, beating Bath
fifty five forty one. Wapakanetta over shown E forty two
to thirty seven. Solna pulled away from Elida in overtime
sixty one forty eight Kenton an easy winner of Defiance, Likewise,
Saint Mary's over Van. In the Midwest Athletic Conference winners
were a Fort Recovery, Marion Locals, Saint Henry and Versailles.

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Putnam County League Autolville routed Fort Jennings seventy four to
thirty nine, and in the BVC winners included Arcadia, Elmwood, Macombe, Pandora,
Goboa and Riverdale. Turning to women's college basketball, Ohio State
bounced back from its first loss of the year to
beat Maryland last night in Columbus seventy four sixty six

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in a Top fifteen showdown. The game didn't start well.
The Buckeyes trailed by fifteen at one time in the
first half. The we're down ten after one quarter, but
they were able to turn things around. Head coach Kevin
McGuff talked about how they did that.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
I think after that first quarter, we started showing a
lot more fight, especially on the boards. I mean we
were getting beat up on the boards early on and
just giving them easy baskets. Then I think we started
to get a few more stops, and when we would
get those rebounds, we were getting out in transition now,
and you know, we turned them over enough, and this
is the best game we've had in the last three
or four of converting those turnovers and actual points.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Buckeye women now eighteen and one overall, seven and one
of the conference, looking up at usc at eight and
oh and number one UCLA at seven to zero in
the conference. Next up for the Buckeye women at Nebraska Sunday.
You'll hear that game right here. NBA, the Cavaliers are
back at it tonight at Philadelphia, trying to put the
loss to Houston on Wednesday behind them. Cavs are still

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thirty six and seven on the year, the best record
in the NBA. On the ice, the Blue Jackets were
blown out in Raleigh by the Hurricanes at seven to four.
Cbj's lost three of four. They hosted the Kings tomorrow night. NFL,
the Jaguars are hiring offensive coordinator Liam Cohen away from
Tampa Bay to become their new head coach. This comes
after ESPN reported earlier in the week that Cohen had

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taken himself out of consideration for the job and had
agreed to a new contract with the Buccaneers to become
the league's highest paid coordinator and at the Australian Novak
Djokovic had to retire from his semifinal match with a
groin injury. His quest for a twenty fifth career Grand
Slam thus comes to an end. Djokovic hurt the groin

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in the semifinal win over Carlos al KaAZ, Advancing into
the final is to seed Alexander Zevrev. He'll face the
winner of the second men's semifinal match between top ranked
Ghannick Center and American Ben Shelton in Sunday's final. With
eleven fifty wyam a sports, I'm Todd Walker