Stinson’s big 4th quarter helps Caston earn rare win at Pioneer

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS

Sports Editor, RTC

Boys basketball

Caston 60, Pioneer 54 (Saturday): Caleb Stinson scored eight of his game-high 19 points in the fourth quarter, and Cain Schanlaub added 18 to lead the Caston boys basketball team past host Pioneer Saturday.

Colby Pugh made a pair of free throws in the fourth quarter and added 12 for Caston, who trailed 39-37 going into the fourth quarter.

Caston improved to 7-12 overall and 2-4 in the Hoosier North. Pioneer dropped to 3-17, 0-6.

Caston beat Pioneer for the second time this season. They also won 52-36 in the Cass County Invitational third-place game on Dec. 2 at Logansport. It also marked their first road win over Pioneer since Jan. 28, 2005.

Drew McKaig scored 17 to lead Pioneer. Caleb Sweet added 16, and Brayden Erickson hit four 3-pointers and had 14.

Pioneer lost their third straight game.

The game was tied 32-32 at halftime.

CASTON (60) (7-12, 2-4)

Rowan Jellison 0 4-4 4, Talon Zeider 1 2-4 4, Colby Pugh 4 3-3 12, Caleb Stinson 7 4-7 19, Cain Schanlaub 8 2-5 18, Brady Evans 0 0-1 0, Evan Howard 0 0-0 0, Grant Yadon 0 0-0 0, Jackson Rentschler 1 1-2 3

TEAM: 21 16-26 60

PIONEER (54) (3-17, 0-6)

Drew McKaig 7 1-3 17, Brayden Erickson 4 2-4 14, Rylahn Toloza 1 0-0 2, Noah Miller 1 0-0 3, Caleb Sweet 6 3-4 16, Micah Rans 1 0-0 2, Lucas Perry 0 0-0 0, Gage Harper 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 20 6-11 54

Three-point field goals:

Caston 2 (Stinson, Pugh),

Pioneer 8 (Erickson 4, McKaig 2, Miller, Sweet)

Total fouls: Caston 14, Pioneer 23

Fouled out: Toloza (PIO), Sweet (PIO)

Score by quarters

Caston 21 11 5 23 – 60

Pioneer 18 14 7 15 – 54