Bucket by Jake Mangas lifts Warsaw to 48-47 win in OT
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Mark Howe-mhowe@timesuniononline.com
Warsaw needed just one more last chance before the Tigers got the big play they needed most to cap off Senior Night in the Tiger Den with a win Friday. With 2.9 seconds left in overtime, Warsaw’s Jake Mangas used a screen from his brother Kyle and got a pick from senior classmate Rashaan Jackson. He then received a baseline in-bound pass from Paul Marandet, pump faked two Carroll defenders into leaving their feet, and hit a jumper in the lane to give the Tigers a 48-47 win over Class 4A No. 6 Carroll. And that was just the ending. After Kyle Mallers hit a three to open the overtime, the visiting Chargers couldn’t knock down any more shots. Jake Mangas drew the Tigers within a point with a jump shot from the right side with 1:04 left. Carroll ran 20 seconds off the clock before turning the ball over, and Warsaw opted to go for the last shot. With 9.3 seconds left, Jackson tried a pass to the baseline that resulted in several players diving for the ball, and Mallers coming up with it and calling timeout. But Carroll didn’t have any timeouts to call, and the resulting technical gave Warsaw a chance to take the lead. Warsaw coach Doug Ogle chose to play the percentages and send Tim Swanson, who was 17 of 20 from the line going in to Friday’s game, to shoot the two free throws. The first bounced away, and the second painted the inside of the rim orange before rolling away. After a timeout, Carroll tipped an interior pass out of bounds with 2.9 seconds left, setting up Jake Mangas’ heroics. “We just needed to stay poised and stay confident in that situation,” Jake Mangas said. “I knew I wasn’t the tallest guy out there, so I used a shot fake. They went for it, and I was able to knock the shot down.” Ogle said “it seems fitting that Jake Mangas made the winning shot because he epitomizes how are seniors are; humble and hard-working. He’s a little undersized, but he’s tough and gritty.” After Mallers tied the game at 44 with a stick-back of a missed trey by Chandler White at the 1:06 mark of the fourth quarter, Warsaw had a chance to end it in regulation. Jackson got the ball under the basket with less than five seconds remaining, and was roughed up but no foul was called as time expired. Warsaw led by as many as eight points in the fourth quarter, and controlled the tempo and kept Carroll off the offensive glass. Carroll had only seven second-chance points. Meanwhile, the Tigers were effective in getting second chances, but not so successful turning those opportunities into points. As a team, Warsaw hit just 12 of 21 free throws, while Carroll went 12 of 14. “I thought rebounding was the difference in the game. This is a semistate-level opponent in Carroll, coming in 21-2,” Ogle said. “And I’m surprised but happy that we were able to get 11 offensive rebounds. Had we shot better from the free throw line, we’d have had a more comfortable win.” Still, with four chances to win the game in the closing seconds, Ogle was glad for the moment for the seniors playing their final game in the Tiger Den. “If we’d have lost that game we could have come back from it, but it wouldn’t have been easy,” Ogle said. “Just the way we would have lost it, when we had control, then let it slip out of our hands. It’s a good win for us for a lot of reasons. I just appreciate this team a lot. and I’m really, really happy we won that game.” Warsaw held Carroll 14 points below its per-game average by running its offense, but not necessarily intending to take large chunks of time off the clock. The Tigers had six offensive possessions that lasted 30 seconds or more, and two of those were longer than 50 seconds. “Honestly, this offense we’re running, we’re trying to score out of it but it has a pressure release built in to it, and it allows us to be patient and get reversals, and running clock is a by-product of it,” explained Ogle. “We’re not really trying to run clock, but the way it’s set up we’re able to do it. “That was big, because Chandler White was driving to the basket, Mallers kind of got it going in the second half a little bit, and the less we had to guard them the better.” Jackson and Kyle Mangas, who scored all 15 of Warsaw’s second quarter points, finished with 15 points each in the game. Jake Mangas finished with eight for the Tigers. Carroll’s White led all scorers with 16 points. Warsaw’s win snapped Carroll’s 11-game win streak, and sends the Tigers into Tuesday’s 6 p.m. sectional matchup with Concord having won six of their last seven games. Warsaw is now 18-4, while Carroll is 21-3.
WARSAW 48, CARROLL 47, OT C 7 12 12 13 3 – 47 W 5 15 15 9 4 – 48 Carroll – Jake Graham 0-0 0-0 0, Jacob Redding 2-7 0-0 5, Chandler White 6-11 3-4 16, Avery Fath 0-0 0-0 0, Jeffrey Kalonji 1-1 0-0 3, Kyle Mallers 3-9 0-0 8, Jacob Hansen 0-1 0-0 0, Jeremy Kalonji 3-4 7-8 13, Kelham Brown 0-0 2-2 2. Totals 15-33 12-14 47. Warsaw – Kyle Mangas 4-10 7-10 15, Paul Marandet 1-1 0-1 2, Jeremy David 0-0 0-0 0, Peyton Long 0-0 0-0 0, tim Swanson 1-3 0-2 3, Nick Sands 1-3 2-2 5, Jake Mangas 4-5 0-0 8, Rashaan Jackson 6-11 3-6 15, Riley Rhoades 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 17-35 12-21 48. Three-pointers – Carroll 5 (Mallers 2, Redding, White, Jef. Kalonji), Warsaw 2 (Swanson, Sands); Rebounds – Carroll 17 (White 6, Mallers 6), Warsaw 25 (Marandet 6); Turnovers – Carroll 9, Warsaw 9; Assists – Carroll 4 (White 2), Warsaw 10 (Marandet 8); Fouls – Carroll 19, Warsaw 16; Fouled out – none; Records – Carroll 21-3, Warsaw 18-4 JV – Warsaw 52, Carroll 45 Warsaw – Ross Johnson 12, Rane Kilburn 10, Braxton Minix 10, Evan Schmidt 10, Jeremy David 7, Jacob Burish 3
