Copley senior defensive back CJ Chatman, has signed to play football Walsh University.

Chatman is 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds.

Copley senior wide receiver/defensive back C.J. Chatman has reportedly added an offer from Walsh University, according to ScoutingOhio.com.

Chatman, who is 5 feet 10 and 170 pounds, also has an offer from Notre Dame College (Ohio).

The Copley Indians will be without starting running back and University of Tennessee recruit Aregeros Turner for the rest of the season, his mother told the Beacon Journal.
Turner broke his tibia during last Friday’s game against the Green Bulldogs, a game the Indians eventually lost 42-21 despite his best efforts.
Prior to the injury, Turner, a junior, rushed the ball 16 times for 112 yards including an 80-yard TD run and caught three passes for 43 yards.
Cassandra Turner said that her son’s surgery went well.
“The surgeon was able to realign his tibia almost perfectly,” she said.
Turner is facing a 3-6 month recovery time, she said.  That definitely puts him out for the rest of the football season and could delay or prohibit him from running track in the spring.
The Indians (5-3, 3-2) will face the Tallmadge (6-2, 5-0) this weekend.

The following list includes area football teams that are currently ranked high enough to make the post season and may include those just on the outside looking in.  The top eight teams will make the state playoffs.  Here are this week’s computer rankings as provided by the Ohio High School Athletic Association:

Division I, Region 2
No. 1:  Canton GlenOak
No. 5:  Canton McKinley
No. 6:  Massillon Jackson

Just outside:  Wadsworth

Division II, Region 5
No. 4:  Kent Roosevelt
No. 5: Walsh Jesuit
No. 6 (tied):  Copley with Aurora

Division III, Region 9
No. 3:  Ravenna
No. 5:  St. Vincent-St. Mary

Just outside:  Southeast (No. 8); CVCA (No. 9)

Division III, Region 11
No. 4:  Northwest
No. 5:  Marlington

Division IV, Region 13
No. 3:  Canton Central Catholic

Just outside:  Manchester (No. 7)

For a look at example of how rankings are calculated per OHSAA visit: http://www.ohsaa.org/sports/ft/boys/rankcalc.htm

Copley junior running back Aregeros Turner has reportedly added an offer from Tennessee, according to ScoutingOhio.com.

Turner, who is 5 feet 10 and 180 pounds, is one of the state’s top players in the 2013 class. He also has an offer from Illinois, according to ScoutingOhio.com.

COLUMBUS: Gahanna Lincoln defeated Copley 7-6 on Wednesday in a Division I regional semifinal softball game at Buckeye Field on the campus of Ohio State University.

Lincoln took a 3-0 lead in the first inning after five of the first six batters rached base via a single. Senior Brandis Fishel singled in junior Montana Fishel, and junior Emily Vinsel singled in junior Tanya Busby and senior Tiyona Marshall.

Copley tied the score at 3-3 in the second. Sophomore Hannah Selzer tripled in senior Lauren Schoenewald, senior Nicole Caye batted in Selzer and junior Casey Burns singled in Caye.

The Golden Lions scored four runs in the fourth with five singles. Montana Fishel and Busby each hit in one run and Marshall hit in two runs. Freshman Rachel Zink, sophomore Olivia Schumacher, Fishel and Busby scored the runs.

The Indians cut their deficit to 7-4 in the fifth when Burns scored following an error.

Copley added two runs in the sixth to make it 7-6 when junior Emma Fish doubled off the left field wall and scored freshman Maddie Flasco and Burns.

Kenzie Wallace of Copley pitched out of two jams in the sixth and seventh innings had three singles and scored twice to lead the Indians (21-1) to a 4-2 victory Monday night for the Barberton Division I district softball championship, first in school history.

Casey Burns had a RBI triple in the first that scored Wallace, who scored in the second on a wild pich in the third inning and Emma Fish in the same inning had a RBI single. The Insdians other run was a RBI single in the sixth by Lauren Schoenewald.

Originally scheduled to be play Saturday aftenoon, the Barberton Division I district championship game will be play 4:30 Monday afternoon between Copley and Wadsworth at the Barberton Athletic Complex off Barber Road.

The Indians (20-1), which won the Suburban League this year for the first time in school history, play Wadsworth (22-6) for the third time this season after the Indians easily won the previous two games.

Copley got a RBI single with nobody out in the bottom of the seventh inning from Hannah Selzer to score Lauren Schoenewald, who doubled to lead off the ining, from second base for a 6-5 win over Medina (10-15) in one of the district semifinals in Barberton. Kenzi Wallace was the winning pitcher for Copley.

At the adjacent field, Wadsworth, which had split with Highland earlier this season, won the rubber match 7-4 in the other district semifinal. Sam Weaver (12-1) was the winning pitcher. Juniors Alli Beery had a double and three RBI and Alyssa Horton had two RBI and a double.

For more details, check out Varsity Letters at ohio.com later tonight and in Sunday’s Beacon Journal.

Copley junior wide receiver Isaiah Wheeler has reportedly been offered by Akron, according to ScoutingOhio.com. It is the first offer for Wheeler, who is 6-foot-2 and 185 pounds.