CHL News
Baseball Sectionals Update 5/18
In Division II, Max Kadish went 3-4 with 2 RBIs as Wyoming beat Norwood 6-1 in the sectional championship game. The Cowboys will be making their first trip to the district final since 2007. They will meet the Kettering Alter on Saturday at 11:00 am at Mason High School.
In Division III, Andrew Benintendi scored the winning run in the bottom of the 9th as Madeira beat Summit Country Day 3-2 to advance to the district tournament. Benintendi pitched 7 innings. Zach Jansen pitched the last two to pick up the win. The Mustangs will play Northwestern in the district finals on Friday, May 18th at 5:00 at Springboro High School. Last year, Madeira made it to the state finals. They have a 23-6 record with a 6 game win streak. Reading dropped a 8-3 decision to CHCA. The game was close to the 4th inning when the Eagles scored 4 runs to break the game open. The Blue Devils finish the season 17-10.
Records Fall, Spectacular Ending To League Track & Field
The CHL Track & Field Championships were held at Mariemont on May 10th & 11th and it turned out to be one of the most exciting in quite a long time.
Girls -
After the first day of the league meet (field events & 4 X 800 relay), Wyoming held a 20 point lead over Indian Hill. On the second day, Indian Hill chipped away at the lead the first part of the running finals, but Wyoming's depth in both sprints & distance proved to be too much as the Cowboys won their third championship in the last four years and the sixth in the last ten years. For Wyoming, it was their 12th overall CHL girls' track & field title. Wyoming had 138 points. Indian Hill ended up with 127 points. Finneytown was 3rd with 75 points. The Cowboys had six league champs. Emily Stites had three 1st place finishes, two of them league records. She ran a 5:02.2 1600 run, breaking the record by a little over one second. It was a different story in the 3200 run. Stites shattered the league record by 50 seconds. Her time of 10:37.8 is one of the best times in the state this season. She was also on the winning 4 x 800 relay (10:11) along with Sammy Schwartz, Katie Spray, & Katherine Irvine. Kayla Livingston dominated both hurdle events winning the 100 (15.2) & 300 (47.7). Livingston also won the long jump (15'5). Indian Hill had five league champs. Elizabeth Heinbach won the 800 run (2:25.4). Heinbach was the Runner of the Year at the meet. Along with her 800 win, she had 2nd place finishes in the 1600 run, 3200 run, & 4 X 800 relay. Sarah Rosenblum won the 100 dash with a time of 12.7. Rosenblum, along with Maddie Slattery, Leah Plunkett, & Jenny Blazic won the 4 X 100 relay with a time of 53.1. The 4 X 400 relay team of Sara Schwanekamp, Julia Sewell, Marie Taylor, & Emma Lowe was 1st in a time of 4:15.4. Jade Lac won the shot put (31'5.5). Finneytown had four first place finishes. Jaylah Howell won the 400 dash (59.6) & the 200 dash (26.0). Jaylah along with Nylia Howell, Jessie Hall, & Rafaela Vasilakis won the 4 x 200 relay (1:494). Vasilakis won the pole vault (7') and with her 3rd place finish in the long jump & 5th place in the discus, was named Field Performer of the Year for the meet. Kelsee Barnett of Deer Park won the discus (95'). Alyssa Frye of Madeira won the high jump (5'), winning it for the 4th year in a row. Jeff Timmers of Mariemont was the Coach of the Year.
Complete results of the meet can be found in the Girls Track link under league championship.
Boys -
For a track & field purest, the perfect way to end a meet is with the 4 X 400 relay (last event) deciding what team wins the meet. That is the way the league ended this year. After day one (field events & 4 X 800 relay), Wyoming had a 10 point lead, 36-26, over Mariemont. Wyoming came into the meet with their strength in the sprints. Mariemont came in with their strength in the distance. Both teams proved they could score in any event in the league finals on the second day. After three running finals, Wyoming had built a 21 point lead over Mariemont. With a one-two finish in the 1600 and a 2nd place finish in the 4 X 100 relay, the Warriors started getting closer to the Cowboys. After another one-two finish in the 800 run, the Warriors took their first lead of the meet 105-102 over the Cowboys. Wyoming got the lead back (112-111) after the 200 dash with two events remaining. In the 3200 run, each team scored 14 points to set up the final event with Wyoming leading 126-125. Coming into the meet, Mariemont's 4 x 400 team has had the best time in the league. The first three legs of the race, the Warriors held onto the lead. Wyoming was 2nd most of the time, although at one point, Deer Park moved into 2nd. When the last hand-off happened, Mariemont held a slight lead over Wyoming. Connor McManus ran the anchor leg for Mariemont and Terrell Dailey ran the anchor for Wyoming. McManus held the lead until the final 50 meters when Dailey pulled even with him. In the last 2-3 meters Dailey pulled out ahead to win the race and the meet for the Cowboys. Wyoming ended up with 136 points. The Cowboys broke Finneytown's four year win streak and won their first boys' league title since 2006, their 14th CHL title overall. Mariemont had 133 points. Taylor was a distant 3rd with 57 points. Wyoming had six league champs. Jalen Fox won the 100 dash (10.9) & 200 dash (22.6). Fox, along with Brandford Darlington, Terrell Dailey, & Cory Macke was 1st in the 4 X 100 relay (44.7). Fox was named Co-Runner of the Year for the meet. Darlington, Dailey, Macke, & Dan Zimmerman won the 4 X 200 relay (1:34.4). Dailey, Macke, Clifford Ngong, & Chase Guggenheim were on the winning 4 X 400 relay (3:34.3). Seth Gold won the 3200 run with a time of 10:06.9. Mariemont had four league champions. Nate Kuck won the 1600 run (4:36.9) & the 800 run (2:06.3). Kuck, along with Garrett Welch, Bryan Routt, & Connor McManus won the 4 X 800 relay (8:28.8). With his three first places, Kuck was Co-Runner of the Year for the meet. McManus won the 300 hurdles with a time of 41.7. Spence Craig of Taylor won the closest race of the day in the 110 hurdles. He edged out Sean Ormond of Reading by .14 of a second to win with a time of 16.04. Deer Park won three field events. Cory Harmon won the discus (153'6) & the shot put (41'11). Harmon was the Field Performer of the Year. Daryl Ringwood won the long jump (19'11). Ellis Green of Finneytown won the high jump (6'). John Woodson of Madeira tied the league record in the 400 dash with a time of 49.8. Cameron Gephart of Reading won the pole vault (10'6).
Bruce Dixon of Mariemont was the Coach of the Year.
Complete results of the meet can be found in the Boys' Track link under league championship.
Softball Season Over For CHL
Division III Reading was the last remaining league team in the softball sectionals. The Blue Devils fell to Felicity 3-0 in the sectional finals in a game that was delayed until Tuesday. Anna Slusher struck out 11 as Reading finishes their season 17-8.
Enquirer City Polls 5/16
Here are the final city coaches polls from the Enquirer:
( 2) - last week's ranking
Baseball Division II-IV Final Poll
1. Madeira (2)
7. Reading (9)
8. Mariemont (NR)
Softball Divisions II-IV Final Poll
T6. Reading (T6)
Boys' Tennis Division II Final Poll
3. Indian Hill (3)
5. Wyoming (5)
6. Mariemont (6)
8. Madeira (7)
10. Taylor (9)
Girls' Track & Field Divisions II-III Final Poll
3. Indian Hill (5)
4. Wyoming (3)
8. Finneytown (7)
Boys' Track & Field Divisions II-III Final Poll
2. Wyoming (4)
T3. Mariemont (3)
5. Taylor (5)
10. Deer Park (T10)
All Sports Trophy Ends Up In A First Ever Tie
Now that our spring league sports are completed, the All Sports Trophy race for the year has also ended. To best of our knowledge, for the first time, the race has ended in a tie in total points for the school year. Both Indian Hill & Wyoming ended up with 109.5 points. Wyoming has been the winner for the past several years, but this time the Cowboys will share the honor with the Braves. Mariemont edged out Madeira 89.5 to 87 for 3rd place. Check out the complete breakdown for each team and each sport under the All Sports Trophy link at the top of this page.
Indian Hill Doubles Teams Advance To Districts
Both Indian Hill Division II boys' tennis doubles teams have moved on to the district tourney. Aloke Desai & Raghav Joshi finished 2nd place to CHCA. Alex Fixler & Will Jaroszewicz finished 4th to Summit Country Day. The district tournament will be held on Thursday, May 17th & Saturday, May 19th at Centerville High School. Matches will start at 9:00 am each day. The top four doubles teams will advance to the state tourney.
Check out the story under the In The News link on how each of the Indian Hill teams not only battled on the tennis course, but also in the classroom with ATP tests.
Web Visit Records Keep Falling
April was the 21st straight monthly record for the CHL website. There were 250,201 website visits for the month. That is the 3rd highest monthly total since the CHL website began in August 2006. The total for the year (August-July) is 1,827,130. We are on pace for 2,000,000 plus for the year. As always, we thank all of you who support the website and our advertisers.
New Football Alignment For Fall
The state has announced that football will now have seven divisions, up from six. Although the reason behind the new division is because some D1 schools are much larger than other D1s, the new alignment could affect some of our league schools. The difference is that six of the divisions will have about 108 schools compared to the 120 now. The new divisions should be out later this spring. Check out the story under the In The News link.
Check Out Video On Cincinnati Sports Medicine Site
Most of you know that when you click on our website ads, it will bring up their websites. If you click on Cincinnati Sports Medicine, go to the right side of their front page and click on When To See A Sports Medicine Physician. Dr. Marc Galloway has great information for athletes, parents, & coaches on when it is an appropriate time to see a sports medicine doctor.
As always, we thank our website advertisers. These people are supporting high school sports. You can thank them by supporting their businesses.
CHL Sportsmanship Statement
Welcome to the Cincinnati Hills League
As members of the Cincinnati Hills League, we would like to welcome our fans and guests to our schools and athletic facilities this season. We appreciate your support and attendance at our events and remind all attendees that the use of tobacco and alcohol are prohibited at school sponsored events. Fans are not allowed on the fields of play and we ask you to respect our facilities and quality of play on the field. Positive sportsmanship will be shared between both teams during the competition and we ask for our fans to exhibit that same behavior. Cheer for your team, show respect for the officials and the support staff in place to make the event a positive experience for all in attendance.
We are friendly rivals; we respect the work and efforts shown by both teams. We are proud of our schools and are very appreciative of your support and attendance.
Thank you.
The Cincinnati Hills League
LINK TO THE WEBSITE
At the upper right of the website front page, you will see a link titled History. When you click on it, you will have a brief history of the Cincinnati Hills League. Then you will have links to every school year from 1985-1986 (the year the league was formed) to 2005-2006. These are years before the website was started. Those school year links will include standings from all the league sports and, in many cases, the all-league selections for the varsity sports. It's taken about a year to get this organized. Although, we have a lot of the information from the past years, we are missing some standings and all-league selections. When you read the introduction to the link, it will explain this further.
I would like to thank two people who helped with getting this information on the website. Jennifer Dillingham from Reading High School helped with scanning the info. Dave Carroll, our webmaster, got the link up and operating. We hope you enjoy the link and we invite any comments.
CHL 101, Part Two
The second part of our series on the CHL covers the website. The site started in August 2006. Our website is operated by Sports Websoft (their link is at the bottom of this page). They design the set-up of the site. If you check out other high school websites, you might notice similarities. Sports Websoft operates the GMC, FAVC, GCL, GGCL websites in the Cincinnati area. They also operate the Western Ohio Conference in the Dayton area. Sports Websoft also works with the Cincinnati Enquirer. Sports stats are automatically put on both our website & the Enquirer online site.
The Sports Information Director has several jobs to do for the website. The biggest job is to write the front page stories. Another job is to enter the sports schedules. Several are automatically put on to the site by the website operations person, but some have to be manually entered. For example, boys' & girls' basketball schedules are automatically put on the site, but the SID must manually add swimming & diving and wrestling. Likewise, those sports that have their schedules entered automatically will also have their sports scores entered automatically. This is done when the coach reports their results to the Enquirer. Other jobs of the SID include updating the All Sports Trophy points, entering all-league selections, keeping the sports champions up to date, entering the college commitments, adding team scores for certain sports ( and correcting wrong scores). Also, the SID works on the league history.
The next installment will have more information on the website. Our first bio of CHL personal will be on the site soon.
CHL 101, Part One
In the next few weeks, we will have articles to give you a behind the scenes look at the Cincinnati Hills League & the website. It's hoped that this will provide a good insight on how a league and website is run. Our first part will deal with the league's history and set-up.
In the mid 1980's, there was a big shake-up in the sports leagues in the Cincinnati area. Emerging from the shake-up came new leagues, one of those being the Cincinnati Hills League. The CHL officially began in the fall of 1985. The league had nine charter members. It included seven present schools plus CAPE & Loveland. Taylor joined the league in 1989 moving that number to ten. In 1994, CAPE dissolved as a school. A year later, Loveland left to join the FAVC. Since then, it's been the same eight schools. The league was part of a confederation of leagues based out of the Hamilton County Educational Services office. At the end of 2008-2009 school year, the CHL left HCES and is now independent of any other leagues.
The league is governed by the eight athletic directors and a Board of Control. The Board of Control is made up of the eight high school principals from the league schools. The league has a set of by-laws for the different sports. Any change in the by-laws has to be approved by the Board of Control, which meets 3-4 times during the school year. The athletic directors meet once a month during the school year. They take care of the day by day operations of the league. One AD is the president, a job that rotates among the eight AD's every school year. The current president is Tom Nerl of Mariemont. Other items that the athletic directors take care of include scheduling, tournament set-ups & locations, & overseeing all-league selections (made by the coaches). They make recommendations to the Board of Control on issues such as the league budget. The two people who are year round employees of the CHL are the league secretary and the sports information director. More details on these ten individuals will be posted in the coming weeks. Working on a seasonal basis (by sport) are the assigners of the officials.
Our next installment will be about the CHL website.
Information Is Complete For CHL State Champs
All of the individual and team state champs are now entered. The list is as complete as I can find. If anyone else knows any state champs to add, or corrections to be made, let me know. You can email the SID at the address below. Meanwhile, go to the State Champions link and check out all of our league state champs!
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Cable Television Links
Two public access studios, ICRC TV and Waycross Community Media, will at various times during the season cover CHL teams. We will update the Website with any broadcasts. Instead of putting the playback schedule each time, you can get the schedule through the access websites or call the studios. ICRC will also televise sports events on their website.
ICRC - icrctv.com or 772-4272
Waycross - waycross.org or 825-2429
