If any of my non-northwest Ohio friends see anything about this Stryker girls basketball + OHSAA + Bluffton debacle, please message me! I would like to see how far this is reaching + what people are saying.
Thanks in advance 🫶
Before [insert here] hit the fan, pun intended, Lady Panthers put together a strong team effort! Tenacity on both ends led by freshman Khloe Goebel's infectious spark...
Unfortunate @Stryker_AD has to come back & finish the last 5:44, with State on the line, but they'll be ready
My short story on the situation today between Stryker and Ottoville.
Quotes from Stryker head coach Conner Ruffer should be coming to the story shortly.
https://t.co/3ExSDw9kya
Updated story with comments from Stryker head coach Conner Ruffer
"My girls wanted to play, and felt comfortable making assignments, but that wasn’t listened to."
https://t.co/3ExSDw9kya
Brutal way to see the season come to an end…feel terrible for Stryker & their community
Not taking anything away from Ottoville but there’s gotta be a better way to decided a State Berth, today was NOT it!
1️⃣This situation couldn’t have been handled any worse by Doug Ute & his NWDAB cronies. Sending teams home who’ve played 80% of their Regional Final game at 2:15pm, just to start a different game on the same floor at 4pm is a completely asinine decision. Totally hosed the Stryker girls.
2️⃣Add that to the fact that Ute let D7 boys team Glenwood play in the postseason despite playing 23 games in the regular season this year. Even though the OHSAA handbook says any team who plays over 22 regular season games is ineligible for the tournament.
3️⃣How administrators across the state are completely fine sitting back and wearing beige while Ute is running the show is baffling to me. Don’t even get me started with the shady things he did in the 2024 volleyball state tournament to benefit his wife’s team!
Stryker High School girls basketball may have been robbed of a Final Four trip after Saturday’s matchup with Ottoville was suspended due to “court humidity.”
The Panthers led the entire game and were ahead 37–31 with 5:44 left in the fourth quarter when officials suspended play due to a slippery floor.
Yet roughly an hour later, Division VI and Division IV games were played on the same court. Today, ~24 hours after the game was suspended, it resumed with momentum dead, and the Stryker Panthers ended up losing.
What a disgrace @OHSAASports and @BlufftonU
Stryker High School girls basketball may have been robbed of a Final Four trip after Saturday’s matchup with Ottoville was suspended due to “court humidity.”
The Panthers led the entire game and were ahead 37–31 with 5:44 left in the fourth quarter when officials suspended play due to a slippery floor.
Yet roughly an hour later, Division VI and Division IV games were played on the same court. Today, ~24 hours after the game was suspended, it resumed with momentum dead, and the Stryker Panthers ended up losing.
What a disgrace @OHSAASports and @BlufftonU