MG boys get two conference wins

By ROB HAMILTON

Mount Gilead claimed a pair of league vic­to­ries to improve to 7–2 on the season.

On Sat­ur­day, Dec. 22, the Indi­ans rode a big sec­ond quar­ter to a 61–45 win over Cardington.

The host Pirates only trailed 11–9 after the open­ing eight min­utes, but were outscored 20–7 to fall behind by 15 enter­ing the half.

While both teams played evenly in the sec­ond half, with the Indi­ans outscor­ing Card­ing­ton 30–29 dur­ing that span, Mount Gilead was able keep their advan­tage and gain the win.

The Indi­ans had bal­anced scor­ing, with Xavier Har­ris lead­ing the way with 14 points, Ethan Har­ris adding 11, Logan Chap­man scor­ing 10 and Pay­ton Van­derkooi pick­ing up nine.

Tyler How­ell paced Card­ing­ton with 11 points, while Tyler Dornon added 10.

On Thurs­day, Dec. 20, Mount Gilead edged pre­vi­ously unbeated River Val­ley at home by a 57–52 margin.

The Vikings jumped out to a 16–12 lead after the first quar­ter, but Mount Gilead took the sec­ond period by a 16–4 mar­gin to move in front by a 28–20 score.

River Val­ley cut their deficit in half (39–35) by the end of the third, but Mount Gilead rebounded in the fourth to wind up win­ning by five.

Ethan Har­ris scored 21 points to lead the Indi­ans, while Van­derkooi added 19 and Xavier Har­ris fin­ished with 12.

High­land Scots

High­land picked up their first win of the sea­son on Thurs­day, Dec. 20 when they hosted Ridgedale.

The Scots, in win­ning 55–48, outscored their oppo­nents in three of the four quar­ters. High­land led 8–4 after the first period and 21–15 at halftime.

Both teams scored 14 in the third quar­ter, but the Scots took a 20–19 edge on their oppo­nents in the final period to fin­ish the game in front.

Jett Swetland’s 19 points paced the Scots, while Cur­tis Belcher fin­ished with 13.

High­land wouldn’t be able to make it two wins in a row two days later, though, as host North Union jumped out to a fast start that car­ried them to a 75–24 win.

The Wild­cats led 21–4 after the first quar­ter and boosted their advan­tage to a 48–11 mar­gin by the inter­mis­sion. They then went on to outscore High­land 19–7 in the third period and 8–6 in the fourth to cement their win.

Swetland’s nine points led Highland.

North­mor Knights

North­mor could not over­come an early deficit on Thurs­day, Nov. 20, when they trav­eled to Buck­eye Valley.

The Barons jumped out to a 19–8 lead after eight min­utes of play and then outscored the Knights 15–11 in the sec­ond quar­ter and 18–11 in the third on their way to tak­ing a 66–45 win.

While North­mor took the fourth period by a 15–14 mar­gin, they would not be able to catch the Barons.

Zach Wise­man led the Knights with 19 points, while Gar­rett Karcher tal­lied 11.

The Knights lost 59–39 to Pleas­ant on Sat­ur­day, Nov. 22. No fur­ther infor­ma­tion was available.

Card­ing­ton Pirates

Card­ing­ton lost 70–42 to North Union on Thurs­day, Dec. 20.

The game was close through­out the first half, but the Wild­cats dom­i­nated the second-half action to get the win.

The Pirates led 15–14 after eight min­utes of play, but North Union bat­tled back to take a 30–29 lead by halftime.

Unfor­tu­nately for the Pirates, in the sec­ond half, North Union outscored them 40–13.

Cole Hess tal­lied 10 points to lead Cardington.

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