Boardman Sports Briefs

Spartan Shootout

The second annual Boardman Spartan Shootout travel basketball tournament will take place on Dec. 30, Jan. 2 and Jan. 3 at Boardman High School. Boys in grades 4-6 are welcome to participate. Community teams only. The entry fee is $140 per team. Contact 330-774-7007 or dooler1168@zoominternet.net for more details.

Sim Earich Invitational

Boardman’s Ethan Schwendeman, Chris Butler and Nathan Hadley led the Spartans to a third place finish at this year’s Sim Earich Invitational on Oct. 11, improving the varsity’s record to 60-45 for the 2015 season. Boardman was outscored by Cleveland St. Ignatius – who is ranked No. 1 in Ohio and No. 9 in the country – and University School, while AAC rivals Girard were fourth and Austintown Fitch was fifth.

Schwendeman was seventh overall in a personal best time of 16:46, while Butler was ninth with a time of 16:59 and Hadley was 15th at 17:25 after missing over a month due to injury. Also scoring for Boardman was junior Nathaniel Ams with a time of 17:49 for 24th place, junior Nick Digiacomo in 33rd place with a time of 18:04 and sophomore Mark Moradian in 38th place with a personal best time of 18:12.

Spartan head coach John Phillips said he was very pleased with the team’s effort.

“We are getting healthy at just the right time of the season,” Phillips said.

The Spartan junior varsity team finished their season with a 70-37 record. At the invitational, the team was led by senior Adam Deeley, sophomore Jimmy Lagese, junior Jack Swavel, senior Brett Brunko and sophomore Carl Jacobson.

Setting a new personal best at the Trumbull Fairgrounds course were Schwendeman, Swavel, junior Dan Raver at 20:26, sophomore Luke Hetzel at 18:50, sophomore Nick Peters at 20:43, freshman Andrew Beichner at 20:42 and freshman Matt Welton at 21:08. Also setting a new personal best in his final career race was senior Brett Brunko, earning him the final BW-3 Runner of the Week.

Send Neighbors your news

If you’re a fall sports coach or the parent of an athlete, we need your help. In order to get teams and players the recognition they deserve, we want to showcase them in our pages. You can email us at neighbors@vindy.com.

You don’t have to be a writer — just send us the information and we’ll put it all together. When emailing pictures, send them as JPEG files as large as possible. Provide caption information and where people are located from left to right, front row to back.

Neighbors wants fall sports news

Fall sports have begun and Neighbors wants to be there every step of the way. If you’re a fall sports coach or the parent of an athlete, we need you help. In order to get teams and players the recognition they deserve, we want to showcase them in our pages. We can only do that if you commit to sending us game reports and photos each week. If you send it, it will get in. You can email us at neighbors@vindy.com. You don’t have to be a writer — just send us the information and we’ll put it all together. When emailing pictures, send them as JPEG files as large as possible. Provide caption information and where people are located from left to right, front row to back. The sports news we’re looking for ranges from varsity high school teams down to middle school and even elementary and recreational leagues.

We look forward to hearing about your teams successes.