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Check back each and every weekday for the top prep headlines from across the state. Here are a list of summaries from some of the major stories around Ohio for Thursday, March 20th:

Boys Track: Cleveland Heights Track Star Jared Hall

Jared Hall, a senior standout for Cleveland Heights' track team, enters his final prep season with a lot of buzz surronding himself and the Tigers. Hall is the defending Division I 800-meters state champion and he is hoping to lead the Tigers to a Division I team title later this spring. Since Hall's freshman season, he has knocked off 26 seconds off his 800 time. Hall also anchored Cleveland Heights' state-record winning 4x800 team. Last season, Cleveland Heights finished second to Cleveland Glenville. This year Hall hopes to lead his team to a state championship in track and field. The futue Ohio State athlete maintains a 3.1 grade-point average to go along with his excellence in his sport. The Plain Dealer

Girls Basketball: North Canton Hoover's Brittany Orban

The Canton Repository named Brittany Orban of Hoover as their 2008 girls basketball player of the year. Over her four year prep career for the Vikings, Orban compiled an amazing stat sheet that included 1,887 points and 987 rebounds. Orban, who will be playing her college ball at Northwestern, received the same award last year. She owns 18 school records and led Hoover to two district titles and three straight league titles. Canton Repository

Winter Sports: Toledo's All-League Teams

The list of the all-league and all-district teams in the Toledo-area include basketball (boys and girls), hockey, and gymnastics. Toledo prep teams had some very successful runs this winter sports season, including runs to the state tournament by Whitmer (boys basketball), Libbey (boys basketball), Central Catholic (girls basketball), and St. Francis DeSales (gymnastics and hockey). Some of the boys basketball stars that picked up player of the year honors for their league include William Buford (Libbey), Matt Kreglow (Gibsonburg), Ethan Michael (Toledo Christian), Austin Mass (Tiffin Calvert), Luke Kraus (Findlay), and Ryne Smith (Whitmer). Chris Dyer (St. Francis) picked up player of the year honors in the Red Division for hockey and Natasha Howard (Waite) was the girls player of the year in the City League. Toledo Blade

Softball: Dalton Looking for Third Straight State Title

The Dalton Bulldogs have won the last two Division IV softball state championships. Senior pitcher Andrea Arney is among the key returnees for Dalton as they look to make it three in a row. Dalton coach Jessica Miller is 95-36 after six seasons with the school. Other returnees that will be joining Arney are pitcher/second baseman Katie Graber, shortstop Elle Jackson, third baseman Niki Lecon, center fielder Allie Bednarz, first baseman Jillian Husted, catcher Shelbi Carmichael and infielder Tiffany Mast. The Independent

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