Louisville Leopards at St. Ignatius Wildcats 2020 Boys Basketball Highlights
St. Ignatius 68, Louisville 30
The Louisville Leopards Boys Varsity Basketball Team fell to the host St. Ignatius Wildcats at Sullivan Gym Friday Night. The loss snaps the Leopards four game winning streak as they drop to 9-5 on the season.
Allen Staley scored a team-high 9 points to lead the Leopards. Collin Chambers also hit a pair of three-pointers and finished with 8. Scotty Gronow also added 4.
St. Ignatius led the entire way in taking an 11-6 lead at the end of the first and expanding their advantage to 29-13 at the break. Louisville began the second half on an 8-1 run to cut the deficit to single digits at 30-21, but that would be the smallest the gap would get.
The Wildcats answered with a 13-2 run to take a 20-point lead before a Colton Jones‘ Leopard three-pointer made it 43-26 at the two minute mark of the third quarter. Iggy followed that with a 19-0 run over the next six and half minutes to take an insurmountable 62-26 advantage.
St. Ignatius was led by Senior Guard Chase Toppin who scored a game-high 20 points. Senior Griffin Hanna also hit home 3 three-pointers in scoring 13 and Sophomore Guard Jonathan Effertz added 7. Thirteen different Wildcats scored from the field during the contest.
St. Ignatius now leads the all-time series 2-1 as they also won last year’s meeting 60-55 at Louisville. The Leopards erased a 16-point deficit to win the first ever meeting between the two schools 67-65 at the Alliance Christmas Classic in 2015.
JV: St. Ignatius 56, Louisville 41
Freshman: St. Ignatius 53, Louisville 27
UP NEXT: The Leopards will next challenge the Warren JFK Eagles in a rare Sunday game as part of the McKinley Classic. Game time is set for 4:30 PM on January 26 at Canton Memorial Fieldhouse.
VARSITY STATISTICS
WILDCATS 68, LEOPARDS 30
Team 1-2-3-4–TOTAL
Louisville 6-7-13-4–30
St. Ignatius 11-18-20-19–68
LEOPARDS: Staley 3 2-2 9, Chambers 3 0-0 8, Gronow 2 0-0 4, Jones 1 0-0 3, Boldon 1 0-0 2, Noble 1 0-0 2, Pickens 1 0-1 2, King 0 0-1 0. TOTAL 12 2-4 30.
3-Pointers (4): Chambers 2, Jones, Staley
Team FT: 2-4 50%
WILDCATS: Toppin 8 3-4 20, G. Hanna 4 2-2 13, Z. Effertz 2 2-2 7, Lamirand 1 2-2 4, Mangan 2 0-0 4, Spear 2 0-0 4, Yarian 2 0-0 4, Blake 1 0-0 2, E. Hanna 1 0-0 2, Mattimore 1 0-0 2, Nunez 1 0-0 2, Szczepaniak 1 0-0 2, Yontek 1 0-0 2. TOTAL 27 9-10 68.
3-Pointers (5): G. Hanna 3, Effert, Toppin
Team FT: 9-10 90%
Fouls: 13-11 St. Ignatius
Turnovers: 24-8 Louisville
Records: Louisville 9-5
JV: St. Ignatius 56, Louisville 41
JV STATISTICS
WILDCATS 56, LEOPARDS 41
Team 1-2-3-4–TOTAL
Louisville 18-8-8-7–41
St. Ignatius 10-15-18-13–56
LEOPARDS: Aljancic 5 0-0 15, Boldon 5 0-0 13, King 2 2-2 6, Cherry 1 3-5 5, Haren 1 0-0 2. TOTAL 14 5-7 41.
3-Pointers (8): Aljancic 5, Boldon 3
Team FT: 5-7 71%
WILDCATS: Green 5 0-3 11, Szczepaniah 3 3-3 9, Fletcher 1 6-6 8, Ruddy 3 0-0 7, McConnville 3 0-0 6, Lauch 2 0-0 4, Mell 2 0-2 4, Davis 1 0-1 3, Bodamer 1 0-0 2, Hyland 1 0-0 2. TOTAL 22 9-12 56.
3-Pointers (3):
Team FT: 9-12 75%
Fouls: 17-13 Louisville
Turnovers: 13-12 Louisville
Records: Louisville 11-3
