WHS Men Go Three For Four Last Week

Counting J.V. action the Tigers won three of four games played last week. Wednesday night the Tigers traveled out to Williamsport to take on the Fighting Beavers. The clock ran out for the Reserves. They lost their game by only two points. Final in that contest was 42 -40 in favor of the Beavers.

We were able to listen to the Varsity game courtesy of WHS Sports Station on the internet. That contest was a back & forth battle until late in the fourth quarter. The WHS annoucer Joe Surace said the Tigers appeared to be a little lazy on defense with 3:29 left in the third period. At the end of three the Tigers were trailing 35 -30. The Tigers picked it up on defense but were still behind five points with 2:22 left in the fourth. Then they woke up and poured it on. The Orange & Black showed the Beavers they have some fight, outscoring them 27 - 11 in the final frame. Surace said the last four minutes was all "Wellsville basketball".

Wellsville Varsity won that road game by a final of 57 - 46. There were four Tigers with double figures in the scoring department. Mike Johnston took game high with 15 points. Jalen DeSarro had 14, DeShon Pullie 13 and Nunzio Lombardozzi had 11. DeSarro also grabbed nine rebounds. Senior Jeremy Carter is usually on that list but saw limited action due to lingering effects of a virus he came down with a few days before the game.

Like the Ladies the night before it was a different story Friday night when the Tigers took on Leetonia at home. With Sean Hudson leading the way with game high honors the Reserves beat the Bears by a score of 44 -31 in the preliminary match. Hudson scored 18 and one veteran Tiger sports fan told us he considered the Junior Hudson the most improved player on this year's team.

In the Varsity game it was all Wellsville. They opened the game out scoring the Bears 30 - 11 in the first frame. By half time the score was Wellsville 53 - 30. The Tigers never trailed at the end of any one quarter and finished the game with a cool Nick Broughton sinking one of two fouls shots with only 21.6 seconds left on the clock. See our post below. For the first time this year the Tigers reached the one hundred point mark winning the game 100 - 61.

Mike Johnston had game high honors with 28 points. Eighteen of those points came from the 3-point range. Johnston also had five assists. Jalen DeSarro grabbed 13 rebounds and 18 points, mostly under the basket. Feeling better, Jeremy Carter had 17 points. Jordon Dalrymple also had 17 with two treys included. Dalrymple recorded seven assists. With five assists DeShon Pullie added another 10 points. Nunzio Lombardozzi was slowed down by the virus in this game.

It was all Wellsville on offense and mostly on defense. We saw a couple of easy Leetonia lay ups with no one around them. That's disturbing. Those mental lapses could make the difference in other games. However, even that can't take the shine off the game. As Surace likes to say it was "Wellsville basketball".

With the lead Coach "Bug" Thompson was able to get some experience for players off the bench. We like what we saw. We figure young Josh Carter is going to be a force to be reckoned with in the near future.

With the win the Tiger men go to 11 & 1 for the season. They host visiting Lowelllville next Tuesday night. Stay healthy guys. The first group of pictures is J.V. action and the second shown above is the Varsity. Mrs. Maria McNicol was honored between games in thanks for her years of service being the athletic trainer for WHS sports teams. She was presented a plaque from Athletic Director Don Elliott and a bouquet from High School Principal Linda Rolley on behalf of just about everyone associated in the WHS Sports Dept. McNicol resigned the position to accept a teaching job this year.

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