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I was there and it was an outstanding game.....Lima really came out strong but ASVSM fought back and I thought they were going to pull away....Coach Gaffney put Travis Walton on Marcus Johnson in the second half and Johnson wasnt able to do what he had done in the 1st half......Keith Jackson played very well and hit 2 crucial free throws in the closing seconds.....Keith Jackson was my player of the game and Travis Walton was my Defensive player of the game....
 
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Here is the write up from the lima news:

"[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] LIMA — No. 1 vs. No. 1 produced another first. The first great game in Lima Senior’s new gym.
The Spartans, ranked No. 1 in the state in Division I boys basketball, fought back from an eight-point deficit in the fourth quarter, to win 82-77 over Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary, the No. 1-ranked Division II team.
There was almost no similarity between the Spartans on Saturday night and the team which lost by 18 points on Friday night to unranked Findlay.
Travis Walton scored 26 points — 19 of them in the fourth quarter — to lead the Spartans. Keith Jackson had 20 points and nine rebounds, Dathan Lyles scored 18 and Chris McLellan had 13 points.
It was two big-time teams going hard for 32 minutes and a fourth-quarter burst won it for the Spartans (13-1).
“We won. I guess we delivered the last blow,” said Walton.
Lima Senior led for all but the last 10 seconds of the first half, but found itself down 62-55 going into the fourth quarter after St. Vincent-St. Mary shot 68 percent on field goals in the first three quarters.
The Spartans fell behind by eight early in the final quarter and were still down 77-71 with three minutes to play after St. Vincent-St. Mary’s Marcus Johnson scored the last two of his game-high 29 points on a drive to the hoop.
But the final minute of the game belonged to Lima Senior. Lyles scored after an Akron turnover with 52 seconds to play to give the Spartans the lead for good at 78-77.
After another turnover by the Irish, two free throws by Walton with 22 seconds to play made it 80-77. After Johnson missed a 3-pointer, Jackson closed it out with two more free throws with 14 seconds left.
“It was a great win for us. That’s a good basketball team,” Lima Senior coach Mark Gaffney said.
“We showed a lot of character tonight, coming back and playing defense, rebounding, making free throws. We’re a good team. We’re a long way from being a great team. But we won’t accept losing. We just want to be the last team standing at the end,” he said.
Jackson described Lima Senior as “hurt” after the loss to Findlay, but said the Spartans were determined to bouce back.
“We knew we had another big game to prove it was just a fluke we lost. We came back strong,” he said.
Really strong, according to Walton.
“How will you respond? That was our No. 1 thing on the board,” the senior guard said. “Our mission was to come out here and give 125 percent. We knew they were going to come in and play hard. We knew if we gave 125 percent, we didn’t have any choice but to win.
St. Vincent-St. Mary coach Dru Joyce thought Findlay did his team no favor when it rolled over the Spartans 75-58 on Friday night.
“They lost to a team they should have beaten. Then they played us. We’re a great team. We knew they would be ready. I told the guys the worst thing that could happen was them losing,” Joyce said.
Point guard Brian Glasper backed up Johnson with 12 points for the Irish, who lost for the second time in 16 games. Their only other loss was by one point to Toledo St. John.
St. Vincent-St. Mary’s 6-6, 235-pound center Lawrence Wilson got only 11 points and four rebounds, both below his average.
That was a big factor in the game, Gaffney said.
“We kind of took Wilson out of the game. That was a key. He really didn’t get into a rhythm,” Gaffney said.
Wilson said before the game that he will wait until Wednesday’s national signing day to decide whether he will play college football for Notre Dame, Ohio State or Florida."
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Buckeye where do you live at in lima.
 
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Johnson played JV as a freshman for ASVSM (Lebron's era), and was still ranked as one of the best freshmen in the nation. I believe his stock has fallen a bit since then, but the kid is an outstanding basketball player. Ohio's junior basketball class is loaded this year, Johnson could be somewhat of a sleeper behind Cook, Lighty, Chichester, and Morgan.
 
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