Basketball in Indiana who next year will be playing at Notre Dame, and fellow senior Garwood added 16.Īnd while they tried as best they could, 6-foot-8 senior frontliners Dylan Derda and Josh Gatete couldn’t keep Kokomo’s 6-foot-10 junior all-state center Flory Bidunga from scoring a team-high 25 points, pulling down a game-high 22 rebounds and blocking five shots. In a game that was tied 12 times and neither team had more than a six-point lead, the Kingsmen got a game-high 27 points and a game-high six assists from 6-foot-1 Markus Burton, perhaps the top candidate for Mr. Too many kids don’t put their heart into anything nowadays, and I’m very, very proud of this team. “It shows they put their heart into what we’re doing. “I’m glad there’s a lot of crying in the locker room,” said Penn coach Al Rhodes some 15 minutes after his team completed a 28-2 season and saw its 22-game winning streak end. Semistate semifinals: Burton nets 30, Garwood 25 as No. 4 Kokomo in the Class 4A Northern Semistate championship game Saturday night at Michigan City High School’s Wolves Den.Īfter senior Joey Garwood’s 3-pointer from the corner swished through the basket with five seconds remaining, the ball hit the floor and went out of bounds, allowing time to run out and giving the Wildkats a hard-fought 58-57 victory which sends coach John Peckinpaugh’s team to the Class 4A state championship game against top-ranked Ben Davis next Saturday in Indianapolis. There was nothing more that coach Al Rhodes’ scrappy Kingsmen could do against No. 2 Penn Kingsmen realized their glorious season was about to be over. MICHIGAN CITY - With no timeouts remaining and the clock winding toward 0:00, the No. View Gallery: Boys basketball Class 4A IHSAA Semistate at Michigan City

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