Boys Basketball Coaches milestones going into this 2024-25 season

 

Story by Austin Malutic

Written on 11/21/24

 

As we’re officially 6 days away until the High School Boys Basketball regular season tips off, We here at Malutic Live thought it would be a neat idea to look back at what our area coaches' records would be. Here’s the Boys.

Basketball Conferences:

AAC
Boardman - Steve Flores - 1st year
Canfield - Andy Vlajkovich - 1st year
Warren Harding - Keelyn Franklin - 6th year ( 59-54 )
Howland - Dan Bubon - 9th year ( 84-108 )
Austintown Fitch - Brian Beany - 12th year ( 131-151 )

Steel Valley
East - Lavance Turnage Jr - 1st year
Chaney - Marlon McGaughy - 7th year ( 129-75 )
Cardinal Mooney - Carey Palermo - 9th year ( 107-90 )
Ursuline - Keith Gunther - 22nd year ( 329-196 )

MVAC 
Lowellville - Tony Matisi - 1st year
Mineral Ridge - Marcus Huggs - 1st year
Jackson Milton - Tom Sharp - 1st year
Western Reserve - Joey Serensky Sr - 4th year ( 32-40 )
McDonald - Jimmy Franchessi - 5th year ( 50-46 )
Campbell - Nick Canterino - 9th year ( 76-114 )
Springfield - Jeff Brink - 4th year ( 52-20 )

MVAC 
Liberty - Steve Arnold - 1st year
Crestview - Lou Mateo - 1st year
Southeast - Matt Dillon - 2nd year ( 13-12 )
Champion - Dan Denman - 4th year (10-50 ) 
Brookfield - Shawn Hammond - 8th year ( 80-94 )
Garfield - Andrew Olesky - 14th year ( 114-138 )
LaBrae - Chad Kiser - 18th year ( 313-110 )
Newton Falls - Roy Sembach - 38th year ( 521-315 )

EBC
West Branch - Scott Loudon - 2nd year ( 21-5 )
Salem  - Jeff Andres - 7th year ( 55-84 ) 

NAC
Bristol - Jeff Thompson - 1st year
Maplewood - Marty Urcheck Jr - 3rd year ( 17-32 ) 
Mathews - Michael Weymer - 8th year ( 107-62 )
Badger - Josh Upshire - 9th season ( 108-85 )

NE8
Lakeview - Stephen Procopio - 1st year
Struthers - DJ Aldish - 1st year
Hubbard - Ryan Fitch - 2nd year ( 11-12 )
Niles - Jesse Harding - 2nd year ( 6-17 )
South Range - Pat Carden - 2nd year ( 18-7 ) 
Poland - Eric Fender - 4th year ( 43-30 )
Girard - Craig Hannon - 13th year ( 151-128 )

PTC
WARREN JFK - Mark Komlanc - 9th year ( 127-94 )

EOAC
Leetonia - Michael Hein - 2nd year ( 3-20 )
Wellsville - Nate Scott - 2nd year ( 9-14 )
East Palestine - Tristan  Reynolds - 3rd year ( 15-30 )
United - Jason Thompson - 5th year ( 36-52 )
Southern Local - Gerard Grimm - 8th year ( 84-78 ) 
Columbiana - Todd Johnson - 9th year ( 94-94 )
Lisbon - Chris Huckshold - 16th year ( 206-140 ) 
Valley Christian - Dolph Carroll - 17th year ( 199-166 )

Buckeye 8
East Liverpool - Kade Reynolds - 1st year
Beaver Local - Nick Miller - 6th year ( 56-56 )

Independent 
Heartland Christian - Josh Scott - 6th year ( 75-44 )