The Buckeye Border Conference is a high school athletic league located in extreme

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. The conference sponsors

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, cross country,

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, and

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for both boys and girls. In addition,

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is sponsored for the boys, and

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and

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are sponsored for the girls.

Members

^Edon, Hilltop, and Montpelier have football teams that participate in the

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, while Montpelier kept its wrestling program in the

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. North Central competes as an Independent in football while Holgate and Stryker participate in

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as members of the

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Former members

League history

The BBC was established in 1967 primarily as a basketball conference. The initial members were Edgerton, Edon, Fayette, Hicksville, Hilltop, Montpelier, North Central, Pettisville, and Stryker. Montpelier was also a member of the

at the same time and in 1969, joined the Northern Border League as well. Hilltop joined the football-only Northwest Buckeye League in 1971 so their football program had a league to compete in, and Edon followed suit shortly after. Montpelier would eventually leave in 1978 to become solely affiliated with the NWOAL. Edgerton and Hicksville would later join the

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for all sports in 1975. In 1995, the 6 remaining BBC schools made an agreement to play cross-over games with the

in the newly dubbed Toledo Buckeye League. This setup only lasted until June 30, 1998 before being dropped. In 2005, Edon and Hilltop joined the TAAC as football-only members in order to get out of the primarily-Michigan based

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. Previous ties with the old Toledo Buckeye League made for an easy transition. In 2014, Montpelier was approved to join as a full member in the 2016-17 school year. They will play football in the TAAC with Edon and Hilltop, and remain an affiliate of the NWOAL for wrestling only. In February 2016, Stryker announced plans to bring back their football team after 85 years. They intend to play at the junior high level before working their way up to a varsity program. In May 2017, Stryker announced that they will join the

for football only beginning with the 2018 season. In 2017, Pioneer North Central put out an advertisement for a head football coach to help start their football program. Don Parrish was introduced as their inaugural junior high coach in May 2018, and similar to Stryker, they will work their way up to a varsity schedule. In February 2020, it was announced that Holgate would join the BBC as a member for every sport except football, which will participate in the

. Holgate announced in late 2019 that they would move to

, which caused the remaining schools in the

to vote them out of the GMC over scheduling concerns. The Tigers joined the league in the fall of 2021.

References

https://web.archive.org/web/20141013164632/http://greenmeadowsconf.com/home/

Sources

1968 BBC Boys Basketball Standings
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