The Sandy Valley duo of Welker and Mozden gave the Hornets fits all night. Despite frigid temperatures in the gym, these two did their best to heat things up. Mozden led the game in scoring with 24 points including three 3's. Welker had 19 points total including a 12 point flurry in the 3rd quarter. The Hornets had more of a balanced attack. Bradley ended with a team high 19 points, Burfield hit for 16, and Slater gave a much needed scoring boost with 15 points.
After 3 quarters the score broke down like this:
EC-SV
1) 9-10
2) 23-26
3) 39-42
The first lead in the 4th quarter came when Burfield knocked down a FT to put the Hornets up one, 43-42. Sandy Valley took back control of the game but East Canton never got out of striking distance. With the game tied, East Canton took a 2 point lead with :15 on a Josh Smith offensive rebound and put back. After a Sandy Valley timeout, Cody Welker found a seem and hit a running layup with :03 left. On to overtime.
With Cartwright already fouled out, the Hornets were looking for some much needed leadership. Sandy had the ball and the lead with under two minutes to go on overtime. A missed Welker 18 foot jump shot was rebounded by Slater and a foul on Sandy Valley was assessed. I would seriously question the shot selection of the Cardinals at this point. With the lead, the Hortnets were at the mercy of Sandy and the Cardinals bailed us out with a passive, long two-point attempt. Slater hit both free throws to put East Canton up one but Mozden answered back with 2 clutch free throws of his own.
With 1:05 remaining, Burfield nailed a 3 from the corner to put East Canton up two points. Sandy called timeout but had their inbound pass stolen by Bradley who was fouled. He knocked down 1 of 2 to give the Hornets a 3 point lead. Another inbound pass was stolen by Burfield off of an Elseser deflection. Burfield hit both FT's to give East Canton a 5 point lead. Mozden then hit a running shot off one foot from the top of the key. Play was stopped and refs conferred. They decided it was a three point shot even though multiple confirmed sources were adamant that he was full foot in front of the three point line.
East Canton got the ball in and Bradley was fouled with 16.1 seconds left. He hit the first and missed the second, unable to ice the game. Sandy missed a shot attempt but got their own rebound and got fouled. Mozden went to the line and netted the first free throw.
In an interesting play, Mozden tried to miss the second intentionally by throwing it directly at the rim. The ball somehow still went in but the point was waived off when Sandy was called for a lane violation. So Mozden's only FT miss of the night came because a violation waived off a made attempt that he was really trying to miss. Go figure.
Slater was fouled on the inbound with 4.1 seconds. His first attempt was left short but he buried the second. Sandy was down only 3 but their 3/4 court attempt at the buzzer was no good.
The JV team lost in the preliminary match-up, 36-50. Aaron Kennedy had 11 and Brandon Shultz contributed 10 for East Canton.
Bits of Randomness
Another trend with Burfield (See previous post for first) seems to be scoring 16 points, no more or less. In five games his point total has landed ended with 16 on 3 separate occasions
Slater had 8 of his 15 points in the second quarter
Smith and Slater each pulled down 10+ rebounds. This is the first time this season that two players have had double-digit rebounds in the same game
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Canton Rep Links:
http://www.cantonrep.com/highschool/x1055575399/High-school-boys-basketball-results-for-Dec-22
http://www.cantonrep.com/highschool/x1107767813/High-school-boys-basketball-report-for-Dec-22
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
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1 comment:
Once again a great post by matt. Burfield and Zell are putting together good seasons. I am shocked that carwright fouled out and we still won! What tick... I should be use to this. Great job hornets!
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