Summit leads to the championship day in the first trip from start to finish

East Lansing – Carlos Medlock Jr. makes no excuses to want the ball for the crunch time.

The Wayne Memorial Junior Guard enjoys its double role with his team, including the shooting of the ball from almost every perspective at any time. Whatever the defense gives him, Medlock Jr. said he was happy to take her.

The typical case was Wayne Memorials 66: 49 victory against Flint Carmen-Acellsworth in the second semi-finals of Division 1 on Friday in the Breslin Center.

With the zebras, which maintained a weak five-point lead in the middle of the third quarter, the 6-foot medlock with a 5-foot 160-pound medium hit a short sweater, a layup, a free throw, a pullup jumper and a reverse layup during a time of less than three minutes.

The lead rose to up to 52-38 per minute in the fourth quarter when Wayne Memorial made a travel-to-das first program of the program to 12:15 p.m. championship game against East Lansing.

As much as Medlock Jr. admits that it is happy to have the mentality of a shooter – he has an average of almost 25 points per game – he is also proud to provide open looks for teammates. Medlock Jr. threw 29 points on 11-of-24 shooting and added eight rebounds and six assists.

“Even if you try to stop me, it means that my teammates are available,” he said. “I want the ball, but it's also about helping others. If I'm hot, I want the ball. If I am not, I will open it to Austin (Tory) or someone.”

Tory, who supplemented Medlock Jr. from the other waxplace, added 14 points and six rebounds.

Wayne Memorial improved to 25-3, while Carmen-Inssworth 22-6 ended.

The zebras trainer Steve Brooks said Medlock Jr. was a key member of a team that has been together in some cases since middle school. He said the program was proud that it was not supported by transfers. The zebras, he said, are pure native.

“We are here because we have fun,” he said. “I am happy about our seniors; they bought them. They are Wayne children who have invested the work.”

Wayne Memorial led 30-25 in half and salted the game with a run of 20 to 13 in the third quarter. The zebras exceeded Carmen-Aainsworth in the fourth quarter of 16-11.

Talan Clark, Senior Center from Wayne Memorial, said because the team has basically been intact for four years and has reached the final weekend.

“We worked for this moment for four years,” he said. “There were no transfers. It was only we who invested the work. After all the work we did in summer, we wanted to do that. We all had the same goal.”

Carmen-Acellsworth was led by the 15 points and eight rebounds by Donovan Hamlin. Marquinn Weston II had 11 points.

Cavaliers trainer Jay Withham said his team just didn't do the things that won four tournament games with less than nine points in the past two weeks. Carman-Ainsworth shot 44.7 percent from the ground, but missed nine of his 3-point attempts, while turning the ball over 17 times.

“You are a talented team and your guards are difficult to defend,” said Withham, whose club took fourth place in Saginaw Valley League. “But for some reason we made the ball around and (bad) shots that we usually don't do, and that hurt. We had to be satisfied with (longer) shots instead of getting to the edge.

“It happens. Whether it played on this stage in a big moment, I thought we were concentrated. It was just not our day.”

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Photos (TOP) Wayne Memorials Antwaun Williams (10) Wachen Flint Carman-Aainsworths Marquinn Weston II during the semi-finals on Friday. (Center) Kendreyas White from Carman-Azorth (10) receives a shot when Waynes Joshua Dennis (33) goes for a block. (Photos by Adam Sheehan/Hockey Weekly Action Photos.)