CAMPBELLSBURG
Three of Jackson County’s five high school boys basketball teams were in action Tuesday night at West Washington High School.
Crothersville edged Trinity Lutheran in a contest between county schools while Medora was bounced by Shawe Memorial in the opening round of Sectional 62 play.
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Tigers come up big in 4th quarter, edge Cougars
Crothersville outscored Trinity Lutheran 16-8 in the final period to come away with a 52-47 win last night.
Trinity (6-18) led 26-18 at the half and 39-36 at the conclusion of the third quarter before the Tigers (14-10) made the comeback.
After the Cougars’ A.J. Goecker opened the game with a basket, the Tigers scored seven unanswered points behind three different players.
The Tigers’ Logan Brewer and Cable Spall added baskets before Trinity’s Jack Marksberry hit a 3-pointer to cut the Cougars’ deficit to 11-7 going into the second quarter.
The teams stayed within three points until back-to-back baskets by Brewer put the Tigers up 18-13 with 3:36 on the clock.
In the final 3:05 of the half, the Cougars blazed a 13-0 scoring spree. A.J. Goecker had five points and Tyler Goecker scored six in the span.
At the break, the Cougars led by eight.
The Cougars maintained the lead in the third quarter, but the Tigers answered almost every bucket.
Josh Thomas hit a pair of 3s in the final 1:52 of the third to bring the Tigers within three points with eight minutes left. Timmy Burton also made his presence felt in the period, scoring eight points for CHS.
The Tigers started the fourth quarter strong.
CHS went on a 10-4 run through the first five minutes of the final period to lead 46-43 with 2:16 remaining.
A jumper by Jack Marksberry pulled the Cougars within one, with 44 seconds left, before Trinity had to intentionally foul the Tigers’ Lane Wienhorst.
Wienhorst hit both attempts and the Tigers got a stop on the Cougars’ next possession. Wienhorst pulled down the rebound on Trinity’s miss, was fouled, and hit both freebies to push the Tigers lead to 50-45 with 23 seconds left.
The Tigers were able to hang on from there to advance to Friday night’s 7:30 p.m. semifinals game against Edinburgh. Trinity had six turnovers in the fourth quarter.
Brewer led all scorers with 18 points and Burton added 14 for the Tigers. A.J. Goecker topped Trinity with 13 points, Marksberry had 12 and Mitchell Hackman scored 10.
Edinburgh (10-12) received a first-round bye in the sectional. During the regular season, the Tigers beat the Lancers 40-38.
Hornets fall to Hilltoppers
Medora battled until the final buzzer, but came up short in a 71-64 loss to Shawe Memorial in the opening game.
In the first half between the Hornets (4-19) and Hilltoppers (4-18), it was a shootout.
The Hornets jumped to a 12-6 lead through the first four minutes of the game behind 10 points by Keaton Seniours.
Down 15-8, the Hilltoppers went on a 10-0 scoring streak. Four different players recorded a basket in the sequence before the Hornets’ Isaiah Myers drilled a 3-pointer to tie the game at 18 with 15 ticks left.
The Hilltoppers’ Henry Grote scored his team’s first seven points of the second quarter to give Shawe a 25-20 edge with six minutes left in the half.
From the 6:05- to 2:54-mark, the Hornets went on a 10-2 scoring spree to retake the lead at 30-27.
The teams tied the score three times before the Hornets’ Owen Sullivan recorded a pair of baskets to put the Hornets up 38-37 lead at intermission.
At the break, Grote accounted for 18 of the Hilltoppers’ points while Myers had 13 for the Hornets.
The teams stayed within three points of each other for the entirety of the third quarter, but the Hilltoppers took a 51-49 lead into the fourth.
Te Hilltoppers opened the final period on a 7-2 run to go up 58-51 with 4:27 remaining.
Seniours hit a pair of 3-pointers to cut it to 61-57, with 3:08 left, but the Hilltoppers scored five straight after that.
A 3-pointer by Jayvin Spurgeon and free throws by Caleb Sturgill closed the margin to 68-62, with 34 ticks left, but the Hornets couldn’t recover.
Seniours led the Hornets with 19 points, Myers had 17 and Sullivan chipped in 10. Ethan Stuart topped the Hillopers with 21 points and Grote had 19.
The Hornets were outrebounded 27-23, and had 17 turnovers to Shawe’s 16.
Medora was called for 24 fouls while the Hilltoppers had 16. In the second half, the Hornets totaled 15 fouls.
“We had Skylar (Jones), J.D. (Fish), and Keaton (Seniours) foul out and Owen Sullivan was thrown out (on a technical foul with 4:27 left) of the game,” Medora coach Mark Morin said. “ I told them if I had known that would happen, I would’ve guessed we’d lose by 20. We kept it competitive the entire game. I didn’t think we played all that bad. The way it was officiated, it favored Shawe’s style of play.”
The Hornets have not won a sectional game since the 1996-97 season.
Shawe Memorial will play West Washington in the 6 p.m. game of Friday’s semifinals.