West Michigan Roundup, Monday 3/8/21

West Michigan Roundup, Monday 3/8/21

It was a light Monday across West Michigan, but multiple great games still occurred. In a Wolverine Conference matchup Three Rivers snuck past Sturgis 51-48 to improve to 7-3, 6-2 in conference. In a non-conference game BC Lakeview won 61-57 over Harper Creek to improve to 7-3. Lakeview is an under the radar team that is very young with no senior starters and only one key senior in Cole Einhardt. Edwardsburg played a non-conference game against Coldwater and lost 64-51. Coldwater is a very talented team in the Interstate-8 conference with their only loss to Pennfield. Howardsville Christian hosted a White Pigeon team that had started the season (4-2). Howardsville Christian annihilated them winning 56-29 led by none other than Jason Jergens with 26 points.

Best Win: Howardsville Christian over White Pigeon 56-29

Best Performances:

Howardsville Christian’s Jason Jergens (2021 G): 26 pts (6 3’s)

Otsego’s Jakson Dentler (2021 G): 22 pts

New Buffalo’s Kaden Parmley (2022 G): 27 pts

Game I Attended: Lakeview 61, Harper Creek 57

(6-4) Harper Creek hosted (6-3) Lakeview last night in a non-conference game between the two Battle Creek schools. Lakeview jumped out to an early 16-3 lead controlling the offensive boards. Harper Creek was able to cut the deficit to 18-9 after one quarter. The Beavers of Harper Creek made a run to start the second quarter cutting the deficit to 5 points at 18-13 less than two minutes into the quarter. Lakeview answered with strong play from sophomore JaShaun Boggerty extending the lead back to twelve points at 29-17. Once again Harper Creek came back led by Ben Shafer with an and-1 and a three pointer to go into the half trailing 32-30. Harper Creek took their first lead of the game after a three from Ben Shafer to make the game 33-32 in the early third quarter. Towards the end of the third quarter Cole Einhardt and the Lakeview Spartans had an incredible run. Einhardt converted an and-1 then the Spartans put pressure on the inbounds, forced a turnover, and Einhardt converted another and-1. Following that sequence Lakeview forced another turnover off the inbounds and who else but Einhardt with his third straight and-1 to put the Spartans up 54-44. Neither team was able to score the first four minutes of the fourth quarter. Harper Creek started the quarter 0-8 from the field and Lakeviwe was held scoreless until the 3:00 mark. With 2:06 remaining in the game Harper Creek trailed 56-50 until a three pointer from Andrew Chantrenne cut the deficit to three points. Lakeview missed the front end of a 1-and-1 and Harper Creek went down the court and scored making it a 56-55 game. Harper Creek was called for a foul in an attempt to corral a rebound and also called for a technical foul on the same play. That gave Lakeview some free throws, missing the 1-and-1 common foul, but split the pair of tech free throws. Lakeview led 57-55 and retained possession after the technical. They were fouled again and split both free throws once again leading 58-55. Harper Creek’s Marcus Ransom scored on a put-back to make it 58-57 Lakeview with :17 left. Lakeview’s JaShaun Boggerty split a pair from the line giving Harper Creek possession down 59-57. Mateus Pierren drove the lane and missed the layup and Marcus Ransom missed the tip put-back. Lakeview was fouled and made both free throws securing the win 61-57. BC Lakeview was led by Hayden Mueller with 16 points, Cole Einhardt with 12 points, and JaShaun Boggerty also with 12 points. Harper Creek was led by Andrew Chantrenne with 16 points and Ben Shafer with 11 points.