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Daily Tournament Fix — March 5
Here’s your daily tournament fix for Thursday, March 5:
A day off: Area teams will get today, Thursday, March 5 off. The tournament will resume on Friday with Southeastern, Yellow Springs, Mechanicsburg, Northeastern and Graham all in action.
Drought’s over: Springfield High School, merged for the first time since 1960, got its first tournament victory, a 71-61 win over Vandalia Butler.
The Wildcats outscored the Aviators 18-13 in the second quarter by getting the ball inside.
“They started the game shooting threes,” Slagle said. “We knew they were going to do that. I thought we got the ball in the paint pretty well and that was the key. That was our gameplan, playing the paint. We did a much better job getting the ball inside and moving the ball unselfishly and I thought we did a good job with that.”
Vandalia Butler, which finished its season 6-15, got 21 points from 6-foot-8 junior center A.J. Pacher. Slagle was pleased with the way his team guarded the Aviators’ big man.
“I thought Trey did a good job on him, considering he’s giving up about seven inches,” Slagle said. “He’s a different player than (6-10 Centerville center Matt Kavanaugh). Kavanaugh is going to go right through you. He’s definitely skilled. I thought if we could be physical with him and make him work — he didn’t get anything easy. I thought every shot was contested and we actually blocked a couple. I didn’t think we did that poorly on him for giving up seven inches. Everybody helped out.”
It was his team’s unselfish play that was the difference.
“I don’t know the official stats as far as assists,” Slagle said, “but I know we passed the ball really well and that was a key.”
Two different tales: Shawnee grabbed a sectional victory over Tippecanoe in D-II action at Troy, but KR fell to Bellefontaine in overtime.
The Braves and Chieftains will meet in a D-II sectional final at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Shawnee swept the season series, beating them 56-52 on Jan. 10 and 45-39 on Feb. 13.
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