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BY JEFF BORDENWADSWORTH — Many high school basketball coaches would regard a .500 season as mediocre. But Wadsworth High’s head coach Ron Whitt will be quite happy to accept an even season.Why? Because this year the Basketball Bears are welcoming back only one senior and letterman, Bob Rinehart. And most of Wadsworth’s hopes will be on his shoulders.»ur rebuilding year is especially bad this time because the Chippewa Conference is full of powerful teams, commented Whitt. “Orrville will be extremely tough, and West Holmes, Cloverleaf and Triway will be awfull strong,tWhitt lost the services of five fine ball-handlers when graduation thinned the ranks. Rusty Wilson and Todd Butt, both of whom were members of theGAZETTE All-County Team, and Bob Kish, Joe Yakubic and Kenny Moore all left behind positions which will be hard to fill.But the head tutor is confident his young roundballers are equal to the task. ’The desire and attitude of the boys is great,” said Whitt. ‘They work well, andMayWadsworth9999performancesour scrimmages.“We will probably have three or four sophomores on the varsity,” confided Whitt. “And possibly a freshmanThe only position on the squad which is definite is the center. Rinehart, who scales in at 6’3”, will see action there. “We’re depending on Rinehart,” stressed the coach.Whitt also pointed to a pair of non-lettermen who looked promising.Iteve Garnik, a junior, has looked good in our scrimmages,” he said. “And Kim Kinsley, a sophomore, is a good prospect for the point.”The Grizzlies will have no drastic changes in their offense and defense, according to the joundball tutor JV1-3-1 offense will be favored by the Bears, while the defense will alternate between a man-to-man and a zone.“We’re going to be spotty and onsistent.” stated Whitt. “And with allthat youth there’ll be mistakes. But we have the potential, and we’ll just have to wait and see.”A new addition to Wadsworth’s schedule is Canton-Lehman. The GrizzliesBarberton, and Norton, aswell as Medina, in non-conference play. The Basketball Bears will begin their 1970-71 season with an away tilt at Northwest on Friday, Nov. 27. The premier home game is the followingnight.PERENNIAL QUESTIONEvery year the Medina football team has a losing season in the Southwestern, fans bring up the familiar query: Whenare the Bees going to get out of the SWleague and get into a Medina County loop with Brunswick, Cloverleaf and Wadsworth?This question is especially intriguing this year, since the Medina team whipped Cloverleaf, Brunswick and Wadsworth, while losing five of seven clashes in the SW league.In spite of the fact that Roger Auker has a 7-6-1 mark in the Southwestern in his two-year reign as head coach at
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Medina County Gazette
Medina, Ohio, US
Thu, Nov 19, 1970
Page 14
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