No. 10 Lindsay ends Wolverines’ season at Ada
A Class 3A area consolation quarterfinal loss to No. 10 Lindsay ended the Wolverines’ three-game winning streak and season Thursday night inside Ada High School’s Cougar Activity Center.
ADA – A Class 3A area consolation quarterfinal loss to No. 10 Lindsay ended the Wolverines’ three-game winning streak and season Thursday night inside Ada High School’s Cougar Activity Center.
The quarterfinal contest featured four ties, but the Wolverines were never able to take the lead as the No. 10 Leopards (21-6 overall) ended Vian’s season (15-10).
Vian’s Masyn Wright (3-pointer), Desean Mays and Diego Mays each scored three points in the opening period, which included three ties. The score was tied at 10 before a layup with 00.1 left put the Leopards in front. Ryein Kennedy recorded six of Lindsay’s 12 points.
Lindsay registered the first nine points of the second stanza to lead 21-10 with 4:17 remaining before Vian outscored the Leopards 8-3 the rest of the quarter to trail 24-18 at the break. Wright made three 2-point field goals while scoring six of his team-high 16 points, but Andon Register’s six points helped the Leopards increase (12-8) their advantage.
The Wolverines trimmed three points (17-14) off the deficit in the third frame. The Leopards led 33-27 almost midway through the period before Mays’ traditional three-point play (field goal and foul shot) and K’den Richardson’s wing 3-pointer with 2:17 remaining tied the score for the final time. Yonsi Grass hit a 3-pointer and totaled seven of Vian’s points in the stanza, and Richardson and Mays added five points apiece for the Wolverines, who entered the fourth trailing 38-35.
Two-point baskets by Mays and Grass made the score 43-40 with 4:19 to go in the final quarter, but the Wolverines could get no closer, and four straight free throws and a dunk with less than a minute remaining allowed the Leopards to hold on to their advantage. Wright (7 points) and Grass (3) recorded 10 of Vian’s 12 points in the final eight minutes, and Kennedy scored eight of his game-high 19 points for the Leopards, who totaled 17 fourth-period points.
Trailing Wright in scoring for Vian in the game were Mays and Grass (10 points apiece), Richardson (8) and Ramos (3).
Mitchell Henson (11 points) also reached double figures in scoring for the Leopards.
Lindsay qualified for this week’s state tournament by defeating seventh-ranked Marlow (40-36) on Saturday night at Ada, and on Friday the Leopards beat No. 18 Idabel 56-52.
