WELLSTON – When your leading scorer sits out nearly two quarters in foul trouble, then you should be in trouble.

Friday, December 29, 2000

WELLSTON – When your leading scorer sits out nearly two quarters in foul trouble, then you should be in trouble.

But that wasn’t the case Thursday night for the Rock Hill Redmen.

With David Schug in foul trouble early, Gabe Ruggles and Robbie McClellan stepped up to lead the Redmen to a 64-41 rout of the Village Academy Griffins in the Wellston Holiday Tournament.

Rock Hill (2-4) will play Wellston at 8 p.m. in the championship game at 8 p.m. Friday. The consolation game matches Ironton St. Joe and Village Academy at 6 p.m.

Ruggles had a career-high 21 points and McClellan, a freshman, had his best-ever total with 17 points to key the win.

McClellan had seven points the first quarter as Rock Hill took a 15-11 lead.

Ruggles came back to score seven more in the second quarter as Rock Hill held to a 26-20 halftime lead.

Schug returned and scored six of his eight points the third quarter and Ruggles scored seven as Rock Hill blew the game wide open. The Redmen held Village Academy to just four points while scoring 23 to build a comfortable 49-24 lead.

Village 11 9 4 17 – 41

Rock Hill 15 11 23 15 – 64

POWELL VILLAGE ACADEMY: Eric Sturman 4 0 0-0 8, Trent Weiser 1 0 5-6 7, Steve Chinn 2 0 0-4 4, Ben Fitchao 2 0 2-4 6, Sam Santos 1 0 2-2 4, Michael Burke 1 0 2-2 4, Jason Caver 2 0 0-2 4, Will Russell 0 0 0-0 0, Michael Gallagher 2 0 0-0 4, Chris Lane 0 0 0-0 0. Totals: 15 0 11-20 41. Fouls: 12. Fouled out: None.

ROCK HILL (2-4): Isaac Kitchen 1 0 0-0 2, Mitchell Kerns 0 0 0-0 0, Aaron Hankins 0 0 0-0 0, Ryan Townsend 4 0 1-3 9, Zach Howard 0 0 0-0 0, Ricky McDonie 1 0 0-4 2, Robbie McClellan 7 1 0-0 17, Gabe Ruggles 10 0 1-2 21, Roger Joseph 1 0 1-2 3, David Martin 1 0 0-0 2, David Schug 4 0 0-2 8. Totals: 29 1 3-13 64. Fouls: 21. Fouled out: None.