Tyler Davis hit 29 points as Northeast Nodaway's boys got back on the winning track against Tarkio Monday night, beating the Indians 58-39 in a makeup game from earlier this year. The Bluejays lost Bryce Farnan early in the game to a sprained ankle, meaning that everyone else would have to pick up scoring slack. They were able to do so as "Puff" stepped outside and rained five three-pointers on the Indians; Chad Messner added two more and Josh Wideman had one. After the loss against CFX in the Northwest Missouri Championship game, Coach Charley Burch said that his players needed to make some outside shots against the zone, saying that they would be seeing a lot of zone looks thanks to Northeast's height advantage. He got that against Tarkio. And after Bryce Farnan went down with his injury, Brad Stoll came off the bench during the second quarter and saw extended playing time, rebounding well and allowing Northeast to match up against the tall Indian squad, featuring three players listed at 6'4" or taller.
Northeast used a 20-point third quarter to pull away from Tarkio; unlike the Nodaway-Holt game, they were able to keep Tarkio from getting back in the game in the fourth quarter. "We played much better defense in the second half," said Burch. "We're a completely different team out there when we move our feet on defense." Burch said that his team was too passive with their pressure in the first half; the players were much more aggressive on defense in the second half.
Tyler Davis opened the scoring with a pair of inside shots and Colby Wiederholt scored off a steal to put Northeast up 6-0 two minutes into the game and it looked like Northeast would pull away like the girls did. But Tarkio kept hanging around as they were constantly getting loose underneath; two baskets by Tony Baruth and one from Dillon Noland cut the lead to 7-6. But after Farnan went down, that seemingly woke Northeast up as their players started stepping outside and raining 3-pointers on the Indians; Tyler Davis and Chad Messner hit one each to put Northeast back up 13-6.
Tarkio scored the next five points capped by an inside shot from Baruth to make it 13-11 with 7:22 left. But then Northeast continued to be on a roll from outside as Tyler Davis his a baseline 3-pointer followed by an NBA 3-pointer from the left wing. Chad Messner added a 3-pointer from the right baseline to make it 22-15 at the 4:55 mark. Noland countered with one of his own, but Brad Stoll got a putback and Tyler Davis hit his third 3-pointer of the quarter to put Northeast up 27-18 at the break.
Davis converted a conventional 3-point play at the start of the third quarter to put Northeast into double digits at 30-18. Dillon Noland hit a pair of shots to cut it back to 9, but then Josh Wideman hit a 3-pointer to start the game-deciding 10-0 run that put the game out of reach. James Burns followed with a layup after Kevin Stoll saved the ball to him, Chad Messner jumped a pass, got the steal, missed the layup, but put it back in, and Colby Wiederholt got a free throw and followed it with a drive to the basket with 1:39 left in the period. Cody Mandeville hit a pair of free throws with 1:33 left for Tarkio, but Colby Wiederholt went coast to coast after a defensive board and converted a 3-point play and Tyler Davis hit a 3-pointer from the left baseline at the buzzer to put Northeast up 47-24 after three quarters.
Tarkio made a brief run to start the fourth quarter, but there was no comparison to the Nodaway-Holt game, in which Northeast nearly gave up a 20-point lead -- the Bluejays did a much better job of finishing off the game. After Noland scored off a drive for Tarkio to cap a 6-2 run, Colby Wiederholt scored a free throw, Tyler Davis hit a pair of inside shots and hit a pair of free throws. Clayton Judd made a nifty move to the basket to give Northeast its largest lead of the night at 58-33 with 2:13 left.
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