CUMBERLAND — After not getting enough players involved its last time out, Allegany made the necessary corrections, and then some.
Led by five 14-point or more scorers, second-ranked Allegany used 16-0 and 12-2 runs in the middle quarters to out-pace Frankfort, 93-82, on Tuesday night.
“It’s good to bounce-back like that,” Allegany head coach Brandon Reed said. “After a game we scored 47, we go out and score 93. I know there were a lot of free throws there at the end, but it is what it is. We knocked them down. I knew those guys would make shots.”
Allegany (6-2), which had its five game-winning streak snapped by a 60-47 loss to Southern on Friday, ended Frankfort’s three game streak. The Falcons fell to 3-4.
Chris Manherz scored 35 of the Campers’ 47 points against the Rams, but Allegany featured a balanced attack Tuesday.
Sebastian Stewart recorded a double-double with a game-high 22 points to go along with 10 rebounds, Manherz — who has been dealing with an illness — added 21, Owen Rice scored 18 and made four 3-pointers, Davis Williams chipped in 15 off the bench, and Landon Holliday tallied 14.
Frankfort’s Jeremy Phillips led the Falcons with 33 points, scoring 17 in the fourth quarter, and he was joined in double figures by Kycin Waites (17), Braeden Laffey (13) and Ethan Talley (11).
The Falcons led by 10 points at one point in the first quarter (17-7) and held a 21-15 edge going into the second, but Allegany caught fire once Frankfort went to a 2-3 zone.
A 16-0 Allegany run in the second period powered it to a 40-33 halftime lead. The Campers made four triples in the quarter and 11 in the game.
Frankfort scored seven straight points to open the second half to tie things up, but Allegany waged a 12-2 response and never looked back.
“We did nothing defensively and it’s been a problem for us a good bit of the season,” Frankfort head coach Scott Slider said. “We’ve put stretches together of playing decent defense and that helped with the wins that we had. But tonight we were satisfied with what we did in the first part of the game and then just let up.”
Allegany controlled the glass on both ends of the floor and its press made 12 steals, affording the Campers additional possessions that proved to be the difference.
The second-chance points eventually wore on Frankfort, and Slider called a timeout with 5:16 to play after the Falcons didn’t get back on defense, allowing Rice to sink an open 3-pointer for a 68-50 edge.
Reed was pleased with his team’s defense of Phillips, who entered as the area’s leading scorer at 28.3 points per game.
Phillips was held to 18 points until getting hot late once Manherz checked out.
“They take a lot of pride in their defense,” Reed said. “It was important that Chris got to guard Jeremy. He is a great player, he got a lot of points there at the end, but I think Chris did an excellent job on that. He really made him uncomfortable.”
Despite trailing by double digits during the entire fourth quarter, Frankfort continued fouling late in an effort to get back into it.
Allegany shot 24 fourth-quarter free throws, hitting 19 of them, during an eight-minute period when the Campers scored 36 points.
Rice and Holliday were 4 for 4 at the charity stripe in the fourth, Manherz made 5 of 6 attempts and Williams, a freshman, buried five of his final six attempts after a cold start.
“It’s part what they chose to do, and we can learn from it,” Reed said. “We’ve got big games coming up, and we might need to make free throws down the stretch.”
Allegany (1-1 Western Maryland Athletic Conference) has a big one coming up on Friday when it hosts No. 4 Fort Hill (4-2) on Friday at 7 p.m.
Frankfort will hope it has a quick memory after Tuesday’s disappointment before a Potomac Valley Conference tussle with Hampshire (0-9).
“We need to regroup and get ourselves focused and get back to what we’re supposed to be doing because we didn’t execute an offense at all,” Slider said. “And it was very, very evident.”
Allegany won the junior varsity game 41-21. Dylan Hare led the Campers with 15 points, and Kyren Freeman scored 10.