Dogs Wipe Out TOR, 79-13

DAYTON - For the second game in a row, officials applied the mercy rule to speed up a game in which the undefeated Dayton Bulldogs took a runaway lead over its opponent.

The team in white almost shut out the TOR Nighthawks, 79-13, with head coach Roy Ramirez rotating his bench onto the court midway through the third quarter.

The Nighthawks barely managed to score 6 points in the first quarter, 3 points in the second quarter, none in the third and 4 points in the fourth, while the Dogs kept sinking it through the hoop for one of their highestscoring games of the season.

Most of TOR's points came in the form of treys thanks to an impenetrable shield the Dogs put up around their key, double- and tripleteaming the Nighthawks.

"We try to come out in every game with defensive intensity to put some distance between us and the other team," Ramirez said with characteristic understatement.

Dayton quickly put up the first points in the first quarter, which saw them vault forward, 27-6. The second period wasn't much prettier for the Nighthawks, who were trailing, 50-9, at halftime.

Dayton added 13 unanswered points during the third quarter, as the junior varsity players took to the court and added 18 more points to their team's total score while allowing only 7.

Wyatt Frame, who had started earlier in the game, took the scoring lead at the head of the bench team, followed by Johnnie Sanchez and Cruz Ramirez.

"The bench plays well together," coach Ramirez said about the JV players, indicating that this chemistry bodes well for next season. "They're just playing basketball and having fun."

Still, Dayton takes it one game at a time. The next match is against DeSales in Walla Walla on Saturday.

"We prepare the same way for each game," he said.

Dayton vs. TOR 79-13

Day 27 23 13 16 - 79

TOR6304-13

Garret Turner 18

Hayden Fullerton 14

Kroft Sunderland 13

Wyatt Frame 10

Colton Bickelhaupt 10

FT 9/11, 81.8%

FG 31/61, 50.8%