Class 2A, No. 16 Triton Central fell behind 15-0 at North Decatur Saturday night then rallied to win in overtime and secure its fifth-straight victory, 52-45.
Silas Blair was the only Tiger to reach double digits, finishing with a team-high 19 points. Seven other Tigers scored with Max Crouse getting eight points, Eli Sego scoring seven and Hunter Kemper collecting six.
Triton Central (6-1) trailed 16-8 after one quarter and 27-18 at halftime but kept pressuring the Chargers (4-2) and got the game into overtime where it outscored the hosts 9-2.
Chase Youngman led North Decatur with 20 points. Brady Mauer finished with 12 points.
On Friday, Triton Central secured its first Indiana Crossroads Conference win of the season with a 55-39 victory over Cascade.
Sego had a game-high 15 points. Blair backed the sophomore with 14 points and Crouse had nine.
The Tigers trailed the Cadets 21-19 at halftime then outscored them 36-18 over the final two quarters.
Connor Sanders led Cascade (1-4, 0-2 ICC) with 13 points.
Triton Central hosts potential sectional opponent Indianapolis Riverside (2-3) Wednesday.
In other basketball games Saturday:
Boys basketball
Waldron 57, Southwestern 40
At Southwestern, Parker Douglas scored 13 of his game-high 17 points in the second quarter when the visiting Mohawks built a 33-20 lead. Five different Mohawks scored in the third quarter to propel them past Southwestern.
Lucas Shaw finished with 13 points for Waldron (3-3), winners of three straight games after starting the season 0-3.
Ben Kahler led the Spartans (0-5) with 12 points. Carter Snepp finished with 11 points.
Waldron won the junior varsity game, 51-31. Noah Mitchell led Waldron with 13 points. Jackson Kuhn had 10. Mitchell Clements and Landon Drake each scored six points for Southwestern.
The Spartans hosts Oldenburg Academy (2-5) Tuesday. Waldron will compete in the Morristown Classic on Dec. 28 with games scheduled against Indianapolis Herron (0-5) and Tri-Central (6-1).
Girls basketball
Franklin 60, Shelbyville 32
At Franklin, Erica Buening and Scarlett Kimbrell combined for 31 points to push Class 4A, No. 9 Franklin’s record to 12-2.
The Grizzly Cubs’ defense limited the visiting Golden Bears to 18 first-half points while building a 36-18 advantage.
Ava Wilson led Shelbyville (7-6) with 23 points. The senior guard now has 990 career points and is on the doorstep to become the seventh Golden Bear to reach 1,000 career points.
Shelbyville returns to action Dec. 29 in the North Decatur Tournament against Madison (7-5). North Decatur (7-5) hosts Edgewood (8-5) in the other semifinal.
Shelbyville’s junior varsity suffered its first loss of the season at Franklin, 43-38. The Golden Bears are 12-1.
Waldron 60, Knightstown 40
At Waldron, the host Mohawks utilized a 22-point third quarter to pull away and defeat the Panthers (5-8).
Alyssa Benson scored eight of her game-high 19 points in the pivotal quarter. She also had six rebounds and three assists.
Benson was one three Mohawks to reach double figures – Grace Fischer finished with 12 points and Emerson Lindsey had 10 points.
Anna Roberson led Knightstown with 14 points.
Waldron (6-7) hosts Franklin County (8-3) Friday.
In basketball games Friday night:
Boys basketball
Waldron 63, Milan 60
At Milan, four different Mohawks reached double digits in the scoring column to knock off the Indians.
Will Larrison and Keith Settles each scored 14 points. Settles also had 13 rebounds. Jacob Lindsey finished with 12 points and Shaw had 10 points, seven rebounds and five assists.
Milan is 0-5 this season.
South Decatur 71, Morristown 47
At South Decatur, Jacob Scruggs scored 35 points, grabbed three rebounds, dished out four assists and collected eight steals to improve the host Cougars to 4-2 this season.
Jamison Keller (14 points) and Taylen Absher (11 points) also reached double-digit scoring.
Morristown dropped to 0-7 this season. The Yellow Jackets will host the Morristown Classic on Dec. 28 and face Monroe Central (3-4) and Indianapolis Herron (0-5).
Girls basketball
Indianapolis Lutheran 54, Southwestern 28
At Southwestern, Caitlyn Brooks and Grace King each scored 19 points to lead the Saints (5-4) to the victory.
Lutheran outscored the Spartans 17-6 in the second quarter to take a 28-12 lead that it never surrendered.
Tanna Tatlock and Emma Isgrigg each scored nine points to top Southwestern (0-12).
The Spartans are next in action Dec. 29 at the Union City Invitational. They will face the host Indians (7-6) in their opening-round game.
North Decatur 75, Waldron 49
At North Decatur, the visiting Mohawks were outscored 22-7 in the third quarter and surrendered 43 second-half points in the Mid-Hoosier Conference contest.
Fischer led the Mohawks with 18 points, five rebounds, two assists and three steals. Benson had 15 points, three assists and two steals.
North Decatur improved to 7-5.
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