Wednesday, February 28, 2007 10:29 PM CST
Charleston headed for regional final
BY BRIAN NIELSEN Sports Editor
bnielsen@jg-tc.com
CHARLESTON -- Even when his team was getting its first basket after turnovers on three of its first four possessions, coach Trevor Doughty was shouting “no movement.”
Sometime while falling 15 points behind, his Charleston basketball players sensed the problem too.
“They were playing harder than us,” junior forward Trey Ryan said. “We knew they were going to be a good team. We knew they were going to be a team that played hard like Effingham.”
These visiting underdogs from Chatham Glenwood were playing hard enough that Charleston saw flashes of a season ending sooner than expected in its own regional.
“I was for a second,” Ryan said. “We didn’t want it to end like this.”
So the Trojans slashed their deficit to three points by halftime and took control in the second half for Wednesday’s 66-56 win over Glenwood in the semifinals of the IHSA Class AA Charleston Regional.
Ryan scored 14 of his 17 points in the second half and sophomore Jamel Johnson also scored 17 points including five of six free throws in the fourth quarter when the Trojans made 15 of 17 foul shots to preserve their lead built in the third period.
Matt Miller added 12 points, Ross Hutchinson had 11 points and nine rebounds and Eric Gentry contributed nine points as Charleston, 17-11, moved into Friday’s 7:30 p.m. championship game at Baker Gym against state-ranked Alton.
But this was not without some anxious moments.
“I was just mad becuase I didn’t think we were playing very hard and I didn’t think we were playing very smart,” Doughty said of his Trojans’ shaky start. “And even during the rest of the game we had lapses.
Turns out that Josh Ruffatto was just warming up when he led all entries hitting 10 of 15 3-pointers in the pregame contest.
The Chatham Glenwood junior then hit his first five 3-pointers against what was supposed to be a defense in the game’s first 10 minutes powering the Springfield sub-sectional’s sixth-seeded Titans to a 25-10 lead of fourth-seeded Charleston.
“He got hot early then we started getting a hand in his face,” Miller said. “We got a lot more energy in the second quarter.”
Yes, finally, the regional hosts arrived in their own regional.
Outrebounded 8-3 in the first quarter, Charleston then outrebounded Glenwood 8-3 in the second period with Hutchinson getting six of his rebounds in that second quarter.
“The big thing we did a better job of was rebounding,” Doughty said. “The other thing was the turnovers. In the first quarter we were makking silly passes and lazy passes. On the positive side we kept our poise. We could have fallen apart. I thought Zack Buxton came in and gave us a lift in the second quarter defensively.”
With Miller and Jamel Johnson hitting 3s, Charleston used a 15-3 surge to take the momentum into the halftime locker room while trailing 28-25.
Ryan scored inside to start ther second half and Miller connected on a 3-pointer while going to the floor after contact to give Charleston its first lead at 30-28 one minute, eight seconds into the second half.
The Trojans never trailed again building 43-36 lead in the third quarter and then hitting enough free throws that Glenwood never got closer than four points in the final period.
Ruffatto finished with 23 points for Glenwood, which finished 10-18.
Miller advances in 3-point contest
Charleston’s Matt Miller advanced to Friday’s regional final in the Country Insurance Three-Point Showdown.
Miller hit five of 15 shots to qualify along with Chatham Glenwood’s Josh Ruffatto who hit 10 shots, Cody Traina with nine and Kian Sarreshteh with seven from among the eight shooters.
Contact Brian Nielsen at bnielsen@jg-tc.com or 238-6856.
CHATHAM GLENWOOD (10-18)
Player FG FT Reb F TP
Krager 2-6 2-6 8 4 6
Standard 2-9 1-2 4 2 5
Ruffatto 8-11 0-0 0 5 23
Traina 0-5 2-2 2 2 2
Sarreshtehg 4-6 2-2 1 1 2
Falter 1-3 1-3 2 3 3
Adams 2-2 1-2 1 3 5
Trimberger 0-0 0-0 0 2 0
Team 2
Totals 20-36 9-17 22 22 56
CHARLESTON (17-11)
Player FG FT Reb F TP
Buxton 0-1 0-0 1 2 0
Gentry 3-5 3-4 0 3 9
Ryan 7-10 3-4 5 2 17
Murphy 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
Miller 3-6 4-4 4 2 12
Hutchinson 3-7 5-5 9 4 11
J. Johnson 4-9 8-12 8 3 17
Team 0
Totals 20-38 23-29 27 17 66
Glenwood 14 14 12 16 - 56
Charleston 6 19 18 23 - 66
3-point shots: Glenwood 7-19 ((Standard 0-3, Ruffatto 7-10, Traina 0-3, Sarreshteh 0-1, Zimmerman 0-2); Charleston 3-9 (Buxton 0-1, Gentry 0-1, Miller 2-5, Johnson 1-2). Shooting percentages: Charleston .526; Glenwood .556. Turnovers: Glenwood 17; Charleston 16.
CHARLESTON REGIONAL
Games at 7:30 p.m. at Baker Gym
Seeds are from 10-team Springfield Sub-Sectional
Monday
Taylorville 59, Mattoon 47
Tuesday
Alton 76, Taylorville 38
Wednesday
Game 3: Charleston 66, Chatham Glenwood 56
Friday
Game 4: Alton vs. Charleston for championship (Winner advances to March 6 Springfield Sectional semifinal against the winner of Springfield Southeast Regional)
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Charleston High School forward Trey Ryan takes aim Wednesday night as the Trojans take on the Glenwood Titans during the IHSA Class AA regional tournament at Baker Gym in Charleston.
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