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BlizzardMan wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 12:33 am

athlete1120 wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 11:05 am Mostly Southern Ohio D3 schools here, with a few exceptions (Minford and Zane Trace D2 now)

SOC 2 will be loaded again IMO...Burg returns all its scoring after a great year, Northwest returns 90% of its starters from a district appearance last season, Webster was pretty much all underclassmen, and Minford has several guys who started the past 2 seasons on district championship teams returning.

SOC 1 will be a toss-up with Valley losing some key guys as well as St Joe losing arguably the best player in that league to graduation, the rest of the league I'm not sure.

SHAC will be North Adams to lose as I heard they only really lose their keeper, Lynch will be solid as always though. Peebles lost their leading 2 goal scorers to graduation. Not sure about the rest of the league.

OVC will be a battle with South Point probably being the preseason favorite with what's returning. Rock Hill lost one of the best goal-scorers around. The rest I'm not sure about.

SVC - Not really familiar with it, but know Zane Trace has their best few players all returning.

South Point? Lol. Gallia Academy still has a stronghold in the OVC coming off of a District Championship! No way they aren't the favorite.

RiverRatRay wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 7:10 am The OVC is having a soccer preview at South Point. They put Ironton against Gallia. Must be that none of the OVC teams want anything to do with Gallia. From what I have seen with Gallia the last few years, no one in the OVC will come close to beating them. As far as numbers for soccer, I was told Ironton had 79 kids sign up to play. This may have included middle school.

I was also told the reason Ironton was not included in the OVC this year was it being too late to get all the teams on schedule. The soccer coach went out and made contacts and came up with an eighteen team schedule. It does look like someone in the system doesn't want soccer to succeed.

BadFightSong wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:26 pm Ironton is not OHSAA sanctioned this year, they are considered a "club" team. However many of the OVC schools have either scrimmaged them or are scheduled to do so. The schedule for previews was the exact same this year as last years so I'd say they just plugged Ironton into the girls spot where SP played 2 games last year. The boys side Gallia typically always has the most boys players and again appeared to have more than others, therefore they split their roster to play Ironton, don't believe it has anything to do with no one in the OVC wanting to play Gallia.

Results from the preview are as follows:
(Girls) SP 1 Fairland 0
(Boys) SP 5 Fairland 1
(Girls) Ironton 9 Chesapeake 0
(Boys) Chesapeake 3 Portsmouth 2
(Girls) Gallia 0 RH 0
(Boys) Gallia 1 RH 0
(Boys) Gallia 3 Ironton 0

Tri-StateYouthSports wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 9:34 am

RiverRatRay wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 7:10 am The OVC is having a soccer preview at South Point. They put Ironton against Gallia. Must be that none of the OVC teams want anything to do with Gallia. From what I have seen with Gallia the last few years, no one in the OVC will come close to beating them. As far as numbers for soccer, I was told Ironton had 79 kids sign up to play. This may have included middle school.

I was also told the reason Ironton was not included in the OVC this year was it being too late to get all the teams on schedule. The soccer coach went out and made contacts and came up with an eighteen team schedule. It does look like someone in the system doesn't want soccer to succeed.

Gallia lost their top 3 scorers to graduation last year.

Pantherfan wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 7:07 pm I heard a rumor that Clay did not have enough kids and might cancel soccer this season. I hope that is just a rumor and those kids get to play this year.