Twin brothers Evan and Ethan Worley combined for 18 of Windsor’s 28 fourth-quarter points, as the Owls pulled away for a 70-57 nonconference win on Dec. 12. The loss dropped Seckman to 1-7 while Windsor improved to 3-4.
The outburst by the Worleys in the last stanza erased what the Jaguars had accomplished to that point.
After trailing the Owls 32-22 at halftime, junior Isaac Hoog and senior Kamron Fulliam accounted for 23 of 35 points for the Jaguars in the second half, including three long-range bombs by Fulliam.
Evan Worley finished with 19 points and 10 rebounds for the Owls, while Ethan added 16 points.
Hoog scored 19 and Fulliam added 11 to lead the Jaguars.
“Yeah, they were 1-6, but hey, we were 2-4 coming in,” Windsor head coach Todd Dutton said. “I thought we got after it a lot better, and we saw some good things tonight that maybe we’ve been lacking. We have a lot of guys who can play and contribute in different ways. But the bottom line is, you still have to go out and work hard for 32 minutes.”
With the game tied 16-16 in the second quarter, Windsor closed out the half on a 16-6 run to build a 10-point margin at the break. But with Hoog and Fulliam working their magic, the Jaguars clawed back, eventually closing out the third quarter with a 43-42 lead on a bucket by Merrick Bonastia.
As Dutton pointed out, though, his team knew who to go to with the game hanging in the balance.
“Those are our two best scorers,” the Windsor coach said of the Worleys. “But they know they still have to take good shots, and that’s what I like about them. To Seckman’s credit, they came out fighting, and we feel very fortunate to get out with the win.”
Dutton’s postgame comments were of little consolation to Seckman head coach Travis Williams, who had watched his team the previous evening fall to Jefferson by 19 points. However, Williams said, he was encouraged by the offensive performances of Hoog and Fulliam.
“Based on the looks they’ve been getting, our guys are starting to know who to get the ball to,” Williams said. “It was very good to see the fight we had over the last two quarters, and I really feel like we’re playing our best basketball of the season right now. It’s just that there are times we can’t get the ball in the basket.
“Hoog and Fulliam really got us back in the game, and our defense, for the most part, did a really good job. But having 25 turnovers certainly didn’t help. We just have to keep putting in the work, get better and more balanced scoring, and work on improving our overall game.”