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Vikings find out why Trojans a top team in loss at Mackey

The Huntington North High School boys' basketball team found out exactly why Triton has made two straight trips to the state finals as the Class 1A second-ranked team beat the Vikings 55-43 on Saturday, Jan. 2, at the Super Hoops New Year's Classic at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette.

Griffin Carpenter scored 20 points on 7 of 10 field goal shooting - including 5 of 6 behind the arc -- and the Trojans hit 66.7 percent of their shots from the field for the game to send the Vikings to their sixth loss in nine outings this season.

The Vikings had few answers to the Trojans' hot shooting, which included a 9 of 12, 75 percent effort in the first half. Carpenter went 4 for 4 from 3-point range in the half.

The Vikings fell behind early and were trailing after the first quarter 19-8, but put together a solid second quarter themselves and drew within five at halftime, 26-21. The Trojans got the lead back to 10 points at 43-33 after three quarters, and held a 17-point advantage late in the final frame.

Jordan Beaver and Brock Gower led the Vikings with 10 points each, Kevin Fisher had nine and Kyle Bradburn added eight. Fisher was the Viking assist leader with three, and Levi Lawson led the rebounding efforts with five boards.

The Vikings hit 18 of 47 field goal attempts for 38.8 percent, including going just 3 of 15 beyond the arc. They hit only 4 of 10 foul shots as well.

Clay Yeo provided back-up to Carpenter for the Trojans with 11 points, and Ben Montalbano chipped in with six assists.

Name FG 3 Pt FT Pts RB Ast PF
Huntington North
Matt Kramer 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 2 0 4
Kyle Bradburn 3-10 1-3 1-3 8 2 2 3
Austin Drummond 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 3
Kevin Fisher 4-7 0-0 1-5 9 1 3 1
Jordan Beaver 4-7 0-1 2-2 10 4 0 2
Nick Miller 1-2 1-1 0-0 2 1 0 1
Taylor Petre 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0
Brock Gower 4-8 2-6 0-0 10 1 1 1
Austin Shoemaker 0-4 0-2 0-0 0 2 1 0
Austin Paul 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0
Levi Lawson 2-6 0-1 0-0 4 5 0 2
Team 2
Totals 18-47 3-15 4-10 43 20 7 18
Triton
Griffin Carpenter 7-10 5-6 1-4 20 4 1 1
Ben Montalbano 2-5 0-0 3-4 7 1 6 1
Austin Davis 2-2 0-0 3-4 7 6 0 3
Taran Holderman 2-3 0-0 0-1 4 0 1 1
Clay Yeo 4-5 0-0 3-4 11 5 1 2
Jordan Koontz 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0
Zak Shively 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0
Curtis Nordman 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0
Dane Kennedy 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0
Camron Garey 1-2 0-0 0-0 2 2 0 2
Quentyn Carpenter 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0
Kreig Voreis 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0
Blake Lemler 2-3 0-0 0-0 4 0 0 0
Team 7
Totals 20-30 5-6 10-17 55 25 9 11