The two events will benefit the Perry Reese Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund as well as North Canton's habitat for Humanity.

At Hiland, Dover's girls open up with Dayton Dunbar at 11:45 am Saturday while the host Hawks take on Marion Local at 8:30 pm.

On Sunday, Fairless takes on Cleveland Villa Angela - St Joseph's at noon. and West Holmes will battle Dunbar at 5:15 pm.

On Monday, River View meets Olentangy Liberty at 3:!5 while Hiland faces Copley to round out the weekend at 8:30.

At Hoover High School, Dover's boys will face Division I GlenOak at 6 pm Saturday with Hiland battling Sebring McKinley at 2 pm on Monday.

Hiland coach Dave Schlabach, who has been tirelessly working on the event for the past year along with many Hiland community members, said that he's happy about the local flavor.

"We have a lot of local teams that are really playing well right now," Schlabach said.  "We're very happy with the area teams that are being represented and we hope to keep that local  flavor every year that we have this event here."

Dover's girls are currently 12-0 while Fairless is 8-1 after losing to Division I Perry on Tuesday.  West Holmes is 7-5, with four of those losses coming in the very tough Ohio Cardinal Conference while Hiland is 9-0.

River View is much improved as well with a 10-2 mark under first-year head coach Caroline Daugherty.

Schlabach added that he's excited about getting the weekend going.

"The planning has been gonig on for a year now and we've had a tremendous amount of help from the community.  We're really looking forward to it.  This is a special thing for our community to host all of these great teams and great players.

"We have 150 college coaches who have already contacted us from places like UCLA, Kentucky, Florida State.  There's a lot of excitement with so many great teams coming here.  I think that it's gonig to be a great weekend for girls' basketball."

Schlabach added that Hiland will host the event indefinitely.

"I think that after we get this initial year under our belt it's going to be even bigger and even better," he said.  "A week after this classic we will bring out next year's schedule and get started for next year."

More information can be found at (classicinthecountry.org).  Immediately following the conclusion of every game, the website will be updated with the box score and details for each game.

There is also hotel information day-by-day schedules and other useful information that fans would need to know concerning the event.

Saturday will start with Chippewa against Chesapeake at 10 am with the Dover girls immediately following.

On Sunday, Fairless opens the day at noon with Lakota West and Boardman finishing the evening at 8:45.

On Monday, Wooster and Toledo Scott start the day at 10 am with Hiland closing the weekend.