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Saturday, March 14, 2009
Wayne, Fairmont fall in district finals
By Chick Ludwig Staff Writer
DAYTON — That wasn’t a misprint in Wayne’s box score against the La Salle Lancers on Saturday night.
Wayne sophomore guard Travis Trice II had an uncharacteristic and unbelievable “O-fer” shooting night, getting shutout in the Warriors’ 68-64 loss to La Salle in a Division I district championship game at UD Arena.
Trice, who averages 15.1 points a game, was 0-for-11 from the field, 0-for-1 at the foul line and Wayne’s season ended with an 18-6 record.
La Salle (22-2) will face Centerville (21-3) in a regional semifinal at Xavier University’s Cintas Center on Wednesday, March 18, at 8 p.m.
“Our game plan was to stop (Trice) — keep the pressure on him and wear him down,” said 5-foot-6 senior dynamo Jordan Crawford, who led four Lancers in double figures with 20 points. “We wanted to welcome them to the GCL and show them how we play.” And that is?
“Rough,” Crawford said.
Jordan Bazile erupted for a game-high 23 points and single-handedly kept Wayne in the game. Only five Warriors scored.
The score was tied three times with seven lead changes but La Salle’s nine-point lead at 2:34 of the second quarter (29-20) went to 10 (62-52) at 2:29 of the fourth quarter, and the Lancers held on.
“I never in a million years would have seen this coming,” Wayne coach Travis Trice said about the first scoreless game of his son’s high school career. “He works hard and does everything right. It’s not fair it happened to him. It’s going to be a rough summer. He’s got a lot of work to do.”
Princeton 63, Mason 40: The Vikings (22-1) scored the first eight points en route to a 23-5 lead, and dismantled the Comets (14-9), who couldn’t match Princeton’s size, speed, quickness or leaping ability.
Jordan Siebert and Orlando Williams scored 18 and 11 points for the Vikings, who face Aiken in a regional semifinal at the Cintas Center on Wednesday, March 18, at 6:15 p.m.
The game was marred by a scuffle at 5:31 of the fourth quarter that resulted in Williams and Mason’s Derek Cox getting hit with technical fouls. Luke Sutphin led the Comets with 13 points.
Aiken 63, Moeller 59: Darren Goodsen’s “double-double” (15 points and 10 rebounds) led the Falcons (16-7), who used a 13-2 scoring run to turn a 49-47 deficit into a 60-51 lead with 45.4 seconds to go. Brian Vonderhaar paced three Crusaders in double figures as Moeller finished 20-3.
Aiken’s 6-foot-7 Chane Behanon, the consensus No. 1-ranked sophomore in Ohio, had 13 points, six rebounds and two blocked shots. His dunk with 1:20 remaining served as the exclamation point.
St. Xavier 57, Fairmont 42: Erik Stenger scored 19 points as the Bombers (14-9) built a 20-point lead and cruised into the Columbus regional.
Mark Shadowens’ 10 points led the Firebirds (15-9). Fairmont reeled off eight straight points in the third quarter to pull within 30-19, but Xavier was too much.
Luke Massa’s alley-oop pass and Stenger’s one-handed catch and dunk at 1:20 of the third quarter was worthy of a highlight reel.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2253 or cludwig@DaytonDailyNews.com
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Centerville falls 7-0 in hockey state semi to Toledo St. John’s
By David DiCenzo Contributing Writer
COLUMBUS — After a great postseason run, the Centerville Elks hockey season came to an abrupt end in Columbus’ Nationwide Arena.
Centerville, making its first appearance in an state tourney Final Four since 1997, was defeated 7-0 by Toledo’s St. John’s Jesuit in a state semifinal, Saturday, March 14.
Fourth-ranked St. John’s held a 3-0 lead after two periods and scored four times in the third, including three on the power play, to eliminate the unranked Elks.
Despite the loss, Centerville coach Adam Frank said he was proud of his players, especially for bringing the school’s program back to prominence after a few down years.
“Obviously, we wanted this game to go differently but there’s no question the year was a huge success,” Frank said. “We won the North division of our league and we went 11-1 in league.”
Frank said he knew the Elks needed to weather the storm early against St. John’s, the 2007 state champions. Up 1-0 in the second period, the Titans made it 2-0 at the 1:19 mark on a shorthanded effort by George Wilkinson, which Frank called “deflating.”
Nick Walla stretched the lead to 3-0 at 10:25 of the second period before St. John’s exploded in the third thanks to a rash of Centerville penalties.
“We came out bringing hits in the third period but the refs were calling penalties,” said Frank. “A game that was 3-0, real quick turned to 7-0.”
Centerville (20-10-2) was outshot 42-15.
“Their positioning was very impressive,” said Frank. “We knew that we could get something in on the goalie (Christian Davis) if we got some shots but we just had a hard time getting them.”
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Centerville’s only state hockey title. The Final Four appearance was the school’s fourth.
Centerville posted four straight playoff wins, including back-to-back double-overtime victories over St. Francis De Sales and Dublin Jerome.
“These seniors and this roster helped re-establish the winning tradition of Centerville hockey,” Frank said. “Now, the legacy of the Final Four is back. The younger players have that legacy to live up to.”
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Boys hoop district final results
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Saturday’s results
DISTRICT FINALS
D-I at UD Arena
Centerville 52, Trotwood-Madison 51
Princeton 63, Mason 40
Cin. Aiken 63, Cin. Moeller 59
Cin. La Salle 68, Wayne 64
Cin. St. Xavier 57, Fairmont 42
D-III at Elida
Coldwater 58, Ottawa-Glandorf 54
Tuesday’s games
REGIONAL SEMIFINALS
D-IV at Trent Arena, Kettering
Lockland (16-7) vs. Fort Loramie (16-8), 6:15 p.m.
Ada (21-3) vs. Summit Country Day (14-9), 8 p.m.
Wednesday’s games
REGIONAL SEMIFINALS
D-I at Cintas Center
Cin. Aiken (16-7) vs. Princeton (22-1), 6:15 p.m.
Cin. LaSalle (22-2) vs. Centerville (21-3), 8 p.m.
D-I at Col. Fairground Coliseum
Newark/Dublin Scioto winner vs. Cin. St. Xavier (14-9), 7 p.m.
D-III at Wilmington College
Anna (21-2) vs. Miami East (22-1), 6:15 p.m.
Dayton Christian (20-4) vs. Bloom-Carroll (14-10), 8 p.m.
D-III at Bowling Green State U.
Coldwater vs. Col. Crawford/Wynford winner, 8 p.m.
Thursday’s games
REGIONAL SEMIFINALS
D-I at Col. Fairground Coliseum
Dublin Coffman vs. Grove City, 7 p.m.
D-II at Cintas Center
Graham (24-0) vs. Col. Watterson (14-10), 6:15 p.m.
Marshall (19-4), vs. Wilmington (21-2), 8 p.m.
Friday’s game
REGIONAL FINALS
D-IV at Trent Arena, Kettering
7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 21 games
REGIONAL FINALS
D-I at Cintas Center
11 a.m.
D-I at Col. Fairground Coliseum
7:30 p.m.
D-II at Cintas Center
3 p.m.
D-III at Wilmington College
7:30 p.m.
D-III at Bowling Green State U.
7:30 p.m.
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Versailles holds off Madison for girls D-III regional title
By Greg Billing Staff Writer
VANDALIA — Versailles’ high school girls basketball team finished seventh in the Midwest Athletic Conference.
When it comes to the Southwest District, though, there’s no one better.
Versailles won its second straight Division III regional title with a second-half surge to beat Middletown Madison 43-31 at Vandalia Butler’s Student Activity Center on Saturday, March 14.
Versailles — the D-III defending state champion — plays in the state semifinals 8 p.m. Thursday, March 19, at Ohio State University.
Madison — making its first regional appearance — grabbed its largest lead (17-11) on Shelby Roe’s 3-pointer to start the second half. After that it was all Versailles.
The Tigers rattled off a 15-3 run to end the quarter. And after the Mohawks pulled to 28-25 early in the fourth, the Tigers responded with a 15-4 game-ending run.
“I can’t give enough thanks and credit to the teams in the MAC,” said Versailles’ Emily Frey, who finished with 13 points. “We got beat up. We had things done to us we didn’t even know would happen in a game. … We lost, but we learned something from every game.”
On Saturday, the Tigers (18-8) learned they better score.
Both teams combined to miss their first 13 shots to start the game, and Madison (20-6) went the first 7:10 without a basket. Still, the Mohawks led 14-11 at the half and took the second-half momentum with Roe’s 3-pointer.
But a minute later Ally Malott, the D-III Southwest District player of the year, picked up her third foul. Versailles took advantage inside with Megan Campbell (15 points) and Emily Eilerman (7 points).
Eilerman’s defense also helped limit Malott to six points.
“Eilerman is the core to our defense,” Versailles coach Jacki Stonebraker said. “And if she can stop Malott, she can stop anybody. Malott is 10 times the player our team has.”
The Tigers outrebounded the Mohawks 36-20, including a 12-2 advantage offensively. Karen Smith, a 5-foot-6 guard, led the Tigers with 10 rebounds.
“Don’t take anything away from last year, they had an extreme amount of pressure on them,” Stonebraker said of state title expectations, “but this time I didn’t feel there was any pressure. Just go out and play and whatever happens, happens.”
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2400, ext. 6991, or gbilling@DaytonDailyNews.com.
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Fairmont falls to Mt. Notre Dame 3rd time
By Dave Long Contributing Writer
FAIRBORN — Fairmont did its best to derail Cincinnati Mt. Notre Dame’s effort to make Division I girls high school basketball history Saturday, March 14.
But Mt. Notre Dame proved to have too many offensive options in a 52-35 regional final victory at Wright State’s Ervin J. Nutter Center.
Next stop for the Cincinnati school with a 25-1 record is the semifinals of the state big school tournament. This is the sixth straight year the Cougars have advanced to the Final Four.
They have captured the last three state crowns and four in the last five years.
Fairmont ends the season at 22-4. Three of those losses were to Mt. Notre Dame.
Saturday’s game was not unlike the other two. Mt. Notre Dame went on an 8-0 run during a three-minute span at end of the second quarter to take a 23-14 lead. Baskets by Cassie Sant and Holly Carey in the last 30 seconds of the half got Fairmont within 23-18.
But Mt. Notre Dame extended its defense the second half taking away Fairmont’s cuts to the basket and not letting the 6-foot-2 Sant see the ball.
“We had a fantastic season, tied the for (Greater Western Ohio) conference championship, won the district, got to the regional final,” said Fairmont coach tin Cogan. “We stayed with them the first half, but they extended their defense the second they made it tough for us to score.
“They’re so good because they have five girls who can score, take away a lot your options offensively and don’t allow you second shots.”
Sant was Fairmont’s only double figure scorer with 18 points, 12 in the first half. Welch added nine, seven coming in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter.
Kendall Hackney, a 6-2 senior headed to USC, had 17 for the winners followed by 13 from Kathryn Reynolds and nine from Ohio University-bound Ashley Fowler. Gabby Smith, a 5-11 guard going to Vanderbilt, had five points, six rebounds, six assists and four steals.
“I was very concerned about Fairmont, especially playing them for the third time,” said Mt. Notre Dame coach Dante Harland.
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Kavanaugh’s last-second FT carries Centerville over Trotwood, 52-51
By Chick Ludwig Staff Writer
DAYTON — The Big Game lived up to all the hype, all the anticipation and all the expectation. When it ended, there was ecstasy for Centerville and agony for Trotwood-Madison.
Matt Kavanaugh’s free throw with eight-tenths of a second remaining gave the Elks a 52-51 victory in the first of five Division I boys high school basketball district championships at UD Arena on Saturday.
It was the fourth district title in eight years — the first since 2005 — for the Elks, who take a 21-3 record into the regional semifinals at Xavier University’s Cintas Center on Wednesday, March 18, at 8 p.m.
The Rams, who never led in the showdown of Greater Western Ohio Conference powerhouses, finish 20-4.
“We’re a very veteran team (eight seniors),” Centerville coach Jim Staley said. “We should step up and make plays. We’ve been a very good free throw shooting team in the fourth quarter, especially Matt. I thought he’d make it. He’s a senior. It’s what he’s supposed to do.”
Centerville bolted to a 22-8 lead, but the Rams took advantage of foul trouble by the Elks’ Kavanaugh and Adam Replogle, and made it all the way back with a suffocating press.
Trotwood senior Aaron Robinson tied the score at 43 on a right-side jumper with 5:06 to go, and Robinson hit a pair of free throws for a 51-all tie with 6.6 seconds to go, setting up the dramatic ending.
Centerville point guard Patrick Crawford caught Craig Ashworth’s inbounds pass and hustled down the left side of the court only to have the ball stripped away by the swarming Rams.
“It hit off (Crawford’s) knee and rolled right to me,” said Kavanaugh, who unleashed a shot near the top of the key. Whistle. Foul.
“The second half of the year, I’ve been pretty good at the line,” Kavanaugh added. “I know that if I get two shots, I’m going to hit one. I missed the first one, and just made it a little interesting. But I knew I was going to hit the second one.”
Senior point guard Keith Winn scored 16 points and Robinson 15 for the Rams. Dominique Reed — in his first game back since breaking his right hand in a Feb. 10 locker-room fight with teammate Marcus Graham — had eight points and three rebounds.
“I’m very, very proud of my guys, especially my seniors,” Trotwood coach Mark Baker said. “I wanted it for them so bad. I told them that in the competitive arena, you always want to give yourself a chance. We gave ourselves a chance. We just came up short.”
When the buzzer sounded, the 6-foot-3, 275-pound Replogle (12 points) carried the 6-10 Kavanaugh (18 points) across the court and planted him in front of their cheering fans.
“He’s pretty heavy,” Replogle said.
One point too heavy for Trotwood.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2253 or cludwig@DaytonDailyNews.com.
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Alter state hoop tickets available
The Alter girls basketball team is calling on all its rowdy friends to support them in the state basketball tournament at Columbus.
Tickets for Friday’s semifinal will be available at the athletic office from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. All tickets are reserved seating and cost $8.
The girls state tourney is Thursday-Saturday at Ohio State University’s Schottenstein Center. The Knights advanced to the Division II Final Four by going OT to eliminate previously unbeaten Tippecanoe 45-43 in Friday night’s regional final at Vandalia.
Alter (24-2) plays Shaker Heights Hathaway Brown (19-6) at 3 p.m. on Friday. The other semifinal pits Warsaw River View (23-2) vs. Wapakoneta (24-1) at 1 p.m. Friday.
The winners meet at 5:15 p.m. in Saturday’s state final. Alter is the defending state champion.
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