Pirates rebound from slow start

By ROB HAMILTON

After strug­gling offen­sively in their first two games, Card­ing­ton picked up over 60 points in a 64–48 win at home against East Knox last Tuesday.

A big third quar­ter paved the way for the Pirates. The score was tied at 17 after one period and Card­ing­ton had a 22–21 lead at the half.

How­ever, they outscored the Bull­dogs 23–13 in the third to take an 11-point lead. Card­ing­ton then fin­ished the game by tak­ing the fourth period by a 19–14 margin.

Tyler How­ell led the Pirates with 21 points, while Zach Wells added 17 points and 11 rebounds. Also, Mason Richard­son fin­ished with nine points and Cole Hess scored eight.

The Pirates made it two wins in a row on Thurs­day, tak­ing a 59–43 league win over Ridgedale.

Card­ing­ton took a 16–7 lead after the first quar­ter and upped their advan­tage to a 32–19 mar­gin by the half.

They’d main­tain that double-digit lead through­out the sec­ond half, outscor­ing the Rock­ets 27–24 over the final 16 min­utes of action.

Richard­son led the team with 16 points, while Wells added 14, along with 11 boards.

Mount Gilead Indians

Mount Gilead improved to 2–0 last Tues­day with a 52–45 win over Bucyrus.

The Indi­ans jumped out to a 16–7 lead after the first quar­ter, which proved to be cru­cial, as the Red­men outscored the locals 26–21 over the mid­dle two periods.

The fourth quar­ter would see the Indi­ans recover, though, outscor­ing Bucyrus 15–12 to fin­ish on top by seven.

Ethan Har­ris led the team with 17 points, while Nic Pomeroy added 13 and Pay­ton Van­derkooi added 11.

Unfor­tu­nately, the Indi­ans would suf­fer their first loss of the sea­son on Thurs­day, as Pleas­ant con­trolled the first half in win­ning 68–48 on MG’s home court.

The Spar­tans led 11–6 after the first quar­ter and then outscored Mount Gilead 23–8 in the sec­ond to take a 20-point lead into the intermission.

Both teams scored 34 ponts in the sec­ond half, allow­ing the Spar­tans to pick up the road win.

Van­derkooi led the team with 15 points. Pomeroy con­tributed 11.

North­mor Knights

On Thurs­day, North­mor fell 73–63 to Colonel Craw­ford, as the Eagles pulled away in the fourth quarter.

Both teams scored 15 in the open­ing period, but by the half, Colonel Craw­ford had taken a 35–26 advantage.

North­mor bat­tled back to get within one (49–48) in the third quar­ter, but were outscored by nine in the fourth.

Josh Mont­gomery led the Knights with 18 points, while Zach Wise­man added 16, Gar­rett Karcher tal­lied 12 and Daniel Don­ner fin­ished with eight.

High­land Scots

High­land took an early lead against Cen­ter­burg last Tues­day, but couldn’t get things going offen­sively in a 39–26 loss.

The Scots led 7–4 after the first quar­ter, but Cen­ter­burg came back to take an 18–15 lead into the half. Both teams scored six in the third quar­ter; how­ever, in the fourth, the Tro­jans took a 15–5 edge to fin­ish with the win.

For the Scots, Ryan Burt fin­ished with seven points.

High­land strug­gled after tak­ing an early lead again on Fri­day in a 54–45 loss to Mans­field Christian.

The Scots led 13–10 after the first quar­ter, but the Flames had taken a 29–26 lead by the half. After adding one point to their advan­tage in the third quar­ter, Mans­field Chris­t­ian would then outscore High­land 13–8 in the fourth period to fin­ish on top by nine.

Burt’s 12 points led High­land, while Shawn Beltz added 10 and Jett Swet­land picked up nine.

Gilead Chris­t­ian Eagles

Gilead Chris­t­ian suf­fered three losses last week in boys’ bas­ket­ball games.

On Mon­day, they dropped a 56–26 con­test against Mount Ver­non Academy. No fur­ther infor­ma­tion was available.

Tues­day saw them host Granville Chris­t­ian in a game the vis­i­tors won 77–23. The Granville school led 24–8 after the first quar­ter and 36–17 at the half, but pulled away in the sec­ond half by outscor­ing the Eagles 41–6.

Both Aaron Mar­tin and Bo Grif­fith fin­ished with six points.

On Fri­day, the Eagles hung with Miller­sport for the first quar­ter, but wound up on the short end of an 88–23 decision.

After eight min­utes of play, the Lak­ers only led 20–12, but they’d go on to outscore Gilead Chris­t­ian 34–2 in the sec­ond quar­ter, 20–4 in the third and 14–5 in the fourth as they claimed the victory.

Grif­fith fin­ished with over half the Eagle points, as he tal­lied 14 in the game.

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