December 4, 2021 at 5:37 a.m.
Pair powers Patriots
Pearson, Muhlenkamp help Jay to win over Woodlan
Pair powers Patriots
Dusty Pearson handled the brunt of the work in the opening quarter.
Gavin Muhlenkamp took over in the second.
All the while, the Patriots kept one of the conference’s most prolific scorers well below his average.
Pearson had a career night in the scorebook and Muhlenkamp did almost all of his damage just before halftime as the Jay County High School boys basketball team opened Allen County Athletic Conference play with a 53-35 victory over the Woodlan Warriors on Friday.
“It felt good,” Muhlenkamp, a senior, said of the Patriots’ third win to start the season. “It was a good confidence booster. Good way to start the weekend. It’s a big win for our conference and to get us some momentum.”
Jay County will put its newly minted 3-0 (1-0 ACAC) record on the line tonight as it takes on Fort Recovery (1-0) at Fort Site Fieldhouse.
On Friday, Pearson was on his game from the get-go, scoring the first bucket of the game on a baseline jumper off an Ethan Dirksen assist.
He converted a Muhlenkamp assist for a 3-pointer on the Patriots’ next possession, then another jumper later in the frame put Jay County on top, 9-6.
Pearson, who finished with a game-high 19 points, had seven in the first quarter alone. While Pearson managed just one more point in the second quarter, that’s when Muhlenkamp went to work.
He drove the left baseline on the team’s first possession of the second quarter to make it 16-9 Jay County.
He kicked off a personal run of six straight points with three the hard way to make it 21-14 with 4:47 before half. He added two more buckets — one at 3:02 and another at 1:48 — to make it 25-16.
With time waning in the half, he took the ball from the left wing, drove to the hoop, spun past a Woodlan defender and scored just before the buzzer.
“Gained a little confidence,” he said. After missing his first two shots of the game, Muhlenkamp was 5-for-5 with 11 points in the second quarter. “My teammates got me open. Spread the floor a little bit and got the lane open and that’s how we scored.”
Muhlenkamp, who finished with 12 points, has increased his scoring each game this year, going from six in the opener Nov. 23 to nine four days later.
“That’s the way he played in the summer,” JCHS coach Jerry Bomholt said. “When he plays like that we are a much better team.”
Woodlan senior Joe Reidy, a 6-foot, 7-inch forward, was averaging 28.7 points per game through the Warriors’ first three contests, including a 37-point effort in the season opener. But scoring the ball was difficult for him against the Patriots. He had just two points in the first quarter and went into halftime with a half dozen.
“The Reidy kid is a really, really good player,” Bomholt said. “Our kids were really aware of where he was.
“We’re probably going to get a chance to hopefully play those guys again in (the conference) tournament.”
Reidy finished 5-of-15 from the field and made half of his four free throws to end with 14 points.
“We did what we wanted to do to contain him,” Bomholt said, not giving away his precise plan to limit his scoring. “He’s such a good basketball player that you’re not going to stop him.
“In our conference, he and Ethan (Dirksen) are by far the two best athletes. He is going to get his points. We just tried to not let him go wild and get 30 or 35.”
Jay County played a nearly flawless game offensively in only committing three turnovers, the fewest in a game since seven giveaways Feb. 20 against Seton Catholic. The Patriots went the entirety of the first quarter without one, and didn’t have their first until past the midway point of the second quarter.
“Taking care of the ball is probably the most important thing we can do this year,” Muhlenkamp said. “Take care of it, take it possession by possession. Each possession counts. If you turn the ball over, that’s just taking points off the table.”
Junior varsity
Jay County surrendered two points in each of the first two quarters on its way to a 54-21 victory over Woodlan.
The Patriots (2-1) were ahead 15-2 after the first quarter and were on top 29-4 at halftime. Although the defense wasn’t quite as crisp in the third, the offense was as JCHS outscored Woodlan 20-6.
Liam Garringer made four 3-pointers on his way to a game-high 14 points. Parker Nichols joined him in double figures with 11 points, and Cam Smitley ended with nine points.
Abraham Dirksen followed with six points.
Gavin Muhlenkamp took over in the second.
All the while, the Patriots kept one of the conference’s most prolific scorers well below his average.
Pearson had a career night in the scorebook and Muhlenkamp did almost all of his damage just before halftime as the Jay County High School boys basketball team opened Allen County Athletic Conference play with a 53-35 victory over the Woodlan Warriors on Friday.
“It felt good,” Muhlenkamp, a senior, said of the Patriots’ third win to start the season. “It was a good confidence booster. Good way to start the weekend. It’s a big win for our conference and to get us some momentum.”
Jay County will put its newly minted 3-0 (1-0 ACAC) record on the line tonight as it takes on Fort Recovery (1-0) at Fort Site Fieldhouse.
On Friday, Pearson was on his game from the get-go, scoring the first bucket of the game on a baseline jumper off an Ethan Dirksen assist.
He converted a Muhlenkamp assist for a 3-pointer on the Patriots’ next possession, then another jumper later in the frame put Jay County on top, 9-6.
Pearson, who finished with a game-high 19 points, had seven in the first quarter alone. While Pearson managed just one more point in the second quarter, that’s when Muhlenkamp went to work.
He drove the left baseline on the team’s first possession of the second quarter to make it 16-9 Jay County.
He kicked off a personal run of six straight points with three the hard way to make it 21-14 with 4:47 before half. He added two more buckets — one at 3:02 and another at 1:48 — to make it 25-16.
With time waning in the half, he took the ball from the left wing, drove to the hoop, spun past a Woodlan defender and scored just before the buzzer.
“Gained a little confidence,” he said. After missing his first two shots of the game, Muhlenkamp was 5-for-5 with 11 points in the second quarter. “My teammates got me open. Spread the floor a little bit and got the lane open and that’s how we scored.”
Muhlenkamp, who finished with 12 points, has increased his scoring each game this year, going from six in the opener Nov. 23 to nine four days later.
“That’s the way he played in the summer,” JCHS coach Jerry Bomholt said. “When he plays like that we are a much better team.”
Woodlan senior Joe Reidy, a 6-foot, 7-inch forward, was averaging 28.7 points per game through the Warriors’ first three contests, including a 37-point effort in the season opener. But scoring the ball was difficult for him against the Patriots. He had just two points in the first quarter and went into halftime with a half dozen.
“The Reidy kid is a really, really good player,” Bomholt said. “Our kids were really aware of where he was.
“We’re probably going to get a chance to hopefully play those guys again in (the conference) tournament.”
Reidy finished 5-of-15 from the field and made half of his four free throws to end with 14 points.
“We did what we wanted to do to contain him,” Bomholt said, not giving away his precise plan to limit his scoring. “He’s such a good basketball player that you’re not going to stop him.
“In our conference, he and Ethan (Dirksen) are by far the two best athletes. He is going to get his points. We just tried to not let him go wild and get 30 or 35.”
Jay County played a nearly flawless game offensively in only committing three turnovers, the fewest in a game since seven giveaways Feb. 20 against Seton Catholic. The Patriots went the entirety of the first quarter without one, and didn’t have their first until past the midway point of the second quarter.
“Taking care of the ball is probably the most important thing we can do this year,” Muhlenkamp said. “Take care of it, take it possession by possession. Each possession counts. If you turn the ball over, that’s just taking points off the table.”
Junior varsity
Jay County surrendered two points in each of the first two quarters on its way to a 54-21 victory over Woodlan.
The Patriots (2-1) were ahead 15-2 after the first quarter and were on top 29-4 at halftime. Although the defense wasn’t quite as crisp in the third, the offense was as JCHS outscored Woodlan 20-6.
Liam Garringer made four 3-pointers on his way to a game-high 14 points. Parker Nichols joined him in double figures with 11 points, and Cam Smitley ended with nine points.
Abraham Dirksen followed with six points.
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