GHS Weekend Roundup

By JON KLEINKNECHT

Inquirer Sports Editor

sports@galioninquirer.com

BOYS’ BASKETBALL

LEXINGTON — Trail­ing by three points at the end of the first quar­ter, the Lex­ing­ton Min­ute­men outscored the Galion Tigers deci­sively in each of the final three peri­ods to pick up a 68–53 non-conference win in boys’ var­sity bas­ket­ball action here last Sat­ur­day night.

Down 17–14 at the first break, the hosts took the sec­ond third and fourth stan­zas by 24–18, 15–8 and 15–10 counts, respec­tively, to notch the triumph.

The loss drops Galion to 2–2 on the season.

Three Tigers reached twin fig­ures in scor­ing for the Orange-and-Blue. Austin Prosser had 15 points, Ridge Durbin, 13; and Austin Chap­lin, 11. Those three also each hit for dou­ble fig­ures a night ear­lier in a win at Bucyrus.

Mason Willeke was the big gun for the Min­ute­men. He tick­led the twine for a game-high 31 points.

Galion made 10 2-pointers, 9 3-pointers and was just 5-for-11 on foul shots.

The win­ners canned 21 twos, 5 treys and was 8-for-13 on char­ity tosses.

In reserve play, Lex­ing­ton cruised to a 61–35 vic­tory. Bryce Lybarger was Galion’s lead­ing scorer with 10 points.

The Tigers enter­tain Wyn­ford on Fri­day in a North Cen­tral Con­fer­ence contest.

GIRLS’ BASKETBALL

Vis­it­ing Colonel Craw­ford lim­ited Galion to just 14 points in the sec­ond half to reg­is­ter a 46–39 come-from-behind win in North Cen­tral Con­fer­ence play last Sat­ur­day at the high school.

The Lady Tigers led 25–22 at half­time. But, the Lady Eagles outscored them 13–4 in the third period and wrapped things up with a 16–10 advan­tage in the last eight minutes.

The vic­tors improved their record to 5–3 over­all and 2–1 in the NCC. Galion fell to 2–4 over­all and 0–3 in the conference.

Nick­yla Garv­er­ick popped in a game-high 25 points for the win­ners. The Black-and-Gold con­nected on 16-of-33 2-pointers (48 per­cent), 1-of-5 3-pointers (20 per­cent) and just 11-for-24 free throws (46 per­cent). They grabbed 30 rebounds.

Again poor shoot­ing sealed the fate of the Lady Tigers. They were just 11-for-41 on 2-pointers (27 per­cent) and 3-for-14 on treys (21 per­cent). They also sank 8-of-11 char­ity tosses (73 per­cent), and hauled in 27 missed shots.

For the locals, Kelly Mann scored 12 points, Pey­ton Beachy, 9; Bai­ley Ruhe, 7; Ramonda Dorsey, 6; Jor­dan Kuns and Shel­bie Schramek, 2 apiece; and Calli Bauer made a free throw. Ruhe snatched 8 rebounds — 6 on the offen­sive end.

“By far the best game we’ve played all year,” stated Galion head coach Jen Meyer. “We started strong and never gave up. I am extremely proud of their effort and truly believe we were learn­ing some­thing new every day that will help us get into the win col­umn. All around I am so proud of our team effort and am excited for what is to come.”

Galion’s junior var­sity squad won 27–21. The Lady Tigers’ Raven Craw­ford and Colonel Crawford’s Gabby Het­zel tied for game-high scor­ing hon­ors with 9 tal­lies each.

SWIMMING

NORTH ROBINSON — Galion High School’s boys’ and girls’ swim teams com­peted in the Colonel Craw­ford Relay Invi­ta­tional held here last Saturday.

Colonel Crawford’s boys made quick work of the oppo­si­tion, outscor­ing runner-up Ontario 86–54. Galion had 42 points, Olen­tangy Orange, 38; and Willard, 10.

In the girls’ meet, Colonel Craw­ford and Olen­tangy Orange tied at 74 points apiece. Galion was third with 52, Ontario, fourth at 40; and Willard, last with 6.

The top per­former for the Tigers was the vic­to­ri­ous 200 med­ley four­some of Con­nor Kempf, Zane Ekin, Sam DeN­ero and Logan Amos at 1:54.79. Those four were sec­ond in the 850 crescendo with a time of 9:09.78, 4.7 sec­onds behind Colonel Crawford’s win­ning quar­tet of Bryan Jones, Trey Crase, Ian Kochheiser and Grant Pfeifer.

Also plac­ing sec­ond for the Orange-and-Blue were Ekin, DeN­ero and Kempf in the 300 IM relay with a clock­ing of 3:07.34. Colonel Crawford’s Clay Fogle, Nic Roe and Logan Pfeifer were tops at 2:57.74.

For the Lady Tigers, Kris­ten Bene­dict, Sam Alt­stadt, Molly Barker and Sadie Willacker won the 400 free relay with a time of 4:30.1.

Fin­ish­ing sec­ond for the Orange-and-Blue were Michaela Slone, Don­netta Lester, Elaine Finch and Barker in the 200 free relay at 2:12.42. Colonel Crawford’s Cheyenne John­son, Nicole Jones, Cali Fogle and Trissa Schimpf won with a mark of 2:02.96.

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