Warriors run past Wolves

WINFIELD - Another strong weekend for WACO boys' basketball ended with a 72-36 drubbing of rival Winfield-Mt. Union on Saturday night.

The Warriors and Wolves met in a SEISC cross over game, and WACO was able to skate past W-MU, winning all four quarters.

The first quarter was the most competitive. W-MU was able to break the WACO press, and the Wolves got four points each out of Ty Yocum and Christian Gerot to stay in the ballgame. The Warriors, however, held a 17-12 lead at the quarter's end, led by six points from Drew Kissell.

WACO began to pull away in the second quarter. The Warriors dropped 29 points, getting 10 each from Elijah McGohan and Nik Coble. Coble had 14 points by halftime. Yocum led W-MU with nine, and the Warriors led 46-25 at the break.

The Warriors continued to score heavily off the press in the second half. Coble continued to dominate inside, scoring seven more in the third quarter and adding another in the fourth as WACO cruised to its fifth win in six games.

'Give Winfield credit, there at the beginning they were able to get the ball into the middle,” WACO head coach Paul Kissell said after the win. 'Our kids made a nice adjustment taking that away, getting it up the sideline and getting that second trap, which then led to some easy scores from us when our shots weren't falling early on.”

Coble finished the night with 22 points. McGohan had 13, and Kissell had 12 to give the Warriors three double-digit scorers.

Matthew Leichty scored eight points in the win. Gabe Reichenbach had seven. Will Edeker scored five. Colton Horak had four, and Braden Hammond scored one.

It was WACO's second win in two days. The Warriors knocked off Holy Trinity 64-52 the night before. Kissell had 22 in that game, and WACO led 53-18 after three quarters.

W-MU was led by Yocum, who scored 14 points in the game. Gerot and Jared Arnold had eight points apiece, and the trio of Juanito Piper, Josh Burroughs and Nolan Ross had two apiece.

'I don't know what to say, really, we just kind of threw it to them,” W-MU head coach Brad Doerring said after the loss. 'They made some plays, but we just kind of got rattled. That's kind of the word, rattled and inconsistent.”

W-MU fell to Iowa Mennonite 57-34 the night before. The Wolves were within single digits after three quarters, but got outscored 17-1 in the fourth. Arnold had 17 points to lead the Wolves in that loss.