NOMINATE FOR ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Boys basketball
BAUGO TWP., Ind. — James Helmuth drained a three-point goal from the right corner with 5.1 seconds to play, and Shane Cook's off-balance 30-footer was no good at the buzzer as Bethany escaped Jimtown with a 30-28 victory Tuesday night.
Seth Kauffman made a layup with 1:45 left in the third quarter for his 1,000th and 1,001st career points. He finished the game with 1,003, 143 points short of Eliot Friesen's school records. Bethany missed its first five shots and did not score until Hamilton Thorne punched in a bucket with 6:42 left in the second period. But the host Jimmies wold hit an even longer cold streak, as Brian Hosinski ended an 11-0 Bethany run that stretched for 13 minutes across the entire second quarter. Hosinski finished with six points, while Bret Giddings led Jimtown with nine on 3-of-4 shooting.
Jimtown outscored Bethany 17-7 in the third quarter and led 28-22 after a long-range shot from Shane Cook with 3:37 remaining. Ben Bontreger sank a pair of free throws at 2:50 before Helmuth cut the lead to one with a minute and 54 seconds left in the game. Bethany resorted to fouling in an attempt to get the ball back, and Femi Hollinger-Janzen picked up his second with just over 25 seconds on the clock. But Helmuth intercepted the inbound pass with only a slight bobble before receiving the outlet pass for the game-winning shot. After a series of timeouts, Jimtown took the ball out of bounds just inside midcourt with 2.2 seconds left, and the rest is history.
Tuesday's game marked the lowest point total in any of Bethany's 440 wins dating back to 1965. The Bruins are 10-7 and will ride a six-game winning streak into Saturday's contest against LaVille at the Menno Lands. Jimtown falls to 9-9, 3-3 in the Northern State Conference
Bethany 30, Jimtown 28
Bethany: Mikey Kelly 1-6 0-0 3, Ben Bontreger 0-3 3-4 3, Seth Kauffman 3-7 0-2 6, Femi Hollinger-Janzen 0-2 0-0 0, Hamilton Thorne 5-9 0-2 18, James Helmuth 3-5 0-0 9. Totals 12-32 (37.5%) 3-8 (37.5%) 30.
Jimtown: Nick Anglemeyer 1-3 0-0 2, Shane Cook 1-7 0-0 3, D.J. Washington 1-3 0-0 2, Brae Beadles 2-13 1-1 6, Brian Hosinski 3-6 0-0 6, Richard Geraghty 0-0 0-0 0, Bret Giddings 3-4 0-0 9, Justin Brown 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 11-36 (30.6%) 1-1 (100.0%) 28.
B 0 11 7 12 — 30
J 6 0 17 5 — 28
Three-point goals — Bethany 3-13 (Helmuth 3-5, Hollinger-Janzen 0-1, Bontreger 0-3, Kelly 0-4), Jimtown 5-15 (Giddings 3-3, Cook 1-5, Beadles 1-6, Washington 0-1). Total fouls — Bethany 7, Jimtown 8. Fouled out — none.
Rebounds — Bethany 23 (Thorne 7, Kauffman 5, Bontreger 3, Hollinger-Janzen 3, Helmuth 2, Kelly 1, team 2), Jimtown 24 (Beadles 7, Anglemeyer 5, Hosinski 5, Geraghty 2, Brown 1, Cook 1, Washington 1, team 2). Assists — Bethany 9 (Hollinger-Janzen 3, Kauffman 3, Kelly 2), Jimtown 7. Turnovers — Bethany 10, Jimtown 14. Blocks — Bethany 7 (Thorne 5, Kauffman 2). Steals — Bethany 7 (Hollinger-Janzen 3, Helmuth 2, Bontreger 1, Kelly 1).
JV: Bethany 25, Jimtown 23. Leading scorers — Bethany: Jeff Yoder 11, David DeLeeuw 8, Caleb Morris 5, Andrew Snyder 1; Jimtown: Max Pollock 9.
Top left, James Helmuth shoots the game-winning three-point shot with six seconds remaining. Top right, Seth Kauffman puts up the basket that makes him the second male Bruin with 1,000 career points. Bottom, Bethany students display a sign congratulating Kauffman on his achievement. (Kauffman and Helmuth photos by Ricky Yoder/
Be Blessed Photos via
Michiana Sports Authority; sign photo by Jay Seawell/
Elkhart Truth)
Helmuth's 3-pointer helps Bethany top Jimtown (
Elkhart Truth)
Helmuth, Kauffman lead Bruins (
Goshen News)
Photo Gallery (Be Blessed Photos)
MS girls basketball
SOUTH BEND — Bethany 32, Stanley Clark 28
"C": Bethany 20, Stanley Clark 14
