North Oldham 71 Oldham County 50 (29th District Championship)

This really wasn't this close.

Oldham had an 8-5 lead in the first when North went on a 24-1 run that ended all speculation.   

A game that had built up a lot of pre-game talk during the days leading up to it turned out to be an unexpected rout in quick order.

It was 38-14 at the half, and 59-22 at the end of three, with a running clock.

To Oldham's credit, the Colonels scored a whopping 28 points in the fourth - with a running clock working against them.   Max Green at one point hit six consecutive threes.   But by then, there was no real question about who was going to win the game.

North gets revenge for last year's district 29 finals, won by the Colonels.

Dallas Roberts, Ian Higdon, and Jack Fischer all with 15 to lead North.    Incredibly, star center Luke Anderson picked up two quick fouls and sat nearly all of the first half.   He came back to score 8 points in the second half.    Jack Scales came off the bench for North, and played extensive minutes.   He seems physically close to 100%, but struggled a bit with his shooting eye as he shakes off the rust from the 10-game layoff.

North has now won 13 in a row and 17 of 18.

North shot over 50% from the floor and absolutely dominated the glass - at the half, the rebounding count was 18-8 in favor of NOHS.      This was a reversal of the regular season game, when Oldham shot >50% and North didn't shoot quite as well, and Oldham actually won the rebounding battle.   This time, the Mustangs made it clear early that the previous game - even though the Mustangs won that game by 10 in OT - was the aberration.

Max Green for Oldham County was spectacular in defeat, leading all scorers with 32 - but he scored 23 of those points in the final frame, when it was largely immaterial.    At one point in the fourth, he made 6 consecutive three pointers...

Luke Amburgey started and played extensive minutes for Oldham, though it appeared that his injured leg took a sharp blow at one time and he came out of the game for a while, apparently to stretch it out in the hallway at the end of the bench.