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Greenville junior Clay Guillozet looks for an open lane as Piqua
sophomore Nate Monnin defends.
Guillozet scored a game high 34 for thw
Wave as Greenville went to 8-0 in the GWOC North with a
73-60 win over
the Indians. CNO Photos By Dylan Knoop
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Wave train
continues to roll in huge GWOC win over Piqua
Guillozet nets 34 to lead the way
By George Starks
GREENVILLE- If basketball were determined by the amount of three point
shots made in a game, Greenville would have been blown out of its own
gym.
Piqua dropped in an even dozen from beyond the arch Tuesday but it
wasn’t near enough to beat Greenville.
Wave junior Clay Guillozet dropped in a game high 34 points as
Greenville dropped a 73-60 loss on the Indians.
More importantly, the win kept the Wave perfect in the Greater Western
Ohio North Division (8-0) and improved Greenville to 15-3 overall.
When Greenville and Piqua meet, it’s usually a battle and Tuesday
proved to be a testament to that.
“I think we are built pretty similar to what they are,” said Wave coach
Mike Bayshore. “They (Piqua) shot the ball tremendously well. They had
12 threes and they have two legit on that team that can shoot the ball
well (sophomore Storm Cook and junior Colton Bachman). We knew coming
in, we were going to have our hands full.”
In the first meeting of the two teams, Greenville topped Piqua on the
road by seven points.
The margin of victory was 13 the second time around but it was a hard
fought 13 point win.
“We knew coming in that we had to stay within our self offensively,”
admitted Bayshore. “We felt that was their weakness (the inability to
stay within themselves). I knew if we stayed focused and executed on
that end of the floor, we would get where we needed to be in the end.”
At the break, Greenville held a 38-27 advantage but it was far from
over and Bayshore’s message was a simple one at the half.
“I told them we just had to keep playing. We just had to go out there
and do what we do,” said Bayshore. “We had to keep executing and we had
to limit them to one shot every time down the floor which I thought we
did a great job at. We had to keep crashing the boards. We made a
living in the first half on offensive rebounds.”
With three quarters in the books, Greenville held a slim eight point
lead, 56-47.
The Wave opened up the final frame with a deuce from Guillozet.
Piqua countered with a trey from Bachman and with 7:00 showing on the
game clock, it was game on.
The two teams hit each other with all they day in a Frazier-Ali type of
a match. One team countering what the other team could throw at them.
With 5:02 remaining, Cook calmly dropped in a pair from the line for
the Tribe and the Indians were still within striking distance at 62-54.
Not to be outdone, Greenville hit three of its next four from the line,
one by Guillozet and two from junior Codi Byrd and the Wave went back
up by double digits, 65-54 at the 3:28 mark of the game.
From that point it was Greenville doing its version of the hit and hit
again and with 1:18 remaining, it was all over but the shouting as
Greenville was up, 70-59.
With sectionals right around the corner and Greenville looking at a
possible top seed, Bayshore saw some areas for improvement.
“I real need to improve on or perimeter defense a little bit,” Bayshore
remarked. “Other than thay, maybe we can learn to handle the pressure a
little bit better. I think we played pretty well overall.”
Looking like a well-oiled machine at times, Bayshore has some fine
tuning to do but is pleased at what he’s seeing.
“We’ve got a ways to go yet but I’m happy with where we are,” said
Bayshore. “We clinched a tie for the conference tonight. I’m happy.”
Greenville needs one more win in the GWOC North to claim the title
outright and that chance will come Friday night at Trotwood-Madison.
The final GWOC game will be at Greenville with Sidney.
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Senior Allen Tabler hits for two in the paint against Piqua.
Tabler netted nine in the Greenville win.
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