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Brandon Ching | ScoringLiveDecember 20, 2012, 11:45pm
Thu, Dec 20, 2012 @ Iolani
Findlay Prep (Las Vegas, NV), No. 1 in USA Today's Super 25, held off a feisty Coolidge squad (Washington, D.C.) 73-63 in Thursday's nightcap of the 'Iolani Classic.Findlay forward Gavin Schilling led the Pilots with 26 points, most of it coming from the paint. Christian Wood chipped in 22 points and Nigel Williams-Goss added 11.Everette Coker led Coolidge with 19 points before fouling out and Shaquille James added 16 points including 2 three pointers.Findlay jumped out to a 9-2 lead early in the first quarter. Coolidge cut the lead with a pair of three pointers from Everette Coker and Shaquille James to bring the Colts within 5, 15-10. A shot by Coker would tie the game at 19 all at the end of the first quarter.In the second quarter, Coolidge took the lead when James found Coker for a fast break lay up, putting the Colts up 23-22. Findlay forward Gavin Schilling answered with a jump shot to give the Pilots the lead, 24-23. Schilling played big as he scored in the post and ran down to block a Colts' fastbreak lay up.The Pilots led at halftime, 36-29.In the third quarter, Coolidge cut the deficit to 4, 39-35. Following a tip-in by Christian Wood, the Pilots called a full time out. After the time out, Nigel Williams-Goss hit a three pointer from the right side. Off a steal, Williams-Goss found Wood down the middle for a two-handed dunk to extend the Pilots lead to eleven, 47-36.Coker made four of Coolidge's points before the quarter ended. Off the Coolidge inbounds, he made a buzzer beating lay up to bring the Colts within nine, 51-42.In the fourth quarter, Coolidge fought back to trim the Findlay's lead. Kory Cooley hit a three pointer and Coker found a cutting David Kadiri for a dunk. Omar Roberts passed it to Nijee Britton for a lay up, cutting Findlay's lead to five, 58-53.Williams-Goss missed a free throw, but Schilling cleaned it up with a put back, pushing the lead back up to six, 61-55.Coolidge guard Trayvaughn Newell stole the ball and laid it up, bringing the Colts within 4, with 3:13 remaining.However, Williams-Goss found Schilling and he made the lay up after getting fouled, 64-57. On the next possession, Williams-Goss passed it to Wood for a dunk to push the lead back up to nine, 66-57.Coolidge guard Omar Roberts drove middle and was fouled as he made the lay up. His free throw made it, 66-60 and the Colts called a time out.The Pilots were able to break Coolidge's full court press and Schilling rebounded the miss and put it back to give the Findlay some breathing room, 68-60.The Colts could not hit three pointers and jump shots down the stretch and Findlay sealed the game with free throws.Coolidge plays John Carroll at 5 pm while Findlay advances to play Montrose at 8 pm.
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