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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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