go in the first half. Shew-maker then was fouled onanother 3 from the rightwing and made the freethrow to make it 26-24 with3:01 to go in the half.

“I thought we got in thereand were really attackingthem at the basket. Andthey missed some easyshots, too,” Irvine said.“They missed some at pointblank, and that helps, obvi-ously. It helps get our run-ning game going. And Ithought in transition wegave them a lot of troublethere.”

A putback and a stealand three-point play fromRobby Irgang pushed thelead back to 31-24, butBeckerson’s three-pointplay with 28 seconds left inthe half made it 31-27 athalftime.

A bucket from ZackIrvine and two free throwsfrom Beckerson cut WestJessamine’s lead to 35-33with 3:05 left in the third,but the Colts (18-12) wenton 16-0 over the rest of thethird quarter and into thefourth for a 51-33 lead.

“I thought they got moreaggressive on offense anddefense and kind of took usout of what we were want-ing to do,” he said. “We’vebeen going to the line 20, 25times a game and we only

had two in the first half and11 for the game. That does-n’t fit into our strength. Welike to attack the goal andget to the line, and wedidn’t do much of eitherone.

“Their inside game is realskilled. And they really shutus down.”

Burgin never got closerthan 16 points the rest ofthe way, finishing 17 for 37from the floor and 9 for 11at the free-throw line.

“Our defense in the thirdquarter did a good job ofnot giving them buckets.The first few minutes of thethird quarter, we were set-tling for 3s and not hittingthem,” West Jessaminecoach Damon Kelley said.“We’re normally a goodshooting team and I wantmy kids to have the confi-dence to shoot whenthey’re open because theyare good shooters. Theshots weren’t falling, so wefinally started attacking therim a little bit.”

Chase Fain led West Jes-samine with 14 points, andIrgang, DeShawn Eubanksand Daulton Peters eachscored 11. West finished 24for 57 from the field andmade 9 of 11 free throws.

Burgin was withoutMyles Hill, who injured hisankle in pregame warmupsand did not play. Irvine saidthat was a loss.

“Myles is our vocalleader, and puts a lot ofphysical play on it. He’s nota big points and reboundsguy, but he would lay abody on somebody, andthat’s one less we had andwe can’t hardly stand to dothat. And that made an im-pact on us I thought,” hesaid.

But Irvine said Tuesday’sloss would not take awayfrom what was a historicalseason for Burgin, whichhad its highest win totalsince 1941.

”It was a whole body ofwork,” he said. “We didn’texpect to win 20 games. Wedon’t expect to lose any ofthem, but we don’t expectto win 20, and that’s some-thing that hasn’t been donein years and years. Itdoesn’t really stand outuntil you read it in the pa-pers, that it’s been 71 yearssince it’s been done.”

46th District TournamentAt Mercer CountySemifinalBurgin 9 27 33 46West Jessamine 21 31 46 62BURGIN (22-9) — Austin Shewmaker 7, NickBeckerson 1, Jared Robbins 7, TravisMcEachern 12, Alex Beckerson 15, Zackirvine 4.WEST JESSAMINE (18-12) — Jeff Ziemann8, Chase Fain 14, Will Henderson 3, Robby Ir-gang 11, DeShawn Eubanks 11, Heath Jack-son 4, Daulton Peters 11.

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could make them work onoffense and that would be toour advantage.”

East Jessamine plays WestJessamine in Friday’s final.e Colts beat Burgin 62-46in the other semifinal.

Russell Sims led Mercerwith 14 points and eight re-bounds, Jordan Duncan hadfive points and sevenboards, and Mercer was out-rebounded 37-27.

Ronnie Carson had 16points, Cody Collins added13 points and nine reboundsand Michael Rexroat andTashan Hairston eachscored 10 for East Jes-samine.

A putback from Simsmade it 25-11, but theJaguars closed on a 10-5 runand led 35-17 at the half.

e Jaguars were 13 for 27in the first half and finished26 for 59 from the field andmade 19 of 22 free throws.ey also had just fourturnovers in the first half,and 12 for the game.

“at’s just execution andbeing focused,” O’Bryansaid. “I liked our focus, Iliked our intensity, therewere a couple of momentswhere a couple of guys mayhave let up, but for the mostpart I thought they allbrought it the whole game. Ithought that was a greatteam effort.”

Collins scored sevenstraight points as East Jes-samine scored 15 of the first17 points of the third quarterfor a 47-15 lead. TimmyBradshaw’s 3-point thenmade it 50-21 going to thefourth quarter.

Over the second and thirdquarters, Mercer was just 6

for 24, and it made 19 of 43shots for the game. e Ti-tans were 2 for 10 from 3-point range, 3 for 8 from thefree throw line and commit-ted 18 turnovers.

Britt said not being ableto run hurt his team.

“ey didn’t pressure usas much, and that elimi-nated the transition bas-kets,” Britt said. “ey’re oneof the most athletic teams inour region, and senior-dom-inated and very experi-enced.”

O’Bryan said the key wasnot letting Mercer get outand run.

“eir transition haskilled us the first two games,and we had to try and limitthat,” he said. “I think in thefirst half they only got one,and a couple in the secondhalf, and that was key, mak-ing sure we got back.”

e Titans return the bulkof their team next season,losing only seniors AustinHorn, Matthew Hamiltonand Nathan McGinnis, andBritt said this has been agreat season of learning.

“What we gained from itis we can’t step on the floor,just like any other team, andexpect to win,” he said. “Get-ting better happens in theoffseason, getting betterhappens over the summer.And there’s a lot of things wecan get better at.”

46th District TournamentAt Mercer CountySemifinalEast Jessamine 15 35 52 75Mercer County 9 17 21 43EAST JESSAMINE (26-4) — CameronThomas 7, C.J. Boyd 6, Tashan Hairston 6,Michael Rexroat 10, Taylor Harper 10, MikeJones 2, Ronnie Carson 16, Cody Collins 13,Timmy Bradshaw 5.MERCER (9-22)— Chris Goodman 5, John In-gram 5, Drew Davis 4, Russell Sims 14, AustinSparrow 4, Louis Price 4, Jordan Duncan 5,Tommy Craig 2.

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Jawan Grey scored 17points and Jay Hunnadded 15 as Danville ad-vanced to the semifinals ofthe boys 45th DistrictTournament with an 81-8victory over KentuckySchool for the Deaf in afirst-round game Tuesdayat Stanford.

Danville dealt KSD itsworst loss ever and heldthe Colonels to their low-est point total in 82 years,according to KSD assistantByron Wilson.

The fourth-seeded Ad-mirals will play host andNo. 1 seed Lincoln Countyin a semifinal tonight.

Rob Caudill scored ninepoints for Danville (13-14),which hit 11 3-point shots.The Admirals committedonly three turnovers andforced KSD (11-20) into 29.

The 73-point marginbroke the KSD record formargin of defeat, whichwas 69 points in a 108-39loss to McKinney in 1972.It was also the fewestpoints scored by theColonels since an 18-7 lossto Illinois School for theDeaf in 1931.

Bruce Gemmer, AdamTurner, Dillon Maynardand Valdin Kudic scoredtwo points each for KSD,which was 3 for 24 fromthe field and didn’t have afield goal in the secondhalf. Turner also had fiverebounds.

The Colonels broke aschool record for gamesplayed set in 1996-97.

45th District GirlsBoyle County 81, Ken-

tucky School for the Deaf6 — At Stanford, sistersEmmie and Hannah Harriscombined for 30 points tolead Boyle (15-15) overKSD (1-22) in a first-roundgame.

Eleven different playersscored for the fourth-seeded Rebels, who ad-vance to play top-seededLincoln County in a semi-final tonight at Lincoln.

Charlotte Judge hit two3-pointers in the first halffor KSD, but the Colonelsdid not score again. Theywere 2 for 22 from the fieldwith 23 turnovers.

Kaley Vickers led KSDwith five rebounds.

47th District BoysCasey County 55, Som-

erset 53 — At Mount Ver-non, Clay Cannon andBaylen Hill scored 14points each as Casey (4-26) ended an eight-gamelosing streak with a semifi-nal win over Somerset (11-13).

Luke Carman added 12points for the Rebels, whohad lost by 35 and eightpoints to the Briar Jumpersduring the regular season.They will play PulaskiCounty in Friday’s final.

Tuesday’s Area High School LinescoresBOYS

45th District TournamentAt Lincoln CountyFirst RoundKentucky School f/t Deaf 2 6 7 8Danville 24 42 63 81KSD (11-20) — Bruce Gemmer 2, AdamTurner 2, Dillon Maynard 2, Valdin Kudic 2.DANVILLE (13-14) — Tryston Ford 8,Christian Gateskill-Fuqua 2, Leroy Hawkins3, Rob Caudill 9, Katon Emerson 7, Jay Hunn15, Jawan Grey 17, Damir Karapandzic 8,Kyle Lange 8, Alex Burnside 4.

47th District TournamentSemifinalAt Rockcastle CountyCasey County 12 27 38 55Somerset 8 26 37 53CASEY (4-26) — Cannon 14, Bianconi 1,Carman 12, Scott 3, Leigh 6, Smith 3, Hill14.SOMERSET (11-13) — Cheuvrant 13,Lange 8, Gordon 9, McWilliams 5, Dishman18.

GIRLS45th District TournamentAt Lincoln CountyFirst RoundKentucky School f/t Deaf 3 6 6 6Boyle County 27 50 69 81KSD (1-22) — Charlotte Judge 6.BOYLE (15-15) — Emmie Harris 17, Han-nah Harris 13, Kalin Bottoms 9, Cami Holton8, Mary Fyfe 7, Marlee Smith 6, Natalie Set-tle 6, Lauren Richards 4, Shelby Bishop 4,Dee Foster 5, Ashley White 2.

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Mercer County’s Russell Sims drives on East Jessamine’s Cameron Thomas in Tuesday’s loss. Sims led theTitans with 14 points.

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“Once they hit two 3s back to back and we got down by double digits, we had to come awayfrom our game plan a little bit. And that led to forcing some things, getting some turnovers.”

Mercer County coach Brian Britt

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Burgin’s Zack Irvine scores and is fouled by West Jessamine’s DaultonPeters (34) in the second half Tuesday. The Bulldogs ended their mostsuccessful season in 71 years with a loss to the Colts.