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Northmont's Trammell too strong for Beavercreek

Senior nets 29 points as Northmont ends Beavers’ eight-game win streak.

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By Marc F. Pendleton, Staff Writer 1:11 AM Saturday, February 4, 2012

CLAYTON — It wasn’t as if Northmont’s basketball season had tanked, but with six losses it also wasn’t going as planned.

“This means everything,” said Jamal Trammell, who was unstoppable and dumped 29 points on visiting Beavercreek in a convincing 79-64 victory Friday night.

“Every game that we played we were up at one time and we just fell back at the end, especially the second half.”

Beavercreek (13-3) could have clinched an outright Greater Western Ohio Conference Central title. Instead, its eight-game win streak is history.

The Beavers are still alone atop the Central at 7-1. But there were too many offensive fouls, missed layups, deflected passes and blocked shots — everything that they had avoided during their midseason surge — to spare them their first conference loss.

Northmont (11-6) snapped a two-game slide and pulled within one game of the Beavers at 6-2 in the Central. Both teams have two conference games remaining.

It was an impressive balanced attack by the T-Bolts. Keith Richardson added 16 points, Devon Carter 12 and Dominique Stollings 10 and four blocks.

And Northmont did it the hard way, spotting Creek a game-opening 8-0 lead, then unloading a half-ending 35-8 blitz that set the second-half tone.

The Bolts looked for Trammell and he delivered with a season-best point total. Northmont easily maneuvered through the Beavers’ usually stingy zone defense. Once Creek went to a man-to-man defense, Northmont was even more effective, especially Trammell.

“He’s bigger than us and he’s stronger than us and he hits you first and he’s quicker than us,” marveled Beavers coach John Ahrns. “Other than that, we match up well.”

The Beavers, the area’s top-ranked Division I team, pulled within seven on Kyle Rader’s bucket to end the third quarter, but this time Northmont pulled away in the fourth quarter.

Ryan Sedlar led Creek with 17 points, including 15 in the second half. Rader added 14, Jalen Camper 13 and Tyler Reasoner 10.

“People can argue about it but I think that we’ve played the toughest schedule in Dayton,” Northmont coach Jim Brown said.

“When you lose six games, you start to doubt yourself. I even doubted myself.”

Contact this reporter at  (937) 225-2381 or  mpendleton@DaytonDailyNews.com.

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