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Hoover hounds Marshalltown, 63-36

T-R PHOTO BY ROSS THEDE - Marshalltown junior forward Trevor Stamp (44) shoots over Des Moines Hoover's Hosea Treadwell (3) for his lone bucket in the Bobcats' 63-36 loss to the Huskies Thursday night at the Roundhouse.

Marshalltown High School boys basketball coach Michael Appel had a handful of focal points he wanted his Bobcats’ full attention on for their cross-CIML clash with Des Moines Hoover.

None of those items, he pointed out after a 63-36 loss, got accomplished.

Hoover seniors Hosea Treadwell and Adam Jackson combined for 50 points and the Huskies handled the Bobcats in Thursday’s makeup game inside the Roundhouse.

Marshalltown’s slow and sloppy start played right into the hands of the Huskies’ perennially potent defense, and the Bobcats found themselves down 15-0 on their own scoreboard before registering their first point — in the second quarter. Not until Trevor Stamp converted a dump-off pass from Austin Shomo did Marshalltown make a dent in what would be a dominant Hoover triumph and the Bobcats’ eighth-straight loss.

“We couldn’t get into the flow offensively, and we started off the game flat,” said Appel. “Warming up we didn’t look ready to play basketball and I told the guys we needed to play with energy to have a shot at this game tonight, and we didn’t do that.”

T-R PHOTO BY ROSS THEDE

Treadwell and Jackson, two of Hoover’s three leading scorers, had Appel’s attention but not enough of the Bobcat defenders’ eyes. Help-side defense was too late to rescue Marshalltown’s man-to-man defense, and Treadwell shot MHS out of their 2-3 zone look in the second quarter.

Every time it seemed Marshalltown (7-11) had figured out one problem, Hoover created another.

“We’ve got to learn from it and continue to improve,” Appel shrugged. “The good thing is we play again [Friday] night and we’ve got a chance to get the bad taste out of our mouths.”

Treadwell scored 22 of his game-high 28 in the first half, including 16 in the second quarter alone. Marshalltown trailed 15-0 after the opening period but showed brief signs of staging an uprising during the second.

Stamp scored inside to break the scoreless spell, Gok Arou turned a Bennett O’Hare pass into a post bucket, and Sunday Arou registered back-to-back 3-pointers to make it 22-10 Hoover with just more than 4 minutes left before halftime.

T-R PHOTO BY ROSS THEDE

Marshalltown’s 2-3 zone had its desired effect on Hoover until Treadwell got loose, and he knocked down consecutive triples, too, before converting back-to-back layups off Bobcat turnovers. The senior guard scored 16 of his team’s 18 points in the second quarter, chasing away the momentum MHS had briefly gained.

Sunday scored 10 points to lead Marshalltown, making three 3-pointers in the second quarter, while Armonniey Thomas finished with nine points and Jacob Smith had eight — all in the fourth quarter.

“Our offense relies on us to cut hard and work hard to attack the hoop, and we didn’t do that tonight,” said Appel. “We were kind of going through the motions.”

It didn’t help the Bobcats’ cause when O’Hare, the team’s senior point guard, went down with an apparent knee injury with 5:15 left in the third quarter.

“I don’t think it’s as bad as we originally thought,” Appel said of O’Hare’s diagnosis.

T-R PHOTO BY ROSS THEDE

One of the biggest boxes the Bobcats didn’t check, per Appel’s scoresheet, was offensive rebounding. With a decided height advantage, he thought his squad could win the battle of the boards, but instead Hoover had a 12-4 lead in offensive rebounds. That, a lack of help defense on Hoover’s two leading scorers and 13 turnovers were too many self-inflicted wounds for the Bobcats to remedy.

“Our standard is to play harder than the other team, and we didn’t do that tonight,” Appel added.

The Bobcats’ one last regular-season opportunity to do that is tonight at home against Urbandale (5-15).

Des Moines Hoover 63, Marshalltown 36

At Marshalltown

DM HOOVER (12-8) — Kenny Quinn 0 2-2 2, Adam Jackson 10 0-1 22, Hosea Treadwell 11 3-4 28, Jonathan Beverly 2 1-2 7, Jaden Loveless 1 0-0 2, Rodney Norris 0 0-0 0, Kir Diew 0 0-0 0, Chevelle Ruchti 0 0-0 0, Jacob Cone 1 0-0 2, Jaythan Banks 0 0-0 0. TOTALS 25 6-9 63.

MARSHALLTOWN (7-11) — Armonniey Thomas 4 1-2 9, Bennett O’Hare 0 0-0 0, Jacob Smith 3 0-0 8, Will Van Buren 0 0-0 0, Sunday Arou 3 1-2 10, Kabba Pins 0 0-0 0, Austin Shomo 1 0-0 3, Eric Kapayou 0 0-0 0, Jensen Evans 0 0-0 0, Trevor Stamp 1 0-0 2, Gok Arou 2 0-0 4. TOTALS 14 2-5 36.

DM HOOVER 15 18 13 17 — 63

MHS 0 13 4 19 — 36

3-Point Goals–Hoover 7 (Treadwell 3, Jackson 2, Beverly 2), MHS 6 (S. Arou 3, Smith 2, Shomo). Total Fouls–Hoover 12, MHS 14. Fouled Out–none. Technical Foul–MHS coach Michael Appel.

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