Ravenna takes charges seriously

Great article about Adam Mingus and his ability to take charges. As we've emphasized all year long- TOUGHNESS WINS!!!


There were a lot of offensive charges taken during the opening two rounds of the Class C-2 state tournament, but nobody has more than Ravenna guard Adam Mingus.

Mingus had taken a school-record 20 charges entering the tournament. He took two more in a win against Sutherland on Thursday and three against Axtell Friday.

Mingus loves the intensity taking a charge can bring the team.

“It gets our offense going, our defense going and our crowd and student section pumped,” he said.

Ravenna’s Sean Payne also took a charge in the third quarter Friday. Coach Paul Beranek has never had a team take charges like this one.

“People ask me about what drills we do,” Beranek said. “We don’t do any. We got one kid that’s on a mission to do that. The thing that helps the rest of our team is that he gets on them if they don’t take them.”