Thomas hits five 3s, leads Eagles over Falcons

L-B 59 RIVERDALE 29 FINDLAY – Brody Thomas connected on five 3-pointers, finished with 23 points, and Liberty-Benton used a 35-11 scoring advantage over the second and third quarters to rout Riverdale, 59-29. The win was the Eagles second straight and third in four games as they improved to 11-7, 6-2 in the Blanchard Valley Conference. Lincoln Holler scored 13 for L-B, while Reid Irwin added nine. Riverdale dropped to 11-7, 3-5 in league play. Grady Haley scored nine points for the Falcons, with Grant Inbody contributing seven points. RIVERDALE (11-7, 3-5 BVC) Haley 3-3—9; Boucher 1-1—3; Inbody 2-3—7; Flowers-Barger 1-0—2; Scott 3-0—6; Karcher 1-0—2. TOTALS: 10—9-12—29. LIBERTY-BENTON (11-7, 6-2 BVC) Troyer 3-0—7; Irwin 3-0—9; Conaway 1-0—2; Latta 1-0—3; Arredondo 0-2—2; Thomas 8-2—23; Holler 6-1—13. TOTALS: 23—5-5—59. Riverdale 11 6 5 7 – 29 Liberty-Benton 16 15 20 8 – 59 3-POINT GOALS: Riverdale 0; Liberty-Benton 8 (Thomas 5, Troyer, Irwin, Latta) ARLINGTON 50ELMWOOD 23BLOOMDALE – Elmwood held Arlington's Calvin Willow, who averages 19.6 points a game, to just eight on Friday.Willow had four of his friends score eight or more points, though, and the Red Devils used that balance and a huge first quarter edge as a springboard to a 50-23 Blanchard Valley Conference win over the Royals.Trenton Heacock scored 14 points and Ayden Cavinee had 11. Hunter Rausch with nine points and Drew Metzger with eight were nearly in double figures as well as Arlington, unbeaten since winning the Bluffton/McDonald's Holiday Tournament two days after Chrsitmas, chalked up its 12th straight win to improve to 16-3 overall and 7-1 in the BVC.Arlington outscored Elmwood 22-5 in the first quarter and never looked back. Owen Traxler's eight points were a team high for the Royals (3-14, 3-5 BVC).ARLINTON (16-3, 7-1 BVC)Metzger 3-0—8, Rausch 3-0—9, Heacock 6-2—14, Cavinee 4-0—11, Willow 4-0—8. TOTALS: 20-40 2-6—50.ELMWOOD (3-14, 3-5 BVC)Hammer 2-0—4, Seedorf 2-2—6, Mendoza 2-1—5, Traxler 3-1—8. TOTALS: 9-30 4-5—23.Arlington 22 9 11 8—50Elmwood 5 9 4 5—233-POINT GOALS: Arlington 8 (Hunter 3, Cavinee 3, Metzger 2); Elmwood 1 (Traxler).REBOUNDS: Arlington 24; Elmwood 19.TURNOVERS: Arlington 8; Elmwood 13. ADA 56 P-GILBOA 37PANDORA – Ada pitched a first quarter shutout, surged ahead 36-9 at the half and steam-rolled its way to a 56-37 BVC win over Pandora-Gilboa.Zack Zimmerman pumped in 22 points as Ada improved to 12-6 overall and 5-4 in the BVC. Cory Gerten had 14 points for P-G, which dropped its sixth straight game and fell to 7-10, 4-4 in the league.ADA (12-6)Oldfield 1-0—2, Zimerman 9-3—22, Stauffer 2-0—4, Conley 1-6—8, Zoladz 2-3—7, McKeon 3-0—8, Hickman 2-0—5. TOTALS: 20-12—56.P-GILBOA (7-10)Gerten 6-0—14, Verhoff 1-3—5, Meyer 2-2—6, A. Buell 2-0—4, J. Buell 3-2—8. TOTALS: 14-7—37.Ada 13 23 8 12—56P-Gilboa 0 9 17 11—373-POINT GOALS: Ada 4 (McKeon 2, Hickman, Zimmerman); Pandora-Gilboa 2 (Gerten 2). MCCOMB 61LEIPSIC 32MCCOMB – The target number for McComb seemed to be 15 and the Panthers hit it right on the nose in three of the four quarters of Friday's 61-32 BVC win over Leipsic.Sophomore wing Luke Kern had a monster game in leading McComb (6-12, 1-7 BVC) to its first league win. The 6-foot-1 sophomore had a 19-point, 17-rebound double-double while also stocking the stat sheet with seven assists and six steals.Grady Schroeder added 15 points and Casen Stateler had 13 for the Panthers.Tyson Beckman led Leipsic (3-14, 1-7 BVC) with eight points and Calvin Miller and Kash Walther had seven each.LEIPSIC (3-14)Miller 3-0—7, Hernandez 1-0—3, Beckman 3-0—8, Walther 3-1—7, Bryan 1-0—2, Eagleson 1-0—3, Garcia 1-0—2. TOTALS: 12-51 3-4—32.MCCOMB (6-12)Stateler 3-6—13, Kern 7-5—19, Gonzales 3-1—7, Schroeder 6-0—15, Hendsen 1-2—4, Halker 1-0—2. TOTALS: 21-42 15-19—61.Leipsic 2 10 14 6—32McComb 15 16 15 15—613-POINT GOALS: Leipsic 5 (Miller, Hernandez, Beckman 2, Eagleson); McComb 4 (Schroeder 3, Stateler)REBOUNDS: Leipsic 24 (Carrillo 4, Eagleson 4); McComb 38 (Kern 17, Stateler 8).TURNOVERS: Leipsic 13; McComb 17.