CLEVELAND Boardman band wins Rock Off

Two-thirds of Jupiter Hollow's members have previously placed in the event.
CLEVELAND -- Jupiter Hollow, a rock band featuring three students from Boardman High School, is the winner of the 2004 High School Rock Off.
Jupiter Hollow competed Saturday night against 17 other teen bands from northeastern Ohio at Odeon Concert Club in the Flats.
Last year's winning band, Johnny Psycho, made it to the finals but did not place in the top three. Second place was awarded to Just Missed, a pop-punk band from Normandy, Lake Catholic and Holy Cross high schools, and third place was claimed by The Imperial Skabots, a ska-rock band from Westlake and North Olmsted high schools.
The Jupiter Hollow musicians -- Anthony LaMarca, Andrew Carlson and Tony Cucitrone -- are juniors at Boardman High. LaMarca was in middle school when he, his older brother and a cousin were in a band called The Deep, which won the Rock Off in 2000 and 2001. Carlson placed second last year as a solo acoustic singer-guitarist.
First-place prizes include $500 cash, a package from Sam Ash music, recording time at MetroSync Studios, a set of microphones and a chance to open for a major act at Odeon Concert Club. Boardman High School's band program also will receive $200. Two other bands from Boardman, Another Found Self and Blackwater, also competed in the rock off finals. Carlson also is a member of Blackwater.
All finalists were invited to record a song for the sixth High School Rock Off compilation CD, which went on sale Saturday night.
Six other local teen bands were semifinalists this year. They were One Forth Awesome, from Liberty; Andrew Carlson, Boardman; Pure Bred, from Canfield and Boardman; Elliott's Ice Cream, Newton Falls and John F. Kennedy High; Validity, Niles McKinley; and Archetype A, Lakeview and Maplewood High in Trumbull County.