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On this date in area sports history …
Nine years ago on this date, Jan. 14, 2000, Cedarville beat Southeastern 54-41 in boys basketball. The two teams played again Tuesday night, Jan. 13. Southeastern is now coached former Cedarville coach P.J. Bertemes.
Published Jan. 15, 2000
BRAGGING RIGHTS GO TO INDIANS
By Keith Walther, News-Sun Sports Writer
CEDARVILLE — Southeastern brought its ”A” game to Cedarville Friday night. Problem is, the Trojans were playing the game.
Allow Trojan Coach Aaron Perry to explain.
“Anyone who grew up in Cedarville or South Charleston knows what this game means. It is not just a game on the schedule. This is the game,” Perry said after his Trojans dropped a 54-41 decision to the Indians.
“This has been a knock-down, drag-out rivalry since the two schools existed. Cedarville played like that tonight, and we didn’t. We weren’t ready to meet the challenge.”
Perry said his team, 5-6 overall and 2-4 in the Kenton Trace Conference, “didn’t deserve to win” — and it did plenty of things to back that statement.
“A game like this demands emotion, demands heart and demands desire, and we just didn’t have it — and I have no idea why,” he said. “We pleaded with them and pleaded with them all week long. All the physical miscues go back to one thing — we just weren’t mentally ready to play.”
Meanwhile, the Indians celebrated wildly in their lockerroom. Sure, they had snapped a four-game losing streak, but that played only a bit part in their excitement.
“I love beating them more than anything,” Cedarville junior Nick Trimbach said after scoring a game-high 16 points. “It feels good to come out here and do what we did, because they were talking to us for a long time. They were all over my back about this one, so this is great.”
Don’t be fooled by the 13-point margin of victory, however, the Indians had to earn this one. In fact, the lead changed hands 11 times in the first half. Cedarville inched ahead and took a 40-32 lead into the final period, going into a semi-delay in an effort to milk time off the clock.
That’s when Southeastern turned up the heat defensively and, when Keith Clark came up with a steal and found Josh Briggs on the fly for a lay-up, the Trojans were down just six, at 40-34, with 3:49 to play.
Seconds later, Briggs picked off a pass and broke free for what could have been an easy lay-up. Instead, the senior elected to attempt a slam dunk — and missed. Momentum returned to the Indians who, from that point, went on a 9-0 run to put the game away, 49-34, with 2:15 to go.
“Briggs made a tremendous defensive play and he has a chance to bring his team to within a bucket or two buckets and, boy, that was, no question about it, a big play,” Cedarville Coach P.J. Bertemes said. “I’d like to stand here and say we made all the plays happen, but really, they gave us a break there. I know Coach Perry will make a point to his team about that.”
Perry did just that but also noted that, if not for Briggs’s tenacious play at both ends, his team wouldn’t have been in the game at all.
“The last thing we want to do is blame it on Josh Briggs — he is one of the few kids that got after it and hustled,” Perry said. “We told him the points are more important at that time, but he’s a kid and makes mistakes. He just made a poor decision. But, if everyone on the team played as well, as hard and as aggressive as Josh did, we would have been all right tonight.”
So, bragging rights — at least until the team’s rematch on Feb. 15 in South Charleston — go to the Indians, 5-6 and 3-3 KTC.
“This is always a big game with us and Southeastern, being that we are just five or six miles apart,” Bertemes said. “Then, you add in the fact that Aaron and I are such good friends, having played together at Wittenberg, and it is really special. We root for each other all year long except when we hook up.”
“P.J. and I have a pretty good relationship but this game is a lot more than me coaching against him,” Perry said. “It shouldn’t take P.J. and I being college teammates and roommates and all that kind of stuff to bring the rivalry in.
“Hopefully, the kids will be ready to go next time (the teams meet). Tonight, we didn’t display the effort that you need every night out. You just can’t show up to play when you are on the road and young like we are. You have to get after it and show some heart. We’ll find five kids that will do that, who will lay it on the line.”
Southeastern placed no one in double figures as leading scorer Willie Shingler, averaging 16 points, managed just eight. Jeff Moore backed Trimbach’s output with 12 points for the Indians.
SOUTHEASTERN (41) — Shingler 2 3-4 8, Clark 3 0-0 6, Waddle 3 0-0 6, Briggs 3 1-3 7, Earles 2 0-0 4, Cooper 0 5-6 5, Banion 1 0-0 3, Knox 0 2-5 2. Totals: 14 11-18 41.
CEDARVILLE (54) — Trimbach 6 4-5 16, Moore 4 4-6 12, Donahue 0 1-2 1, Martindale 1 0-0 2, Willis 2 0-0 4, Schlappi 1 4-5 6, Spradlin 3 0-0 8, Howard 2 2-2 6. Totals: 19 15-20 54.
Southeastern12 24 32 41
Cedarville11 26 38 54
Three-point goals: Southeastern 2 (Shingler, Banion), Cedarville 1 (Spradlin)
Records: Southeastern 5-6, 2-4 KTC; Cedarville 5-6, 3-3
Reserves: Southeastern 57 (West 16), Cedarville 44 (Hull 16)
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