The Central Catholic boys\u2019 basketball team earned a 53\u201344 come-from-behind victory over Mumford on Friday in the Sullivan Center. \u00a0With the non-conference win, the Fighting Irish improve to 15\u20133 on the season.<\/p>\n
CCHS outscored the Mustangs 34\u201322 in the second half, bouncing back in impressive fashion after a tough loss in the Catholic High School League Bishop Tournament quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Senior guard Manny Johnson led the Scarlet & Gray with a game-high 18 points and a season-best 17 rebounds, recording a double-double. \u00a0Senior forward Kaeden Carruthers added 12 points, while senior forward Kingston Sito chipped in nine.<\/p>\n
Mumford was paced by Joel Basima, who finished with 17 points.<\/p>\n
Central Catholic returns to action Tuesday, February 17, when the Fighting Irish travel to Findlay for a non-conference matchup. \u00a0The freshman game tips off at 4:45 p.m. in the FHS Main Gym, followed by the junior varsity and varsity contests. The varsity game will air live on 100.7 FM The Ticket beginning at 7 p.m.\u00a0 Tickets can be purchased by clicking HERE<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Central Catholic boys\u2019 basketball team earned a 53\u201344 come-from-behind victory over Mumford on Friday in the Sullivan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-479853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}