WPIAL Class 5a Young Basketball Championship: Jayden Davis leads Hot-Shooting Charters Valley Paders Township, 73-66, to conquer the first title since 2015

Jayden Davis will probably always remember the two times that his team played Peters Township in his senior season.

In the first he scored his 2,000. Career point.

And in the second he led his team to their first WPial title in a decade.

Davis pumped 28 points in a game high of 28 points to lead the Chartiere Valley No. 4 to a 73-66 victory against No. 6 Peters Township in class 5a championship on Saturday in Pitts Petersen Events Center.

Davis, a 5-foot 11-wachmann, added 9 assists, 6 rebounds and 3 steals for Charters Valley (23: 3), which demanded his eighth title, and the first coach Tim McConnell and son Matty led the Colts to the title of class 4a in 2009.

“It's great, but the loan really goes to these boys,” said the coach of the Chartier Valley in the first year, Corey Dotchin,. “You have bought yourself since day 1. They listened to everything we preached. You have done everything at the highest level and tried to do everything as well as possible to help us. It could not have happened to a better group, a closer group. They are tight in the square, but they are even closer to the square and I really think it circles the circle for us. “

While it was a defense that Chartiere Valley was in his first three playoff games-a surprise of Montour in the semi-finals that had stolen high-performance ends on Saturday of the Colts, the show stole. The Colts shot 61% from the field (27 out of 44) and had four players two figures in the evaluation, while they only confiscated 11 sales.

“We always want to score,” added Dotchin. “We are one of the best teams with the highest score, and this is because we have many talented pieces. But I told them that we would have to shop in the defensive end, that I would never worry about the offensive because we could score with the best of them. However, if we strap down defensively and run the game plan, we would give ourselves the opportunity to be successful. “

As usual, Davis was the ring loader of the offensive costs. After Davis 38 points, including the 2,000. His career, when Chartiere Valley in Peters Township (72-57) won exactly one month earlier, Davis led a great all-round performance on Saturday, in which he ended an ultra-efficient 11 of 17 of 17 of the field and 6 of 7 from the leisure line. Davis was a big producer throughout his career, but only this season did he start creating more for his teammates, while he had thrived more on the offensive.

“I just had to learn the game. And keeping my teammates, that would make it much easier, ”said Davis, one of the top scorers in the WPial at 23 points per game. “25, 28 [points per game in previous seasons]I obviously didn't win that way. I didn't have a medal that played like this, so I had to start trusting my teammate, and I think that brought me my medal. “

Julian Semplice collapsed with 13 points, while Jake Lewis and Julius best arrived 10 each.

It is interesting that Peters Township shot almost as well as Charters Valley. The Indians went 60% out of the field (26 out of 43), including 65% in the second half (17 out of 26). Free throws, however, were a different story than the Indians only ended 7 out of 22 from the line (31%).

“If you look at the course of our season, it was a bugaboo for us this year,” said Joe Urmann, coach of Peters Township.

The Charters Valley jumped 9-0 in the lead and seemed to be in full control for a large part of the game, but with the way Peters Township shot the ball, the Indians were in striking distance several times. After the deficit of 34-24 in half-time, Peters Township pulled in the middle of the third quarter within five points and after he fell back with 15 points at the beginning of the fourth, the Indians came with 2:09 after 66-59.

“There was no termination in these guys,” said Urmann. “We fought to the end. It wasn't as if we were thrown at the towel when we saw these first first blows we took. “

Ben Miller led Peters Township with 18 points from the bank. Millers shooting performance-8 of 9 from the field, 1 of 7 from the free sausage line-War a total of a microcosm of the game of Peters Township. Nick McCullough added 17 points, while Dylan Donovan, who has an average of the best 19 points per game, was limited to 4 out of 14 to 10 points.

The title was long for a school that was so rich in basketball tradition. And with only two seniors on the squad and a series of youth basketball players in the crowd that cheer on the team, it is not difficult to imagine that the Colts will continue to be among the most important programs in the region in the coming years.

“I am thrilled. I'm happy. But I'm more happy for these boys, for the community,” said Dotchin. “We had a lot of youth children in these stands who could see what we wanted to build here. The standard that we indicate, and this is really the program change, the change in culture. And that really means that this will do the most in the long term for the program.”

Brad is a sports clerk at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, but is currently on strike. Send it to beverett@unionprogress.com by e -mail.