Northeast Nodaway’s boys broke a four game losing streak by claiming the third place trophy at Gilman City Saturday, beating North Harrison 61-51. They first upended HDC tailender Tri-County 81-29 in the first round. Playing shorthanded, without Cameron Staples or Chet Spire (flu), they couldn’t keep up with eventual tournament champions Princeton and fell 68-56. Northeast came out of the tournament with an 11-8 record, in good position to claim their first winning season since 2010-2011, when they were 18-7 under Ryan Madden. They matched their win total from last year, when they won 11 games.
For North Harrison, they beat Gilman City in an overtime thriller 63-60 three days after beating them three days before 53-49 for Homecoming. The Shamrocks ran into football cooperative partner Pattonsburg. That game was just as intense as the Gilman City game as both schools simply wanted to beat each other all the more. But Pattonsburg made use of their bigs and turned the clamps on North Harrison, winning 50-25 to drop North Harrison into the third place game with NEN.
The two teams were even statistically in Saturday night’s game. But there were three different factors separating the two teams. The first was the return of Cameron Staples for NEN. He only scored three points, yet he made a huge impact on the floor as he got 9 assists for the game, always seeming to find the open man on offense.
The second factor happened right before halftime. The two teams had played evenly, with neither side beind able to take control, and NEN Coach Vance Proffitt was getting pretty agitated. But with NEN leading by one at 26-25, Spencer Weir got one of his five steals and went in for a layup with 1:26 left in the first half. Cameron Staples hit Dylan Mildfeldt for a triple with 23 seconds left. Then, North Harrison held for the last shot, but left the Bluejays with enough time that Cameron Staples was able to air it out to Spencer Weir, draw Logan Craig’s third foul, and Weir hit one of two to put NEN up 32-25 at the buzzer.
The third happened in the fourth quarter. Northeast looked set to run North Harrison out of the gym, taking a 48-29 lead at one point, when Shamrock streak shooters Logan Craig and Brett Emig both caught fire at once, with Emig scoring six and Craig five to make it 48-40 early in the fourth. But from there on out, Eli Scroggie carried Northeast on his back, getting all 13 of Northeast’s points in the period as Mitchell Sherry, Cameron Staples, and Dylan Vore were all getting him the ball down low. Consequently, North Harrison never got any closer than 8 points despite their frantic efforts on defense.
For NEN, Eli Scroggie had 24 points. Spencer Weir had 15, Dylan Mildfeldt 11, Mitchell Sherry 4, Cameron Staples 3, and Dylan Vore and Brayden Welch had 2 each.
Spencer Weir had 2 blocks, including a chasedown stuff of Emig after he had gotten a steal in the fourth and was going in for a layup.
Spencer Weir had 7 boards for Northeast. Mitchell Sherry had 5, Cameron Staples 4, Eli Scroggie and Brayden Welch 3, and Dylan Vore 1.
Cameron Staples had 9 assists for Northeast. Mitchell Sherry had 4, Dylan Mildfeldt 3, and Spencer Weir, Brayden Welch, and Dylan Vore 1.
Dylan Mildfeldt had 3 tips for Northeast. Spencer Weir had 2, while Mitchell Sherry and Cameron Staples had 1.
Spencer Weir had 5 steals for Northeast. Dylan Mildfeldt and Mitchell Sherry had 2 each, while Cameron Staples had 1.
For North Harrison, Logan Craig had 18, Brett Emig 13, Collin Castleberry 8, Steven Willhite 6, Logan Huitt 4, and Gavin Garrett 2.
Collin Castleberry had 2 blocks for North Harrison, while Steven Willhite and Logan Craig had 1.
Brett Emig had 7 boards for North Harrison. Steven Willhite, Logan Huitt, and Collin Castleberry had 3 each, while Gavin Garrett had 2.
Collin Castleberry and Logan Craig had 6 assists, while Brett Emig had 4 and Logan Huitt had 2.
Logan Craig and Collin Castleberry had 3 tips each, while Grant Claycomb and Steven Willhite had 1 each.
Brett Emig and Gavin Garrett had 3 steals each for North Harrison. Steven Willhite and Logan Huitt had 1 each.
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