jmetcalfe@delphosherald.com

Ottoville coach Dave Kleman figures the scouting report for the Lady Green’s Division IV State semifinal opponent Friday — Fort Loramie — is pretty simple: just watch his own team.

The unbeaten (27-0) and AP poll-winning Lady Green battle the Lady Redskins (25-3; No. 7) in what Kleman views as almost a mirror-image of his own unit.
“They do many of the same things as we do: they like to press with any number of looks; they have a good post game; they have good guards; they run a lot of the same stuff as we do,” he explained. “They might be deeper off the bench than we are but my thinking is you can only play five at a time. We are bigger in the post — they go 5-11 and 5-10 versus our 6-2 and 6-1 — but their guards are bigger.

“Their pressure package forces you to be prepared for a lot: what form it takes, where they pick you up, how hard it is; whatever they feel is necessary at a given time to be successful. That is our game plan, too. You have to be ready for whatever they throw at you because they, like us, try to create offense off their defense.”