PREP BOYS BASKETBALL: Northridge rallies, moves into Class 4A semistate final
ELKHART — Northridge earned an IHSAA Class 4A Final Four berth in boy basketball with a comeback win Saturday, March 21 before a North Side Gym crammed with green-clad Raider backers. Showing its resolve, Northridge rallied back from an eight-point deficit to top Homestead 46-39 and gain a spot in the semistate championship game at 8 p. m.
The other semifinal winner was Crown Point (76-47 over Fort Wayne Snider). The Bulldogs are 24-1 and the Panthers finished at 20-8. “I told them coming into the game, there’s going to be trials,” Raiders coach Scott Radeker said.
“Taking a verse from the Bible again (James 1:2), we told them to consider trials pure joy. Because our perseverance now is going to shine through. ” “I was really happy with our guys for the discipline they played with down the stretch.
” By outscoring Northridge 17-5 in the second quarter, the Chris Johnson-coached Spartans were up 28-22 at halftime. Homestead led 28-20 in the last 90 seconds of the half. Senior Brady Scholl went to the bench with his third foul at 6:32 of the second period and did not return to the floor in the first half.
“That’s the first time that’s happened to him this year,” Radeker said of Scholl’s three first-half fouls. “For us to play without him for that six-minute stretch, it was obviously a little stressful. “But it’s also time where our guys got to step up.