(Guthrie Center) The ACGC boys basketball team is scoring the basketball at an impressive rate. The Chargers will host Pleasantville Friday night in a game we’ll have on KSOM.
Coach Lance Kading’s team is averaging 78.8 points per game during their four game win streak. “We are getting to where we kind of have our rotation down now. Guys have been playing well together. It helps when you start to have guys knock down shots. It’s a testament to moving the ball and finding the open guy.”
Miles Kading is averaging 18.7 points, 6.2 rebounds, 4.5 assists, and 3.2 steals per game. “He’s kind of a swiss army knife type player. He can make plays for others. He can make plays for himself when he needs to. He’s not very big, but he gets in there and gets a fair amount of rebounds.”
Ben Marsh has gone from averaging 8 points per game last year to 16.6 points per game as a junior. Coach Kading admits this type of a jump was expected. “I was actually. I’ve seen it when he used to come to open gym even in junior high and he’d play with the high school guys. He got right in there and went after them. You could tell he was going to be a pretty special player.”
ACGC is 15-4 overall and 11-3 in the West Central Activities Conference. They’ll take on a 10-7 Pleasantville group. “We match up pretty well with them on paper. If you look down the stats it’s almost like you are looking at a mirror image. The record is a little bit different, but they play on the eastern half of the conference so they play DM Christian, Van Meter, and Earlham a couple of times a year. The last three meetings with them have been decided by three points or less. I’m glad this one is at home.”
We’ll have play-by-play coverage of both the girls and boys games Friday from Guthrie Center. Game one tips at 6:00 p.m.
ACGC coach Lance Kading:
