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Xenia boys score triple-digit points in victory

Xenia rains down  15 3-pointers to overcome Fairborn.

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By Dave Long, Contributing Writer Updated 2:05 AM Saturday, January 7, 2012

XENIA — The Fairborn coaches had scouted Xenia in four high school boys basketball games this season.

Each game left Skyhawks coach Nathan Chivington and staff with the belief Xenia could not hurt them from 3-point range.

Statistics backed up that notion. Xenia came into Friday’s game 17th out of 18 in Greater Western Ohio Conference 3-point shooting at 22.1 percent (42-of-190). The Bucs had such games from behind the arc as 3-for-35 vs. Sidney and 5-for-36 against Bellbrook.

This time they all dropped in Xenia’s 106-92 win. It was the fifth straight win for Xenia (6-1, No. 5 in the DDN D-I ratings) and put it alone in second place in the GWOC South at 3-1. Springboro leads at 5-0. Fairborn is 2-2 in the division, 5-4 overall.

The X men, now averaging 86.1 points per game, were 15-of-32 from 3-point range. At one point in the second and third quarters they hit seven of eight attempts to build a 13-point lead.

“The first half our spacing was not quite right and that allowed Fairborn to get out and contest the 3s,” said Xenia coach Kent Anderson. “The second half we spread the floor a little more and pushed the pace.

“That allowed us to get more open looks and we nailed ’em. When Fairborn started to make a run we hit our free throws (18-of-20 in the second half, 25-of-30 for the game).”

Both teams played with a bit of a chippy attitude early, a carry-over from a nasty postgame fight after their football game in the fall. Barbs exchanged on the Internet didn’t help the situation.

The officials called a double technical on two players in each other’s faces 40 seconds into the game. Then they told everyone to lose the attitude and play ball.

Neither team needed a shot clock in a nearly defenseless game.

Marcus Greene led Xenia with 28 points, seven steals, six assists and four rebounds. Drew Felder came off the bench to score 21, hitting 5-of-9 3-point shots. Cody Phillippi had 18 points and nine assists.

Kendrick Williams had 27 to lead Fairborn. Billy Jackson had 21 points and 14 rebounds. Malik Jacobs, a 6-foot-2 junior, came off the bench with 19 points and 21 rebounds.

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