Anthony DeLucca drained six 3-pointers and Dane Schutter reached the 1,000-point mark for his career with another Friday night as Wyoming Area outgunned Wyoming Seminary, 88-63, in the third-place game of the Anthony “Badger” Marseco Memorial Tournament at Old Forge.
DeLucca finished with 22 points while Schutter had 20.
Wyoming Area made 14 shots from beyond the arc in the game, doubling Wyoming Seminary’s output from long range.
“We were really on from three,” Schutter said in a phone interview. “It all started in the first quarter and we probably shot about 70 percent.”
Schutter came in needing seven points for the milestone and got there on a 3-pointer midway through a first quarter in which the Warriors raced out to a 27-19 lead.
“I knew it was just going to come naturally,” said Schutter, who is averaging more than 17 points per game despite usually drawing extra attention from opposing defenses. “I wasn’t too concerned. I was just playing my game and more importantly we were picking up a win.”
Schutter got there quickly Friday with a 3-for-3 start.
“First play of the game, I picked up an easy two,” he said. “Then, a minute later, I got another easy bucket.”
The 1,000th point came when DeLucca kicked it out to him on the left wing and Schutter did the rest.
Matt Rusinchak made two 3-pointers in the opening quarter.
While Schutter was scoring nine points in the quarter, Rusinchak, Tyler Sciandra and Brady Noone each had six.
DeLucca went to work in the second quarter as Wyoming Area stretched its lead to 45-29 at halftime. He had 11 points with the help of three 3-pointers and Luke Kopetchny also connected from long range.
The Warriors had five players score in double figures.
Kopetchny hit another 3-pointer and scored seven of his 13 points in the third quarter when the lead swelled to 68-45.
Rusinchak made the last of his three 3-pointers on the way to 11 points and DeLucca connected again from long range.
DeLucca hit his last two 3-pointers and the Warriors went 7-for-9 from the line in the fourth quarter. Schutter made his second 3-pointer during the quarter and also was 2-for-3 from the line to get to 20 points.
Noone finished with 12 points.
Wyoming Seminary’s Jack Novelli made six 3-pointers while scoring a game-high 24 points.
The Warriors improved to 6-4.
“There’s obviously a game or two that I felt like we should have won, but 6-4 is a pretty good start,” Schutter said. “I’m pretty happy going into conference play.”
Wyoming Area had not produced a 1,000-point scorer in boys basketball in 13 years, but Schutter knew it was a possibility late in his sophomore season when he began clicking at about 15 points per game. He became the 11th Warrior to reach the mark.
Jay Freid was the first in 1971, followed by: Lee Strubeck 1972, Ken Yakobitis 1982, Robert Cella 1987, Steve Orloski 1990, Kevin Conrad 1991, Tony Argo 1994, Tyrell George 2006, Guy Fasciana 2006 and Bernard Edmonds 2010.
Old Forge 68, Wyoming Area 56
Cameron Parker went on two 3-point shooting binges Wednesday night while scoring a career-high 34 points and leading Old Forge into the final of the Anthony “Badger” Marseco Tournament where it claimed the title by beating Pittston Area.
Parker made four 3-pointers while 15 second-quarter points as Old Forge turned an 18-7 deficit into a 32-28 halftime lead. He finished with seven baskets from beyond the arc by adding three more in the fourth quarter when he scored 11 of Old Forge’s 22 points as the Blue Devils pulled away from a three-point game.
The Blue Devils went 8-for-10 from the line in the fourth with Cameron Krushnowski and Dennis Fox each going 3-for-4 while Parker was hitting his two attempts.
Ryan DeMarco also hit a 3-pointer in the fourth quarter and Logan Fanning had two earlier in the game as the Blue Devils made 10.
Fanning finished with 10 points.
Anthony DeLucca made four first-half 3-pointers, including three while the Warriors were building a double-figures lead in the first quarter. He shared the Wyoming Area scoring lead of 14 points with Dane Schutter.
Tyler Sciandra had nine of his 13 points in the fourth quarter.
The Warriors struggled at the foul line, finishing 11-for-23 after going 1-for-6 in the second quarter when their lead got away.
