Salyers keeps Dragons focused in 80-37 romp over Marauders

Published 3:25 am Wednesday, January 4, 2012

By JIM WALKER

Tribune Sports Editor

 

PROCTORVILLE — There could have been a lot of distractions, but not for Evan Salyers.

Playing a winless Meigs Marauders team and a showdown looming on Friday at Chesapeake for first place in the Ohio Valley Conference were enough to throw the Fairland Dragons off their game.

But Salyers scored 26 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as the Dragons took care of business with an 80-37 romp over Meigs on Tuesday.

“Evan had a big game. He showed a lot of senior leadership. He made sure we stayed focused on tonight,” said Fairland coach Nathan Speed.

Cody Midkiff had 14 points off the bench for Fairland (7-1) while Evan Maddox had 5 assists and 3 steals.

Cody Mattox scored 8 points for Meigs (0-9).

Salyers had 7 points in the first quarter as Fairland took a 20-5 lead. The spread grew to 40-15 at the half.

Salyers poured in 13 points in the third quarter and the Dragons surged ahead 61-29.

Midkiff scored 9 of his points in the fourth quarter as Fairland outscored Meigs 19-8.

Meigs 5 10 14 8 = 37

Fairland 20 20 21 19 = 80

MEIGS (0-9): Dillon Boyer 1-4 1-3 0-0 5, Michael Davis 0-2 0-1 0-0 0, Darrel Goff 1-2 0-1 1-2 3, Trey McKinney 0-2 0-1 0-0 0, Cody Mattox 1-3 2-2 0-0 8, Cody Stewart 0-6 1-1 0-0 3, Dustin Ulbrich 2-5 0-0 0-0 4, Jared Williamson 0-0 0-1 1-2 1, Jordan Hutton 2-4 0-2 1-2 5, Rocco Casci 1-4 0-0 0-0 2, Dennis Teaford 2-4 0-0 2-4 6. Totals: 14-48 5-10 37. 3-point goals: 4-12. Rebounds: 27 (Stewart 10). Fouls: 13. Fouled out: None.

FAIRLAND (7-1): Thayer Flynn 2-3 0-0 0-0 4, Cody Midkiff 5-6 1-3 1-2 14, Alec Warner 0-3 0-1 0-0 0, Luke Phillips 0-2 0-0 0-2 0, Eric Riley 2-5 0-0 2-2 6, Kyle Raines 0-0 1-2 0-0 3, Evan Maddox 2-5 0-2 0-0 4, Blaine Fuller 3-7 0-1 2-4 8, Josh Goodman 1-4 0-0 1-2 3, Nathan Campbell 1-2 0-0 0-0 2, Evan Salyers 10-13 0-0 6-7 26, Ryan Wooten 4-5 0-0 0-0 8, Dionte Braye 1-1 0-0 0-0 2. Totals: 33-65 12-19 80. 3-point goals: 2-9. Rebounds: 35 (Salyers 11, Goodman 4, Wooten 4). Assists: 17 (Maddox 5). Steals: 13 (Campbell 4, Salyers 3, Maddox 3, Riley 3). Turnovers; 10. Fouls: 12. Fouled out: None.