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The Paper photo by Lori Poteet
Crawfordsville sophomore Trent Crabtree scored 11 points in Tuesday night’s first-round IHSAA sectional defeat. |
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The Paper photo by Lori Poteet
Crawfordsville senior Jordan Boykin goes up for two of his seven points. |
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| Boys basketball
Tuesday
IHSAA Crawfordsville Sectional
At Crawfordsville HS
First round
Game 1
Danville 60, Crawfordsville 54
Danville 17 19 10 14 – 60
Crawfordsville 15 13 14 12 – 54
Scoring:
Danville – Devin Mabbitt 1-2 3-4 5, Michael Humphrey 1-7 0-0 2, Tyler
Hall 7-11 3-5 17, Nate Rigdon 4-8 0-0 9, Travis Carroll 11-22 5-7 27,
Bret Doub 0-1 0-0 0, Kyle Mackey 0-2 0-0 0, Nick Phipps 0-2 0-0 0.
Totals: 24-55 11-16 60. Crawfordsville – Brett McKinney 2-5 0-0 5,
Nolan Harris 3-6 0-0 7, Jordan Boykin 3-10 1-2 7, Tyler Whittington 2-4
0-1 5, Trent Crabtree 4-9 2-2 11, Caleb Rasmussen 7-10 0-2 17, Evan
Morgan 1-4 0-0 2, Quinten Anderson 0-2 0-0 0. Totals: 22-50 3-7 54.
Three-point
shooting: Danville 1-9 (Humphrey 0-2, Hall 0-1, Rigdon 1-2, Carroll
0-1, Mackey 0-1, Phipps 0-2), Crawfordsville 7-18 (McKinney 1-3, Harris
1-2, Whittington 1-3, Crabtree 1-4, Rasmussen 3-4, Anderson 0-2)
Rebounds: Danville 37 (Carroll 12, Hall 8, Rigdon 5), Crawfordsville 27 (McKinney 5, Harris 5)
Fouls: Danville 14, Crawfordsville 17
Turnovers: Danville 12, Crawfordsville 9
Records: Crawfordsville 11-10, Danville 17-4
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Reprinted courtesy of:
The Paper of Montgomery County
www.thepaper24-7.com
By John Groth
Sports Editor
First-year Crawfordsville coach John Blackwell needed a moment before entering the team’s locker room.
He didn’t know how to address the Athenians’ eight seniors in his postgame speech Tuesday night.
After
an Indiana High School Athletic Association first-round sectional game
where they nearly toppled Class 3A No. 5 and Sagamore Athletic
Conference rival Danville again, he knew they were heartbroken.
But Blackwell made sure they left with a positive message.
Danville
junior and Purdue recruit Travis Carroll scored 27 points, while
sophomore Tyler Hall added 17 and hit three key last-minute free
throws, as the Warriors pulled away for a 60-54 IHSAA first-round
Crawfordsville Sectional victory.
“Coaching those eight
seniors, they’re some of the most phenomenal young men I’ve coached,”
Blackwell said. “I was more worried about telling them to go out with
their heads held high because these are darn good kids who represent
the school well.”
Danville (17-4) advances to play conference
foe North Montgomery (15-5) in Friday’s opening 6 p.m. sectional
semifinal, while Western Boone (7-14) will face Lebanon (8-12) in the
second semifinal.
Danville defeated North Montgomery 61-53 in a regular-season Feb. 17 match-up and has now won seven straight games.
Despite the loss, Crawfordsville (11-10) finished with its first winning season since 2003-04.
The
Athenians placed fifth out of eight teams in the conference and gave
each of the three conference co-champs – Danville, North Montgomery and
Frankfort – some incredibly tight games.
They nearly knocked
off Frankfort at the end of January, falling 65-63, and had chances
against Danville until the Warriors pulled away in the late fourth
quarter in each of their meetings – including a 71-59 Feb. 20 defeat.
They also stayed with county-rival North Montgomery for a half before the Chargers ran off to 13- and 17-point victories.
Once
again, Crawfordsville kept Danville on edge – never letting the
Warriors get above a nine-point lead and keeping the game within six
points the entire second half.
The Athenians cut a 36-28 halftime deficit to just 46-42 at the end of the third quarter.
They got within one point twice in the fourth quarter.
Each time, the Warriors had a response.
With 7:12 remaining in the fourth, Crawfordsville freshman Caleb Rasmussen hit a three to cut Danville’s lead to 46-45.
Hall
scored 30 seconds later and the Athenians missed three straight free
throws over the next minute to give the Warriors some breathing room.
Danville
pushed its lead up to five points before having it cut to 52-51 with
3:27 remaining on Crawfordsville senior Jordan Boykin’s inside shot.
But the Warriors hit their free throws down the stretch, going 8-of-12 from the foul line inside the final three minutes.
Senior
Devin Mabbitt (five points) hit three of four foul shots in the final
50 seconds and also grabbed a key defensive rebound.
Crawfordsville finished just 3-of-7 (42.9 percent) from the foul line.
“[Devin] is just a competitor,” Danville coach Brian Barber said. “He can score but he focuses on other guys first.”
One of those guys was Carroll.
Carroll dominated the first half, scoring 21 of his 27 points in the first two quarters.
With Boykin stuck on the bench with two fouls early in the second quarter, Carroll took advantage.
He scored 13 points in the second quarter, including three three-point plays.
Boykin
stayed out of foul trouble in the second half and the Athenians shut
down Carroll – limiting him to just six points on 2-of-8 shooting.
Carroll finished with a double-double, pulling down a game-high 12
rebounds.
“Boykin was in the game [in the second half]. That
helps a lot,” Blackwell said. “We didn’t do anything different.
[Carroll] caught the ball underneath the basket too many times in the
first half. We had a hard time squeezing the ball in the second half.”
Rasmussen
sparked the Athenians with his play off the bench. He finished with a
team-high 17 points, going 3-of-4 from three-point range. He went
7-of-10 from the field overall.
Sophomore Trent Crabtree added 11 points, while Boykin and junior Nolan Harris had seven apiece.
“[Caleb]
hadn’t been much of a shooter. Tonight he was,” Blackwell said. “The
kid sticks around after Senior Night when everybody else is at
restaurants till 11 [p.m.] or midnight, shooting . . . He’s the hardest
working freshman I know. He’s a fun kid to coach. They all are.” |
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