Pirates take win against Ridgedale

By ROB HAMILTON

Card­ing­ton got back on track in Mid-Ohio Ath­letic Con­fer­ence play with a 50–46 win at Ridgedale Friday.

The Pirates outscored their oppo­nents 18–7 in the sec­ond quar­ter to turn a one-point deficit into a 29–19 half­time advantage.

While the Rock­ets took the third quar­ter by a 14–12 mar­gin and outscored Card­ing­ton 13–9 over the final eight min­utes, that 10-point lead was able to hold up for the Pirates, who gained their fifth win of the season.

Tyler Dornon led Card­ing­ton with 11 points and Mason Richard­son added nine.

North­mor Knights

North­mor picked up a non-conference win last Tues­day, as the Knights topped East Knox by a 48–42 margin.

After the Knights took a 16–14 lead after eight min­utes of play, the Bull­dogs closed to within a 26–25 score at the intermission.

How­ever, North­mor would grad­u­ally open up a bit of breath­ing room in the sec­ond half, as they outscored the Bull­dogs 12–10 in the third quar­ter and 10–7 in the fourth to wind up win­ning by six.

James Don­ner con­tin­ued his hot shoot­ing, drain­ing five three-pointers and scor­ing 22 points. Gar­rett Karcher added 12.

Mount Gilead Indians

A poor per­for­mance in the mid­dle two quar­ters doomed Mount Gilead when they trav­eled to Pleas­ant on Friday.

In their 53–41 loss to the Spar­tans, the Indi­ans took a 14–10 lead after the open­ing stanza, but could not hold onto that lead.

They were outscored 18–6 in the sec­ond period and 16–7 in the third to fall behind by a 44–27 count. The Indi­ans were able to outscore their oppo­nents by five in the fourth, but weren’t able to make up their deficit.

Xavier Har­ris led Mount Gilead with 10 points and Pay­ton Van­derkooi added eight.

High­land Scots

High­land played Mar­ion Hard­ing close for eight min­utes, but the Pres­i­dents pulled away in the sec­ond quar­ter on their way to a 63–41 win on Friday.

Hard­ing only led 9–8 after the first quar­ter, but Hard­ing took the sec­ond by a 21–9 mar­gin. They would then outscore the Scots 20–13 in the third and 13–11 dur­ing the fourth to clinch the win.

Highland’s Jett Swet­land scored 14 points to pace his team, while Kyle Minyo added eight.

Gilead Chris­t­ian Eagles

Gilead Chris­t­ian was held to sin­gle dig­its in all four quar­ters by Grove City Chris­t­ian in an 82–27 loss last Tuesday.

The Eagles trailed 29–8 after one quar­ter and 55–14 at the half in the con­test. Grove City Chris­t­ian then went on to outscore them 27–13 over the sec­ond half to fin­ish off the game.

Gilead Chris­t­ian got 10 points from Danny Bruce, while Bo Grif­fith added eight.

On Wednes­day, the Eagles lost 76–36 to Miller­sport. No fur­ther infor­ma­tion was available.

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