Adena 53
Chesapeake 40 a final
Both young TEAM with the Chesapeake Panthers being “the younger” of the 2 … Adena starts 2 seniors …plays 5 sophomores … Chesapeake has zero seniors on the TEAM … starts 2 juniors plays 3 jrs/4 sophs and a freshman … the district final started as one might expect both teams a case of the nerves - in this situation a team will look to the senior leadership to settle things down - Adena with the only seniors on the court - followed suit as seniors Zach Fout and Caleb Fogelsong led AHS in the opening period to an early advantage on the scoreboard - Fout opening the scoring with a triple and a deuce to calm the nerves of the Blue & White … Caleb Fogelsong pushed the score out to 10-2 Adena with a couple of 2 pointers … with no senior leadership to look to it came down to the freshmen PG Levi Blankenship to get the Panthers off the snide with back to back transition buckets … help from CHS’s Eli Archer (4 points) kept the Panthers in the game early …both teams turned their opponent over in the opening quarter Adena 4 TOs/peake 5 … 12 Chesapeake 8 after 1 … each team traded baskets in the 2nd with Adena being led by their sophomores - Logan Bennett 4 points/Nate Throckmorton 2 pts/ off the bench Jacob Shipley added a triple to break an 18-18 tie … the Adena size showed in the 2nd as Logan Bennett and Caleb Fogelsong both added putback buckets in the paint for AHS with Bennett’s 2 PBB’s coming in the last minute of action to push the Warriors to a 5 point half time lead … Chesapeake had their only 2 ties of the game in the 2nd period 16-16 and 18-18 … CHS never had the lead all night … Adena 25 Chesapeake 20 intermission … Coach Davis’ troop were doing what they needed to do to be IN this one - they controlled the tempo … in the 3rd period they also did what else they needed to do - they turned Adena over - 7 TOs in the 3rd … Adena opened the 3rd as it had ended the first half with soph Logan Bennett getting in the paint for 2 pts extending the lead to 7 pts ( 27 -20 AHS) … enter freshmen PG Levi Blankenship & jr Tylan Hutchison to once again on the perimeter picking the pockets of the Adena guards for back to back transition baskets to go with 2 Blankenship FTs … the duo drew the score to a 1 point deficit … Adena 27 the peake 26 … a Zach Fout (sr) triple pushed the lead to 30-26 … the 3rd ended with a trey by Blankenship to draw CHS to within two … Adena 35 Chesapeake 33 after 3 … a common thread throughout the first 3 quarters was the Peake’s inability to make their FTs … thru 3 the Panthers were 6/11 from the line … a drive by Tylan Hutchison baseline for 2 was the final tie of the game 35-35 … as Adena closed out the game on an 18-5 run … going 12/17 from the FT line needing to make but 3 fgs in the final period … for the peake 3 fgs - one each by Austin Jackson/Tylan Hutchison/Levi Blankenship the rest of the peake’s points were from the line - 7 total points in the 4th for CHS … the key napkin stats for CHS were 5 TOs/ 1/6 from the FT line / 3 Panthers fouling out … Adena 53 Chesapeake 40 a final …
Pfloyd’s Official “un-official” Napkin Stats - Chesapeake
Scoring … Levi Blankenship 13, Eli Archer 10, Tylan Hutchison 7, Austin Jackson 6, Trent Dearth 4
3 Pointers … 1/11 … Levi Blankenship 1
FTs … 7/17
TOs … 16
PnP … 14 fgs/28 points in the paint
PnT … 4 fgs/8 points in transition
… for a BIG part of this one Chesapeake looked the part of the spoiler … close but never quite getting over the top … great season for a young group of Panthers as Coach Davis played 8 players tonight ALL returning for CHS next season … looking forward to seeing the peake BACK to the Convo in 2019-20 !
Pfloyd’s Official “un-official” Napkin Stats - Adena
Scoring … Logan Bennett 17, Zach Fout 14, Caleb Fogelsong 9, Preston Sykes 8, Jacob Shipley 3, Nate Thockenmorton 2
3 Pointers … 3/12 … Zach Fout 2, Jacob Shipley 1
FTs … 14/21
TOs … 18
PnP … 13 fgs/ 26 points in the paint
PnT … 0
Putback Buckets … 4 fgs/ 8 points on putbacks of offensive boards
… Adena IS long, Chesapeake didn’t make it’s FTs, and never adjusted to the length of the Adena lineup resulting in untimely TOs for CHS … the calming start by the seniors Fout/Fogelsong was big … we saw the return off the bench for sophomore PG Jarrett Garrison ! good to see the 6-3 PG back on the floor - no points BUT back on the floor for some good minutes that will help in the regional action I’m sure especially if Garrison can add to the scoring column … moving forward tonight’s game showed chinks in the armor of Adena - CHS turned them over 18 times, CHS was able to get easy transition buckets (8 pts in transition for the peake) … going to need to shore up the ball handling on the perimeter before the regional opener …