LEXINGTON — The top player in the Ohio Cardinal Conference still has plenty of basketball ahead of him.
Lexington sophomore Brayden Fogle was selected the OCC’s Player of the Year after leading the Minutemen to an outright conference crown. Lex (21-2, 14-0) is the first OCC boys team to go unbeaten in league play since Wooster went 12-0 in 2019-20 and the eighth in the conference’s 21-year history.
Lexington’s Scott Hamilton was selected the OCC Coach of the Year.
A 6-foot-5 forward, Fogle averaged a team-high 14.5 points and 8.2 rebounds a game. He shot 62 percent from the field.
Two of Fogle’s teammates, senior Elijah Hudson and sophomore Seven Allen, were selected to the OCC first team. Hudson averaged 12.8 points and 5.7 rebounds a game, while Allen averaged 10.6 points and 4.4 assists a game.
Mansfield Senior’s Kyevi Roane and Ashland’s Paxon Ediger also earned spots on the first team. Roane, a 6-foot-1 junior, averaged 17.4 points and 6.8 rebounds a game. Ediger, a sophomore, averaged 12.6 points and 3.2 rebounds a game.
Other first-team picks included Mount Vernon’s Jack Marhefka, New Philadelphia’s Colton Slaughter and Wooster’s Brady Bowen.
Second-team selections were Mansfield Senior’s Duke Reese, Lexington’s Joe Caudill, Ashland’s Gabe Baith, Mount Vernon’s Quentin Rowland, New Philadelphia’s Owen Miller, West Holmes’ Nate Fair and Wooster’s Anthony Carmean.
Honorable-mention choices included Ashland’s Nathan Bernhard and Max Swaisgood, Lexington’s Gavin Husty and Latrell Hughes, Madison’s Will Kepple and Cam Kuhn, Mansfield Senior’s Karion Lindsay and Rashad Reed Jr., Mount Vernon’s Zane Barber and Isaiah Columber, New Philadelphia’s Owen Schoelles and Reid Wells, West Holmes’ Collier Cline and Sam Sprang and Wooster’s Aidan Holford and Tre Edwards.