East uses offense to top Vikings
Published 1:01 am Sunday, February 12, 2017
Jim Walker
jim.walker@irontontribune.com
WILLOW WOOD — Symmes Valley Vikings’ coach Donnie Saunders offered no excuses.
“We just got outplayed. We hung in there the first quarter. We didn’t play bad and we played hard, we just couldn’t stop them,” said Saunders as the Vikings lost 89-69 to the Sciotoville East Tartans in a Southern Ohio Conference game on Friday.
“They were hard to defend tonight and we got in some foul trouble.”
East had four players in double figures led by Akia Brown with 28 including 11-of-12 from the foul line. Kyle Flannery scored 19, Drew Lowe 15 and Will Shope had 14.
Symmes Valley (7-11, 4-9) also had four players in double figures led by Payton Hayes with 15 points. Jarod Sheppard scored 13 points while Sam Angelo and Jordan Lucas got 12 each.
Chayden Renfroe scored six points while Hayes, Lucas and Sheppard each hit 3-pointers and the game was tied at 17.
Lowe hit two 3-pointers and got eight points in the quarter.
Brown scored 14 points in the second quarter as East outscored the Vikings 21-15 and took a 38-32 lead at the half. Hayes scored six points including another 3-pointer and Angelo got five points for the Vikings.
Brown scored eight points and Flannery hit a 3-pointer and scored eight in the third quarter and the lead was 60-49. Lucas scored seven points including 3-of-3 at the foul line.
Flannery scored six, Shope and Lowe five each and Brown was 4-of-4 at the foul line in the fourth quarter as East outscored the Vikings 29-20.
Angelo and Sheppard each hit a 3-pointer and scored seven points in the quarter.
Symmes Valley visits Rock Hill on Tuesday.
Sciotoville 17 21 22 29 = 89
Sym. Valley 17 15 17 20 = 69
SCIOTOVILLE EAST (10-6, 7-4): Kyle Flannery 5 1 6-10 19, Will Shope 1 3 3-6 14, Drew Lowe 4 2 1-2 15, Brady Douthat 2 1 0-0 7, Deshaun Martin 0 1 0-0 3, Craft 0 0 0-0 0, Akia Brown 7 1 11-12 28, Kanyon Bruton 0 0 1-2 1, J.D. Hatcher 1 0 0-3 2. Totals: 20 9 22-35 89. Fouls: 17. Fouled out: None.
SYMMES VALLEY (7-11, 4-9): Levi Cade 0 0 1-2 1, Chayden Renfroe 4 0 0-3 8, Evan Holmes 1 0 0-0 2, Sam Angelo 4 1 1-2 12, Keifer Wilson 0 0 0-1 0, Payton Hayes 1 3 4-8 15, Jordan Lucas 3 1 3-3 12, Laykin Gothard 0 0 0-1 0, Hunter Adams 1 0 0-0 2, Jarod Sheppard 3 2 1-2 13, Brock Carpenter 2 0 0-0 4. Totals: 19 7 10-21 69. Fouls: 16. Fouled out: Sheppard.