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An eight-point halftime lead ballooned to 17 by the end of the third quarter, as Duncan outworked Ardmore on the boards for a 77-59 win Friday.
The Demons closed the third quarter on an 11-2 run which carried over into the fourth. Duncan (11-7) opened the final period with a 12-1 surge that Ardmore had no answer for.
Duncan senior Jared Griffin scored a game-high 30 points, Daniel McCoy added 24 and the Demons outrebounded Ardmore 48-24.
Travis Galbreath led Ardmore with 21 points, and Marquis Walters added 16.
Ardmore (10-8), ranked fifth in Class 5A, was coming off a 44-39 overtime loss to No. 3 Bishop McGuinness on Tuesday, but coach Mark Wilson said that game had nothing to do with the Tigers’ subpar performance on Friday.
“We usually don’t have such a poor effort,” Wilson said. “Every time we strung together an offensive effort we felt was positive, we’d go down and give up two to three shots.”
Duncan, ranked 14th in 5A, had 14 offensive rebounds by halftime, paced by the second-chance efforts of Jack Braught, who finished with a game-high 11 rebounds.
Starting a lineup that dwarfed Ardmore’s on the perimeter, Duncan controlled the boards. Each starter for the Demons had at least five rebounds.
Griffin, a shooting guard, pulled down nine boards.
“You occasionally run up against teams that are bigger than you at every position,” Wilson said. “You might get beat on the boards by 10 but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a team outrebounded by 24.”
Galbreath’s hot hand kept Ardmore in the game in the first quarter. He scored 10 of the Tigers’ 12 points, including two 3-pointers, but Duncan asserted itself on the glass in the second quarter.
Griffin converted a 3-point play with a rebound and a basket to start the quarter. He then snuck past an Ardmore defender to catch an air ball and score, capping a 6-0 run that extended Duncan’s lead to nine points. Duncan led 32-24 at the break.
Ardmore’s 6-foot-7 post Daylon Wilkins accumulated three fouls in the first half. He picked up his fourth foul less than 2 minutes into the third quarter and had to sit, making matters worse for the Tigers on the glass.
Ardmore cut the deficit to seven in the third before Duncan went on its game-sealing run. Griffin closed the quarter with a two-handed dunk on the break with 9 seconds left to push Duncan’s lead to 54-37.
An eight-point halftime lead ballooned to 17 by the end of the third quarter, as Duncan outworked Ardmore on the boards for a 77-59 win Friday.
The Demons closed the third quarter on an 11-2 run which carried over into the fourth. Duncan (11-7) opened the final period with a 12-1 surge that Ardmore had no answer for.
Duncan senior Jared Griffin scored a game-high 30 points, Daniel McCoy added 24 and the Demons outrebounded Ardmore 48-24.
Travis Galbreath led Ardmore with 21 points, and Marquis Walters added 16.
Ardmore (10-8), ranked fifth in Class 5A, was coming off a 44-39 overtime loss to No. 3 Bishop McGuinness on Tuesday, but coach Mark Wilson said that game had nothing to do with the Tigers’ subpar performance on Friday.
“We usually don’t have such a poor effort,” Wilson said. “Every time we strung together an offensive effort we felt was positive, we’d go down and give up two to three shots.”
Duncan, ranked 14th in 5A, had 14 offensive rebounds by halftime, paced by the second-chance efforts of Jack Braught, who finished with a game-high 11 rebounds.
Starting a lineup that dwarfed Ardmore’s on the perimeter, Duncan controlled the boards. Each starter for the Demons had at least five rebounds.
Griffin, a shooting guard, pulled down nine boards.
“You occasionally run up against teams that are bigger than you at every position,” Wilson said. “You might get beat on the boards by 10 but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a team outrebounded by 24.”
Galbreath’s hot hand kept Ardmore in the game in the first quarter. He scored 10 of the Tigers’ 12 points, including two 3-pointers, but Duncan asserted itself on the glass in the second quarter.
Griffin converted a 3-point play with a rebound and a basket to start the quarter. He then snuck past an Ardmore defender to catch an air ball and score, capping a 6-0 run that extended Duncan’s lead to nine points. Duncan led 32-24 at the break.
Ardmore’s 6-foot-7 post Daylon Wilkins accumulated three fouls in the first half. He picked up his fourth foul less than 2 minutes into the third quarter and had to sit, making matters worse for the Tigers on the glass.
Ardmore cut the deficit to seven in the third before Duncan went on its game-sealing run. Griffin closed the quarter with a two-handed dunk on the break with 9 seconds left to push Duncan’s lead to 54-37.
Griffin spent a majority of the second half at the line and shot 13 of 18 from the stripe overall. Duncan was 21 of 25 as a team to Ardmore’s 10 of 18.
Ardmore guard Quintarius Willis led the team with nine rebounds off the bench and Galbreath added five. Corey Green scored seven points off the bench and Willis chipped in 10.
Ryan Cox had 15 points and six rebounds for Duncan, and Braught added 10 points.
GIRLS
Duncan 57, Ardmore 35
A fast start for Ardmore cooled off in the second half, as Duncan outscored the Tigers 36-8 in the third and fourth quarters combined.
D’Shala Culberson scored eight of her team-high 18 points in the third to rally the Demons back. Culberson scored six of Duncan’s points in an 11-0 run to end the quarter, giving the Demons a 39-32 lead they wouldn’t relinquish.
“She was the one that made things happen,” Ardmore coach Harold Brown said of Culberson. “She helped break the press and find girls to make open layups.”
Duncan (12-6) rode the third-quarter momentum into the fourth, outscoring Ardmore 18-3, including the first 12 points of the period.
Britton Scott had 15 points, including four 3-pointers, for Duncan. Kimiko Fritts and Destinee Howell led Ardmore with nine points each.
“The girls were supposed to keep doing what we did in the first half, but we kept dribbling up the side and throwing it away,” Brown said. “All we had to do was some things we were doing in the (first half). We just didn’t connect.”
Tied 16-all after the first period, Ardmore closed the second quarter with an 11-2 run. Duncan had a 3-point lead before Ardmore scored seven straight, taking advantage of seven Demons’ turnovers.
Trelynn Cohee hit a 3 to tie the game, Gabby Agers scored off of a Duncan turnover on the next possession and Fritts scored a putback off of a rebound to push Ardmore’s lead to 23-19.
The Tigers led 27-21 at the break before Duncan’s dominant second half.
Erik K. Horne
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