FRANKTON, Ind. —
It was going to take an epic performance from Daleville and an equally epic letdown from Frankton if the Broncos were to have any chance of getting a win. Neither happened as the Eagles dominated their opponent in a 72-39 victory Saturday.
Frankton (9-7) jumped on the Broncos from the get go and didn’t let up.
A 7-0 start turned into a 20-6 lead at the end of the first quarter and 39-13 by the time both teams headed into the locker room at the half.
Aaron Korn has been the main part of the Eagles’ offense all season, but he was in early foul trouble.
It was going to take other players stepping up their game to keep the lead they had built early.
That player came in the form of Jeremy Jenkins as he put up 14 points on the night.
“I thought that Jenkins did a nice job tonight,” said Frankton coach Brent Brobston. “I thought he shot it well. I thought his leadership was good.”
It would be easy for the Eagles to overlook a team like Daleville (0-16), because of the fact that they haven’t won a game in nearly a calendar year — spanning 22 games.
But Brobston was happy with the fact that his team didn’t show any signs of letdown.
“I think we came into the game and we came in focused, and that’s what I was most excited, most happy about,” he said. “We played hard the entire game, and we were focused mentally to play the entire game.”
Brobston’s team got balanced scoring with only one other player scoring in double figures. Austin Compton was 5-of-6 from the field and 1-of-2 from the free throw line for 11 points.
Frankton put 13 players on the floor, and 12 had at least one point.
Five had at least eight.
Although the Broncos dropped a 33-point decision, they showed that they weren’t going to go down without a fight.
In the second half, they were only outscored by seven points, and their players were still throwing their bodies around for loose balls and trying to execute their offense.
“The fact that we don’t quit,” is what Daleville coach Corey Scott took away from the blowout loss. “We don’t quit, we come to play. It’s not that we’re not trying to get better our margin’s just so small right now with where we’re at in our season.”
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