Indians knock off Valle

PERRYVILLE -- St. Vincent's Justin L'Hote poured in a game high 21 points, including four 3-pointers, to lead the Indians to a 40-36 win over rival Valle Catholic in the first game of the Heartland Hoopfest on Saturday at the Perry Park Center.

However, L'Hote's highlight of the game might not have been his seven field goals, but instead a blocked shot he made on Valle's Casey Koller, who had a breakaway after another teammate stole the ball from L'Hote.

"That felt pretty good," L'Hote said of the blocked shot. "It was pretty exciting. I didn't know I had that much hops in me. But it was a fun game.

"It was probably the first time I had ever done that."

St. Vincent fell behind 11-0 early and did not score its first basket until L'Hote nailed a 3-pointer with approximately 3 minutes, 15 seconds remaining in the first quarter.

That's when L'Hote began to heat up. He added six more points in the final three minutes of that quarter, including another 3-pointer with less than 30 seconds remaining.

L'Hote also continued his solid play in the second quarter with seven points, and hit two free throws to help the Indians take their first lead of the game at 20-19 with 2:27 remaining. He then scored another 3-pointer near the top of the key and the Indians went into the break up 23-19.

L'Hote scored five in the second half to help St. Vincent (1-3) pull away and earn its first victory of the season.

"It's just good to get that first win," L'Hote said. "We've been waiting for it for a couple of weeks now."

Valle Catholic 12 7 5 12 -- 36

St. Vincent 9 14 4 13 -- 40

Valle Catholic (36) -- Adam Oberle 5, Casey Koller 11, Michael Rozler 10, Ryan Roth 3, Stephen Bauman 2, Bryan Kertz 5. FG: 14. FT: 4-8. F: 13. (3-pointers: Oberle 1, Koller 1, Rozler 2)

St. Vincent (40) -- Justin L'Hote 21, Aaron Dzik 3, Matt Abbot 4, Matt Hotop 7, Kyle Rollet 2, Shawn Renner 3. FG: 15. FT: 5-14. F: 10. (3-pointers: L'Hote 4, Renner 1)

Ste. Genevieve 53, Perryville 51

Ste. Genevieve's Eric Schrader netted 16 points to lead the Dragons past Perryville.

The Pirates dropped to 1-4 with the loss.

"We didn't box out real well," Perryville's Brent Roth said. "They got a lot of offensive rebounds and got second and third shots. We can't have that."

Roth had a game-high 17 points in the losing effort.

Both teams traded leads in the first and second quarters, as the score at halftime was knotted 18-18. The game remained close throughout the third quarter with the Dragons taking a four-point edge at 36-32 heading into the fourth.

The Dragons began to pull away in the fourth with Schrader nailing a 3-pointer to put his team up by seven at 45-38. But the Pirates fought their way back, coming within one point at 52-51 before eventually losing by two.

"We've been playing a lot better ball," Roth said. "We played harder. We just got to start getting more points on the offensive end."

Ste. Genevieve 10 18 36 -- 53

Perryville 10 8 18 17 -- 51

Ste. Genevieve (53) -- Coby Lewis 5, Kory Faulkner 6, Eric Schrader 16, Blake Armbruster 11, Jordan Wolk 10, Curt Roth 4, Dustin Noll 1. FG: 20. FT: 9-16. F: 18. (3-pointers: Schrader 2, Wolk 2. Fouled out: none)

Perryville (51) -- Jon Hecht 4, Steve Richardson 10, Ben Prevallet 4, Brent Roth 17, Wade Leible 5, Tyson Brown 11. FG: 19. FT: 13-20. F: 14. (3-pointers: none. Fouled out: none).

Scott County 91, Arlington (Ind.) 74

Scott County (6-1) rallied from a 20-12 deficit in the first quarter, scoring the last 10 points in the quarter to take a 22-20 lead.

D.D. Gillespie led the Braves with 23 points while Caleb Johnson added 21.

Toby Heeb hit a 3-pointer at buzzer that he kissed off backboard on an inbounds play that gave the Braves a 66-52 lead at the end of the third quarter.

Arlington 20 14 18 22 -- 74

Scott County 22 16 28 25 -- 91

Arlington (74) -- Berryhill 5, Qualls 7, Weeden 16, Freeman 14, Long 4, Washington 8, Rhoden 6, Booker 2, Smith 12. FG: 32. FT: 5-15. F: 20. (3-pointers: Weeden 2, Freeman 1, Qualls 1, Berryhill 1. Foul out: none).

Scott County Central (91) -- D.D. Gillespie 23, Bobby Hatchett 10, Toby Heeb 9, Caleb Johnson 21, Drew Thomas 17, Randy Timmons 8, Otto Porter 3. FG: 40. FT: 7-16. F: 18. (3-pointers: Heeb 3, Gillespie 1. Foul out: none)

Central vs. Whitfield

The Tigers game was canceled because of inclement weather.

-- From staff reports