Point Pleasant comes out on top in battle with Hannan
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WAYNE - On the second day of the Wayne Holiday Tournament Friday night, two very unlikely but very familiar foes met for the first time in years.
Just a trip down Route 2 is all that separates Mason County teams Point Pleasant (1-5) and Hannan (1-5), but it took a trip to Wayne for the two teams to meet on the same court as the Black Knights took a 74-51 victory to claim third place at the Wayne tournament in the consolation game.
Point Pleasant jumped out to a quick 10-0 lead and never looked back, taking an 18-9 lead after one quarter and holding a 40-23 lead at the half. The Black Knights were able to pull away early thanks to the best shooting effort the team has had all year.
With very unselfish play and good ball movement, PPHS was able to extend that lead slowly over the final 16 minutes, scoring 20 points in the third quarter and 15 in the fourth, while the Wildcats added 14 in both second half quarters.
Hannan was limited in size and depth, but fought hard to keep the game in check, but could not do anything with Point and its first superior shooting night of the season.
Steven Perry led the Black Knights with 17 points, four rebounds and four steals while big man Tyson Jones posted a double-double with 12 points and 12 boards.
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Will Slone, who was selected to the all tournament team, had 16 points and six rebounds in the win and was followed by Jay Ellis and Jeremy Legg with four points and four rebounds apiece, B.J. Lloyd with six points, Trasawn Bonecutter with four points and four boards and Chris Campbell with three points.
Point Pleasant also limited itself to just 10 turnovers and outrebounded the Wildcats 37-28 in the game.
Hannan was paced by Ryan Canterbury who had a game high 23 points and was followed by Kevin Blake and Jason Bennett with eight points each, Shawn Plants and Patrick Flora with three points apiece and Jered Taylor, Travis Bowman and Christian Estep with two points each.
In the championship tilt, Clay County took the title from home team Wayne 67-57 following the Point Pleasant win.
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The Black Knights will return to action Tuesday when they travel to Poca while Hannan prepares to meet Wahama next Friday in Mason.
POINT PLEASANT (74)
Trasawn Bonecutter 2 0-0 4, Steven Perry 2 3-3 17, Will Slone 8 0-0 16, Jay Ellis 3 1-2 8, B.J. Lloyd 3 0-0 6, Chris Campbell 1 0-0 3, Jeremy Legg 4 0-0 8, Tyson Jones 6 0-1 12. TOTALS - 29 4-6 74.
HANNAN (51)
Kevin Blake 2 4-7 8, Ryan Canterbury 8 6-7 23, Christian Estep 1 0-0 2, Travis Bowman 1 0-0 2, Jason Bennett 4 0-0 8, Patrick Flora 1 0-0 3, Jared Taylor 1 0-0 2, Shawn Plants 1 0-0 3. TOTALS - 19 10-14 51
Three points goals - Point Pleasant 4 (Perry 2), Hannan 3 (Canterbury, Flora, Plants 1).
Wahama wins in final seconds
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| Larry Crum/photo - Wahama's Justin Arnold battles for a rebound with Meigs' Chris Goode (left) and Aaron Cordell during a high school boys basketball game Friday in Mason. Wahama won the game in the final seconds 56-53 over its cross river rival. |
MASON - The Wahama White Falcon basketball team rallied from behind to claim an exciting 59-56 cage win over cross-river rival Meigs Friday evening before an overflow, standing room only crowd at the Bend Area campus.
Casey Harrison and Brenton Clark ignited a third quarter comeback rally for the White Falcons with Jordan Smith coming on to score 13 of his 15 points in the final period to lead the White Falcons to the hardwood triumph. Smith dropped in a three point goal with just over a minute remaining to cap the Falcons come-from-behind effort with Kevin Wasonga converting three of four free throws at a critical time in the waning minutes to help Wahama to the home victory.
Harrison finished the evening with a game high 19 points while Clark and Smith collected 15 tallies each for coach James Toth's cagers. The Win lifted the Mason County teams record to 5-2 on the season while Meigs dropped to 1-7 following the heartbreaking setback.
The emotionally packed contest went right down to the final second with Wahama clinging to a one point edge when a charging foul on Dave Poole negated a potential game winning Marauder basket with less than :01 to play. The last second goal was waved off due to the foul call, erupting the White Falcon crowd and leaving Meigs wanting answers, while Wahama took possession of the basketball.
During the confusion that erupted following the charge call, Meigs was called on a technical foul and Wahama went to the line, sinking both shots and sealing the three-point White Falcon victory.
“Once again we got off to a slow start but fortunately we were able to step it up a notch in the fourth quarter,” Falcon coach James Toth said following the hotly contested outing. “We trailed until the final period and received some outstanding play down the stretch to pull this one out.”
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Meigs jumped in front behind the scoring of Eric Tolar, Poole and Clay Bolin during the early going as the Marauders maintained an advantage throughout the first half of action. Meigs failed to capitalize on the White Falcons sluggish start however as Wahama stayed close enough to mount a charge over the final 16 minutes to pull out the win.
The Marauders led by seven, 13-6, at the close of the first eight minutes before allowing Wahama to trim the deficit to just four points at 23-19 at the conclusion of first half action. Harrison and Clark began to warm up offensively for the White Falcons with the opening of third quarter play with nine and eight points respectively in the stanza as WHS was able to close to within a basket at 42-40 going into the final canto. The fourth period belonged to Smith, a former Marauder cager prior to transferring to Wahama this year, with the junior forward taking over to score 13 of his 15 points on the night during the final eight minutes.
“Clark had a great game for us with 12 rebounds and 15 points with Smith and Harrison stepping their game up when we needed it,” Toth said. “Tolar played an exceptionally good game for Meigs as well added the WHS cage mentor.”
Tolar dropped in a team high total of 18 points for the Marauders with Poole adding 16 markers and Bolin nine for the visitors.
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In the preliminary outing Meigs placed four players in double figure scoring to come away with a 62-54 win over the Wahama jayvee squad. Jeremy Smith led all scorers with 16 points followed by Damien Wise with 12, Jacob Well 11, and Corey Hutton with 11 for Meigs. Brandon Flowers notched 14 tallies for the lone Falcon in double digit scoring.
Wahama drops to 2-3 on the season following the loss while the Meigs junior varsity improves to 5-2.
WHS returns to action for a pair of games next week in the second and third dates of a five game home stand. Tuesday finds Buffalo visiting the Bend Area before Mason County rival Hannan visits on Friday. Tip-off times for both nights are 6 p.m. for junior varsity action and 7:30 p.m. for the main event.
MEIGS (56)
Eric Tolar 4 10-12 18; David Poole 6 4-8 16, Clay Bolin 4 1-2 9, Chris Goode 3 0-0 6, Aaron Cordell 2 0-0 4, Andy Garnes 1 0-0 2, Jesse Mullins 0 1-3 1, Austin Dunfee 0 0-0 0, Dan Bookman 0 0-0 0, Casey Richardson 0 0-0 0, Dustin VanInwagen 0 0-2 0, Totals - 20 16-27 56
WAHAMA (59)
Casey Harrison 6 5-8 19, Brenton Clark 4 7-12 15, Jordan Smith 6 2-6 15, Kevin Wasonga 2 3-4 7, Keith Pearson 1 0-0 2, Gabe Roush 0 1-3 1, Brandon Flowers 0 0-0 0, Josh Pauley 0 0-0 0, Buddy Rose 0 0-0 0, Garrett Underwood 0 0-0 0, Justin Arnold 0 0-0 0, Totals - 19-18-33-59.
Three point goals - Wahama 3 (Harrison 2, Smith).
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