Vince Doering.<\/p>\n
The Manhattan High boys\u2019 basketball senior recorded his second game-winning shot in less than a week on Wednesday night. Doering drilled a moving, acrobatic 3-pointer at the horn, sending Manhattan to a 58-56 playoff-opening win over Wichita Northwest.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe plan was the same play as Washburn \u2014 they cut me off this time, though,\u201d Doering said of the game-winner. \u201cIt felt pretty good off the hand. Definitely not the shot that we wanted. But I\u2019ll take it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my mind, I was putting that ball up \u2014 no matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n
It should be no surprise that Manhattan\u2019s playoff journey started the same way so many of its games have this season.<\/p>\n
It was the eighth one-possession win for the Indians this year, coming after the regular-season finale last week, when Doering hit a buzzer-beating layup at Washburn Rural. The play call for an attack to the rim was the same, but as Northwest forced him wide, Doering pulled up from deep \u2014 and saved Manhattan\u2019s season with the make.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe ran the same play, and they knew it was coming; they sent two at him, and Vince rose up,\u201d head coach Benji George said. \u201cWhat a tough shot. You\u2019re off balance, running full speed, and he just knocked it down.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever seen a better sight in my life than seeing that ball go through the net.\u201d<\/p>\n
Doering, who entered the game with 138 career steals \u2014 four away from the program record \u2014 continued to do his part defensively and finished with 16 points.<\/p>\n
Will Carpenter led the Indians with 21 points, followed by Doering and Easton Duff with 10 each. Carpenter was matched by Northwest\u2019s Darrian Hammond, who also scored 21 points, including a deep 3-pointer that gave the Grizzlies a brief advantage before Doering\u2019s heroics.<\/p>\n
\u201cGive Wichita Northwest some credit \u2014 they created the chaos,\u201d George said. \u201cAnd we made the play at the end. Will stepped up and hit some big shots. Easton, obviously, was huge for us off the bench, and then the play by Vince.\u201d<\/p>\n
How it happened<\/p>\n
The Indians briefly fell behind to open the game before Carpenter heated up from beyond the arc. The Manhattan sharpshooter knocked down three triples in the first quarter as the Indians took an 18-12 lead after one.<\/p>\n
A sloppy second quarter unfolded on both ends of the floor, and Wichita Northwest took advantage of several Manhattan miscues. The Grizzlies evened the score at halftime, 26-26.<\/p>\n
After scoring a team-high 11 points in the first half, Carpenter tried to jumpstart Manhattan out of the break, opening the second half with a pair of 3-pointers. Northwest responded with an 8-0 run, taking its largest lead of the night at 39-34.<\/p>\n
Following a timeout, Manhattan answered with a run of its own late in the third quarter, trimming the deficit to 46-45 entering the final period as the game turned into a fight to the finish.<\/p>\n
The teams traded punches down the stretch, highlighted by Easton Duff scoring 10 second-half points. Sawyer Newton fouled out late, but Carpenter stepped up for his fellow senior, finishing at the rim to give Manhattan a 55-53 lead entering the final minute.<\/p>\n
That lead held until the 16.5-second mark, when Manhattan turned the ball over and gave the Grizzlies one more chance. Hammond capitalized, drilling his fourth 3-pointer of the night to give Wichita Northwest a one-point lead with six seconds remaining.<\/p>\n
That set the stage for Doering once again. The senior raced right and launched a contested 3-pointer as time expired, drilling it to send Manhattan on to the sub-state final.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll in all, we really didn\u2019t play that well,\u201d George said. \u201cBut you\u2019ve got to win games somewhere in March where you don\u2019t play very well. And we did that tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Manhattan will host No. 5 seed Wichita East (15-8) on Saturday at 5 p.m after the Blue Aces defeated No. 12 seed Campus 76-56 in their playoff opener.<\/p>\n
MANHATTAN 58,<\/p>\n
WICHITA NW 56<\/p>\n
MHS (18-5) \u2014 18; 8; 19; 13; \u2014 58<\/p>\n
Wichita NW (9-14) \u2014 12; 14; 20; 10; \u2014 56<\/p>\n
INDIVIDUAL SCORING<\/p>\n
Manhattan \u2014 Carpenter 21, Doering 16, Sawyer Newton 5, Witt 2, Washington 2, Duff 10<\/p>\n
Wichita NW \u2014 Hammond 21, Kates 10, Hutchinson 11, Taylor 7, Young 5, Laws 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vince Doering. The Manhattan High boys\u2019 basketball senior recorded his second game-winning shot in less than a week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[8918,75,84,83,9,24,63,319],"class_list":["post-154409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-american-football","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}