South Carroll boys basketball team behind senior Ryan McTavish routed Catoctin 76-31 Wednesday evening in Winfield.
McTavish scored as many points as the visiting Cougars. It is closing in as the Cavaliers all-time scorer in school history. His 31 points puts him at 1,403 for his career. He is chasing Bobby Briggs, who had 1,437. Also in his sights is Westminster’s Herman Costley, who is the county’s all-time scorer at 1,487.
McTavish scored on six two-pointers and four three-pointers to go along with seven foul shots.
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"We knew this team came in with a low record, but we had to work and get ready to play for the playoffs," said South Carroll coach Doug Goff. "So we had to try to get better at something and we had a couple things we picked out to and said we are going to try to work on these things. If the score got ugly, we weren’t going to worry about. I told their coach and the coach was fine with it. The fans didn’t like it, but they don’t understand the whole big picture. I thought we got better today, which is what we wanted to do."
South Carroll scored first and the Cougars answered to knot the score at 2-all. From there it was all South Carroll as they led 18-2 at the end of the first eight minutes of play.
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South Carroll coach Doug Goff got playing time foe everyone on the team , as eight Cavaliers scored in the contest.
Scoring behind McTavish was his brother Gavin, 13; Eric Hunsberger, 10; Dan Mullen and Liam Bates, seven each; Ryan MacIvor and Shane Martin, three each and Ryan Tate, two.
The Cavaliers lost to Catoctin last year when they visited the Frederick County team. Asked if last year’s game came up in the locker room, Goff said, ``A little.’’
Catoctin was led by Tyler Smith was 15 points. The Cougars fall to 3-16 for the season.
South Carroll improved to 20-1 on the season and plays host to Thomas Johnson Friday night. The game is senior night and the Cavaliers have five seniors Hunsberger, Ryan McTavish, MacIvor, Shane Martin and Jeff Martin.
South Carroll also captured the junior varsity contest, 52-32. Cavalier coach Jim Shea had many players in the scoring column. Stephen Walker led the victors with 11 points and Tyler Alcid added 10. Also scoring for South Carroll was Philip Breno, seven; Zachary Brown, six; Cooper Bowers, five; David Bacca and John Quinn, four each; and Matthew Dee, three.