MANSFIELD — Jon Avery can still hear the echoes, even after all these years. What Avery and his Mansfield Senior teammates accomplished 20 years ago in March has reverberated through time. This year marks the 20th anniversary of Senior High’s last trip to the Final Four — a month-long thrill-ride still revered in city basketball […]
Gregg Collins
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A New Era? Shelby’s Final 4 berth 1st in north central Ohio since 2018
It may be a little premature to call it a full-blown revival, but Shelby’s run to the Final Four could usher in a new era of north central Ohio high school basketball. Or maybe it’s a return to a former era. The Whippets snapped the area’s six-year state-tournament drought when they knocked off Lutheran West […]
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Column: Collins’ run at Senior High was full of fun
It all seems so magical now, that impossible tournament run almost 20 years ago. For three weeks, Mansfield Senior took its fans on an improbable postseason ride that culminated with an appearance in the Division I Final Four in March of 2005. The architect of that thrill ride, former Senior High coach Gregg Collins, will […]