Warriors rout Orange-and-Blue, 75-41

By JON KLEINKNECHT

Inquirer Sports Editor

sports@galioninquirer.com

ONTARIO — For the sec­ond time in as many meet­ings this sea­son the Ontario War­riors man­han­dled the Galion Tigers in a North Cen­tral Con­fer­ence boys’ var­sity bas­ket­ball game, this occa­sion to the tune of 75–41 here last Sat­ur­day night.

Ontario improved to 14–4 over­all and a per­fect 10–0 in the NCC while the Orange-and-Blue dropped to 8–11 over­all and 5–5 in the con­fer­ence. The War­riors thumped the locals 72–53 on Jan­u­ary 5.

The game was close at half­time as the War­riors had a 31–26 advan­tage. The sec­ond half was lop­sided, how­ever, as the hosts blasted Galion 23–6 in the third period and 21–9 in the fourth, account­ing for the final score.

“We just ran out of gas,” Ed Rich, head coach of the Tiger said. “They have so much depth and just out-ran us.”

The Tigers were a frigid 15-for-51 on field goal attempts (29 per­cent), includ­ing a dis­mal 1-for-17 (6 per­cent) from 3-point range. The win­ners were 28-for-40 on action shots (70 per­cent, 5-for-10 from behind the arc (50 per­cent). Galion was a per­fect 10-for-10 on foul shots. Ontario was 14-for-23.

Ontario had a 29–18 rebound­ing edge and com­mit­ted 12 turnovers to 14 by the Orange-and-Blue.

Scor­ing for Galion were: Austin Chap­lin, 14 points; Tony Kirk, 7; Hous­ton Blair and Austin Prosser, 5 apiece; Stephen Nog­gle, 4; plus Bry­ton Car­pen­ter, Ridge Durbin and Spencer Frizzell, 2 each.

Bran­don Wag­oner net­ted a game-high 20 points for Ontario. Cameron Mack added 19.

Junior var­sity play had Ontario com­ing out on top 41–30. Colton Moore popped in 9 points for Galion.

The Orange-and-Blue are at Lucas on Fri­day. On Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 27 at 6:15 p.m. they will play Willard (15–3) in the Divi­sion II Sec­tional Tour­na­ment at Bucyrus High School.

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