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See which Southwest Ohio basketball teams are ranked in Feb. 5 AP poll
Here are the top 10 teams in the Associated Press Ohio high school basketball poll released Feb. 5, 2024, with first-place votes in parentheses, won-loss record, and total points:
Boys basketball
Division I
1. Garfield Heights (5) 19-0 135
2. Cleveland St. Ignatius (4) 16-3 133
3. Moeller (1) 18-1 132
4. Lewis Center Olentangy Orange (6) 17-1 127
5. Toledo Whitmer 15-1 109
6. Findlay 14-1 95
7. Delaware Hayes 16-1 69
8. Centerville (2) 12-5 46
9. Elder 15-3 41
10. Louisville 16-2 32
Others receiving 12 or more points: Brecksville-Broadview Heights 22. Sycamore 18.
DIVISION II
1. Rocky River Lutheran West (12) 16-2 167
2. Lexington (2) 18-1 146
3. Wyoming (3) 16-2 109
4. Columbus Hartley 14-2 100
5. Cuyahoga Falls CVCA 17-1 86
6. Shelby 15-2 78
7. Kettering Alter (1) 12-5 74
8. Youngstown Ursuline 13-3 55
9. Creston Norwayne 15-1 52
10. Willard 13-3 32
Others receiving 12 or more points: Marietta 29. Dresden Tri-Valley 15.
Division III
1. Cleveland Heights Lutheran East (6) 14-4 143
2. Ottawa-Glandorf (6) 15-2 142
3. Malvern (3) 16-0 124
4. Ashland Crestview 17-0 97
5. New Madison Tri-Village (2) 16-1 85
6. Toledo Emmanuel Christian 14-2 76
7. Castalia Margaretta 15-2 68
8. Camden Preble Shawnee (1) 16-3 44
9. Gahanna Columbus Academy 16-2 40
10. Minford 12-3 35
Others receiving 12 or more points: Archbold 32. Haviland Wayne Trace 20. Seaman N. Adams 13. Youngstown Mooney 13. Bluffton 12.
Division IV
1. Russia (9) 17-1 162
2. Toledo Christian (3) 15-1 127
3. Richmond Heights (6) 9-8 121
4. Lima Central Catholic 14-2 105
5. Woodsfield Monroe Central 15-0 79
6. Warren JFK 13-4 61
7. Berlin Hiland 13-4 57
8. Troy Christian 15-2 52
9. Leesburg Fairfield 17-2 50
10. Delphos St. John’s 16-2 46
(tie) South Webster 15-2 46
Others receiving 12 or more points: Antwerp 23. Bascom Hopewell-Loudon 17. Pandora-Gilboa 17. Mogadore 13.
Girls basketball
Division I
1. Pickerington Central (10) 18-3 153
2. Lewis Center Olentangy (5) 19-1 143
3. Mason (2) 18-2 139
4. Whitehouse Anthony Wayne 17-2 100
5. Marysville 18-3 93
6. Mt. Notre Dame 17-3 83
7. Princeton (1) 17-3 78
8. Uniontown Lake 17-2 62
9. Akron Hoban 15-2 39
10. Rocky River Magnificat 14-5 20
Others receiving 12 or more points: Strongsville 17. Springboro 17. Olmsted Falls 14. Stow-Munroe Falls 12.
Division II
1. Purcell Marian (16) 21-1 175
2. Thornville Sheridan (2) 20-0 117
3. Proctorville Fairland 18-1 115
4. Circleville 18-0 109
5. Copley 19-2 100
6. Akron SVSM 13-5 80
7. Bryan 17-1 64
8. Chillicothe Unioto 18-2 48
9. Mansfield Sr. 17-2 40
10. Beloit W. Branch 17-2 35
Others receiving 12 or more points: Granville 34. Gates Mills Gilmour 15. Bellevue 12. Shaker Heights Laurel 12.
Division III
1. Casstown Miami East (11) 21-0 160
2. Kettering Alter (3) 18-2 149
3. Ottawa-Glandorf (1) 17-2 123
4. Waynesville (1) 21-0 101
5. Portsmouth 17-2 82
6. Castalia Margaretta 17-2 78
7. Columbus Africentric (2) 18-2 68
8. Mechanicsburg 18-1 46
9. Liberty Center 16-2 32
10. Cincinnati Country Day 15-4 31
Others receiving 12 or more points: Beverly Ft. Frye 27. Warrensville Heights 21. LaGrange Keystone 20. Columbiana Crestview 17.
Division IV
1. Ft. Loramie (13) 18-2 174
2. Berlin Hiland (1) 17-2 136
3. Newark Catholic (2) 17-0 135
4. Convoy Crestview 17-2 114
5. Loudonville 16-1 97
6. Gibsonburg 18-1 83
7. New Madison Tri-Village (1) 16-3 54
8. Waterford 15-3 47
9. Defiance Ayersville 16-1 45
10. Xenia Legacy Christian Academy (1) 17-2 30
Others receiving 12 or more points: Minster 29. Richmond Heights 13.
Out of prison, Indiana’s caviar king back on Ohio River to find fishing holes taken
David Cox, of English, Indiana, says once he began setting his nets again after a two-year prison sentence and a three-year ban on commercial fishing, all of his once-secret spots were taken.
Can you eat fish from the Ohio River?
In 1975, future presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, then governor of Massachusetts, bet 20 pounds of New England cod that the Red Sox would defeat the Reds in the World Series. If things went south for Boston, Ohio governor James Rhodes promised to send Dukakis 10 pounds of Lake Erie perch and 10 pounds of Ohio River catfish. The Reds ended up winning and the cod was sent to the Convalescent Home for Children, in Cincinnati.
At the time, people were still eating catfish from the Ohio without too much concern. The fish were also served at several restaurants along the river.
There were warnings in 1977
But two years later, in 1977, The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission released the results of a study of contaminants found in the tissues of Ohio River fish. They warned anglers in cities such as Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, Wheeling and Gallipolis that man-made chemicals known as PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, had been discovered in the river fish. Later, high concentrations of mercury were discovered in the fish, too.
Thanks to the Clean Water Act of 1972 and the environmental regulations that followed, the river is now cleaner than it was in the seventies. And it’s still teeming with a variety of fish, including catfish, striped bass, drum and black bass, among other species.
But even though PCBs were banned by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1979, they are still found in fish, since they remain in the sediment in the bottom of the river. “Organisms live in the sediment and fish feed on them,” Rich Cogen, the executive director of the Ohio River Foundation told The Enquirer. Mercury is also a big problem, according to Cogen.
So the question is: Can you eat fish caught in the Ohio River?
The short answer is yes. But it depends on what species you are eating and where along the river you caught it.
There are also very strict limitations on how frequently you should eat them, according to the web site for the Ohio Sport Fish Consumption Advisory, part of the Ohio Department of Health.
In areas of the river between the Belleville Lock, located 204 miles downstream from the river’s origins in Pittsburgh, to the Indiana border, the advisory agency currently recommends consuming Ohio River fish no more than once a month max. That area includes Adams, Brown, Clermont, Gallia, Hamilton, Lawrence, Meigs and Scioto counties.
Here’s where to check
Recommendations change throughout the year, but you can keep up by visiting the Ohio Department of Health’s Sport Fish Consumption Advisory page, which provides updated information on when certain fish, usually bottom feeders such as carp, are deemed too dangerous to eat at all.
Here’s who should take a pass on Ohio River fish
The agency also warns that people who are more likely to have health effects from eating contaminated fish, includingchildren younger than 15 years old, pregnant women and women who are planning to become pregnant to avoid Ohio River fish altogether.
Just because you have to limit the amount of fish you eat, doesn’t mean the river is a bad place for fishing, as long as you limit your intake or do catch-and-release fishing. Just make sure you have a proper fishing license before casting your line.
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It isn’t over until it’s over. That’s the case for both the UCLA Bruins football program recruiting and for quarterback Brady Edmunds. Edmunds is currently committed to head to Ohio State but he took a visit from UCLA offensive coordinator Dean Kennedy earlier this week.
Kennedy met Edmunds on Thursday despite the fact that the quarterback has been committed to the Buckeyes since December of 2024 but could the UCLA Bruins be making a run at flipping the quarterback?
Edmunds has only had an official visit with Ohio State but could UCLA heave a heat check on the 6’5” quarterback? New UCLA head coach Bob Chesney is off to an unbelievable start to his recruiting with the Bruins and flipping a recruit of Edmunds’ caliber would be his most impressive move yet.
247 Sports has Edmunds as the No. 16 quarterback in the class, which would give UCLA a clear predecessor for Nico Iamaleava whenever the Bruins current starting quarterback decides to head to the professional level.
It’d be a full circle moment for the Bruins, as Edmunds was originally recruited to Ohio State by former UCLA head coach Chip Kelly, who bailed on UCLA to go run the Buckeyes offense. Ohio State is a great spot for a developing quarterback, as the Buckeyes produce tons of NFL talent, especially at the wide receiver position, which would help Edmunds put up some gaudy numbers in Columbus.
Chesney and the Bruins have geography on their side, Edmunds attends Huntington Beach High School in Southern California, which could potentially become a factor if Edmunds views UCLA as a program on the rise that’d be much closer to his friends and family than out in Ohio.
Time will tell if Kennedy’s visit will make a difference but UCLA’s recruiting has made waves in the first offseason under Chesney and the new regime.
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