Boys Basketball Pounces on Panthers 61-45

Louisville 61, Perry 45

The Louisville Leopards Boys Varsity Basketball earned a 61-45 victory over the visiting Perry Panthers Monday Night at LHS. With the win, Louisville is now 6-2 on the season.

Drew Noble scored a team-high 19 points, pulled down a game-high 12 rebounds, and also had a game-high 3 blocks to lead the Leopards. Chris Libertore also dropped in 15 points and Jake Pukys added 12. Both Libertore and Pukys pulled down 6 rebounds and recorded 5 assists each for Louisville.

The Leopards jumped out to an 8-3 lead, but the Panthers roared back with an 11-0 run to go ahead 14-8. Louisville would knot the game back up at 17-17 when Pukys hit his third triple in the final seconds of the first quarter.

Perry scored the first 6 points of the second frame and held that advantage for more than half the quarter. However, Louisville scored the final 12 points of the half to take a 35-29 advantage into the break.

The Leopards carried their run into the third quarter in building a double digit lead. Altogether, Louisville’s 17-0 run held Perry scoreless for a span of 6:09 of gametime. To follow that up, the Leopards would tack on 10 more points before the Panthers would score from the field again. This gave Louisville their biggest advantage of the night at 50-32 and they cruised to victory after that.

The Panthers were led by Wyatt Vega who scored a game-high 22 points and tallied 3 blocks. Kyle Blend also made 3 three-pointers & scored 15 and Jetty Mercier finished with 3 steals for Perry.

The Leopards have now beaten the Panthers two straight times after Perry won the previous 12 meetings before that. Louisville stills trails the all-time series 15-29, which includes a 9-12 mark at home. This is the first time the Panthers have journeyed to Louisville since January 20, 1989 (PHS won 66-45) and the first time the Leopards have defeated Perry at LHS since a 57-48 win back on January 7, 1983. Louisville is now 3-1 against out of conference foes this season.

UP NEXT: The Leopards will next host the Green Bulldogs on Saturday, January 2. JV will begin at 6:00 PM and Varsity will follow around 7:30 PM.

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VARSITY STATISTICS

LEOPARDS 61, PANTHERS 45

Team 1-2-3-4–TOTAL

Perry 17-12-7-9–45

Louisville 17-18-18-8–61

Perry Panthers at Louisville Leopards Boys Basketball Box Score 12-28-2015

Records: Louisville 5-2

JV: Louisville 61, Perry 55

The Leopards Boys JV Team rallied to down the visiting Panthers 61-55 Monday Night at LHS. With the victory, Louisville improves to 4-3 on the season.

Brandon Wahl scored 11 of his game-high 16 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Leopards. Jared Mathie also poured in 12 and Bryce Zuppe added 9 for Louisville.

The Leopards trailed by double digits in the first half, but stormed back with a run that started at the end of the third. They used an 11-0 run to go ahead 47-40 midway through the fourth quarter. Perry got as close as 57-55, but Louisville hit their free throws down the stretch to take the game.

The Panthers were led by Williams who scored a team-high 15. Perry also had three others reach double digits and they included: Stokes 13, David Wertz 12, and Centeno 10.

JV STATISTICS

LEOPARDS 61, PANTHERS 55

PANTHERS: Williams 7 1-2 15, Stokes 5 3-3 13, Wertz 4 2-2 12, Centeno 3 4-5 10, Kimble 1 0-0 3, Trcharn 1 0-1 2. TOTAL 21 10-13 55.

3-Pointers (3): Wertz (2), Kimble

Team FT: 10-13 77%

LEOPARDS: Wahl 3 9-9 16, Mathie 5 1-3 12, Zuppe 2 5-6 9, Chaplik 3 1-2 7, Birone 2 0-0 5, Weston 2 0-0 4, Davis 1 1-2 3, Johnson 1 1-2 3, Jones 1 0-2 2. TOTAL 20 18-26 61.

3-Pointers (3): Birone, Mathie, Wahl

Team FT: 18-26 69%

Team 1-2-3-4–TOTAL

Perry 18-9-13-15–55

Louisville 11-12-15-23–61

Fouls: 21-10 Perry

Turnovers: 14-14

Records: Louisville 4-3