Thu, Nov 26 2009
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Prep Notes: Lakeside not PAC-ing it in Dragons AD Tim Neal says school is staying where it’s at Star BeaconWhile it is known Lakeside officials did meet with NEC officials recently, all that conference did was reaffirm what Neal said above.
“We need a sixth league member to make things even for us again,” Pavolino said. “We’re willing to do just about anything to make it work... just about.” While Pavolino did not say so, it is known Warren John F. Kennedy and Gilmour Academy met with NEC officials in the past and made presentations. Another private school is said to be doing the same in the very near future, though Pavolino would not confirm that. JFK ended up playing some non-conference games with NEC members, while Gilmour Academy played all five league teams in football in non-conference games last fall and will do so again next fall. However, that marriage of convenience is not expected to be renewed after the 2008 season. Which puts the NEC back where it doesn’t want to be — in search of another football opponent Pavolino admitted the conference dropped the ball, so to speak, in the past when league members came and went (Jefferson and Pymatuning Valley), in Jefferson’s case it remained when it came back the second time starting with the 1987-88 and PV did not, departing after the 1998-99 school year. “We missed the boat 15 to 20 years ago when we had schools coming and going,” he said. “And there were other schools willing to join us, but we were unwilling to talk about making accommodations for schools, St. John, for example. “And the result of all of that is our current situation — we’re paying for decisions made back then now.” In other words, as is usually the case, mistakes of the past are paid for in the future. “Unfortunately, that’s exactly the case,” Pavolino said. Dynamic Duo I With their high school careers unfortunately coming to an end yesterday with a Division III regional championship defeat at the hands of Villa Angela-St. Joseph at Canton Fieldhouse, we can put Laker stars Steve Savel and Corey Shontz into the record books in terms of the Ashtabula County career scoring list. With 16 points, Savel finishes as the second-leading scorer in county boys basketball history, posting 1,440 points. He finishes 14 points behind county boys leader Matt Zappitelli, an Ashtabula County Basketball Foundation Hall of Famer, who scored 1,454 points for Conneaut from 1984-85 through 1987-88. With 27 points on Sunday, Shontz finishes with 1,292 points, seventh in county history, nine behind PV’s Sean Freeman, who scored 1,301 points for the Lakers from 1986-87 through 1989-90. 
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