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Crusaders reach finals with 58-27 win over Dutch |
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Wednesday, 30 December 2009 |
By JIM MULCAHY
Staff Writer
The Elk County Catholic Crusaders used a 24-0 run during the first half on their way to a 58-27 victory over the St. Marys Area Flying Dutch in the opening round of the Elk County Boys Holiday Tournament being played at St. Marys Area High School.
Elk County Catholic will meet the Johnsonburg Rams in the championship game tonight at 8 p.m. The Rams downed the Ridgway Elkers, 60-53, in the other boys game played last night. St. Marys and Ridgway will meet in the consolation game at 4:30 p.m. this afternoon.
The Dutch scored with 39 seconds remaining in the first quarter of play on a field goal by Justin Quiggle. St. Marys did not score again until Jess Cogan scored with 36 seconds remaining in the first half.
“We played pretty well defensively early on with our full-court, man-to-man pressure and took advantage of our depth,” said ECCHS assistant coach Jude Hoffman, who was filling in for head coach Aaron Straub, who was under the weather for last night’s game.
“The coaching staff does a great job and the kids put forth the effort and worked really hard,” said Hoffman.
“We have to play really well tomorrow night. Johnsonburg has a good team. They are a physical and strong squad,” added coach Hoffman.
The Crusader offense was led by Robby Wortman with 14 points on four twos and two threes. Tyler Herzing scored 13 points on two twos and three threes.
The Dutch were led by Justin Quiggle with 18 points on three twos and four threes.
“I think this was the first time on the big stage for some of these kids and they had the jitters. This (Elk County Catholic) is not a team to have the jitters against,” said Dutch coach Mark Guido.
“We are in a building process. This team will to some good things but we’re not going to do them overnight,” said the coach.
“We have to stay positive, put tonight behind us, and work hard tomorrow,” added coach Guido.
Wortman scored the opening bucket of the contest then added a putback to give the Crusaders the 4-0 lead. Quiggle scored for the Dutch, 4-2. A three by Herzing made the score 7-2 before Quiggle scored again for St. Marys. Kevin Hoy added a two for the Dutch to make it 7-6 with 3:43 left in the opening period. Herzing hit a two as did Ricky Pearsall. Herzing added a three as Elk County Catholic went up 14-6 with 1:50 left in the quarter. Quiggle cut it to 14-8 with 39 seconds left. A bucket by Herzing gave the Crusaders the 16-8 lead the end of the first quarter.
The Crusaders scored 22 unanswered points to go up 38-8. Cogan scored with 36 seconds left in the half to make the score 38-10 at halftime.
Kyle Detsch hit a two and Wortman hit a three as Elk went up 43-10. Hoy cut it to 43-12 with 6:02 left in the period. A three by Jacob, twos by Darren Simons (2) and Michael Wachter made the score 52-12 with 2:57 left in the period. Quiggle hit a three and Wachter scored for Elk as the Crusaders led 54-15 at the end of the three quarters.
In the final eight minutes of play the Dutch outscored Elk 12-4 to win the game 58-27. Quiggle led the Dutch with nine points while Simons and Adam Buchheit each had two for Elk Catholic.
Game notes
The Crusaders are now 5-0 on the season while the Dutch slipped to 0-5.
Today’s schedule will see the Ridgway and Johnsonburg girls meet at 3 p.m. in the girls consolation game. The Dutch and the Elkers will meet at 4:30 p.m. in the boys consolation game. The girls title game between Elk Catholic and St. Marys is scheduled for a 6:30 p.m. start with the Crusaders and Rams squaring off at 8 p.m. in the boys title game.
St. Marys 27
Kevin Hoy 1-0-0-0-2, Ryan Hockman 0-0-0-0-0, Greg Simchick 0-0-0-0-0, Dylan Reigel 0-0-0-0-0, Sean Zimmett 0-0-0-0-0, Bobby Vollmer 0-0-0-0-0, Jess Cogan 1-0-0-0-2, Chris Rettger 0-0-0-0-0, Justin Quiggle 3-4-0-0-18, Ryan Mancuso 0-0-1-2-1, Jimmy Werner 0-0-2-2-2. Totals 6-4-3-4-27.
ECCHS 58
Ricky Pearsall 1-0-0-2-2, Tyler Herzing 2-3-0-0-13, Ben Crowe 1-0-0-0-2, Eric Wehler 0-0-0-0-0, Kyle Detsch 3-0-0-1-6, Joe Jacob 1-1-0-0-5, Tyler Healy 2-0-0-2-4, Robby Wortman 4-2-0-0-14, Adam Buchheit 1-0-0-1-2, Darren Simons 3-0-0-0-6, David Bojalad 0-0-0-2-0, Luke Daghir 0-0-0-0-0, Josh Gebauer 1-0-0-1-2, Michael Wachter 1-0-0-0-2. Totals 20-6-0-7-58.
Score by quarters
SMAHS 8 2 5 23 27
ECCHS 16 22 16 4 58 |
