The home stands at Pete Henry Gym were almost full and the electricity in the building was palpable. The city’s basketball fans turned out en masse to catch a glimpse of Mansfield’s Next Big Thing and they didn’t go home disappointed. Final score: Mansfield Senior 52, New Philadelphia16. That Senior High won the seventh-grade Ohio […]
Shabby Reed
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A Moment in Time: Remembering Mansfield Senior’s 2005 Final Four run
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 […]
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Mansfield Sr.’s 2005 storybook run came during Golden Age of Ohio high school basketball
I didn’t realize it at the time, but I landed in Mansfield during a Golden Era of boys basketball. I inherited the Mansfield Senior basketball beat in 2000 and sat courtside as the Tygers won four district championships in my first six seasons as the lead reporter. Senior High reached the Sweet 16 in 2002, […]