COLUMBUS – Port Clinton may have won a moral victory March 27, but Dayton Dunbar got the victory the Redskins really wanted – and the state championship trophy that went with it.
Believed by many to be a huge underdog despite its undefeated record, PC led explosive Dayton Dunbar in the third quarter before finally succumbing down the stretch and falling 64-50 in the Division II state championship game at OSU’s Schottenstein Center.
A crowd of 13,658 watched in astonishment as the Redskins (26-1) hung with the Wolverines for 28 minutes. In the end, though, it’s Dunbar (25-3) that gets to hang another state championship banner in its gym. It’s the fourth overall for the Wolverines and their third in the last six years. Only Middletown, Columbus East and Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary have more state basketball titles than the Wolverines.
