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Three double-figure scorers Dec. 27 carried the Morton boys basketball team to a 60-47 win over Arlington Heights Hersey.
Brett Bisping had a double-double of 15 points and 10 rebounds in the Potters’ opening-round victory over the Huskies in the Pekin Insurance Holiday Tournament.
Will Headean chipped in 14 points, on 9-of-10 free-throw shooting, six boards and three steals, and Christian Dullard had a trio of 3-pointers to account for 11.
Third-seeded Morton outscored Hersey in every quarter to earn a championship-bracket berth.
Beau Swinford added seven points and a team-high four assists for the Potters.
Kevin Kozil and Sean Reszotko had 12 points apiece for the Huskies.
MHS 52, Rockford Boylan 41
The Potters dispatched the Titans in a morning quarterfinal Dec. 28.
Headean’s 20 points and nine rebounds paced Morton.
“He really carried us,” said MHS head coach Jarrett Brown of Headean. “Will really had a lot of energy to what he did.”
Morton had an 11-0 run that spanned the first and second quarters to go on top, 13-6.
Bisping beat the buzzer for his only first-half basket, and Headean started and ended the string with a deuce and triple, respectively.
A Dullard 3 at the 6:10 mark and Headean field goal 30 seconds later made it 18-8.
Rossi assisted Swinford on the final first-half bucket, which restored an eight-point edge. All five Potter starters had two assists each.
Ben Grygiel of Boylan had six points in the third period, but Morton increased its lead to 30-21.
Headean contributed the first five points of the fourth quarter to push the Potter surplus to 14.
Much of the final three minutes was spent at the foul line. The Titans never got closer than 10 points.
John Schoen scored on a runout with 16 seconds remaining on a long Ben Streeter pass.
Fourteen of Adonis Brown’s team-leading 18 points for Boylan came in the fourth quarter.
Morton did not have a lot of rhythm on offense.
“Offensively, we didn’t play horribly,” said Brown, whose team shot 50 percent from the floor. “We just turned it over 13 times in a low-possession game.”
The Potters held the defending champions to a frigid 27-percent clip from the field.
“We were really pretty sharp defensively,” Brown said.
Plainfield East 62, MHS 56
The Potters’ bid for their third Pekin tournament championship hit a snag in the semifinals.
The No. 2 seed Bengals advanced to their first final after building up an 11-point lead at halftime.
Three double-figure scorers Dec. 27 carried the Morton boys basketball team to a 60-47 win over Arlington Heights Hersey.
Brett Bisping had a double-double of 15 points and 10 rebounds in the Potters’ opening-round victory over the Huskies in the Pekin Insurance Holiday Tournament.
Will Headean chipped in 14 points, on 9-of-10 free-throw shooting, six boards and three steals, and Christian Dullard had a trio of 3-pointers to account for 11.
Third-seeded Morton outscored Hersey in every quarter to earn a championship-bracket berth.
Beau Swinford added seven points and a team-high four assists for the Potters.
Kevin Kozil and Sean Reszotko had 12 points apiece for the Huskies.
MHS 52, Rockford Boylan 41
The Potters dispatched the Titans in a morning quarterfinal Dec. 28.
Headean’s 20 points and nine rebounds paced Morton.
“He really carried us,” said MHS head coach Jarrett Brown of Headean. “Will really had a lot of energy to what he did.”
Morton had an 11-0 run that spanned the first and second quarters to go on top, 13-6.
Bisping beat the buzzer for his only first-half basket, and Headean started and ended the string with a deuce and triple, respectively.
A Dullard 3 at the 6:10 mark and Headean field goal 30 seconds later made it 18-8.
Rossi assisted Swinford on the final first-half bucket, which restored an eight-point edge. All five Potter starters had two assists each.
Ben Grygiel of Boylan had six points in the third period, but Morton increased its lead to 30-21.
Headean contributed the first five points of the fourth quarter to push the Potter surplus to 14.
Much of the final three minutes was spent at the foul line. The Titans never got closer than 10 points.
John Schoen scored on a runout with 16 seconds remaining on a long Ben Streeter pass.
Fourteen of Adonis Brown’s team-leading 18 points for Boylan came in the fourth quarter.
Morton did not have a lot of rhythm on offense.
“Offensively, we didn’t play horribly,” said Brown, whose team shot 50 percent from the floor. “We just turned it over 13 times in a low-possession game.”
The Potters held the defending champions to a frigid 27-percent clip from the field.
“We were really pretty sharp defensively,” Brown said.
Plainfield East 62, MHS 56
The Potters’ bid for their third Pekin tournament championship hit a snag in the semifinals.
The No. 2 seed Bengals advanced to their first final after building up an 11-point lead at halftime.
Swinford was 10-for-10 at the line to score a game-high 22 points.
Bisping and Headean also were in double figures with 14 and 10 points, respectively. They shared rebounding honors with seven.
Plainfield East, which was 3-5 in its first two tournament appearances, also had three players with at least 10 points, led by Austin Robinson’s 19.
MHS 65, Normal West 53
The Potters ended the tournament positively with a victory Thursday.
Morton (11-2) captured third place by upending the fourth-seeded Wildcats.
Bisping and Headean both had double-doubles to conclude their extensive careers at the tournament.
Bisping led all scorers with 25 points and Headean supplied 12. Both collected 10 rebounds.
Swinford was 6-of-7 at the line to generate 12 points.
The Potters were 24-of-32 on free throws.
Morton contained highly-touted Wildcat Austin Stewart, who had 12 points, but shot just 3-of-14.
The Potters now are 67-57 in 34 all-time appearances at Pekin.
Honors: Bisping and Headean were all-tournament selections.
