St. Louis men’s basketball player Frances No. 1 managed to get past No. 1 Mount Saint Joseph. 3, 83-62, in the MIAA A semifinals
A dazzling 42-point performance from senior guard Carter Fisk on the front line, No. 1 men’s basketball. 1 St. Frances impressively achieved a higher quality of play on Thursday against its biggest rival, Mount Saint Joseph.
The Panthers played fierce defense early on and continued to find Fisk, pulling away late in the second quarter and dominating the rest of the game for an easy 83-62 home win over the No. 1 Gaels. 3 in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference semifinals.
Frances (33-6) will face defending champion No.
In his career performance, Fisk knocked down four 3-pointers, converted two three-point plays and opened the second half with a statement lob dunk off a pass from fellow guard TJ Jones. This gave them a 44-28 lead, and the Panthers led by as many as 30 points in the fourth quarter.
It’s a great time to have a career night as the Panthers now have a chance to capture the program’s seventh MIAA A crown on Sunday.
“It feels great,” Fisk said. “I had a great warm-up, my mind was on the game all day since morning, actually since last night. My teammates found me, I had a hot streak and I was in a really good zone.”
The win came at a cost for the Panthers when senior guard Anthony Smith was ejected along with Mount Saint forward Joseph Zikom Etolue. The two of them were involved in a fistfight in the third quarter.
Smith, whose tone-setting defense helped limit Gaels’ standout B.J. Ranson to just eight points, is automatically out for Sunday’s title game, but the team can appeal the suspension.
Fisk’s offensive performance was matched by the Panthers’ incredible energy on defense.
Leading 22-16 entering the second quarter, the home team gradually began to pull away with Fisk hitting two 3s, Jones (19 points) and Chance McCoy each adding one more before Jaliel Spears rang the buzzer with a putback to push the lead to 42-28.
Williams’ perfect lob to a wide-open Fisk, high over the rim, to open the third quarter showed the Panthers were on their way.
After a sluggish first three quarters in a 72-57 opening round win over St. Louis. Vincent Palotti on Tuesday, St. Louis coach Frances Nick Myles called for more urgency from his team on Thursday. Against Mount Saint Joseph, there is no problem.
“It’s playoff time,” he said. “We came up short last game against Pallotti, so we want to do better. We know St. Joe’s is a tough team.”
Myles, in his 14th year as Panthers coach, has seen many special performances in his time and Fisk is at his peak.
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“Big players turn up for big games. Our job is to prepare them and then let the kids show their talent and it was a great night for him,” he said.
Mount Saint Joseph, which opened the postseason with a solid 66-56 win over Spalding on Tuesday behind Ranson’s 26 points, dropped to 30-7 and will turn its attention to the Baltimore Catholic League Tournament starting March 1. The Gaels will open against Calvert Hall in the quarterfinals with game time set at 4:30 at Loyola University’s Reitz Arena.
MSJ: 12-16-15-19—62
SF: 22-20-23-18 — 83
MSJ: Ranson 8, Early Jr. 13, Ch. Word 13, Ci. Kata 3, Simley 14, Etolue 6, Anthony 2, Hudgins 3
SF: Jones 19, Fisk 42, Smith 4, McCoy 8, Spears 4, Batsinda 4, Branch 2
Mount Carmel advances to MIAA A title
No.2 Mount Carmel 63, No.8 Glenelg State 49: The defending champion Cougars (27-10) opened the second half with a 7-0 run to build a double-digit lead and held strong the rest of the way to advance to Sunday’s title game.
Tristen Wilson scored 14 points with Junior Mancho, Ralfs Rudusans and Samartine Hill each adding 11 points in a balanced effort. Gage Howard, who surpassed 1,000 career points in the Cougars’ playoff opener against Boys’ Latin on Tuesday, finished with nine.
Mount Carmel and St. Frances split their two regular season games with home team wins — the Cougars claimed a 62-49 win on Nov. 25 before the Panthers avenged the loss with a 77-67 victory on Feb. 8.
Mount Carmel coach Tony Martin said the tempo of the title race will play a big role in determining the outcome.
“Those two people [Fisk and Jones] very dynamic and I think Nick [Myles] have done a great job this year. They have contributions from so many different players and so much depth, so they are similar to us in that respect, it’s just that both players can blame each other,” he said.
Glenelg Country (16-8) got 14 points from Drew Harris with Donavan Marshburn and Malakai Jones each scoring 10 points.
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GC: 10-13-18-8 — 49
Master of Ceremony: 15-19-14-15—63
GC: Marshburn 10, Harris 14, Jones 10, Leggett 7, DuPont 5, Hernandez 3
Master of Ceremony: T. Wilson 14, Hill 11, Mancho 11, Rudusans 11, Howard 9, Williams 7
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