Basketball

GAME TWENTY-FOUR: DESALES 66; ELIDA 45
Division II Regional Semifinal
(at Anderson Arena, Bowling Green State University, March 19, 2009)
Season Record: Overall: 21-3; Central Catholic League: 9-1

SCORE BY QUARTER

	1	2	3	4	Final
DeSales	22	17	13	14	66
Elida	8	5	17	15	45

BOX SCORE

DeSales	Field Goals		Free Throws		Tot. Pts.	Elida	Field Goals		Free Throws		Tot. Pts.
	Field Goals		Free Throws				Field Goals		Free Throws
	3s	2s	Md.	Att.			3s	2s	Md.	Att.
Nick Kellogg	3	4	2	3	19	Reggie McAdams	5	4			23
Ike Ariguzo		5	1	3	11	Bo Mathias		3	4	4	10
Seun Adejobi		5		1	10	Matt Thompson	2				6
Adam Griffin	2		2	2	8	Michael Knotts		1			2
Nick Goff	1	2			7	Alex McAdams		1		1	2
Chi-Chi Ariguzo		2	1	2	5	Desmond Ragin		1		2	2
Zak Gaborcik		1			2
Chris Rock		1			2
Aaron Selmek		1			2
TOTALS	6	24	6	11	66	TOTALS	7	10	4	7	45
			(54.5%)						(57.1%)

PLAY-BY-PLAY SCORING

FIRST HALF	DHS	EHS
FIRST QUARTER:
Ike Ariguzo field goal	2	0
Reggie McAdams field goal	2	2
(the game's only tie score)
Nick Goff three-point field goal	5	2
(DHS led for the rest of the game)
Desmond Ragin field goal	5	4
Nick Kellogg field goal	7	4
Bo Mathias field goal	7	6
Nick Kellogg three-point field goal	10	6
Ike Ariguzo field goal	12	6
Bo Mathias field goal	12	8
Nick Kellogg three-point field goal	15	8
Adam Griffin three-point field goal	18	8
Time-out EHS (1:38 left to play)
Seun Adejobi field goal	20	8
Nick Kellogg field goal	22	8
END OF FIRST QUARTER	22	8
SECOND QUARTER:
Seun Adejobi field goal	24	8
Ike Ariguzo field goal	26	8
Ike Ariguzo free throw	27	8
Time-out EHS (6:38 left to play)
Adam Griffin three-point field goal	30	8
Nick Goff field goal	32	8
Chi-Chi Ariguzo field goal	34	8
(Ariguzo's field goal, the 21st and
22nd consecutive points scored by
DHS, completed a 27-2 DHS run
that started with Kellogg's first
three-pointer in the first quarter)
Reggie McAdams field goal	34	10
Time-out DHS (3:46 left to play)
Matt Thompson three-point field goal	34	13
Seun Adejobi field goal	36	13
Chi-Chi Ariguzo field goal	38	13
Chi-Chi Ariguzo free throw	39	13
END OF SECOND QUARTER	39	13
SECOND HALF
THIRD QUARTER:
Reggie McAdams three-point field goal	39	16
Nick Goff field goal	41	16
Nick Kellogg three-point field goal	44	16
Bo Mathias field goal	44	18
Ike Ariguzo field goal	46	18
Nick Kellogg field goal	48	18
Alex McAdams field goal	48	20
Ike Ariguzo field goal	50	20
Chris Rock field goal	52	20
(DHS's largest lead -- Rock's field
goal completed an 18-7 DHS run
that started with Adejobi's second
field goal in the second quarter)
Matt Thompson three-point field goal	52	23
Time-out DHS (2:48 left to play)
Reggie McAdams field goal	52	25
Reggie McAdams three-point field goal	52	28
Michael Knotts field goal	52	30
END OF THIRD QUARTER	52	30
FOURTH QUARTER:
Reggie McAdams three-point field goal	52	33
Time-out -- Nick Kellogg injured
(7:04 left to play)
Reggie McAdams three-point field goal	52	36
Zak Gaborcik field goal	54	36
Seun Adejobi field goal	56	36
Bo Mathias two free throws	56	38
(5:06 left to play)
Time-out EHS (4:46 left to play)
Reggie McAdams field goal	56	40
Nick Kellogg two free throws	58	40
Time-out DHS (2:51 left to play)
Time-out -- Nick Goff injured (2:28
left to play)
Bo Mathias two free throws	58	42
Seun Adejobi field goal	60	42
Nick Kellogg field goal	62	42
Reggie McAdams three-point field goal	62	45
Time-out EHS (:51.8 left to play)
Adam Griffin two free throws	64	45
Aaron Selmek field goal	66	45
Time-out EHS (:12.4 left to play)
FINAL SCORE	66	45


From THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

DESALES 66 | ELIDA 45
Second-half slump aside, DeSales rolls

Friday, March 20, 2009
By Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- DeSales' stomp through the Division II tournament flattened another victim last night in a regional semifinal.

The Stallions and Nick Kellogg jumped on Elida early, tripped over themselves for a while, but then recovered for a 66-45 victory in front of an estimated 1,500 in Anderson Arena.

The win puts DeSales in the regional final Saturday against Vermillion, with a trip to the state tournament on the line. And maybe, Kellogg said, the lull that came in the third quarter, after DeSales had taken a 32-point lead, will serve as a reminder that napping can be disastrous.

Dispatch photo by Chris Russell
Adam Griffin, center, of DeSales steals the ball from Reggie McAdams of Elida as the Stallions' Chi-Chi Ariguzo helps out.

"Obviously, we cannot have a mental lapse like that," said Kellogg, who scored 10 of his 19 points in the first quarter. "We stress it all the time. If we come out and start a game like that, we need to play like that the whole game, with that focus and that intensity."

The Stallions' lead dwindled to 16 with 4:05 remaining primarily because of Elida freshman Reggie McAdams' three-point shooting. He finished with 23 points.

Then the Stallions found success again on defense and became less sloppy with the ball on offense.

"As bad as things (were at that point), we just have to realize all we've got to do is stop them from scoring and we don't lose this game," DeSales coach Blair Albright said.

The win rates with DeSales' previous three lopsided wins in the tournament.

"They didn't do anything to surprise us," Elida coach Denny Thompson said.

Still, he said his team wasn't ready for the defensive intensity that DeSales showed starting with 2:58 left in the first quarter, when the Stallions led 12-8, to 6:07 remaining in the second quarter, when the score was 30-8.

"We were on 8 forever, I know that," Thompson said.

Ike Ariguzo scored 11 points and Seun Abejobi 10 for DeSales.

Before Saturday's game, Kellogg said he and the other team leaders will reinforce the motto that has gotten the Stallions to this point.

"We always tell ourselves we're playing as if we're down," said Kellogg, son of former Ohio State standout and CBS college basketball analyst Clark Kellogg. "We always want to keep that mentality and take it just one possession at a time and keep building on what we've been doing."