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GARFIELD EARNS GILBERT HIS 250TH CAREER WIN

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COLUMBIANA OH- The MVAC Gray Tier has been nothing short of a gauntlet on both the boys and girls sides this season. 

On the girls side, it was a matchup between The Garrettsville Garfield Lady G-Men making the trip down to Crestview to do battle with The Lady Rebels. 

The first half proved to be a low scoring, scrappy and defensive battle! With both teams jockeying for position on one another in the first sixteen minutes. 

Crestview, coming into this season, has a lot of young talent on the roster. Including two freshmen that got the start in Saturday’s contest. 

One of those freshmen being the young star in Luvrain Gaskins, who dropped 14 points in the first half!

Gaskins’ big first helped The Lady Rebels draw even with The Lady G-Men going into halftime 19-19.

However, the talks with Coach Gilbert fired up Garrettsville out of the half. Garfield out scored Crestview 21-7 in the third quarter alone to take a 40-26 with just the fourth quarter remaining. 

The story of the second half? Jenna Smith playing takeover ball for The Lady G-Men! With 18 points in the second half and 26 on the day. 

Sarah Seaman knocked four triples down as a part of a 14 point performance on Saturday.

But it was Smith, accounting for almost half of her team’s offense, that named her The Player of The Game! The Lady G-Men kept that momentum rolling, taking that third quarter lead and never looking back, as Garrestville won 55-40 over Crestview. 

Winning both times over The Lady Rebels, the win marks career win number 250 for Garfield Head Coach Aaron Gilbert, with over 200 of those victories coming at Garrettsville. 

Crestview (9-9) will look to bounce back against Hubbard (8-8) and The Lady Eagles on Thursday, February 10th. 

Coach Gilbert will waste little time trying to get win 251, as Garrettsville (13-6) will travel to conference opponent Brookfield (12-4) for a conference matchup on Monday, February 7th.

*Contributed By YSN’s Ty Bartell

SEAMAN TOPS GARFIELD SHOOTING RECORDS

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GARRETTSVILLE OH- Sarah Seaman has been doing her thing in Garfield for the last four season. She has quickly become one of the best shooters in the YSN family, and statistically the best three point shooter in Garfield history. Earlier this season Seaman broke the record for most threes in a career. The mark was 169, she’s got that and counting.

Sarah hasn’t just a good shooter, she is a fantastic leader. Her example and work ethic has been crucial to Garfield’s success this season. Garfield has 4 losses this season where they’ve had leads in the fourth quarter. That kind of heartbreak is enough to break a team. But not Garfield, not with a leader like Sarah Seaman. Her, and her fellow seniors have refused to let those losses define the Lady G-Meh season. They’ve been dominant in the league this week to get their team back on track, and get their record back to above .500.

Anthony Hartwig, and Ty Bartell had the opportunity to talk to Sarah on Running Point after her record breaking performance. She talks about what goals lay ahead for her and her team, her basketball journey, and much more. Don’t miss this exclusive interview with Garfield’s brand new three point queen Sarah Seaman.

 

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SOUTH RANGE, GARFIELD, CRESTVIEW, EDISON FILL LIST OF DIVISION V ALL-OHIOANS

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COLUMBUS, OH- With South Range and Garfield going undefeated all regular season, and well into the post-season, you knew these two teams would fill up the accolade count when the award season came around.

They did not disappoint.

The Raiders were led by Dylan Dominguez’s first-team selection, who became the first South Range running back in history to have 3 consecutive 1000 yard seasons for the Burgundy and Gold. He was joined on the first team by record-breaking Junior Signal-Caller, Billy Skripac as well as Michael Lally and Logan Cormell.

Second teamers for South Range include Jacob Brooks on the offensive line and linebacker, Tyler Remish.  Bailey Ryan would head the third team, and the tandem of Connor Jones, Ayden Leon and Shane Lindstrom were named honorable mention.

Garfield landed their star running back, Anthony Demma on the first team, with Riley LaPorte garnering the same honor on the offensive line.  Brody Swigonski wrapped his senior year with a third-team all-state selection as well.  Austin Roman hauled in an honorable mention on the offensive line, while sophomore Keegan Sell made the team as a linebacker, and Colin Lysiak did the same on special teams.

Crestview had a couple of standouts make the list, as Anthony Cusick etched his name at honorable mention QB, and his teammate Roclen Bettura joined him at linebacker.

Edison’s Jacob Cusick was selected to the second team, and sophomore, and Chase McClurg joins the team as an honorable mention linebacker with Hunter Russell landing on the offensive line.

We congratulate these young men on representing their families, communities, school and program at the highest level this season!

GARFIELD GETS IT DONE AGAINST LOCAL RIVAL

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WINDHAM  OH-

A premiere basketball matchup occurred Friday night. As two of the most heated rivals squared off, with The Garrettsville Garfield G-Men and The Windham Bombers renewing their rivalry in front of a capacity crowd. 

Student sections were loud and the teams were energized from the opening tip. Miki Jones was putting on a show for The Bombers in the first half. With 11 points and a trifecta of 3-point shots in the first half, he helped keep Windham in the game. 

Bert Jones and Zack Turk battled hard with Anthony Demma and Brody Swigonski battled hard for rebounds all night, as every board had the crowd clinging to the edge of their seats

As the lead exchanged hands multiple times in the fourth quarter, with Windham bringing the defensive pressure, implementing the full-court press in the second half. 

The key to breaking that press? For Garrettsville, the answer was Anthony Demma. The G-Men football star can get it done on the hardwood as well.

Putting up multiple shots from the blocks to the shoulder, Demma also hit an ice cold 3-pointer to put Garrettsville up late in the third. 

Windham battled hard the whole way through; however, there was a lid on the bucket the last three minutes for The Bombers. Leading Garfield to the 68-63 victory over their rivals. 

The loss will send Windham to a 1-1 start on the season, with their next game schedule for Thursday, December 9th at Fairport Harding. 

The G-Men have won their first three games of the season in the last four days to go 3-0. They will take their much needed rest, as they hit the road to battle Bristol on Tuesday, December 7th. 

Garrettsville and Windham introduced many to their rivalry, with the first game between these two on Your Sports Network bringing all the fireworks as promised.

As YSN continues to expand with the arrivals of new schools all the time. One thing is for sure, Portage County basketball is explosive and is full of G’s. 

Contributed By YSN’s Ty Bartell.

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GARFIELD’S JOURNEY MEETS ITS END

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PERRY, OHIO. The Kirtland Hornets and the Garfield G-men traveled to Alumni Stadium to face of on the gridiron in the regional semi-final of the Ohio division five high school playoffs.

The Kirtland Hornets got off to a hot start early in the rainy and windy weather conditions marching down field on two separate drives one of them being a touchdown drive putting the Hornets up 9 to 0 going into halftime. The G-Men led by senior running back, Anthony Demma and senior quarterback Brody Swigonski just could not find the holes as the Kirtland defense proved to be no match for their ground game centered offense as they were just held to 7 points after a late touchdown pass by Swignoski to running back Ryan Stoller.

The Hornets tacked on a couple more scores, one including a 9 yard rushing touchdown by running back Tommy Gogolin to put the Hornets up for good as they closed the game out winning 25 to 7 advancing to the next round to take on the South Range Raiders.

*Contributed By YSN’s Matt Morrison

GARFIELD BOYS BASKETBALL COACH’S CORNER (EP 1) WITH ANDREW OLESKY

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GARRETTSVILLE OH- The MVAC better be ready to welcome in the G-Men because they are storming into the conference. The big thing about the boys basketball program, and really every program in the school is winning breeds winning. Plenty of leaders from Garfield’s already successful football team will spend their winter on the basketball court. They will bring their leadership, and standard of excellence. They’re talent and ability don’t hurt matters either. All and all there are a lot of reason to be looking forward to hoops season in Garfield.

Head coach Andrew Olesky took the time to come on to YSN’s Running Point this week to help us preview the season. He talks with Anthony Hartwig, and Ty Bartell about what he loves about coaching at Garfield, what fans should expect from the season, and much more. Episode 1 of Coach’s Corner with Andrew Olesky is live.

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ANOTHER BIG SECOND HALF PROPELS G MEN

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GARRETTSVILLE OH- It was another close halftime score for Garfield on Saturday night. In Round 1 of the playoffs, the G-Men found themselves down 13-7, and stormed to a 28-13 win. This time around they were up 14-7 in a competitive first half, but ran away again in the second for a 44-14 win over Bellaire

After Bellaire scored first to go up 7-0, Anthony Demma set the tone for the G-amen offense. He scored both first half touchdowns. The Big Reds scored out of halftime to tie the game at 14-14, and then it was all G-Men with 30 unanswered points. Ryan Stoller caught two touchdowns from Brady Swagonski in that span, Swagonski also ran one in. Demma finished with 3 touchdowns on the day.

Garfield will advance to play Kirtland in the Division 5 Region 17 semifinals. That game is slated to be played at Perry High School on Saturday at 7:00

GARFIELD GIRLS BASKETBALL COACH’S CORNER (EP 1) WITH AARON GILBERT

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GARRETTSVILLE OH- The Garfield girls basketball program is coming off a very successful season where they made it to regionals. They are also returning a ton of talent that got people expecting big things in 2021. Head coach Aaron Gilbert has been with the program long enough to see the hills and valleys. He thinks the key to this season is everyone grasping that because of the success they have, they will also have every team’s best effort. Garfield opens the season at home against West Branch.

Coach Gilbert took the time to help us preview the upcoming season on YSN’s Running Point. He talks with Anthony Hartwig, and Ty Bartell about the upcoming season, what challenges will be in their way, and much more. Gear up for Garfield hoops with Episode 1 of Coach’s Corner with Aaron Gilbert

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GARFIELD OVERCOMES SLOW START

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GARRETTSVILLE OH- The first half didn’t go quite as planned on Saturday night for Garfield. In a steady rain the G-Men found themselves down 13-7 at halftime. It would take almost the whole 3rd quarter for the G-Men to retake the lead. A touchdown and extra point gave them a 14-13 lead at the end of the 3rd. After the G-Men wore down Sandy Valley scoring two more times in the final frame to come away with a 28-13 win. Garfield ran 35 plays in the second half compared to Sandy Valley’s 16. The G-Men used that advantage to out gain them 182 to 17 in the half.

The G-Men advance to the next round of the OHSAA playoffs to play Bellaire who beat Crestview 27-20. That game will be at Garfield Saturday at 7:00.

THE DEMMA DOZER

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GARRETTSVILE OH- The Gsrfield football team is one of those special small-town programs that just does things the right way. As far as their offense goes, some call them old-fashioned, some call them one-dimensional, we like to call them unstoppable. It takes some ridiculous skill to put the numbers they do when everyone on the field knows what is coming. One of their biggest production players is Anthony Demma.

Anthony has definitely left a mark on the program. He’s already become the program’s leader in career points, and in Week 10 he broke the record for yards in a season. In a program that has historically been great as Garfield, those records are impressive. Now, it’s playoff time and Demma and his teammates are gearing up for a big playoff run inside a monster Division 5 Region 17. But with Demma in the backfield, and his line up front, Garfield might be the one causing nightmares for their opponents.

Anthony was able to take the time to sit down with YSN’s Anthony Hartwig to talk about his season, and teammates. They discuss what makes Garfield special, breaking the season yards record, and much more. Don’t miss this Garfield player profile “The Demma Dozer”

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