Whippets sprint past Orange-and-Blue

By JON KLEINKNECHT
Inquirer Sports Edi­tor
sports@galioninquirer.com

SHELBY — The Shelby Whip­pets pounced on the Galion Tigers early and sprinted away, record­ing a 71–56 smash­ing of the Orange-and-Blue Tues­day night in an inde­pen­dent boys’ var­sity bas­ket­ball con­test.
Shelby (10–8) frus­trated Galion (8–10) with its pres­sure defense, jump­ing out to leads of 22–14 and 46–22 in the first two quar­ters, respec­tively.
A 16–15 advan­tage by the hosts in the third period made it 62–37 going into the final frame.
The last five min­utes or so con­sisted of sev­eral junior var­sity team mem­bers from both schools play­ing. The advan­tage went to the Tigers, 19–9, account­ing for the final score.
“They were the aggres­sor early and took us out of our game,” said Galion head coach Ed Rich. “We played scare. It’s the worst I’ve seen us play in the first half all year.“
The loss ended a win­ning streak of four games by the Orange-and-Blue.
Austin Prosser led the locals offen­sively with 16 points. Tony Kirk added 12. Ridge Durbin — Galion’s lead­ing scorer this sea­son - was held score­less.
Tris­tan Kehres was the game’s top point-getter with 18 mark­ers for the win­ners.
Galion is at Ontario Sat­ur­day night.

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