Once again, an aggressive man-to-man defense enabled the Perryville boys basketball team to post a win over Tome. Tyleke Johnson scored the go-ahead basket with 16 seconds left as the Panthers toppled the host Titans 55-53 Monday, January 11. After Johnson scored, Perryville's Dennis Johnson caused a Tome turnover by knocking the ball away from a Tome player. As they battled for the loose ball, it went out of bounds last touched by the Titan. That gave Perryville the ball at midcourt with 6.3 seconds left and left Tome with a big problem. The Titans had only committed five team fouls which wound up hurting them. Tome committed its sixth team foul with 4.1 seconds left and Perryville ran a couple of seconds of the clock before Tome was able to foul Tyleke Johnson and send him to the line for a one-and-one with 1.8 seconds left. Johnson missed the front end, but Tome was unable to get off a desperation heave before the buzzer sounded. The Panthers' Dominic Gugliotta scored 14 of his team-high 19 points in the first half. Tyleke Johnson and Bobby Monk both added eight. "Dom had a good first half," Givens said. "In the second half everybody made a contribution, good or bad. Everybody did something. It may not have been great, might have been one rebound or might have been a good pass but everybody contributed in the second half." Michael Lucatamo led Tome with 19 points and Joe Llewellyn had 12. Perryville took command in the second quarter. Trailing 13-9, the Panthers went on a 14-3 run keyed by nine points from Gugliotta. Down 29-21 at intermission, Tome responded with a spurt of its own to start the second half. The Titans tallied nine straight points to grab a one-point edge. Tome was ahead 39-37 to start the fourth quarter when Perryville switched from its trademark 1-3-1 zone to a man-to-man. The Titans made seven three-pointers in the first three quarters but did not connect from behind the arc in the final eight minutes. "[The man-to-man defense] takes away their shooting," Perryville coach Charles Givens Sr. said. "They're a good shooting team. But we didn't want to go man-to-man until maybe the very end because we didn't want to get in foul trouble. We talked about going man-to-man earlier but we waited for that time to come." Tome opened the fourth quarter with a basket and Gugliotta answered with two free throws. Neither team led by more than two points the rest of the way. After the score was tied at 43 with 4:50 to play, Perryville took a two-point lead on six separate occasions. Tome tied it five times but could not counter after Tyleke Johnson's basket with 16 seconds left. It was Perryville's second two-point victory over Tome this season. In the first meeting between the schools, Perryville used a man-to-man defense to overcome a 10-point deficit by tallying the final 12 points of the game. Comments are closed.
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