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Catholic treys do in Calhoun County, 72-49

PARKERSBURG – Logan Plummer and Cade Ullman, Parkersburg Catholic’s Belpre connection, accounted for 12 of the host Crusaders’ 13 treys Saturday night in a 72-49 victory over Calhoun County in an opening-round game of the Class A Region IV, Section 1 tournament.

Catholic, now 12-11, will face Williamstown on the Yellowjackets’ homecourt at 7 p.m. Tuesday in a Section 1 semifinal. The loss ended the Red Devils’ season with a 11-10 record.

The Crusaders led from 6-3 on after Ullman’s second of four straight 3-balls in the first quarter. His first three treys all came from the same spot in the left corner as PC built a 12-8 lead, climaxed by his fourth trey from out front to the right at the 2:35 mark.

Plummer’s initial trey of eight with 37.2 seconds left in the first gave Catholic a 16-10 advantage heading to the second period.

The home team stretched its lead to 13 at 33-20 in the second stanza before Plummer canned his third trey in the quarter with 31.7 seconds remaining for a 13-point gap, 36-23, at halftime.

In the third quarter though, Calhoun made some inroads at chopping its deficit down as Catholic pulled the ball out for periods of time trying to run some clock. But instead the ploy seemed to slow down the momentum the Crusaders had built up in the first half.

Austin Gribble and Ethyn Miller led a 10-2 Red Devil run, scoring all the points to slice the PC lead down to nine at 46-37 with 14.2 seconds to go in the third.

But Plummer stopped the bleeding for Catholic by drilling in a 3-ball from deep in the right wing at the buzzer to regain a 12-point lead for PC at 49-37.

Then to start the final eight minutes of play, Plummer hammered home a pair of treys for an 18-point bulge at 55-37, and another 3-ball by him at 4:41 made the tally 60-41 before a 6-0 PC run boosted the lead to 66-42 with just 3:08 left to play.

Catholic hit 13 of its 29 trey tries for the game for 44.8 percent as Plummer netted 25 points, Ullman 18 and A.J. Collins 16, while Calhoun got 14 points from Miller, 13 from Dylan Heiney and 11 from Zack Yanero.

“We made a little run at Catholic there in the third quarter,” said Calhoun head coach Danny Bunch. “But when they make 3s like that – and when in the game they make them too – makes it tough on whoever they’re playing. But our guys never gave up.”

PC head coach Rob Strcula noted that “maybe trying to slow things down in the third quarter wasn’t what we needed.”

Nevertheless though, he said, “We came out firing and didn’t really let up at all. Our offense was really on tonight.”

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