Fenwick isn’t the sort of team that wows observers with high-flying acrobatics or quick-trigger sprints. In fact, you need no fingers to count the number of dunks the Falcons have recorded this season.

“I’ve got the most attempts on the team right now. I’ve tried two,” junior guard Frank Catrine said, smiling.

What Fenwick does have, though, are the ingredients of which playoffs runs are made: unselfish and versatile guards, experience, solid team defense and a dynamic leader in Catrine. All were on display Tuesday night at Bellbrook High School as the top-seeded Falcons cruised to a 57-30 win over Northridge in the Southwest District Division III quarterfinals.

Junior guard Kevin Christie scored a game-high 17 points, Catrine provided a few highlight-reel plays and Fenwick (20-4) played stifling defense to advance to a semifinal match-up against Stivers at UD Arena Friday night.

“Sharing the ball was huge. The guys are just so unselfish with each other, and they defended,” said Fenwick coach Pat Kreke, whose team won for the 13th time in 14 games. “We’re playing well right now. We’ve just got to keep it up.”

Fenwick took control immediately, limiting 12th-seeded Northridge (10-12) to one field goal in the first seven minutes and building a double-digit lead. As usual, the catalyst was Catrine (12 points, six rebounds), who drew reactions from the crowd with a pretty no-look assist to Drew Napier and an almost-putback dunk later in the game.

“He just makes everyone around him better. You almost have to have that kind of kid to go deep in the tournament,” Kreke said.

Christie, meantime, heated up after a slow start, knocking down three 3-pointers to extend the lead.

“Frank always finds me and I couldn’t keep blowing his assists,” Christie said.

Senior guard Taylor Umberger sparked Fenwick defensively with five steals and 6-3 senior Leo Haenni posted 12 points and seven rebounds for the Falcons, who have high hopes for a deep postseason run; Fenwick last won a state title in 1982 and advanced to the region finals in 2005 before losing to an O.J. Mayo-led North College Hill team.

First things first: the Falcons know fourth-seeded Stivers (14-6) is no pushover.

“I think we’re capable of going a long way, but the high school basketball tournament is like the NCAA tournament,” Catrine said. “You can lose to any team at any time, so we’ve just got to come out and play hard every night.”