IRONTON — Brody Buchanan is the Fairland Dragons’ point guard. He could easily be called their “points” guard.
Buchanan scored a game-high 20 points as he helped keep the Dragons unbeaten with a 50-38 win over the Russell Red Devils in the annual Ironton Classic.
Buchanan also did his job as point guard with 5 assists. Trevor Lochow had 10 points and Cliff Fransen had 8 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists.
Gabe Pridemore scored 11 points to lead the Red Devils (3-4).
Fairland (6-0) took a 15-10 first quarter lead as Buchanan and Keegan Smith each hit a 3-pointer and scored 5 points.
Ryder Burge and Kaiden Benge each hit a -pointer for Russell.
The lead went to 30-21 at the half as Fransen knocked down a pair of 3-pointers and scored 8 points and Buchanan added 5 more including 3-of-3 at the foul line.
Caleb Rimmer scored 4 points and Burge had a trey for the Red Devils.
The Dragons built a 45-27 lead in the third quarter as Lochow scored 8 points as he made two 3-pointers and Buchanan had 7 points as he added a 3-pointer to his total.
Pridemore had 4 of Russell’s 6 points in the quarter.
Fairland scored just 5 points in the fourth quarter with Buchanan and Smith combining for the total.
Pridemore scored 5 points as he joined Benge and Shae Burnham with 3-pointers.
Fairland shot 19-of-42 from the field for 45 percent including 7-of-20 from behind the arc for 35 percent.
Russell was just 15-of-45 from the field for 33 percent but 6-of-15 from the 3-point line for 40 percent.
Russell 10 11 6 11 = 38
Fairland 15 15 15 5 = 50
RUSSELL (3-4): Gabe Pridemore 3-6 1-4 0-0 11, Ryder Burgess 0-0 2-5 0-0 6, Kaiden Benge 0-6 2-3 0-0 6, Gunner Hignite 0-0 0-0 0-0 0, Corbin McGrath 0-0 0-0 0-0 0, Caleb Rimmer 3-8 0-1 0-1 6, Shae Burnham 1-3 1-2 0-0 5, Tyler Cordial 2-7 0-0 0-0 4. Totals: 15-45 0-1 38. 3-pt goals: 6-15. Rebounds: 20 (Benge 7, Cordial 5). Assists: 3 (Benge 2, Cordial 1). Fouls: 11. Fouled out: None.
FAIRLAND (6-0): Gabe Polcyn 2-3 0-0 1-1 5, Trevor Lochow 2-2 2-6 0-0 10, Cliff Fransen 1-2 2-6 0-0 8, Keegan Smith 2-5 1-3 0-0 7, Maddox Gue 0-1 0-0 0-0 0, Brody Buchanan 5-9 2-5 4-7 20. Totals: 19-42 5-8 50. 3-pt goals: 7-20. Rebounds: 25 (Fransen 10, Smith 5). Assists: 12 (Buchanan 5, Fransen 4). Steals: 6 (Lochow 2, Polcyn 2). Fouls: 8. Fouled out: None.
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