November 13, 2021
By GREG MENGELT
TOLEDO, Ohio — Freshman
Kooper Jacobi scored a career-best eight points and his Toledo Rockets moved to 2-0 on the season with an 81-73 victory over Detroit Mercy on Saturday.
Jacobi, who helped lead Silver Creek to two state championships, went 4-for-5 from the field and grabbed five rebounds in 17 minutes off the Toledo bench.
Jacobi’s first basket — at the 15-minute mark, broke a 10-10 tie. Forty-three seconds later, Jacobi put the Rockets ahead 14-10 with his second straight basket. After leading 43-35 at the half, Jacobi’s layup with 9:42 on the clock made it 60-52 Rockets.
Jacobi, who scored 2 points in his debut in a win over Valparaiso, scored his final bucket on an assist from Ryan Rollins with 3:03 remaining. That put Toledo ahead 74-61.
Rollins led the way with 19 points for Toledo, which travels to Oakland (Mich.) on Wednesday. That game can be seen on ESPN Plus.
Detroit (0-2) was led by a game-high 23 points from senior Kevin McAdoo.
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Tags: Detroit Mercy, Kooper Jacobi, Silver Creek, Toledo
November 13, 2021
By GREG MENGELT
VINCENNES — John A. Logan defeated East Mississippi 80-76 on Saturday at the McDonald’s Classic in Vincennes thanks to a pair of local stars.
Sean East scored 34 points and Cobie Barnes added 25 for 59 of the Vols’ 83 points as Logan won its fourth consecutive game to start the season. No other Logan player scored more than seven in the victory.
East, a former New Albany standout, went 10-for-16, and Barnes, a former rival of East’s at Floyd Central, was 10-for-17. East also went 11-for-15 from the free throw line and 3-for-6 from behind the 3-point arc and had three assists and three steals. Barnes had a game-high four steals.
East Mississippi had five players in double figures.
Logan will try to make it five in a row Wednesday when they travel to Park Hill, Mo., to face Mineral Area College (2-2). The Vols defeated Mineral 80-65 on Nov. 5 at the Three Rivers Classic in Poplar Bluff, Mo.
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Tags: Cobie Barnes, East Mississippi, Floyd Central, John A. Logan, McDonald's Classic, New Albany, Sean East
November 13, 2021
By GREG MENGELT
TULSA, Okla. — An extraordinarily balanced Air Force team pulled off a 59-58 upset at Tulsa on Saturday afternoon.
Freshman Jake Heidbreder — a Floyd Central graduate — was one of nine Falcons between five and nine points in the win. Heidbreder went 2-for-7 for five points and added two rebounds, an assist and a blocked shot to the victory.
Air Force trailed 58-56 until junior reserve guard Camden Vander Zwaag knocked down a 3-pointer with 23 seconds left. Tulsa, which opened its season with a win over Northwestern State, got a shot at the buzzer, but Sam Griffin’s jumper missed.
Heidbreder’s first basket came was a 3-pointer with 3:09 left in the first half and gave Air Force a 28-23 lead. With the Falcons trailing 46-35, Heidbreder scored on a layup on an assist from Vander Zwaag to start a 22-12 game-winning run.
For Air Force (1-1), Vander Zwaag, A.J. Walker, Nick Jackson and each scored nine points, Ethan Taylor and Joseph Octave scored seven a piece and Heidbreder and Lucas Moerman both scored five in the victory. Moerman, Taylor and Heidbreder are all freshmen.
Griffin had a game-high 21 points for the Golden Hurricane.
The Falcons host Texas Southern on Thursday in their 2021-22 home debut.
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Tags: Air Force, Floyd Central, Jake Heidbreder, Tulsa
November 13, 2021
By GREG MENGELT
VINCENNES —
Sean East scored a game-high 20 points and
Cobie Barnes added 13 in John A. Logan’s 82-67 win over Northeast Mississippi on Friday in the McDonald’s Class in Vincennes.
East, a former New Albany star, went 7-for-9 from the floor and had four assists and three rebounds in 25 minutes for the Tigers, who scored their third straight win to start the season.
Barnes, who played at Floyd Central, was 5-for-13 from the floor and finished with five rebounds, three assists, two blocked shots and a steal.
All five Tiger starters scored in double figures. Along with East and Barnes, Tujauntae Williams had 19, Cam Alford contributed 18 and Sarion McGee had 12.
The Tigers led 38-28 at halftime and pushed the lead to 56-34 after back-to-back Barnes buckets early in the second half. Two East free throws gave the Tigers a 64-46 lead 8:30 to go. Barnes’ free throw with 7:50 left gave the Tigers their biggest lead of the night at 65-46.
John A. Logan, which faces East Mississippi at 4 p.m. in today’s McDonald’s Classic final round, made 27 of its 29 free throws in the win.
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Tags: Cobie Barnes, Floyd Central, John A. Logan, New Albany, Northeast Mississippi, Sean East
November 13, 2021
By GREG MENGELT
RENO, Nev. — Despite a season-best 10 points from former Jeffersonville star Tre Coleman, host Nevada dropped a 75-68 decision to San Diego on Friday at
Coleman went 3-for-8 from the floor and finished with six rebounds, two assists, two steals and two blocked shots in the defeat.
The Nevada sophomore’s first 3-pointer of the season gave the Wolfpack their first lead at 6-4. He knocked down his second 3 of the game with 2:52 remaining to pull Nevada within 70-64. His jumper with 20 seconds left cut the deficit to 72-68, but the Toreros scored the final three points of the contest.
Junior forward Warren Washington paced with Wolfpack (0-2) with 18 point and 10 rebounds. Junior guard Grant Sherfield finished with 13 and junior center Will Baker 12 for Steve Alford’s squad. The Toreros were led by Jase Townsend’s 18 and senior Terrell Brown’s 16 in the win.
Nevada is back in action Tuesday when they go to Santa Clara to take on a Broncos team that is 2-0 and upset Stanford on Friday. Tipoff is scheduled for 9 p.m. locally.
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Tags: Jeffersonville, Nevada, San Diego, Steve Alford, Tre Coleman
November 13, 2021
By GREG MENGELT
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Freshman Langdon Hatton scored seven points, but his William & Mary Tribe fell to 0-2 with a 74-62 home loss to American on Friday at Kaplan Arena in Williamsburg, Va.
The 6-foot-10 Hatton scored seven points and pulled down six rebounds, connecting on 3-of-4 shot attempts in 20 minutes off the Willam & Mary bench. Hatton had a blocked shot in the loss but was 1-for-6 from the foul line.
Three William & Mary players scored in double figures, led by sophomore big man Ben Wight, who had 14. Sophomore Connor Kochera added 13 and senior Quinn Blair scored 11 off the Tribe bench. William & Mary (0-2) got 24 points off of its bench to 14 for the Eagles.
American senior Stacy Beckton Jr. led all scorers with 24 points. He also added nine boards for the 2-0 Eagles.
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Tags: American, Langdon Hatton, North Harrison, William & Mary