Dragons beat Redmen to stay unbeaten

Published 3:33 am Saturday, December 16, 2023

By JIM WALKER

jim.walker@irontontribune.com

PEDRO — As for the Rock Hill Redmen, one bad apple does spoil the whole bunch.

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The Redmen had a really bad second quarter and the Fairland Dragons used the one-sided scoring to post a 66-44 Ohio Valley Conference win on Friday.

Fairland (4-0, 2-0) took an early lead and then blew the game open by outscoring the Redmen 18-4 in the second quarter.

Chase Allen scored 5 points as he, Will Davis, Trevor Lochow and Cliff Fransen all hit 3-pointers to give Fairland a 16-10 first quarter lead.

Izaak Cox and Braxton Harper scored 4 points each for the Redmen.

In the decisive second quarter, Brody Buchanan and Allen scored 6 points each and it was 34-14 at the half.

Dylan Griffith and Cox had the only baskets for Rock Hill.

Fairland extended the lead to 45-24 in the third quarter as Allen and Davis combined for 9 points.

Cox had 6 points and Levi Jenkins hit a 3-pointer in the quarter for the Redmen.

Fairland outscored Rock Hill 21-19 in the fourth quarter  as Lochow hit a trey and scored 5 points with Allen and Darius Lewis scoring 4 points each and Gavin Ballard and Elijah Kipp each hitting 3-pointers off the bench.

Rylan Barker had 8 points for the Redmen.

Allen had a game-high 20 points to pace Fairland. Buchanan had 12 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals while Davis had 11 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals. Darius Lewis had 6 rebounds.

Cox led the Redmen with 15 points and 6 rebounds.

Rock Hill was without leading scorer Blake Porter.

Fairland    16 18 11 21 = 66

Rock Hill 10 4 10 19 = 44

FAIRLAND (4-0, 2-0): Will Davis 4-6 1-4 0-0 11, Chase Allen 6-12 2-5 2-2 20, Brycen Hunt 0-0 0-0 0-0 0, Trevor Lochow 1-1 2-3 0-0 8, Darius Lewis 2-3 0-0 0-0 4, Cliff Fransen 1-1 1-1 0-0 5, Maddox Gue 0-0 0-0 0-0 0, Gavin Ballad 0-0 1-2 0-0 3, Lennox Holbrook 0-0 0-0 0-0 0, Brody Buchanan 6-8 0-4 12, Elijah Kipp 0-1 1-3 0-0 3, Peyton Jackson 0-2 0-0 0-2 0. Totals: 28-60 2-5 66. 3-pt goals: 8-23. Rebounds: 29 (Davis 7, Lewis 6, Buchanan 5). Assists: 13 (Davis 4, Buchanan 3, Allen 3). Steals: 6 (Davis 2, Allen 2, Buchanan 2). Turnovers; 5. Fouls: 14. Fouled out: None.

ROCK HILL (3-3, 0-2): Dylan Griffith 2-3 0-0 3-4 7, Braxton Harper 2-7 0-0 0-2 4, Levi Jenkins 0-1 1-1 0-0 3,  Ethan Blagg 0-0 0-0 0-0 0, Izaak Cox 7-10 0-0 1-1 15, Rylan Barker 4-6 0-4 0-0 8, Lucas Cremeans 0-0 0-0 0-0 0, Kelan Davidson 1-8 0-0 2-4 4, Aaron Workman 0-0 1-1 0-0 3. Totals: 18-41 6-11 44. 3-pt goals: 2-6. Rebounds: 16 (Cox 6). Assists: 4 (Griffith 2). Steals: 1 (Barker 1). Turnovers: 12. Fouls: 4. Fouled out: None.