Warren’s Jackson Perdue (2) handles the ball as Wheeling Central’s Max Olejasz (24) defends during Tuesday’s game at Warrior Coliseum in Vincent. (Photo by Mike Morrison)

VINCENT — The defending state champion Wheeling Central Catholic Maroon Knights wrapped up their brief two-game tour of Washington County schools with a convincing 73-47 win Tuesday evening over the Warren Warriors at the Warrior Coliseum.

Senior Eli Sancomb followed up his 45-point effort in a win last Friday over Marietta by tossing in 34 more to lead the Maroon Knights to their fourth straight win to begin the season.

With a little luck Sancomb may have well finished the night with a triple-double as he also led his team in rebounds with 13 and assists with six.

“He is a great player and to keep in the game you have to score incredibly well and you have got to make shots,” said Warren head coach Blane Maddox. “We didn’t shoot well early and they were just a tough matchup for us,”

The future Liberty Flame made his presence known from the get-go as he scored 10 points, grabbed six rebounds and dished out three assists in the first eight minutes alone as WCC grabbed a 20-11 lead.

The Knights began the second quarter on a 7-2 run to increase their lead to 27-13.

Warren cut the lead to 11 with three minutes to play in the half thanks to a pair of field goals by Shawn Adams, but the Maroon Knights scored seven of the final 11 points of the half to stake claim to a 34-19 lead at the break.

Sancomb accounted for four of those points with a pair of driving buckets to score and Steven Brodegard closed out the first half with a buzzer-beating two-pointer after he rebounded his own missed shot and laid it up and in.

The Warriors sandwiched buckets by Jackson Perdue and Caleb Tulius around another Sancomb deuce to cut the lead to 13 early in the third quarter.

Warren chiseled yet another point off of the Knight lead when Jaxon Venham followed up a free throw by Sancomb with a short jumper.

Unfortunately for the home team, that would be as close as they would get as Wheeling Central blew things wide open thanks to a 19-5 run the rest of the quarter to push their lead to 26 heading to the fourth quarter.

Sancomb accounted for seven of those points with all but two of them coming from the charity stripe.

The visitors only added to the Warriors’ misery in the final quarter as they pushed the lead to as many as 28 before settling for the 26-point win.

Sancomb was 11-of-18 from the floor and 12-of-15 from the charity stripe to account for his 34 points.

Max Olejasz finished with 10 points while Steven Brodegard and Luke Sancomb chipped in with nine points apiece.

Luke Sancomb’s points all came from behind the arc as the two Sancomb brothers combined for a remarkable 113 points in the wins over Marietta and Warren.

The Knights out-rebounded Warren by a healthy 32-17 margin and shot 57% from the floor (27 for47).

Warren was led by Jackson Perdue with 20 points.

Maddox felt like Perdue had one of his best performances of the early season in the losing effort.

“He played all 32 minutes and he continued to attack,” said Maddox of Perdue, who knocked down a pair of triples. “He’s one of our most athletic kids and I thought he had a good ball game.”

Perdue was the only Warrior to reach double figures as Blake Grimes fell just short with nine.

Adams and Liam Grosselin added six points apiece off of the bench for Warren.

“Liam does an excellent job coming off the bench for us,” said Maddox of Grosselin, who led the Warriors with four assists. “He sees the floor well, is a good jump shooter and gave us some good minutes tonight.”

The loss was the fourth in the last five games for Warren who slipped to 2-5 on the season.

“We’ve got to get back to the basics on defense because teams are scoring way too much on us,” said Maddox. “We’ve got to get these teams down around the 50 mark if we are going to get some Ws.”

Warren will take on Parkersburg Catholic at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the annual River City Classic at Ban Johnson Arena on the campus of Marietta College.