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’Jackets cruise past Red Devil boys, 60-39

Williamstown’s Josh Folwell, right, looks to pass as Calhoun County’s Hayden Richards defends during a high school boys basketball game Wednesday night. Photo by Steve Hemmelgarn.

WILLIAMSTOWN — A 22-4 run in the first half for host Williamstown propelled it into a 27-9 lead and the Yellowjackets never looked back in registering a 60-39 regular season-ending boys basketball win over Calhoun County Wednesday night.

Both teams will now play in the same sectional tournament starting on Monday in 7 p.m. first-round games, 5th seed Calhoun (2-19) at 4th seed Wahama and 6th seed Wirt County at 3rd seed Williamstown (14-8).

Isaac Brown tallied 19 points for Williamstown, followed by Cullen Cutright’s 12 and Josh Folwell’s seven, while for Calhoun, Zack Yanero scored 13 points, Trevor Carder nine and Dylan Heiney seven.

Four Yellowjacket senior players — Bryce Haer, Folwell, Trevor Hoosier and Brown — were honored before the game.

Once play began, the teams were even for the first two minutes, until a 10-2 spurt to end the opening period on two baskets by Haer and one each from Cutright, Hoover and Folwell enabled the ‘Jackets to take a 15-7 lead into the second stanza.

In quarter 2, Folwell canned a trey, then baskets by Boston Carruthers, Eli Inman and a Brown 3-ball stretched the gap to 18 at 27-9 and later on to 20 at 33-13 before the final three points of the first half by Yanero made it a 33-16 game at intermission,

After a 14-14 third-quarter deadlock, a Yanero trey narrowed the gap to 47-33 to start the fourth quarter. But Brown followed with a 3-ball and then a regular hoop before a Cutright basket with 4:54 to play pushed the lead to 21 at 54-33 and Calhoun never got closer than 17 again.

Williamstown head coach Scott Sauro was glad to finish the regular season with a win. “We got contributions from a lot of guys,” he said. “I thought Cullen Cutright played really well for us, and Trevor Hoosier rebounded the ball well again with 12 rebounds. We had five guys all with four points, which doesn’t sound like a lot, but it’s 20 points.”

Sauro too “thinks” his team “has improved” over the last month to take some momentum into the tournament. “Our guys are playing with some confidence,” he said. “They believe that they can win some games, so we’ll see what happens.”

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