SE gets first league win
Adena still rolling
Panthers improve to 3-3
The surprising Southeastern Panthers improved to 3-3 overall with a 47-41 Scioto Valley Conference road victory over the struggling Unioto Shermans Saturday night before a loud and raucous crowd in Frenchtown.
The Panthers (2-2 in fourth place in the SVC) never trailed. Seniors Jordan Elam and Joe Hall staked Southeastern to a 5-0 lead in the open 2:30 and the Shermans found themselves playing catch-up all night. Junior Devin Willard nailed a three-pointer late in the first quarter and SE cruised to a 16-8 lead after one stop.
Willard finished with 17 points to lead all scorers. Elam, despite foul trouble, ended with 13. Senior Joe Hall added eight.
Threatening to break the game open, the Panthers extended the lead to 10 points at 35-25 with 1:09 left in the third quarter on back-to-back Willard field goals.
Unioto (0-5, 0-4 SVC) showed a spark, pulling to within four points at 36-32 on 6-11 senior Alex Kimsey's strong two-hand dunk over Willard with 4:54 remaining.
Sophomore Brick Davis pulled the Tanks to within 41-38 with his bucket with 3:21 left in the game, but the Panthers refused to fold, pushing the lead back to 45-39 with 1:21 to go.
No Sherman scored in double figures. Kimsey finished with eight points, and collected 14 rebounds and five blocked shots. Sophomore Christian Dunkle added eight points and senior Joey Conley chipped in seven.
Southeastern travels to Vinton County on Tuesday while Unioto visits Jackson in a battle of winless teams looking for a holiday lift.
Paint Valley had Zane Trace on the ropes in Bainbridge Saturday afternoon, but 12-of-39 from the line for PV told the unfortunate story for the Lady Bearcats. Zane Trace rode a balanced attack to the win.
Westfall jumped out to an early lead, but the Lady Panthers responded and rolled the win. Catherine Dresbach scored 23 points for the winners.
Brittney Snyder scored 14 points as the two-shade blue continues to roll.
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Going into the Christmas break as the area's lone undefeated team, the Unioto Lady Shermans turned back the Huntington Lady Huntsmen 54-41 on Saturday afternoon, improving to 6-0 overall and 5-0 in the Scioto Valley Conference. For the Lady Huntsmen, it marked their first SVC loss. At 4-1, they are tied with Adena for second place.
The Lady Tanks jumped on top early, 14-4 after one quarter and never looked back. Junior forward Chloe Cottrell scored 12 of her 18 points in the first half to lead Unioto to a 28-17 lead at half. Cottrell also added five rebounds and had two steals.
Sophomore center Mackenzie Arledge added 14 pointsand grabbed nine rebounds.
Senior point guard Shiann Ray racked up nine steals, dished out four assists and finished with four points. Sophomore guard Janea Driggs added eight points.
For Huntington, Madison Vickers led all scorers with 23 points and teammate Paige Milner contributed eight.
Unioto takes the week off for Christmas before returning to action Saturday at Logan Elm.
Huntington meanwhile is off until Jan. 3 when it entertains Adena.
WF blows nine-point, halftime advantage
The Westfall Mustangs entered their non-league battle with Alexander Saturday evening still perfect on the young season. The first 16-minutes looked as if things would stay that way as the Mustangs went to halftime up by nine. The second half was a different story has Westfall failed to take care of the basketball, and the Spartans took advantage has Westfall was handed its first loss 56-46.
Bryant Gibson led Westfall with 18 points and Tyler Kritsch added 11.
