Andy Close
RUSSELL, Pa. – Freshman Austin Hanson scored a career-high 27 points to power Eisenhower to a 51-41 win over Saegertown.
Rewatch the game:
Eisenhower (9-2 overall, 2-0 Region 3) went on a 16-8 run in the second quarter to take a 26-14 halftime advantage.
Hanson hit a pair of 3’s in the quarter and scored 11 of Eisenhower’s 16 points in the frame on his way to Allegheny Grille of Foxburg Player of the Game honors.
“We played hard straight out of the gate,” Hanson said during the Cole Orthodontic Associates postgame interview. “We jumped out to a pretty big lead early and that helped our momentum. We always want to come out strong.”
See Hanson’s full interview:
Saegertown (7-5, 2-1) got as close as four, 28-24 in the third quarter on a Luke Young bucket with 3:27 to go in the third quarter, but a Casey Seymour bucket started a 10-4 Eisenhower run to end the quarter and put the Knights back up by ten, 36-26.
Seymour finished with eight points for Eisenhower, while Kyler Black netted nine. Included in Hanson’s 27 points were a 9-of-9 effort from the free throw line. Hanson’s previous high-point total came against Portville in the second game of the season when he scored 24.
Cody Huson scored 10 of his team-high 11 points in the second half for Saegertown, while Young scored eight of his 10 in the second half as well. Jackson Scott added nine points for the Panthers.
Eisenhower returns to action Friday at Maplewood.
