LAKOTAHead coach: Tim Walsh, fifth season.2012-13 overall record: 8-15.2012-13
Midland Athletic League record: 3-8.Returning letter winners: Kyle Below, senior, 6-3, forward; Josh
Kirkpatrick, senior, 6-0, guard/forward; and Colin Timmons, senior, 6-1, guard/forwardStrengths: Speed,
size.Keys to the season: Being able to develop the concept of when it’s a good time to fast break and when
to slow it down.Outlook: The Raiders return Timmons who earned honorable mention All-Mid-American honors,
and averaged 10.4 points and 5.0 rebounds per game."We are going to need him to score for us and he’s
capable of being a very good rebounder," Walsh said. "We’ll need him to rebound and he has to be
our leader on defense, too."Lakota averaged 53.5 points per game offensively last season, but gave up
57 points per game. The Raiders look to close that gap."We need to continually work on defense in
practice, daily, and continue to develop that work ethic needed to play defense," Walsh said. "We
believe anyone can play defense, but not just anyone can play offense.""Our goal is to improve
game to game defensively, offensively and overall. We have goals for every game and we just take it game to
game."

NORTH
BALTIMOREHead coach: Jon Eichar, third season.2012-13 overall record: 3-20.2012-13 Midland Athletic League
record: 2-9.Returning letter winners: Jacob Frost, senior, 6-1, forward; Tyler Trumbull, senior, 6-1,
forward; Brandon Solly, senior, 5-8, guard; Chase Nichols, senior, 5-9, guard; Lane Bishop, junior, 5-11,
guard; Levi Newcomer, junior, 5-10, guard; and Brock Broyer, junior, 5-8, guard.Strengths: Team speed.Keys
to the season: Defense, rebounding, reducing, turnovers.Outlook: The Tigers return Jacob Frost who earned
honorable mention All-Mid-American honors and averaged 13 points per game."His role is to be a leader
on the floor, off the floor and in the weight room," said assistant coach John Kloepfer. "He has
done a great job of that."NB averaged 44.2 points per game last year, but it allowed 65.7 ppg."Our
overall speed and getting the ball up and down the floor in transition better than we have in the past. We
have kids that we feel can run the floor and we will try to get easy shot off in transition. We’ve really
worked hard on man-to-man defense and putting pressure on the ball."It has been a while here since we
have been above .500," Kloepfer added. "To finish above .500 and finish in the top half of the
league, that’s a goal that doesn’t seem that high, but it is a legitimate goal, considering we won three
games (last year) and in the first year coach Eichar was here they won one. To go from three to 11 or 12
wins, that’s a big jump."NORTHWOODHead coach: Jim Scharer, second season.2012-13 overall record:
6-17.2012-13 Toledo Area Athletic Conference record: 3-11.Returning letter winners: Steven Sutton, junior,
guard.Strengths: Team plays hard.Keys to the season: Competing and working hard.Outlook: "It’s a
rebuilding year. I am very happy with our sophomore and freshman classes," Scharer said. "They are
in a position in which they will have to do some things that other freshman and sophomores don’t have to. We
are just going to have to work extremely hard to get to the point where the kids are used to the speed of
the game. It’s going to be a learning experience for all of these kids"I am proud of the effort the
kids have shown in scrimmages and I am looking forward to taking this program in a couple years to where it
deserves to be. Our goal is improve every day in practice and get better every Tuesday and Friday
night."