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Playing tougher schedules helped Trotwood, Winton Woods
If you’re in Cincinnati, and you’re not in the Greater Catholic League, you can have trouble getting noticed by the local preps fans.
So what does Winton Woods do? They play the GCL.
In the past few years, in preparing for seasons that would eventually be successful, Winton Woods started out with games against Cincinnati powers. It worked again this season, as Winton Woods opened with a 45-34 loss against Moeller on its way to a 8-2 regular season and a run to the Division II, Region 8 final.
There, Winton Woods will meet Trotwood-Madison, another team that boosted its schedule with bigger-division schools to find success heading into the 7:30 p.m. Friday game at Mason High School.
“If you find a difficult game in Week 1, it helps you stay focused on offseason preparation,” said Winton Woods coach Troy Everhart.
Plus, those battle-tested games prove useful for the playoffs.
Trotwood, for instance, played D-I schools Mason, Lebanon, Wayne and Springfield, and it cost the Rams, as they lost to Mason, Wayne and Springfield (all close). But now Trotwood is one of the state’s final eight playing a Winton Woods team that shares a lot of the same qualities.
“We played X one year, and the next week they played DeMatha, which was ranked No. 9 in the country, on ESPN,” Everhart said. “I’m telling our kids, if that’s No. 9, we’re No. 2, we played them a hell of a lot better than DeMatha did.”
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By get real
November 16, 2009 9:47 PM | Link to this
This will be the D2 state championship. can’t see how WW can beat TM with the triple option. I think if TM makes WW throw, TM wins easy.
By DonMagicRon
November 17, 2009 9:29 AM | Link to this
This is hardly the state championship.If Trotwood lost to Mason, they are in some very serious trouble Friday. Winton Woods plays a D-1 because that where better teams are. And remember this one thing; Winton Woods play in Cincinnati not Dayton. No disrespect to Centerville and Wayne but Cincy is a higher level of competition.
By Columbus
November 18, 2009 1:52 PM | Link to this
Was this article proofread before being posted? Just horrible. Plus this article seems as if the same one posted by the Cincinnati Enquirer.
By DonMagicRon
November 21, 2009 12:38 AM | Link to this
Winton Woods SMASHED Trotwood with the triple options. Great defense and knocking the snot of Trotwood. I think I even saw Gilbert duck to the ground to avoid a hit and run out of bounds a couple of times. None of the Warriors back would do that.