SELLERSBURG — After two minutes of Friday’s Mid-Southern Conference contest with North Harrison, it looked like everything was going to go against the host Dragons.
At the 4:43 mark of the first period, leading scorer Cody Jackson was on the bench with two fouls. The Dragons’ second-leading scorer, Jack Eckert was in the locker room with an injured ankle and the Cougars were pounding Creek on the glass and had a 5-2 lead.
That’s when Michael Bradley and Anthony Everage took over for the Dragons, leading them to a 64-48 league win.
Bradley tied the score at 5-5 with a 3-pointer, then after a Devon Southerd bucket gave North Harrison the lead again, Bradley hit another 3 to give the Dragons the lead for good at 8-7.
Bradley’s second 3-pointer started a 9-0 run. Everage hit two buckets, then a Bradley steal led to a Justin Sturgeon layup and Silver Creek led 14-7 at the end of the first period.
“The kids played really hard and really smart after the first couple of minutes,” Silver Creek coach John Bradley said. “I thought Michael Bradley and Anthony Everage were outstanding. They seemed to be in on every key assist and every key defensive stop and they got everyone else going.”
In the second quarter, Jackson picked up his third foul in less than a minute and Everage took it upon himself to take over the second period. His eight second-quarter points led by a 14-9 advantage in the period and a 28-16 halftime lead.
In the third, Silver Creek put the game away early by hitting its first six shots. Jackson returned to score all nine of his point in the period and Bradley hit another 3-pointer and two more mid-range jumpers to boost the lead to as much as 35-18.
Bradley and Everage each finished with 17 points. Bradley added six assists and four steals, while Everage three rebounds, two steals and a blocked shot.
With touch fouls being call on both teams throughout the night, Silver Creek had to depend on its depth more than usual. The bench players scored only 12 points — eight by Justin Sturgeon, three by Zach Ricketts and one from Caleb Sprigler — but Coach Bradley said they were crucial to the Dragons’ fourth win.
“That’s what makes us successful,” Bradley said. “We’re 4-1 because we have quality depth. The kids really play as a team and that’s the only way we can be successful. There’s not a selfish kid on this team.”
The win gives Silver Creek at 3-0 record in the MSC and guarantees the Dragons the lead through the end of the 2009 portion of their schedule.
“We start the season thinking about (winning) the conference,” John Bradley said. “This was a big one for us, but I don’t think we’re any closer to winning it today then we were yesterday. We still have a long way to go.”
The Dragons, who started 7-1 last season, host Crawford County on Tuesday.
NORTH HARRISON 7 9 15 17—48
SILVER CREEK 14 14 20 16—64
North Harrison (2-2, 0-2 MSC) — Southerd 10, Jones 4, P. Book 2, Bruderle 8, Bolin 9, Edwards 15.
Silver Creek (4-1, 3-0 MSC) — Sprigler 1, Sturgeon 7, Eckert 8, Bradley 17, Everage 17, Jackson 11,
3-point field goals — North Harrison 0; Silver Creek 7 (Bradley 3, Jackson 2, Everage, Ricketts).
Rebounds — North Harrison 29 (Edwards 9); Silver Creek 15 (Eckert, Everage 3).
Turnovers — North Harrison 15, Silver Creek 10.
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