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Bombers' Season Coming to an End
On February 10th, the Kenston Boys Basketball team defeated a tough Chagrin Valley Conference rival, the Aurora Greenmen. After the six point victory, your Kesnton Bombers enjoyed cutting down the nets, for they were the outright CVC victors. Not only is this an accomplishment on its own because of how strong the Chagrin Valley Conference was this year, but it was the third year in a row in which the Bombers have been able to accomplish this feat.
Kenston Three-Peat as CVC Champions
It was a tough place to do it, but the Kenston Bombers held the West Geauga Wolverines to just 34 points at the Wolvarena en route to its third straight Chagrin Valley Conference Chagrin Division championship.
Behind Eric Truog's 25 points -- Truog had more field goals than the entire West Geauga team -- the Bombers extended its CVC Chagrin win streak to 31 games.
"He's undervalued and underappreciatd in the area and in the state," Kenston coach Josh Jakacki said. "He's got almost 1,200 points in his career, and is the (school's) all-time leading rebounder."
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Kenston 65, Hawken 50: Bombers lower atmospheric pressure
Kenston looked a little out of its element in front of a big, rowdy crowd last Friday night at Mentor as the Bombers lost their first game of the season to the state-ranked Cardinals.
Wednesday it was back to being the big fish in a much more familiar pond.
In a game that could not have had more of a different feel from the trip to Mentor, Kenston looked back in its comfort zone, settling in and clamping down defensively in a 65-50 win at Hawken in a CVC crossover game.
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Kenston boys basketball team wins Chagrin Valley Conference Chagrin Division, now eyes deep tournament run
There was good news and bad news last week for the Kenston boys basketball team. The good news was the Bombers beat rival West Geauga to clinch its third straight Chagrin Valley Conference Chagrin Division title.
The bad news was Kenston lost its first game of the season, 85-58, to Mentor (14-1) on Friday in Mentor. Kenston is now 14-1 and a perfect 10-0 in the division.
Coach Josh Jakacki said clinching the division against a rival didn't make it sweeter..
Bombers bring home conference three-peat
West Geauga had a narrow window of opportunity to stay in the CVC Chagrin race in front of a raucous home crowd Tuesday night.
Instead, Kenston slammed that window shut in aggressive, championship style.
The act of not allowing others to slip through the cracks and take a run at the crown is something the Bombers have gotten pretty familiar with over the past three seasons. Kenston clinched at least a share of the CVC Chagrin title with a suffocating defensive effort and a typical double-double performance from two-time league MVP Eric Truog in a 46-34 win at the Wolvarena.
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Bombers improve to 13-0 in boys basketball
The Kenston boys basketball team improved to 13-0 last week with wins against Chagrin Falls, 51-39, and Painesville Harvey, 64-54.
With those victories, the Bombers also improved to a 9-0 record in the Chagrin Valley Conference Chagrin Division, giving them a 2 1/2-game lead over second-place Orange, which stood at 6-2 in the 12-game conference season.
The Bombers' next game at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 3 at Mentor, however, is a match that puts them as the underdogs. The Cardinals are the Associated Press' No. 5-ranked Division I team in Ohio as of Jan. 25, while the Bombers were not ranked.
During Kenston's game against Chagrin Falls Jan. 24, the Bombers trailed, 28-23, at halftime before outscoring the Tigers, 28-11, in the second half.
Area gyms feature several big men playing well with their backs to the basket
Eric Truog is a rare combination of size and skill, but maybe his most unique attribute could be that the Kenston senior is fine living and working in a neighborhood most players only like to visit.
Truog isn't interested in shooting 3s. He has no desire to dribble the ball up the court and break the press. Faking out a defender on the wing and driving the ball to the basket is not high on his basketball to-do list.
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Bombers Continue Dominance in Chagrin Division
The Kenston Bombers remained undefeated Saturday morning after holding off Aurora's huge second half rally for a 63-55 victory. The team is trying to win its third CVC Chagrin title in three years, a difficult proposition given the difficulty of the division.
Night in and night out the Chagrin grind makes what Kenston has done the past three seasons that much more incredible.
Kenston head coach Josh Jakacki said after the Aurora game, "Aurora is a good team, they are going to be tough when Walker comes back," speaking of Aurora's 6-foot-5-inch senior who is out with a cast on his right hand.
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Richards leads Kenston to narrow win over Orange
CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio -- Opposing players, coaches and fans in the Chagrin Valley Conference are well aware of Kenston's 6-10 Eric Truog and 6-7 Pierce Cumpstone. Common wisdom dictates that if you stop them, your chances of winning increase substantially.
On Tuesday, 6-3 junior Daryll Richards gave future foes something more to worry about.
On a night when Truog and Cumpstone were not at their best, Richards came to the rescue and lifted the Bombers to a 66-64 victory over visiting Orange in a game in which both teams showed some guts and grit.
Richards scored 22 points, including the game-winning basket with 5.3 seconds remaining, to help keep the Bombers undefeated and on top of the CVC's Chagrin Division. He also had six rebounds and two steals. The Bombers, ranked 17th in The Plain Dealer Top 25, will take a 10-0 record and a 6-0 league mark to Perry on Friday.
Key player contributes right away in return for Bombers
Pierce Cumpstone might not be as big in stature as teammate Eric Truog and he doesn't get nearly the same recognition when people talk about Kenston's 1-2 punch, but the talented 6-foot-7 guard's game hits every bit as hard as the Bombers' big man.
Never was that more evident than upon his return Wednesday night from an injury that saddled him on the bench for two games.
Cumpstone — in his first game back after missing a three weeks with a broken bone in his hand — lived up to his end of the 1-2 punch moniker and was the eventual knockout blow in Kenston's 51-42 win.
Bombers rally, clip Solon
There appeared to be a lid on the bucket last Thursday evening as missed shots multiplied and rebounds piled up on the Kenston varsity basketball court.
The home Bombers managed to beat Solon, 39-35, despite having more turnovers than points in the first half. The postgame facial expressions of players on both teams matched that of defeat.
Kenston shot 10 of 25 from two-point range and one of three outside the three-point arc for a 39.3 shooting percentage.
Kenston duo to pick on guys their own size
Kenston's 6-foot-10 Eric Truog and 6-foot-7 Peirce Cumpstone create several problems for their high school opponents on the basketball court. One specifically, height, cannot be coached.
Underneath the hoop, Truog will twist, turn and simply overpower whoever guards him as he is a traditional back-to-the-basket player. He averaged 18.9 points and 10.9 rebounds last season. Before the season, he was ranked the third best low-post player in Ohio's class of 2012 by the Ohio Prep Spotlight.
When defenses attempt to collapse on Truog, trigger-happy Cumpstone turns deadly from three-point range. Last season, Cumpstone buried 47.7 percent of his downtown attempts while averaging 14.9 points and 7.8 rebounds.
Bombers fly off-chart to clip Chagrin 50-48
Basketball fans standing with open mouths and hands on their foreheads in the Bombers' student section watched their home team as the final seconds ticked away last Saturday at Kenston High School.
The visiting Chagrin Falls Tigers were defending a three-point lead and Kenston had an open look from outside the arc but failed to pull the trigger.
Instead, reigning Chagrin Valley Conference MVP Eric Truog received a pass at the post and drove to the bucket.
Kenston head coach Josh Jakacki said a two-point shot was not the designed play the Bombers wrote up during their final timeout.
Big man keys Bombers' win
Christmas is the season for giving, but Saturday night, Kenston did a little stealing against a neighborhood rival.
And the Bombers have no problem admitting to the pre-holiday theft.
Kenston standout Eric Truog made an improbable three-point play with 1.1 seconds left in regulation to force overtime and then hit the game-winner with 4 seconds left in the extra session to lift the Bombers past Chagrin Falls, 50-48.
The Tigers (1-1) had rallied from a dismal first half to take command of the game in the third quarter and hold that advantage until the final seconds of regulation. Kenston trailed, 45-42, with no timeouts on its final possession of the fourth quarter.
Dragons dig too big a hole
Lakeside can't make up 15-point halftime deficit against Kenston
SAYBROOK TOWNSHIP — Burying yourself in a hole too big to dig out of will certainly cause you problems.
On the basketball court, it will cause you to lose. And that's exactly what Lakeside did in a 60-48 loss to Kenston on Tuesday at Lakeside Gymnasium.
The Dragons (1-2) fell behind, 34-19, through the first two periods before trying to make a run at the Bombers in the final 16 minutes.
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