Six area players and three area coaches were awarded the best talents at the Ohio Prep Sports Media Association Northeast Lakes All-District football team announcement on Nov. 7.
Mentor head coach Matt Gray was chosen as the DI coach of the year Geneva head coach Don Shymske was chosen as the D-III coach of the year and Kirtland’s head coach Tiger LaVert was chosen as the D-VI coach of the year.
Furthermore, Scotty Fox of Mentor is awarded D-I offensive player of the year while that of Gilmour is Cooper Panteck the D-III offensive player of the year, Kenston’s Sam Meeks the D-III defensive player of the year while Perry’s Walter Moses is the D-IV offensive player of the year, Kirtland’s Matthew Kahley the D-VI offensiver player of the year and Kirtland
All-District choices for Northeast Lakes were picked by media from The News-Herald, cleveland.com, The (Lorain) Morning-Journal, the Ashtabula Star Beacon, and the Elyria Chronicle-Telegraph. Selections to the all-district team are a process that reaches the ultimate honor of All-Ohio, voted on by the OPSMA (OPSWA formerly).
This because all-district honours are awarded according to regular season performance only.
Mentor’s Fox who was recruited to West Virginia was 64.6 percent accurate with 2,170 passing yards, 28/6 TD/INT ratio.
Gilmour’s Panteck was 67.8 per cent accurate on pass, threw for 2, 412 yards and thirty two touchdowns with only two interceptions.
Meeks of Kenston made 56 tackles, devastating 23 of them for a loss and also 6.5 sacks this season. He is a tremendous football player at Kenston and is now the school’s leader in career sacks with 17.
Perry’s Moses — a returning All-Ohioan and Toledo commit — threw for 1,572 yards and 21 touchdowns to go with 122 rushing yards and three touchdowns despite Perry’s starters playing in only 26 of 40 quarters because of running clock games.
Kirtland’s Kahley graded out 92 percent this season and is the top lineman for the defending Division VI state champion Hornets. As a defensive player Turk had 41 tackles, 11 tackles for loss and 6 sacks for the Hornets.
Among the coaches who earned recognitions, Gray took Mentor through the regular season with a 10-0 record, Shymske who led Geneva with a 9-1 record and LaVerde who led Kirtland to 10-0 debut.
More than thirty sportsmen and sportswomen from 8 area schools were awarded and some of them on the first team, the second team, or honorably mentioned.
