Bulldogs fall 61-42 to Chesterton, Lady Bulldogs defeat Lady Trojans 60-33 to win DAC title

A USA-365.com Special Report  by Mark Smith
01-30-2020

Team /Record - Boys Game 1 2 3 4 Final
CHESTERTON (14-1) 21 4 15 21 61
CROWN POINT (7-7) 5 8 12 17 42

Friday, January 24, 2020 - Duneland Athletic Conference game at CROWN POINT, Ind.

CP's Dash Shaw (20) redirects Chesterton's Emma Schmidt (24) in the battle for first place in the Duneland Conference last week. (All photos by Mark Smith)
Crown Point senior Abby Stoddard (30) shoots over Chesterton's Emma Schmidt. Crown Point led 32-18 at the half.
Chesterton's Nalani Malackowski (10) looks to bust a move on CP's Abby Stoddard (30) at Crown Point last week.
CP's Jessica Carrothers (14) tries to change the plans of Chesterton's Caitlyn Carr (31). CP won their 7th league game in seven tries.
CP's Allie Govert (24) guides Chesterton into a trap with the help of Dash Shaw (20). Chesterton, which averaged 51 points a game, was held to 33.
CP's Dash Shaw shoots over Carley Balas (20) and Caitlyn Carr (31) of Chesterton. CP won 60-33 but the two teams will likely meet again at the Portage Sectional on Feb. 7.
CP junior Orion White (21) looks to take on Chesterton star Jake Wadding (23) in the game between the Bulldogs and the Trojans last Friday.
CP's Ty Smith (12) drives across the time line against Chesterton's Travis Grayson (2). Smith led all scorers with 20 points.
Jake Wadding (23) passes out of the double team to get a shot for the Trojans' Sean Elliott (15) Wadding had 12 points, eights rebounds and four assists at Crown Point.
CP senior Dylan Matusak (15) looks beyond Chesterton's Alex Schmidt (33) in the two teams Duneland Athletic Conference (DAC) match last Friday.
CP coach Clint Swan didn't find the Trojans' 21-5 start in the first quarter easy to watch. Chesterton never trailed and won 61-41.
CP defeated Chesterton for the second time this season but this member of the Class of 2030 hopes the Bulldogs fare better in a 3rd meeting in 4A Sectional 2 in March. (All photos by Mark Smith)
 

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CHESTERTON (61): Jake Warren 5-2-12, Jake Wadding 5-2-12, Sean Elliott 2-1-5, Travis Grayson 4-4-13, Alex Schmidt 5-1-11, Chris Mullen 2-2-6, Karsen Cardenas 1-0-2, Luke Lombardini 0-0-0, Malcolm Harper 0-0-0, Carson Parrish 0-0-0, Landen Johnson 0-0-0. TOTALS: 24 (10-12) 61.

 

CROWN POINT (42): Ty Smith 8-4-20, Drew Adzia 4-0-9, Luke Hanlon 1-0-3, David Brown 0-0-0, Jake Oostman 2-0-4, Miles Lubbers 0-0-0, Ben Uran 0-1-1, Darren Roach 0-2-2, AJ Lux 1-0-3, Dylan Matusak 0-0-0, Felix Meeks 0-0-0, Keaton Buuck 0-0-0. TOTALS: 16 (7-10) 41.

FREE THROWS: CHESTERTON (10-12, 83.3%) Grayson 4-6, Wadding 2-2, Mullen 2-2, Warren 2-2; CROWN POINT (7-10, 70%) Smith 4-4, Uran 1-2, Roach 2-2, Adzia 1-2.

3-GOALS: CHESTERTON (3 of 15, 20%) Travis Grayson, Sean Elliott, Alex Schmidt. CROWN POINT (3-15, 20%) Drew Adzia, Luke Hanlon, AJ Lux.

 

FOULED OUT: None.

 

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Team /Record - Girls Game 1 2 3 4 Final
CHESTERTON (16-4) 8 10 6 9 33
CROWN POINT (23-0) 16 16 17 13 60

Friday, January 24, 2020 - Duneland Athletic Conference game at CROWN POINT, Ind.

CHESTERTON (33): Ashley Craycraft 4-0-8, Nalani Malackowski 2-0-6, Carley Balas 3-0-6, Emma Schmidt 2-0-4, Geneva Nelson 2-2-7, Sofia Raffin 1-0-2, Caitlyn Carr 0-0-0, Emma Pape 0-0-0, Lauren Davis 0-0-0, Hollie Skoczek 0-0-0. TOTALS: 14 (2-3) 33.

CROWN POINT (60) Jessica Carrothers 7-0-15, Lily Stoddard 4-7-15, Dash Shaw 3-1-7, Abby Stoddard 1-6-8, Allie Govert 1-3-5, Nikki Gerodemos 2-0-5, Alyvia Santiago 2-0-5, Mia Depta 0-0-0, Alexis Smith 0-0-0, Brooke Lindesmith 0-0-0, Gabbie Vania 0-0-0. TOTALS: 16 (17-24) 41.

FREE THROWS: CHESTERTON (2-3, 66.7%) Nelson 2-2, Craycraft 0-1 ; CROWN POINT (17-24, 71.0%) Shaw 1-1, Govert 3-4, Lilly Stoddard 7-10, Abby Stoddard 5-5

3-GOALS: CHESTERTON (3) Nalani Malackowski 2, Geneva Nelson. CROWN POINT (3) Alyvia Santiago, Jessica Carrothers, Nikki Gerodemos.


FOULED OUT: None.

 

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CROWN POINT (01-24-2020) Crown Point has pulled a couple of upsets so far in the 2020 basketball season, but first place Chesterton was having none of that when the two teams met at the back end of a Duneland Athletic Conference (DAC) boys/girls double-header last Friday.

The slick passing Trojans (14-1) raced to a 21-5 lead and rejected any and all CP comeback attempts in a 61-41 victory.

When the two teams met in the Noblesville holiday tournament, Chesterton won 44-38 on Dec. 28. But the Trojans were not interested in a close game on this night, shooting 58 percent from the floor and holding CP to 16 field goals in the entire game.

“The first time we met it was at the holiday tournament,” said Trojan coach Marc Urban. “We were all staying in the same hotel and it was the third game (of the tournament) for both of us. And they are well-coached. They can slow you down.”

“Tonight we moved the ball a lot better and we got out to that big lead. When we move the ball we can be pretty good.”

It appears that CP is a better team on offense when sophomore Drew Adzia has the ball and top scorer Ty Smith is running off picks and screens. It also appears that CP’s opponents have picked up on that. The Trojans (15-1) assigned quick sophomore Travis Grayson to Adzia to get the ball out of his hands. Smith scored 20 for CP, but nobody else got much at all. Chesterton led 40-25 after three quarters.

“They jumped on us right away,” said coach Clint Swan. “We could have played better. I could have coached better. They really came to play and they beat us in transition. We did better in the second quarter. We made a little bit of a comeback, but you can't get behind them like that.

In the first half of the boys/girls double-header Friday, Crown Point’s Lady Bulldogs won their second consecutive undefeated Duneland Athletic Conference (DAC) championship with a 60-33 victory over second place Chesterton.

CP’s full court defense helped the home team steadily pull away after the game was close in the first five minutes.

Sophomore Jessica Carrothers and Lily Stoddard split 30 points, but it was the CP defense that decided the game. No Chesterton players scored as many as 10 points. Leading scorer Ashley Craycraft (13.8) was guarded much of the game by CP’s Allie Govert and held to eight points. The Trojans' second-leading scorer Emma Schmidt (10.8) finished with four points.

“It didn’t matter how many points she scored,” said CP coach Chris Seibert of Govert. “Her job was to make it difficult for her (Craycraft). She’s very unselfish. She does whatever she’s asked to do and she’s a willing defender.”

Seibert agreed that the Hall-of-Fame tournament was the first ‘goal’ for the 2020 Lady Bulldogs.

“But of course we wanted to win the conference. Every league game was a challenge and to go 7-0 again is a big accomplishment.”

DOG NOTES: Crown Point (24-0) and Portage (18-5) received quarterfinal byes in the Class 4A Portage Sectional next week.

Crown Point will play in the first semifinal game Friday night, Feb. 7 at 6 p.m. against the winner of the quarterfinal game between Lowell (13-7) and Chesterton (16-4). The sectional championship is tentatively set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday night Feb. 8.

The bye means CP will have a 10-day break between the final regular season game against Bishop Noll (which CP won 89-52) and the first playoff game.

The winner of the Portage Sectional will face a semifinal game against the winner of the Warsaw Sectional where Penn (22-2) is the favorite.

The Crown Point girls victory was head coach Chris Seibert’s 100th as the head coach in Crown Point. Coaching at a public school seems like a profile in consistent work until you get lucky.

In six seasons in Portage, Seibert had a losing record, 59-77. In five seasons in Crown Point, the win over Chesterton produced a record of 100-27. He suggested that he wasn’t a total loser then and he isn’t a genius now.

“I’d like to think I was just as good a coach at Portage as I am now,” he said after the win over Chesterton Friday.

“Any coach will tell you it's all about the players, but maybe we did start getting our share of good players (at CPHS) that maybe basketball was losing to other sports.”

USA-365.com/Indiana-Sports.com Broadcast Note: Our next USA-365.com/Indiana-Sports.com broadcast comes Saturday, Jan. 24 when Crown Point hosts South Bend Washington in high school boys basketball. Our live coverage starts with the pregame show at 6:45 p.m. and tip-off at 7 p.m.

Our next USA-365.com/Indiana-Sports.com broadcast of the Crown Point Lady Bulldogs will be Friday, Feb. 7 at 6 p.m. CST when CP plays the Lowell-Portage quarterfinal winner from Tuesday, Feb. 4. The pregame show starts at 5:45 pm. If Crown Point wins, the lady Bulldogs will play the sectional titke game Saturday, Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m. CST.


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Coach: Chris Seibert, 101-27 in 5th year at school, 160-104 in 11th year overall
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