| For 50 seconds in the third quarter of the Oil City game against North East it was freshman Isiah Van Wormer's show and the rest of the those in Meadville's The House of Thrills just had to watch. He came off the bench when Oiler center Mike Fink had to sit out with four fouls. Van Wormer started by tossing up a three. No sooner had the ball dropped through the net that it was inbounded and stolen. Van Wormer then drove and laid it in. In a flurry of activity the ball again never made it over half court and the hot handed Van Wormer was given the ball again and since he was 'feeling it', he drilled another three-pointer less than twenty seconds after dropping the first one. After a time out and a North East score Van Wormer got the ball back and scored his tenth point in under a minute. It was the spark the Oilers needed. The first half was sloppy and North East didn't have a lot of trouble finding a lane to score. The blue and white found themselves down by ten at the end of the first quarter and though they played pretty even with the pickers in the second they went into the half down nine. The Region 5 champs needed to change something up in the second half. They slowly started creepy back after going down ten again early.. Defensively they were getting in North East's face and started blocking shots. They got to with three and that's when Van Wormer exploded changing the momentum. The Oilers scored nearly fifty second half points to go on to win 77-69 at Meadville High School. They drilled home a dozen three pointers and went 11 for 14 from the line. Five players were in double figures. The fourth quarter was especially crazy with the Oilers outscoring North East 28-21 The score was tied at 60 with three minutes to go. The Oiler defense stiffened and through a number of steals, traveling calls on North East and going 9 for 12 from the line down the stretch the Oilers cruised to the end winning by eight. Nevin Stinson led all scorers with 24. Five Oiler were in double figures. Freshman Easton Leiderbach had 14, Steven Heise and Van Wormer each had 13 and Fink had 10. Brady Fulmer had an early three pointer to round out the scoring. North East had three in double fibures with Dillon Rodgers leading with 18, Carter Crozier was right behind him with and Willie Shunk with 15. Colin Cunningham scored 8, Braydon Cornman added 7 and Jayden Whitman had 4. Oil City will move on to face the 21-1 Cathedral Prep Ramblers on Friday at a site and time to be determined. The two met earlier in the season with the Ramblers winning 115-55 at the Franklin holiday tournament.The high scoring ramblers have scored 90 points or more in 14 games this season. |        |
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