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DAYTON — Mike Monserez is . team, which shoved going to Notre Dame to play bas-` with how those other . I ketball. Brooks Hall is going ' to ., up and pp Dayton to play basketball. For kids stepped Chris Welsch,. his future in basket- made shots. -',' ball is now. — Troy coach Barry Egan Welsch took center stage when Moeller needed him most; scoring 16 points -to help push the Crusad- mer said. ers past Troy 61-53 in a Division I .. Monserez scored 20 points, inregional semifinal game at UD Are- cluding 12 in the fourth quarter to na Thursday-night: , - ,:. -. ' hold off Troy, and added four asMoeller (18-6) matches the sists and four rebounds. `Hall, a 1982 team for the best tournament ,6-foot-6 .swingman,'had 28 points run in 'school history and will face .. and eightrebounds. ' . either Beavercreek or Withrow for But outside of Hall and guard the regional title 7:30' p.m.. Satur- Lance • Hargrove (15• points), the day at UD.Arena. <' '. :rest of Troy's team managed only:., Troy . had ' cut an eight-point:. 10 oints:. ,p Moeller lead to just two at the end of the third quarter. But it. was : ' ."We were a little apprehensive, Welsch who scored the first five :on the" offensive. end for probably. points of the fourth quarter = on, A the -first- time this year," Troy breakout layup and then an open : coach Barry Egan said. But he was three-pointer — 'to , redirect the. also quick to .credit Moeller's team "` ._ approach. -; game's momentum.. "We knew they had good* shoot- .::.' ;:'We wanted to really stop Mi-. ers and there was a good chance..:chael (Monserez) from. getting they were going to come back,"..shots," Egan said. ".They're a very said Welsch, who is headed to Kent'.well-coached team, which showed State on a baseball. scholarship.: with how those other kids stepped "We had Ito keep attacking." :' ',up -and made shots:" . TROY (53)- smlih 0-4,6.6 6, Dlelman 0-3 4 1 0, Welsch .would add • another ^dams•1.4 0-0 3; Ha0 9-17 4.4 28, Maurer 0-1 0-0 0, three-pointer two minutes later to '' Hargrove 5-114-6 15, Nelson 0-0 1-2 1. Totals: 15.40 15-19
BASKETBALL'.STARS: Moeller forty__. Sylvester and Mar Branden Fisher will v boys annual Norl Star games next Sui U terbein College. The Ohio , State-bound S: ~~ter averaged 21.4 points tlson and was named fir; .. team.. all-state in Division I by the Associated Press: Fisher av' eraged'::he.. ..points for rriont;.the Division 'III Marie=`champion:::'y; ;:/_.~ sectional
open the first double-digit dead of k(it) — Welsch00a'16, Sylvester 5.7 the gamer a 46-36 Moeller advan-, = 2-2 12,Mcet-u Hutzel 3.3 0.3 6, Duncan 2.7 0-0 4, Monserez 5.10 8.1020, 1.1 1.3 3. Totals: 22.35 11.18 61. Byrnes tage with 4:50 to play. u.12 9. 2S-61 "Welsch is one of the toughest `' Moeller Thre"olnt goals: T (8.20) - Adams 1.3, Hell 6.12, ever. day-to-day competitors I've Maurer 0-1, Hargrove 1-4; M (6.13) - Welsch-4.4, Duncan „ coached, Moeller coach Carl Kre-. 0.3,.Monserez 2.6. Records: T.211.-3, M 18.6.
► Moeller advance Matt Sylvester's t p-in at trl( buzzer lifted Moeller to a 5~ 57 win over Beavercreek in Division I regional final' Dayton. D12
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Moeller Nigh School Crusaders will play in the Ohio Nigh School Division I basketball final four tourney on Friday. They take on the Mansfield Tigers at 9 p.m. in Co tho Schottenstein-Cen (here will be a ser
'-3m today it the scrluul m at 10 a.m. Former Moeller Coach Gerry Faust i scheduled to speak Tickets for the I ;ale in the Moeller ind are available o,, a ;ore, first-serve basis.