Iowa wins Grand Lake tournament, improves to 7-0 – American Press

By Rodrick Anderson

American Press

GRAND LAKE — Iowa missed its first seven pictures within the championship sport of the Grand Lake event, however its protection kickstarted an enormous run, and the Yellow Jackets rolled to an 81-38 win over Westlake to stay undefeated.

Dashawn Ceaser, who scored a game-high 26 factors, received a steal with 6:13 left within the first quarter and made a pair of free throws after being fouled to tie the sport at 2-2.

He added two extra from the charity stripe for the lead, and Desamonte Gradney turned a steal right into a fastbreak as Iowa went on a 12-0 run. Half of these 12 factors got here off turnovers. Iowa held Westlake to 31.1 % capturing.

“I like our protection,” Iowa head coach Rob Melanson mentioned. “It’s a staff protection. We now have some powerful children this 12 months.”

Iowa is off to a 7-0 begin for the second consecutive season.

11 of 12 within the Iowa lineup scored at the very least one level. Cameron Washington had 11 factors and Gradney had 16 factors and 4 assists.

“It’s the staff chemistry,” Melanson mentioned. “Every night time, It looks as if any individual has been sizzling.

“One night time, it is likely to be Landon Langley, one night time Dashawn Ceaser. Tonight, Cameron Washington got here out within the first quarter and hit some large buckets for us. Our bigs, they will not be scoring an entire lot, however they’re doing what we want them to do.”

Westlake was in a position to minimize Iowa’s result in eight, 20-12, on a bucket by Ryan Allen with 1:18 left within the first quarter, however Iowa responded with a 7-0 run to push its lead again to double-digits, 27-14.

Kevin Rideau led Westlake (4-3) with 11 factors, and middle Jaqualon Pettieway missed a double-double by some extent with 10 rebounds and 9 factors.