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![[Photo Album] Big basketball doubleheader tonight at Loveland High School](https://lovelandmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/basketball-feature.jpg)
Loveland, Ohio – The Loveland High School Varsity basketball teams play in a rare doubleheader tonight. The Women’s team tips off at 6 PM and the Men’s game will begin at 7:30 when the Turpin Spartans travel to the Tiger fieldhouse.
Go HERE to review the stats for how both Loveland teams are scoring so far in the young season.
Here are photos from recent competition.
Photos by David Miller/Loveland Magazine © 2023
![[Photos] Tiger Women bow out to #1 team in Ohio](https://lovelandmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/j-early-1.jpg)
Harrison, Ohio – The Loveland High School Women’s Basketball Team ended their season in the 3rd round of the Ohio Basketball Tournament with a loss to the #1 team in Ohio. The game on Tuesday afternoon was played at Harrison High School. The score was Mason 49, Loveland 22. Josie Early led the Tiger scoring with 8 and Olivia Raby scored 5. Grace Dressell scored 4.
The Tigers (11-5, 17-8) finished in 3rd place in the ECC.
Conference leader West Clermont went into their tournament game on Monday and saw their 24 and-no-loss season disappear. The Kings Knights (13-1, 21-5), # 2 in the ECC beat the Wolves 49-43. Kings continued their tourney journey by beatingt Centerville today 61-53.
Meanwhile, the Tiger Men’s team lost their entry game in the State Tournament on Tuesday 73-47 against Princeton.
Photos ©2023 by David Miller/Loveland Magazine.
![[Game Photos] Loveland Tigers advance in State Tournament to face Mason Comets](https://lovelandmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/early-feature-1200-size.jpg)
by David Miller
No 8 seed Loveland advanced in the State tournament Wednesday night in a game played at Lakota East High School by defeating #16 seed Oak Hills. Josie Early led all scorers in the 48-34 contest with 16 points. She was 7 for 9 from the charity stripe. Charity is a misnomer when it comes to Early. She more than earns those trips to the foul line almost never seeing a clear way to the rim as defenses double-team and collapse on her trips inside the circle. The Senior 5’7″ guard pulled down 5 rebounds and stole the ball from the Highlanders 4 times.
Ten of Olivia Rabe’s 14 points were a result of her perfect 10-10 night at the foul line. Rabe is a 6’2″ Senior.
Mason (15-1, 23-1) advanced after beating Anderson 60-27 on February 5 and this past Wednesday evening by beating Northwest 67-8. Mason’s only loss was on December 7th when they traveled to Lakota East, 52-48. The Comets are on a 17-game win streak. Mason won the GMC conference title. Mason’s top scorer is Sophmore guard #20, Madison Parrish who scored 28 in Mason’s 63-62 win at Princeton on January 11. She averages 13.3 points.
The Tigers are 11-5, 17-5 for the season, and finished ECC competition # 3.
The Tiger vs Comets game is on Tuesday, February 21 at 5 PM and will be played at Harrison High School.
![[Game Photos] Tigers advance in State Tournament with win over Seton](https://lovelandmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/katy-wilber.jpg)
Harrison, Ohio – Freshman Katy Wilber with 12 points, led the Loveland Tigers Wednesday afternoon at Harrison High School in the first round of the Southwest 2 – Division I Sectional State Tournament. Wilber was 4 for 5 shooting, all three-pointers. In the 45-37 win, Olivia Raby contributed 11.
A strong 3rd quarter allowed Seton to get back into the game and come to within 2 in the 4th, but strong shooting from the Tiger foul line protected their lead.
The # 8 seeded Tigers next travel to Lakota East High School on February 15 at 6 PM to play # 16 seed Oak Hills.
All photos © David Miller/Loveland Magazine 2023
![[Photo Albums] Tiger basketball claims 2nd in ECC after easy win over Anderson](https://lovelandmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/k-wilber-score.png)
Loveland, Ohio – The Loveland Women (10-3, 14-4) climbed into second place in the ECC after their Senior Night victory over Anderson Monday, 47-34.
Behind the Tigers is Kings (10-3, 13-5). The Tigers beat Kings 46-45 in overtime on December 12 and the rivalry rekindles this Thursday when the Knights come to Loveland for a showdown at 7:30 PM. (CORRECTION: The game against Kings Thursday, January 26 is at Kings High School.)
Loveland is on a 7-game win streak. They beat Lebanon on the road 38-33 last Thursday and defeated Indian Hills in the Braves’ gym 46-30 last Wednesday.
Loveland’s Freshman Katy Wilber drained five threes in the first half at Indian Hill and finished with two more in the second to lead all scorers with 21. Olivia Raby scored 11.
Josie Early led all scorers in her Senior Night performance with 15, she pulled down 6 rebounds and collected 5 steals.
The Tigers have a non-conference home game at 2 PM this Saturday against Springboro and travel to West Clermont on Monday, January 30. Undefeated West Clermont (13-19, 19-0) stands in the Tiger’s way of winning the conference. The Wolves are rated the #4 team in Ohio. The Tigers came within 6 of beating West Clermont on December 15. It was one of West Clermont’s closest games.
| Standings | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CONFERENCE | OVERALL | ||||||||
| TEAMS | W-L | PCT | PF | PA | W-L | PCT | PF | PA | STRK |
| West Clermont | 13 – 0 | 1.000 | 58.4 | 34.0 | 19 – 0 | 1.000 | 57.3 | 33.8 | W19 |
| Loveland | 10 – 3 | .769 | 45.3 | 41.5 | 14 – 4 | .778 | 45.2 | 37.6 | W7 |
| Kings | 10 – 3 | .769 | 52.7 | 41.7 | 13 – 5 | .722 | 51.4 | 39.4 | W2 |
| Walnut Hills | 8 – 5 | .615 | 46.9 | 43.2 | 12 – 6 | .667 | 49.0 | 38.6 | L1 |
| Milford | 7 – 6 | .538 | 52.5 | 50.0 | 11 – 7 | .611 | 52.9 | 47.8 | W4 |
| Winton Woods | 7 – 6 | .538 | 45.1 | 42.7 | 10 – 8 | .556 | 45.2 | 44.0 | L2 |
| Lebanon | 6 – 7 | .462 | 48.5 | 48.5 | 12 – 7 | .632 | 51.1 | 45.1 | L2 |
| Turpin | 3 – 10 | .231 | 36.5 | 49.8 | 5 – 13 | .278 | 36.8 | 48.2 | W1 |
| Little Miami | 1 – 12 | .077 | 37.4 | 52.5 | 2 – 16 | .111 | 40.3 | 52.4 | L3 |
| Anderson | 0 – 13 | .000 | 35.2 | 54.6 | 1 – 18 | .053 | 36.1 | 52.6 | L18 |
CORRECTION: Indian Hills’ Ella Riggs did not play in the game. I was reading old news that was featured on the team’s web page. Riggs graduated last year.
by David Miller
Loveland, Ohio – Haven’t seen the 2023 “Our Way” edition of Loveland High School Women’s basketball? Here is a photo sampling of the fierce play you’ve missed.
The Tigers are currently in 3rd place in the tough Eastern Cincinnati Conference with an 8-3, 11-4 record.
This past Monday they defeated Turpin on the Tiger court 39-36 and overwhelmed the Little Miami Panthers on the road, 54-39 on January 12. At home, on January 10 they defeated Winton Woods 37-36. And, on January 5 defeated Milford on the Tiger court 45-43.
That’s a 4 game-winning streak and 6 wins in their last 7 games.
The women travel tonight to nearby Indian Hill to take on their all-time leading scorer, Ella Riggs who on January 7 set the Braves record with 1638 career points. This is a non-conference game against the 5-4, 9-4 Braves, who are on a 8-win and 1-loss streak in the Cincinnati Hills League.
In the Tiger win over Turpin Olivia Rabe scored 16. At Little Miami, she scored 23 and pulled down 13 rebounds, had 5 assists and steals, and blocked 4 shots. She leads the ECC averaging 3.6 blocks per outing.
Jose Early scored 13 against Turpin and is second in the ECC with 4.1 assists per game. She is first among ECC opponents with 3 steals per game.
The scoring was spread out in the Winton Woods game with Katy Wilber, Olivia Raby, and Josie Early scoring 9 each and Sophia Kapszukiewicz adding 7.
For high school basketball fans, know that this Tiger team is aggressively smart and disciplined under the co-coaching staff of Keith Braswell and Brad Early.
The next home game for the Tigers is Monday, January 23 vs Anderson, however, Indian Hill High School is a close enough venue, and it will be a short journey to see some incredible athletes tonight. The game time is 7:30.
| Standings | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CONFERENCE | OVERALL | ||||||||
| TEAMS | W-L | PCT | PF | PA | W-L | PCT | PF | PA | STRK |
| West Clermont | 11 – 0 | 1.000 | 59.5 | 33.1 | 17 – 0 | 1.000 | 57.9 | 33.2 | W17 |
| Kings | 8 – 2 | .800 | 52.3 | 43.9 | 11 – 4 | .733 | 50.9 | 40.4 | L1 |
| Loveland | 8 – 3 | .727 | 45.8 | 42.9 | 11 – 4 | .733 | 45.5 | 38.7 | W4 |
| Walnut Hills | 7 – 4 | .636 | 49.0 | 42.6 | 11 – 5 | .688 | 50.7 | 37.7 | L1 |
| Winton Woods | 6 – 4 | .600 | 46.4 | 38.9 | 9 – 6 | .600 | 46.1 | 41.7 | L2 |
| Lebanon | 6 – 5 | .545 | 49.5 | 48.1 | 12 – 5 | .706 | 52.0 | 44.4 | W1 |
| Milford | 5 – 6 | .455 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 9 – 7 | .563 | 51.2 | 47.6 | W2 |
| Turpin | 2 – 9 | .182 | 34.7 | 48.6 | 4 – 12 | .250 | 35.6 | 47.1 | L6 |
| Little Miami | 1 – 10 | .091 | 36.5 | 53.4 | 2 – 14 | .125 | 40.1 | 52.9 | L1 |
| Anderson | 0 – 11 | .000 | 34.9 | 55.7 | 1 – 16 | .059 | 35.9 | 53.1 | L16 |
![[Photo Albumn] and LHS basketball update](https://lovelandmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/lhs-espn.jpg)
Loveland, Ohio – Eight games into the season the Tiger Men (2-3, 5-3) stand in 5th place in the Eastern Cincinnati Conference (ECC). Leading the Tigers in scoring is 11th grader Brayden Frietch averaging 11.5 points per game. Close behind is 11th grader Jack Sauer averaging 11.4. Both Frietch and Sauer have scored 12 three-pointers.
The Women are 3-3, 5-3, and Leading the Women are Senior forward Olivia Raby averaging 10.6, and Senior guard Josie Early averaging 10. The Women are in 7th place in the ECC.
| Standings | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CONFERENCE | OVERALL | ||||||||
| TEAMS | W-L | PCT | PF | PA | W-L | PCT | PF | PA | STRK |
| Anderson | 5 – 0 | 1.000 | 69.0 | 47.4 | 6 – 0 | 1.000 | 67.2 | 46.5 | W6 |
| Kings | 5 – 0 | 1.000 | 66.2 | 47.6 | 6 – 0 | 1.000 | 68.5 | 47.8 | W6 |
| Turpin | 4 – 1 | .800 | 58.0 | 48.4 | 5 – 1 | .833 | 57.7 | 48.5 | W1 |
| Winton Woods | 3 – 2 | .600 | 57.4 | 55.6 | 4 – 2 | .667 | 58.7 | 56.3 | W3 |
| Loveland | 2 – 3 | .400 | 47.8 | 48.0 | 5 – 3 | .625 | 50.3 | 46.6 | W2 |
| Lebanon | 2 – 3 | .400 | 50.4 | 56.6 | 2 – 4 | .333 | 49.3 | 54.8 | L1 |
| Walnut Hills | 2 – 3 | .400 | 55.2 | 61.4 | 2 – 5 | .286 | 53.1 | 61.1 | L1 |
| Little Miami | 1 – 4 | .200 | 47.0 | 56.8 | 3 – 4 | .429 | 46.9 | 52.0 | L3 |
| Milford | 1 – 4 | .200 | 54.8 | 61.4 | 2 – 4 | .333 | 57.7 | 61.7 | L4 |
| West Clermont | 0 – 5 | .000 | 41.2 | 63.8 | 0 – 5 | .000 | 41.2 | 63.8 | L5 |
| Standings | WOMEN | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CONFERENCE | OVERALL | ||||||||
| TEAMS | W-L | PCT | PF | PA | W-L | PCT | PF | PA | STRK |
| West Clermont | 5 – 0 | 1.000 | 53.2 | 36.0 | 7 – 0 | 1.000 | 55.7 | 37.7 | W7 |
| Lebanon | 4 – 2 | .667 | 50.0 | 46.0 | 8 – 2 | .800 | 54.9 | 42.5 | W4 |
| Walnut Hills | 4 – 2 | .667 | 50.3 | 44.3 | 7 – 2 | .778 | 54.7 | 36.7 | W1 |
| Kings | 4 – 2 | .667 | 46.8 | 47.8 | 5 – 2 | .714 | 47.1 | 44.6 | W3 |
| Winton Woods | 4 – 2 | .667 | 46.5 | 36.3 | 4 – 2 | .667 | 46.5 | 36.3 | L1 |
| Milford | 3 – 3 | .500 | 51.7 | 49.0 | 6 – 3 | .667 | 53.1 | 44.9 | L1 |
| Loveland | 3 – 3 | .500 | 47.7 | 47.5 | 5 – 3 | .625 | 48.4 | 38.8 | L2 |
| Little Miami | 1 – 4 | .200 | 37.8 | 48.0 | 1 – 6 | .143 | 42.0 | 50.0 | L1 |
| Turpin | 1 – 5 | .167 | 36.7 | 48.8 | 3 – 6 | .333 | 36.8 | 45.9 | L2 |
| Anderson | 0 – 6 | .000 | 38.3 | 54.0 | 1 – 9 | .100 | 39.0 | 50.8 | L9 |
Loveland, Ohio – Come and Support the Loveland Women’s Hoops teams tonight as they take on the undefeated West Clermont Wolves. Bring your canned goods for the LIFE Pantry.
The Varsity Tigers are 3-3, 5-2. The Wolves are 4-0, 6-0.
JV game is at 5:30 PM and Varsity at 7 PM.
@TigerSpiritClu1 is giving 1 concession coupon if you bring 2 canned goods! (Limit to 2 coupons per person) #OurWay
Loveland, Ohio – In their home opener on Monday, December 5 before the Women’s Varsity game began, former Head Coach Darnell Parker was recognized for the impact his life made on the Loveland and regional athletic community.
The evening was also a fundraiser for the Foundation set up by his daughters, Alexis and Madison Parker to raise scholarship dollars for deserving graduates.
Jessica Early (alumni parent) spearheaded the tribute night, along with help of Athletic Director Rich Bryant, Assistant Athletic Director Shayne Lyons, (alumni parent), and with the help of all the current Loveland basketball parents, coaches, and players.
Early said afterward, “We wanted to make sure that Coach Parker’s family felt our love. We wanted the girls to have the opportunity to publicly dedicate the season to Coach Parker. Our Loveland community and basketball program were so greatly impacted and inspired by Darnell.”
Here is a LOVELAND MAGAZINE TV video from December 2021 the night before Coach Parker went to the Cleveland Clinic for cancer surgery.
Split-the-pot raffle tickets and half-court shot tickets were sold throughout the JV and Varsity games.
Josie Early had a game-high 16 points to lead the Tigers to a 51-36 win. Olivia Raby scored 11 and Nailah Grant scored 9.
You can continue to donate to the Darnell Parker Memorial Athletic Scholarship…
If you are interested in applying for this scholarship, information will be available in Spring 2023 to apply. If you would like to contribute to the Darnell Parker Memorial Athletic Scholarship, click here. Donations may also be venmo’d to @Dana-Parker-41 or checks made payable to S3C, Inc. may be mailed to 6187 Cardington Place, West Chester, OH 45069.
Coach Parker told Cassie Mattia in January 2022, “This community needs a win, and I have to deliver it to them.” He said it with his legendary smile when Mattia interviewed him for a “What’s In Loveland’s DNA” interview.
Mattia said at the time, “Coach Parker has certainly become a big part of the Loveland community spreading positivity among his student-athletes and the cancer community. There’s no question that Coach Parker is a part of ‘What’s in Loveland’s DNA!”
Loveland, Ohio – The beloved head coach of the Loveland High School Women’s Basketball team, Darnell Parker succumbed to cancer Sunday. As hundreds of condolences pour in from schools and individuals from around Ohio and the Tri-State, many remember and mention his endearing smile.
