3 Hilltoppers to play in All-Star Games

hilltoppanther · Post by **hilltoppanther** » April 24th, 2007, 7:49 am

Geez Billy, what's up your butt? Your first post ever was kind of harsh.

Beaver Falls was poor? You must be joking. They have one of the best sophomores in the nation according to some services.

If D6 is bad, that doesn't say much for the District 7 team led by Josh Arnold, the WPIAL's leading scorer. He is not a D3 player by the way.

The Graduate · Post by **The Graduate** » April 24th, 2007, 11:48 am

hilltop panther congratulations on getting 3 of your kids in that game. It shows alot about your coaching and your players. How is Westmont looking next year? I hope you guys can make it to states again.

hilltoppanther · Post by **hilltoppanther** » April 24th, 2007, 3:00 pm

Thanks Graduate. All three guys were deserving of the honor. They had fantastic seasons.

As for next season, each year is different. We have built a pretty good tradition over the past nine years. The young kids know what is expected of them. It is too early to tell what next season has in store. As always we will use the summer to evaluate kids and give them opportunities to get better. It's up to them to take advantage of those opportunities.

Without discussing anyone specifically, I am excited about the underclassmen that we have. I am enjoying the time off now. I will get the bug again real soon.

The Graduate · Post by **The Graduate** » April 25th, 2007, 6:30 pm

hahaha.... i know you put your kids through some tough competition in the summer. i wish you the best of luck. hopefully next year will be the same for you and hopefully youll have another all stater.

DoCoogie · Post by **DoCoogie** » April 26th, 2007, 12:12 pm

Khuri has lots of potential in the paint and that Mike Ballo (sp?) kid seems to be a real sharpshooter - strange-looking shot but they go in. Also, there was a kid on the JV team ... #5, maybe(?) who impressed me. The JV team played hard, I don't think they went thirty seconds without bodies flying or piling on the floor.

By the way, coach, do you have any stats on the Millennium game?

hilltoppanther · Post by **hilltoppanther** » April 26th, 2007, 3:21 pm

I didn't think about getting the stats until the ride home.

The Graduate · Post by **The Graduate** » April 26th, 2007, 9:56 pm

Khuri is good, Ballow is pretty good too great show, sam hahn also has a great shot... and there are some young kids to look out for to but they are the upperclassmen to look out for next year. Coach seems like you got the makings of a good team next year as well

GoldenBoy11 · Post by **GoldenBoy11** » April 27th, 2007, 11:04 pm

Despite all of these "impressive" kids, Westmont will be mediocre. Definitely no way they will challenge for an LHAC championship.

Dokkenball · Post by **Dokkenball** » April 28th, 2007, 8:55 am

Goldenboy.....go back into the archives of this message board. You will see people making same argument about Westmont for this past season.

It is kind of comical to read the posts from the past. Some of the ones I remember are.....

"They are just Joe Balog and nobody else."

"They won't win anything without a big man."

"Trotz and DeMarco are just along for the ride."

If you keep posting this year after year, eventually you may get lucky and be correct.

DoCoogie · Post by **DoCoogie** » April 29th, 2007, 10:10 pm

Very good post, Dokken. Everything shakes out in time.

I remember the comment about Trotz and was very impressed with how he handled himself in the paint, oft against taller players. I can think of a couple of games when he carried the team with his inside play, and my memory is telling me that the D6-AA championship game was one of them.

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