Pokorney scores 20, hits 4 of Trojans' 11 3-pointers in win at Hammond Central

Tom Keegan
Onwardtrojans.com

Chesterton entered the weekend with a season-long winning streak of two games and hopes to end this week riding a six-game winning streak.
The Trojans won their fourth in a row, 64-58, Saturday night at Hammond Central.
Six different Chesterton shooters combined for 11 3-point field goals in a game the Trojans led by as many as 16 points and took a 13-point lead into the fourth quarter.
As he has done in multiple games this season, junior Logan Pokorney made a 3-pointer in each quarter. He scored a team-high 20 points. Tobias Ray and Jaylon Watts added 10 points apiece and Caden Schneider scored eight points.
The 3-pointer distribution for the visitors: Pokorney 4, freshman Cooper Huwig 2, sophomore Tobias Ray 1, juniors Rob Czaniecki 1, Caden Schneider 1 and Jaylon Watts 1, and senior Anthony Gonzalez 1.
Ninth-year Chesterton coach Marc Urban summed up the game saying in part: “Obviously, we shot it well and I thought that none of them were forced, the ball moved well, and guys got open and (Ray) made really good decisions driving the paint. Caden had another good game, hit a big pick-and-pop, rebounded well and played with a lot of confidence, which has helped us during this late little stretch. And (freshman) Bradly (Basila) played well, had eight rebounds.”
The other end of the box score tilted heavily toward two players. All but four Hammond Central points were scored by two seniors. Marcus Browder had 32, Gregory Dotson 22.
“He was just hooping and he was making stuff,” Urban said of Browder. “It was crazy.”
Urban said that Huwig hit a 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer, Czarniecki did the same at the end of the third quarter and Dotson beat the final buzzer with a shot that Urban said was from about three-quarters of the court away.
The win pushed Chesterton’s winning streak to four games. The Trojans visit chief rival Valparaiso in a DAC finale Friday night and return home Saturday for a game against Whiting at 7 p.m. The finale of the regular season is at home vs. Culver Academy on Friday, Feb. 28.
For the moment, Urban is worried about just two teams: his own and the school’s biggest rival.
“We have a full week of practice here that we can just kind of stick with what we’ve been doing, worry about us as much as we can, and then eventually install how we’re going to guard and attack in that game, and then we’ve got to show up and compete,” Urban said.