Warriors Capture Fourth Consecutive
NECC Tourney Title
By Jerry Hostetler
On Saturday, January 12 the West- tournament championship.
view Warriors captured their fourth
The Warriors drew a bye in the
consecutive Northeast Corner Confer- tournament and met the Hamilton
ence Tournament championship with a Marines in the quarter-final round
heart-stopping 52-49 overtime victory at Hamilton on Wednesday, January
over a very gritty and hard-fighting
9. Westview dispatched the Marines
Fairfield Falcon team.
with an impressive 86-33 victory. Kyle
Senior Kyle Miller led the way
Miller led the way for the Warriors,
for the Warriors with blazing shootscoring 23 points, followed by Jordyn
ing beyond the arc. Miller hit 5 three
Bontrager with 14 points and Chandler
pointers to go along with one regular
Aspy with 10.
field goal and three free throws to finWestview’s next stop in their
ish the night with 22 points. Miller’s
championship run was West Noble.
hot-shooting started with 1:50 to go
The Chargers had also drawn a bye
in the second quarter when he canned in the tournament and were coming
his first three. The half-time break cer- off an easy victory at Lakeland two
tainly had no affect on his hot shooting nights earlier and they were bringing
as Miller came out in the third quaran undefeated 10-0 record into semiter hitting four more 3’s in the first
final action. The Warriors also brought
six minutes of the period. Miller and
an impressive 9-1 mark into the game.
teammate Nic Raber also contributed
West Noble got off to a good start outin a big way for Coach Rob Yoder’s War- scoring Westview in the first quarter
riors at the free throw line by making
16-15. The Warriors outscored the
key freebies down the stretch in reguChargers in the second quarter 13-6 to
lation. Miller hit two free throws with take a 28-22 lead into the locker room
12 seconds remaining in the fourth
at half-time. West Noble tightened the
quarter to pull the Warriors within one margin after the half, outscoring Westof the Falcons. After Fairfield’s Marcus view 12-10 in the third period narrowRhodes made one of two free throws to ing the Warrior margin to just a four
give the Falcons a two point lead with
point lead. Westview then outscored
just 8.8 seconds on the clock in regula- West Noble in the final quarter 21-16
tion, Westview inbounded, Nic Raber
to cruise to a 59-50 win, giving the
was fouled and went to the charity
Warriors a berth in the championship
stripe with 6.6 seconds to go in regula- at Westview against long-time rival
tion and made two huge free throws
Fairfield. Jordyn Bontrager turned in
to tie the game. Fairfield’s desperation his best performance offensively of his
shot at the buzzer fell well short of the varsity career against West Noble with
mark sending the game to overtime.
a personal high 19 points with 10 from
In overtime Fairfield scored first,
the field and 9 from the charity stripe.
then Westview scored three unanNic Raber also helped the Warrior
swered points to take a 47-45 lead with cause scoring 16 points and sophomore
2:15 to go in the overtime period. The
Chandler Aspy chipped in 11.
Falcons pulled within one as 6-5 center
Kyle Miller was 9 for 12 from beBrad Lantz hit one of two free throws
yond the three-point line for a sizzling
with 1:51 in the O.T.. Jordyn Bontrager 75% shooting for the tourney, while
then iced the Warrior win by convertJordyn Bontrager led the way at the
ing two free throws with 6.9 seconds
charity stripe by hitting 17 of 20 free
on the clock, giving Westview the
throws for 85%.
See inside front
cover for NECC
Championship Photo.
Sophomore Chandler Aspy takes time to smile
at the crowd while cutting the net after an
exciting win over Fairfield on Sat., Jan. 12 to
win the NECC Tourney Title.
Junior Jordyn
Bontrager cuts
across the court
looking for an
open teammate
in the exciting
game against
Fairfield for the
NECC Tourney
Title.
Sports photos by
Abby Wenger
Senior Nic Raber gets the
tip-off for the Warriors
to the sound of a roaring
crowd in the exciting game
against Fairfield for the
NECC Tourney Title.
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