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Rine scores 19, Miller 15 in win over Frankfort; Rine has 21 in win over N. Montgomery
BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS
Sports Editor, RTC
Boys basketball
Pioneer 61, Frankfort 54 (Thursday): Shiloh Rine scored 10 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter, and Noah Miller hit two of his five 3-pointers in the fourth quarter as the Panthers defeated Frankfort in the fifth-place game at the Indiana Kitchen Classic at Delphi Thursday.
Micah Rans added nine points, Brodie Howard had eight, and Aidan Quillen had seven for Pioneer, who improved to 5-4. Three of Pioneer’s wins have come against higher-class teams.
Charlie Beardsley led the Hot Dogs with 15 points in the loss. Jack Michael and Lucas Waggoner added 12 each.
Pioneer led 34-29 at halftime. The game was tied at 39 after three quarters.
Lucas Perry did not play due to illness.
Pioneer finished in eighth place at the inaugural tournament last year.
FRANKFORT (54) (1-9)
Corman 3 0-0 7, Michael 4 2-2 12, Waggoner 4 0-0 12, Montalvo 0 0-0 0, Adams 2 0-0 4, L. Beardsley 1 0-0 2, C. Beardsley 4 6-9 15, Stewart 0 0-0 0, McBee 1 0-0 2
TEAM: 19 8-11 54
PIONEER (61) (5-4)
Aidan Quillen 2 2-2 7, Micah Rans 3 1-4 9, Brodie Howard 3 0-0 8, Noah Miller 5 0-0 15, Shiloh Rine 6 7-10 19, Ryan Looker 0 0-0 0, Mason Shaver 1 0-0 2, Lane Weldy 0 0-0 0, Lukas Collins 0 0-0 0, Phillip McFatridge 0 1-2 1
TEAM: 20 11-18 61
Three-point field goals:
Frankfort 8 (Waggoner 4, Michael 2, Corman, C. Beardsley),
Pioneer 10 (Miller 5, Rans 2, Howard 2, Quillen)
Total fouls: Frankfort 16, Pioneer 10
Fouled out: Michael (FF)
Score by quarters
Frankfort 15 14 10 15 – 54
Pioneer 19 15 5 22 – 61
Pioneer 54, North Montgomery 47 (Thursday): Shiloh Rine scored 16 of his 21 points in the second half, and Aidan Quillen added 10 for the Panthers as they held on to beat North Montgomery in the consolation round of the Indiana Kitchen Classic Thursday.
Pioneer hit eight 3-pointers, including four in the third quarter. Micah Rans hit a trey in the third quarter and finished with eight, and Noah Miller hit a pair of treys in the third quarter for six.
Senior Kelby Harwood scored a game-high 30 for the Chargers.
Pioneer led 25-18 at halftime and stretched the lead to 45-33 after three quarters before hanging on. Pioneer had only one field goal in the fourth quarter.
PIONEER (54) (4-4)
Aidan Quillen 4 2-2 10, Micah Rans 3 0-0 8, Brodie Howard 1 0-0 3, Noah Miller 2 0-0 6, Shiloh Rine 6 8-9 21, Ryan Looker 1 0-0 3, Mason Shaver 0 0-0 0, Lukas Collins 1 0-0 3, Phillip McFatridge 0 0-0 0
TEAM: 18 10-11 54
NORTH MONTGOMERY (47) (2-6)
Enlow 3 0-0 8, Mitchell 0 0-0 0, Harwood 13 4-5 30, Warner 3 1-2 7, Ireland 0 0-0 0, Claycomb 0 0-0 0, Arnold 0 1-2 1, Sheldon 1 0-0 2
TEAM: 20 6-9 47
Three-point field goals:
Pioneer 8 (Rans 2, Miller 2, Howard, Rine, Looker, Collins),
North Montgomery 1 (Enlow)
Total fouls: Pioneer 16, North Montgomery 15
Turnovers: Pioneer 8, North Montgomery 13
Score by quarters
Pioneer 11 14 20 9 – 54
North Montgomery 12 6 15 14 – 47
Shorthanded Panthers succumb to unbeaten Taylor in first round
ROYAL CENTER — Whatever could go wrong did go wrong for the Pioneer boys basketball team against visiting Taylor at The Cage Monday in the first round of the Indiana Kitchen Classic.
Starting center Lucas Perry was sick and played only sparingly. Reserve big man Mason Shaver was out sick.
And then junior point guard Micah Rans suffered a wound to his scalp in the third quarter and was unable to return.
It was too much to overcome in a 42-27 loss.
Sophomore guard Keyshawn Galloway scored a game-high 19 points, and Drey McClatchey added 11, including a 3-pointer with three seconds left in the first half that gave Taylor a 19-17 lead that they would never relinquish.
Shiloh Rine led Pioneer with nine points, and Rans had seven before he had to leave. Brodie Howard hit a pair of 3-pointers and had six.
Aidan Quillen hit a 3-pointer in the third quarter as Pioneer clung to within 27-22, but Taylor’s grinding man-to-man defense and ball-control offense held the Panthers scoreless for six-and-a-half minutes, and Galloway capped a 9-0 run with two free throws with 3:35 left to push the lead to 36-22.
Despite the loss, Pioneer coach Darren McKaig was not discouraged.
“Everything was just stacked against us,” McKaig said. “I thought the guys played great.”
McKaig complimented Taylor’s man-to-man defense afterwards but noted his team’s 2-3 zone was able to stay competitive.
“We like our defense too, which is why I said we played well,” McKaig said. “Because we held them to 42 points. And some of those points came because we had to come out of our zone there at the end because we were behind. Our zone is holding them in the 30s, and then if Micah keeps playing, I feel like we could have scored in the 30s, and the game would have been close.”
McKaig said that Perry had not practiced all week due to his illness. When submitting his starting lineup, he said he "accidentally" listed Perry as a starter – Perry has been a regular starter for the last two years – before getting him out at the first dead ball after he made two free throws with 6:42 left in the first quarter.
Perry also returned briefly in the second half as a substitute free throw shooter when Rans had to leave.
Lukas Collins, a 6-1 senior, received extensive minutes with Perry and Shaver out.
Perry’s free throws and Rans’ steal and pullup jumper gave Pioneer a 4-0 lead, but Taylor went on a 13-2 spurt covering the first and second quarters.
Sophomore reserve Ben Wyncoup gave Taylor their first lead at 9-6 with a 3-pointer, and a driving layup from McClatchey and a Javionne Harris bucket to start the second quarter moved the lead to seven.
But Rans hit a 3, and Collins found a cutting Rine for a layup.
A Galloway 3-point play put Taylor back up 16-11, and Rine and Howard hit treys on back-to-back possessions to put Pioneer back up 17-16.
Taylor coach Bob Wonnell called two timeouts in the second quarter to try and halt Pioneer’s momentum.
“You can tell, they studied the heck out of film, and they had a very good game plan on how they want to go about it, and I think their coach does a great job,” Wonnell said. “I thought that we in both quarters in the second half, we got them in the bonus. That means we were moving the ball a little quicker. I thought in the first half, we would catch it and hold it and catch it and hold it and let them get set up, and we were playing five-on-five. We needed to swing the ball around and create some driving lanes for us, and that really opened it up, I think, a little bit.”
McClatchey’s corner trey just before halftime put Taylor up 19-17. Christian Hall’s runner in the lane and a McClatchey 12-foot pullup pushed the lead to six to start the second half.
Rans’ bucket with 3:50 left in the third reduced the margin to 23-19, and he was fouled. But he was bleeding from the top of his head, and Perry was brought back in to shoot the free throw.
Trainers worked on Rans’ head to try and get him back in but to no avail.
“It was more about Micah getting hurt, going out, not playing much in the second half,” McKaig said. “I think we could have kept the game closer. He showed an ability to get around his guy and get in the paint, which is going to make everyone else more wide open too. And he’s one of our best scorers.
“What did we hold them to – 42 points? We just needed one of our best offensive players on the court.”
Taylor 42, Pioneer 27
TAYLOR (42) (7-0)
Landon Wiley 0 0-0 0, Drey McClatchey 5 0-0 11, Keyshawn Galloway 6 7-8 19, Jacob Trueblood 0 2-2 2, Javionne Harris 2 1-4 5, Christian Hall 1 0-0 2, Ben Wyncoup 1 0-0 3
TEAM: 15 10-14 42
PIONEER (27) (3-4)
Aidan Quillen 1 0-0 3, Micah Rans 3 0-0 7, Noah Miller 0 0-0 0, Shiloh Rine 4 0-0 9, Lucas Perry 0 2-3 2, Brodie Howard 2 0-0 6, Lukas Collins 0 0-0 0, Phillip McFatridge 0 0-0 0
TEAM: 10 2-3 27
Three-point field goals:
Taylor 2 (McClatchey, Wyncoup),
Pioneer 5 (Howard 2, Rine, Rans, Quillen)
Total fouls: Taylor 8, Pioneer 18
Turnovers: Taylor 10, Pioneer 12
Score by quarters
Taylor 11 8 12 11 – 42
Pioneer 6 11 5 5 – 27
