PREP NOTEBOOK Eibel gains 500th win

This is the sixth different school he's coached at since 1961.
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It's one thing to last a long time in a profession. It's quite another to be successful for decades.
Tom Eibel collected his 500th career win in the Wellington's boys' 71-34 victory over Brookside. Eibel began coaching at Mayfield in 1961 and made five more stops before taking over two years ago for his son, Jim.
"My son had been the coach here, and when he got the principal job at New London, he told me what a great group of kids we have here," said Eibel, who coached at New London for 12 years and Western Reserve for four before taking over the Dukes. "As long as the young people respond well, I'll keep going. My family doesn't believe me when I say I'm going to retire. One thing that keeps me going is the dream of taking a team to the final four."
Also, with a 59-34 win at Oregon Clay, Sylvania Northview girls coach Jerry Sigler became the fourth coach in Ohio girls basketball history to record 500 victories. In his 28th season with the Wildcats, Sigler is 500-131.
Brother acts
Freshman John Diebler scored 49 points to tie a Fostoria school record and older brother Jake added 33 in a 103-89 win over Willard; and twins Tim and Eric Pollitz combined to score Ottawa-Glandorf's final 26 points in a 55-51 overtime win against Van Wert.
Big points
East Liverpool's 6-foot-7 Brian Kreefer scored 17 of his career-high 39 points in the first quarter of the Potters' 89-70 win at Massillon Washington; East Palestine's Brett Young had 33 points in an 88-58 win over Leetonia; 5-foot-5 point guard Katie Coon ran her string of 30-plus point games to three in Plymouth's 81-47 win over New London, finishing with 34 points, 10 rebounds and six steals; and Jeromesville Hillsdale's Chelsea Jones went for 32 points and 11 rebounds in a 68-43 win at Dalton.
Heat wave
Findlay, the leading 3-point shooting team in its conference, didn't make a shot behind the arc against Sandusky but made 75 percent of its 2-pointers (30 of 40) in a 70-53 win; after winning three games last season, Tiffin Columbian has won four in a row under first-year coach Derek Lewis.
After taking almost two weeks off, Tiffin Calvert scored a school-record 123 points in a 123-42 win over Bettsville. Six Calvert players scored in double figures. The Senecas hit 55 of 88 (63 percent) from the field and made 33 layups.