Siegel extends Pioneer boys? losing streak
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In the District 7-AAA opener for both teams, the Stars ? state tournament competitors for the past two years ? wasted no time establishing their dominance, taking advantage of Pioneer turnovers to built a quick 19-4 lead.
Head coach Ryan Smith showed his displeasure with his starters? performance by making a mass substitution midway through the first, and discussed their poor start after the loss.
?I thought we worked pretty hard over the last four days of practice, and that we had made some strides,? he said. ?But the team that started tonight didn?t show that they?d made any progress.
?We?ll go back and look at the tape, and see what positive effort we can pull out of this game. But we need to take a step back, evaluate everything we?re doing as coaches and as a team, and see where we need to go from here.?
Siegel?s Montori Hughes had his team?s first six points, and scored 12 of his game-high 18 in the first half. Tyler Cutter gave the Pioneers trouble from the perimeter, hitting three 3-pointers on the way to a 17-point night, while Marc Gooch added 15 to help the Stars up their record to 5-1 overall and 1-0 in league play.
Warren County, which dropped to 0-4, was led by Donte Weir?s 11 points, while Chris Weitzel and Chase Officer had nine apiece.
The Stars lead was trimmed to eight points early in the second quarter, when Weir hit a 3-pointer and Josh Moore followed with a basket. But the Pioneers went cold from the floor, going without a point for the remaining 5:27 of the first half as Siegel built a 35-17 lead. WCHS went over eight minutes without a field goal, as Siegel?s advantage swelled over the 20-point mark, and after three quarters the Pioneers trailed 48-22.
The fourth quarter saw liberal substitutions from both squads, and Warren County matched its scoring output from the first three periods in the final eight minutes, adding 22 to its total while the Stars posted 17 to nail down the district victory.
The Pioneers will travel to Cookeville Tuesday, and play host to Riverdale next Friday.