Two Wayne seniors made the District 15 Senior All Star Team.
Jordan Bazile and Lamar Mallory earned District 15 Senior All Star status. They will participate in the Senior All Star Game next month.
Two Wayne sophomores, Markus Crider and Travis Trice Jr., were named to the District 15 All Underclassman team.
Trice Jr. was named the District 15 Underclassman Player of the Year.
According to head coach Travis Trice, the Senior All Star Game will take place Tuesday, March 31 at Springboro High School.
Wayne draws third clash against Beavercreek after opening win The Wayne boys basketball team closed out the season with two wins, including a Senior Night celebration before advancing to the second round of the sectional tournament.
The Warriors will play No. 18-seeded Beavercreek this coming Tuesday at 7 p.m.
If it advances, Wayne will meet the winner of the No. 10 Lebanon vs. No. 13 Fairborn game in the sectional final next Sunday, March 8.
Wayne 85, Belmont 71
Wayne (16-5) advanced to the sectional semifinal game with a 85-71 win over Dayton Belmont.
Sophomore Markus Crider led all scorers with 28 points and Travis Trice Jr. followed up with 24 points.
The Warriors took a 19-4 lead, led by Markus Crider's nine first-quarter points. The sophomore scored from beyond the 3-point arc and also added a slam dunk for a 21-6 lead.
Belmont caught Wayne napping and stormed back in the second quarter, and Wayne led by just one point at the half, 34-33. Belmont hit a trey at the first-half buzzer.
"It started off great. We came out to play," said Trice, who charged his team with going through the motions later in the game. The Bison outscored Wayne 26-16 in the second quarter.
"We got a little bit tired, and that's when it comes down to mental toughness," he said. "I try and test these guys every chance that I get about being mentally tough."
Trice said Wayne's mental toughness was tested when the Warriors had an early 15-point lead.
"You're up 15 points, you're going, then you go up to 25. You don't come down to a tie game, or a one-point game at halftime. That's not being mentally tough."
Belmont took a one-point lead to start the second half. A Crider layup gave Wayne a 3-point lead, then Belmont tied it with a trey. Wayne answered with a 19-4 run to take its largest lead at 62-45.
Senior Lamar Mallory missed the first half to serve suspension time, but helped Wayne hold off the Bison with 13 points and five rebounds in 13 minutes off the bench.
Seniors Jordan Bazile and Devin Bartlett, and sophomore Tre' Moore, also served team suspensions Monday night.
"If they decide to do the right things, we'll have them back," said Trice. "I told them, 'one guy can't stop the show. We have to move on.' If guys want to be on the team's page, then we'll take them. If they don't, then we have to cut our ties and we're got to move on."
The fourth quarter was a shootout that Wayne survived, 27-26.
"Our defense is horrible," said Trice. "We have the ability to be a lock-down defensive team, but we don't have the mindset to be a defensive stuffing team. We want to get up for the big games. That's why these kinds of games, where you think you're supposed to win, are the scary games. Our guys' mindset itsn't, 'let's put them away.'"
Crider scored 17 points in the second half. Trice said Crider's 28 points
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