Washington goes 3 happy in romp over Jefferson

CEDAR RAPIDS - Even they were surprised by how many 3-pointers they took.

'Wow!” Cedar Rapids Washington's Jared Printy said, when informed just how trigger happy his trigger-happy team was Friday night in a 68-46 home win over Cedar Rapids Jefferson.

For the record, and it just might have been, the Warriors hoisted it from beyond the arc 37 times, making 14. That's kind of nuts.

By contrast, they took but 19 shots of the two-point variety. It was all about the circumstances.

Washington has guys like Printy and Steven Kramer, who love the long-distance shot. Jefferson played a ton of zone defense.

'That's what a zone does,” said Printy, who drained six treys in a 19-point night. 'Obviously, as a shooter, when you see zone, you know you're going to get more looks. But at the same time, you want to be more aggressive and get in the lane, too. You don't just want to stand outside the arc. We knew they might throw a little bit of a zone at us, but I don't think we thought it would be exclusive. I think that kind of threw us off in the first quarter. But as the game went on, we got used to it.”

Washington built a 17-9 lead after a quarter, with nine of its first 11 shot attempts being 3-pointers. Early in the third quarter, the ratio was 23 treys tried to 13 twos.

Give Jefferson (1-12) kudos for playing hard and hanging around for awhile, but eventually the three-ball wore the J-Hawks down.

'Thirty seven?,” said a somewhat incredulous Washington Coach Adam Sanchez. 'I knew we shot a lot of them. That's kind of who we are. We've got shooters. We give the guys the green light, and if they're not making them, they've just got to keep firing them up there. Sooner or later, the ball will go into the basket ... It's just who we are right now. Against the zone, especially.”

Kramer made four 3s and had 14 points for Washington (6-6), which has a chance to go above the break-even mark Saturday night when it hosts Des Moines Roosevelt in a non-conference game. Center Maurice Arrington wandered outside and hit a pair, finishing with 16 points.

You want another weird stat? The Warriors were just 8 of 15 from the free-throw line.

Jefferson got 14 points from forward Adam Van Ooort, though he was held much more in check in the second half. Tyler Konigsmark added eight.

'We're just making mistakes at crucial times,” said first-year Jeff Coach Brandon Horman. 'But they're playing hard.”

'I think we did a better job on Van Oort and Konigsmark in the second half,” Sanchez said. 'I don't think we did a very good job of finding them in transition in the first half, so we talked about that at halftime. We had some goals defensively, and we met most of them. To hold a team to 46, that's always doing a pretty good job.”

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AT C.R. WASHINGTON

C.R. JEFFERSON (46): Adam Van Oort 6-12 0-0 14, Brock Hunt 1-3 0-0 2, Valentino Green 1-5 4-8 6, Grant Wiederin 0-0 0-0 0, Treyton McCauley 0-3 0-0 0, Tyler Konigsmark 3-11 0-0 8, Davis Hall 0-1 0-0 0, Jesse Furrow 0-1 1-2 1, Kane Kramer 0-1 0-0 0, Zachariah Szabo 2-8 1-2 5, Royshawn Webb 2-2 3-4 7, Zach Evans 0-0 0-0 0, Zach Larson 0-1 0-0 0, William Galvin 0-1 0-0 0, Tyler Davidson 1-1 0-0 3. Totals 16-50 9-16 46.

C.R. WASHINGTON (68): Keegan Moore 3-6 3-3 10, Maurice Arrington 6-8 2-4 16, Jared Printy 6-12 1-2 19, Steven Kramer 5-11 0-0 14, Hunter Strait 0-2 0-1 0, Drew Hoeger 0-4 0-0 0, Keion Wills 0-3 1-2 1, Laveechie Williams 1-4 0-0 2, Noah Dawson 0-0 0-0 0, Trevor Thulin 1-2 1-2 4, Trey Richmond 0-1 0-0 0, Austin Bennett 0-0 0-0 0, Christian Beard 0-1 0-1 0, Jabe Gonder 0-1 0-0 0, Logan Hatfield 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 23-56 8-15 68.

Halftime - Washington 32, Jefferson 21. 3-point goals - Jefferson 4-13 (Van Oort 2-5, McCauley 0-1, Konigsmark 2-4, Kramer 0-1, Davidson 1-1), Washington 14-37 (Moore 1-2, Arrington 2-4, Printy 6-10, Kramer 4-9, Strait 0-2, Hoeger 0-4, Wills 0-1, Thulin 1-2, Beard 0-1). Rebounds - Jefferson 31 (Szabo 7), Washington 39 (Williams 8). Total fouls - Jefferson 15, Washington 16. Fouled out - Green. Turnovers - Jefferson 18, Washington 15.