CUMBERLAND — Four Allegany scorers reached double figures and the top-seeded Campers roared through the second half in eliminating fifth-seeded Fort Hill, 80-44, in the Class 1A West section semifinals Tuesday night at Campobello.
The unbeaten Campers extended their winning streak to 21 games by beating the Sentinels for the fifth straight time, and third time this year.
Allegany (21-0) will host the sectional championship game on Thursday, at 7 p.m., against the winner of tonight’s Southern-Mountain Ridge game.
Casey Roberts foiled a triangle-and-two defense with a game-high 23 points, Dustin Wharton had 19, Adam Boor 13 and Jordan Grady 10 for Allegany.
Roberts also grabbed 12 rebounds and had three assists, Wharton had five assists, five rebounds and three steals and Grady nine rebounds and three assists.
Andy Plummer hit three 3-point goals and led Fort Hill (13-7) with 11 points. Will Harriss had 10 and Paden Yonker eight.
Allegany moved a 19-11 first-quarter lead to 39-21 at the half, then outscored Fort Hill by 41-13 over the final two quarters.
The winner of Thursday’s sectional championship game will play for the region title and trip to the state tournament on Saturday at Frostburg State. Both region finals will be at FSU that day, with the girls championship game at 2 o’clock, followed by the boys at 4.
Southern 50
Northern 49
FROSTBURG — Calvin Hilliard hit a pair of free throws with 12.5 seconds to go as third-seeded Southern edged sixth-seeded Northern in their Class 1A West Region first-round playoff game.
The teams resumed their Garrett County rivalry at Mountain Ridge, which hosted a game that was to have been played at Southern Saturday night but was postponed several times because of wintry weather.
Southern (12-8) plays second-seeded Mountain Ridge tonight, at Mountain Ridge, at 7 p.m. The winner will play at Allegany in the sectional final on Thursday.
Last night only four players scored for Southern but all four reached double figures. D.J. Ritchie hit five 3-point goals and had 17 points, Hilliard had 12, Joe Kisselovich 11 and Ben Meyers 10.
Matt Gibson had a game-high 19 points for Northern (8-11), and Cody Humberson added 10.
Northern led 33-29 entering the fourth quarter and was up 49-48 when Hilliard canned the tying and go-ahead free throws. The Huskies got the final shot, a 10- to 12-foot jumper along the baseline, but was unable to convert.
A close game throughout, Southern’s largest lead was six points, and Northern’s largest was five.
Hilliard had nine of his 12 points in the Rams’ 20-point fourth quarter. Two of Ritchie’s 3-pointers came in the period, one with a minute to go that gave the Rams the lead.
Gibson made five field goals and 9-of-10 foul shots. He had 15 of his 19 points in a big second half for the Huskies.
Frankfort 51
Petersburg 40
SHORT GAP, W.Va. — Logan Wolford scored 14 points and top-seeded Frankfort pulled away from fourth-seeded Petersburg in the third quarter and advanced to the Class AA, Region 2, Section 1 championship game.
Frankfort (12-9) will host the sectional final on Friday, at 7:30, against the winner of last night’s Keyser-Berkeley Springs game.
Wolford made four field goals and 6-of-9 foul shots to lead all scorers. Marcus Weaver had a pair of 3-point goals and 10 points, Rob Heltzel had nine points and James Jones seven points and a team-high 13 rebounds. Dusty Myers added eight rebounds.
Matt Mongold had 11 points and Marcus Hahn and Josh Evans eight for Petersburg (8-10).
“The third quarter made the difference for us. We came out and played well and extended a 1-point lead (20-19) to 10,’’ said Frankfort coach Scott Slider. “We played pretty smart offensively, controlling the ball, and continued to play good defense the rest of the way.”
Petersburg led 10-9 after one quarter, and Frankfort was up 20-19 at the half, before outscoring the Vikings 17-7 in the third.
