Seeing the future

Woodstown’s White has breakout game at Pennsville, includes scores and stats from Tuesday’s high school boys basketball games involving teams from Salem County

TUESDAY’S GAMES
Pitman 61, Salem 58
Woodstown 68, Pennsville 30
Overbrook 58, Penns Grove 43
Glassboro 72, Schalick 45
Clayton 126, Salem Tech 62

By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News

PENNSVILLE – Woodstown coach Ramon Roots’ focus was clearly on the present Tuesday night, but he also got a pretty good glimpse of the future.

The Wolverines had their way with Pennsville in a 68-30 win. It was the kind of game that gave them a chance to do a lot of things, play a lot of different people.

Impressed by his play in a weekend loss to Bridgeton last time out, Roots gave Andrew White his most appreciable minutes of the season and the freshman didn’t disappoint.

White scored a career-high nine points, grabbed four rebounds and blocked a shot.

“At the beginning of the year, like at practice and stuff, you would see glimpses of what he can be,” Roots said. “He’s going to be a big piece of the program in the future. He just got kind of lost in the rotation a little bit, but he’s always been that type of player.

“Then in the Bridgeton game I just happened to try something. He only had like a 2-3 minute stint, but in the first couple possessions he got back-to-back rebounds and he got a putback. I’ve just been impressed at what he’s been doing in practice and the JV level. He’s been working his way up and he’s going to keep on adding minutes.”

White did most of his damage in the second half. He scored eight points in a 32-point third quarter that left the Wolverines with a 37-point lead.

“This means a lot,” he said. “It shows on the varsity level that I can do it.”

As White spoke one of his teammates draped the Wolverine medallion indicative of the game’s MVP around his neck.

“This means everything,” he said. “I worked my butt off to get the chain.”

The big third quarter was the Wolverines’ first 30-point quarter of the season and more than doubled their point production for the game. They opened the half with four straight 3-pointers, two by Alejandro Vazquez and one each from Garrett Leyman and Eli Caesar. The Wolverines hit seven in the game.

Six different players scored in the third quarter, nine players scored in the game.

“Our tempo in the first half was slow,” Roots said. “I was telling the guys before the game let’s pass the ball inside. I think they thought I meant be passive. I was explaining we had 12, 12 and then we had 30. We had more (points) there than in the first half combined.”

Among the other future leanings Roots worked into the game was getting White and fellow freshman Branden Hall on the floor at the same time and giving junior Blake Bialecki extended minutes at point guard. Hall had four points in the third quarter. Bialecki didn’t score in the game, but he dished at least a half-dozen assists in the first half, four in the first quarter.

WOODSTOWN 68, PENNSVILLE 30
WOODSTOWN (12-5): Eli Caesar 3 0-0 7, John McGindley 0 0-0 0, Blake Bialecki 0 0-0 0, Alejandro Vazquez 4 0-0 11, Josh King 1 0-2 2, Garrett Leyman 3 0-1 7, Anthony Bokolas 0 0-0 0, Andrew White 4 1-2 9, Sid Leavy 1 0-0 2, Rocco String 7 0-0 14, Lucas Fulmer 0 0-0 0, Brayden Hall 4 0-0 7, Connor Miller 3 0-0 7. Totals 30 1-5 68.
PENNSVILLE (2-17): Perry Meranti 0 0-0 0, Jovanni Rios 6 2-7 14, Cole Johnston 0 0-0 0, Mason O’Brien 2 0-0 5, C.J. McDevitt 1 2-3 4, Danny Knight 0 0-0 0, Shilon Jefferson 1 0-0 2, Logan Hitt 0 0-0 0, Arturus Frantzy 1 0-0 2, Jacob Miller 0 0-0 0, Griffin Hern 1 0-0 3, Gavin Spears 0 0-0 0
Noah Owen 0 0-0 0, J.P. Laughrey 0 0-0 0. Totals 12 4-10 30.

Woodstown	12	12	32	12-	68
Pennsville	7	4	8	11-	30

PITMAN 61, SALEM 58
SALEM (8-10): Xavier McGriff 2 0-0 6, Neziah Spence 6 0-0 14, Tymear Lecator 8 1-3 19, Deshaan Williams 5 4-4 14, Antwan Rogers 1 0-0 2, Joe Tunis 0 1-2 1, Azhone Burden 1 0-0 2, Donovan Weathers 0 0-0 0. Totals 23 6-9 58.
PITMAN (13-3): Hudson Rue 1 0-0 2, Elijah Crispin 8 8-11 27, Greg Peterson 3 0-0 8, Michael Fisicaro 5 1-2 14, Aidan Stranahan 4 2-2 10. Totals 21 13-15 61.

Salem	11	7	24	16-	58
Pitman	19	15	13	14-	61

OVERBROOK 58, PENNS GROVE 43
OVERBROOK (17-2): Lamar Little 3-0-8, Xavier Wright 4-0-8, Zair Green 6-0-12, Elvin Santiago 1-0-2, Bilal Robinson 9-0-20, J.R. Stanley 2-0-5, Jayden Wilkerson 1-0-2, Jaden St. John 0-1-1. Totals 26-1-58.
PENNS GROVE (9-9): Will Roy 1-0-3, B.J. Robbins 0-0-0, Roman Gipson 5-7-17, Karon Ceaser 2-2-6, Antoine Robinson 0-0-0, Jameel Horace 8-1-17, Luis Colon 0-0-0, Jeremy Costacamps 0 0-0 0. Totals 16-10-43.

Overbrook	10	18	17	13-	58
Penns Grove	10	13	12	8-	43

GLASSBORO 72, SCHALICK 45
SCHALICK (5-15): Reggie Allen 4 8-8 17, Nylan Sutton 3 2-6 8, Sherrod Jones 4 2-3 10, Jamari Whitley 2 0-0 5, Jase Volovar 2 0-0 5. Totals 15 12-17 45.
GLASSBORO (7-11): William Goggans 2, Xavier Sabb 24, Tashean Thomas 9, Davon Barr 2, Alex Adeleye 1, Kenny Smith 22, Aiden Harris 10, Marley Crowl 2. No other details reported.

Schalick	16	6	9	14-	45
Glassboro	14	16	23	19-	72

CLAYTON 126, SALEM TECH 62
CLAYTON (9-10): Princeton Sackor 9 4-5 22, Nazir Davis 9 0-0 23, Demetris Williams 8 0-0 17, Josiel Figueroa 3 0-0 6, James Fritz 6 0-2 14, Jackson Venuto 6 1-2 15, Nasir Carter 3 1-1 7, Mason Gable 3 0-0 9, Rodney Robinson 2 1-1 5, Justin Delaney 0 1-3 1, Trevor Rehm 1 0-0 3, King Mosley 1 2-2 4. Totals 51 10-16 126.
SALEM TECH (0-18): Chase Pompper 6 0-0 12, Ayden Myers 2 0-0 4, Joseph Hayes 7 1-2 15, Sam Battiato 3 0-0 6, Larry Pompper 2 0-0 4, Logan Pace 2 0-0 4, Chase Ayars 8 0-0 16. Totals 30 1-2 61.

Clayton	33	28	37	28-	126
Salem Tech	13	15	16	18-	62