Dillingham, Drummond out-gun Marsh, Raiders
BEN MARSH scored 32 points, but it wasn’t quite enough as Drummond got the 68-63 win at Lomega last Tuesday night. [Photo by Chris Simon/www.simon-sports-photos.smugmug. com]
Colten Dillingham and Ben Marsh put on a show inside Lomega’s gym Tuesday night.
It was Dillingham and his Drummond teammates who got to take home the win.
Drummond answered every Lomega rally to earn a 68-63 victory, dropping Lomega to 1-1 on the season.
Dillingham, a key cog in Drummond’s back-to-back trips to the last two Class A state tournaments, torched the nets for 33 points.
Marsh, however, made sure to keep the Raiders in it.
The Lomega senior scored 32, a bulk of it in the middle two quarters.
Drummond got out to an early 7-0 lead, but the Raiders settled in and kept within five entering the second.
Dillingham scored nine points in that second quarter as the Bulldogs began to pull away.
But Marsh didn’t let them get too far. He knocked down two treys and scored 12 of Lomega’s 16 second- quarter points.
He added 12 more in the third quarter.
Lance Yost also knocked down a pair of treys as Lomega cut its deficit to 5245 by the end of the quarter.
Dillingham started to get help from Blake Richter in the second half as the Bulldog junior made a pair of treys and 10 in the third quarter. Dillingham scored the other 10 for the Bulldogs.
Drummond pushed it back to 65-51 on Richter’s trey with 4:12 left.
That’s when Chase Burton emerged as he made two late treys, helping Lomega get back within single digits.
However, Drummond was able to milk time off the clock to help offset the fact it only went 1 of 8 from the foul line down the stretch.
Yost added 14 points for Lomega while Jaxson Snowden scored 11.
Richter scored 14 of his 19 points in the second half for Drummond.