Photo: 23 Jack Golleher led the Badgers in scoring averaging 10.5 points per game
The Prescott Badgers fell to the Arcadia Titans for the second time this season with a 83-62 setback ending the season for the Badgers. Arcadia moves on to face ALA-Queen Creek in the quarterfinals. Prescott ends their season at (13-14). It was a better showing by Prescott than the first meeting in December when the Badgers lost to Arcadia at home by 30.
Both teams came out and put points up and when Pedro Jimenez scored the Badgers had a 10-7 lead. After the game was tied at 10, Jack Golleher’s basket gave the Badgers a 12-10 lead, but Arcadia went on a 14-0 run to close the quarter. Points off turnovers killed Prescott who had 11 in first quarter alone, aiding the Titans in building their lead that they would never relinquish.
Trailing 28-12 two minutes into the second quarter, Drew Jolley scored his first basket of the game to end the nearly five minute drought and what ended up an 18-0 run by the Titans. Six different players scored in the second quarter for the Titans led by Mason Kendrick who finished with 21 points in just three quarters. Arcadia led 48-28 at the half.
In the third, Prescott could only make a small dent in the Titans lead, pulling within 17, but that was as it. The Titans led 67-44 after three quarters.
Bobby Molnar, who was a key factor in the Badgers overtime win at Flagstaff with 17 points, hit his only two shots, back to back three pointers to start the fourth quarter, to pull the Badgers within 17 yet again at 67-50. That was as close as Prescott got for the remainder of the game.
Drew Jolley led the Badgers with 16 along with 6 rebounds and senior Jack Golleher ended his Badger years with 10. Every Badger player scored at least one basket, but the turnovers were something that Prescott could not overcome.
The Grand Canyon Region champion Coconino Panthers also lost. The Panthers were upset at home by Dysart 55-51.
ARCADIA TITANS 83, PRESCOTT BADGERS 62
PRESCOTT (62)-Stedman 1 0-0 3, Lozen 3 2-2 8, Diener 2 0-2 4, Golleher 3 4-4 10, Jolley 8 0-0 16, Jimenez 3 1-2 7, Tenney 1 0-0 2, Kleinman 2 0-0 5, Molnar 2 0-0 6, Dicker 1 0-0 3. 26 7-10 62.
ARCADIA (83)-Kendrick 9 2-2 21, Thompson 8 3-5 19, Heinrichs 6 0-0 15, Knee 7 0-0 16, Smith 0 0-0 0, Straus 0 0-0 0, Sayre 0 0-0 0, Baldwin 1 0-0 2, O. Fay 0 0-0 0, McGadney 1 1-3 3, W. Fay 2 0-0 6, Draper 1 0-0 3, Knighton 0 0-0 0. 34 6-10 83.
Score by Quarters – 1 2 3 4 – T
Prescott 12 16 16 18 – 62
Arcadia 24 24 19 16 – 83
Fouled Out-None
Total Fouls-P 9, A 13
Three Pointers-P (5)-Molnar 2, Kleinman 1, Stedman 1, Dicker 1. A (9)-Heinrich’s 3, W. Fay 2, Knee 2, Kendrick 1, Draper 1.
4A DIVISION FIRST ROUND SCORES
Arcadia. 83, Prescott 62
ALA-Queen Creek 86, Paradise Honors 43
Cactus Shadows 67, Salpointe Catholic 64
Dysart 55, Coconino 51
Deer Valley 67, Eastmark 36
Saguaro 82, Cholla 60
Sahuaro 64, Mesquite 53
Westview 72, Ironwood Ridge 58
4A DIVISION QUARTERFINALS-Friday at 7pm
#8 Dysart (20-7) at #1 Deer Valley (24-4)
#5 Westview (19-8) at #4 Cactus Shadows (20-6)
#6 Saguaro (17-10) at #3 Sahuaro (23-3)
#7 ALA-Queen Creek (28-2) at #2 Arcadia (21-6)
