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OLPH Wins Hoops Title

February 11, 2020 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article 0 Comments

Contributed photo _ OLPH’s Gabe Flowers was named MVP of the Independent Schools Conference Basketball Tournament. He is pictured here with teammates Colin Robinson and Cash Bandy, who along with Flowers earned All-Conference honors.

The OLPH Varsity Boys Basketball team, coached by Timothy Lindsay and Josh Roberts, won the Independent Schools Conference Small Division tournament in a final matchup Monday evening.

The championship game, an all Catholic matchup between in-town rival St. Jude Catholic, ended with the Rams on top, 41-25. 

The Rams won the regular-season title with an undefeated season.

Gabe Flowerss (8th grade) was selected the tournament’s MVP. Flowers, Colin Robinson (8th), and Cash Bandy (7th) were awarded All-Conference honors.    

Contributed photo – OLPH Varsity Boys ISL Championship team.

Filed Under: FEATURED POSTS, Sports

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

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