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Bohannon drills nine 3's for 40

Jordan Bohannon was simply Bo-Dacious on Friday night.

The Linn-Mar sharpshooter broke the school record with nine 3-pointers and poured in a career-best 40 points as the Lions drilled Cedar Rapids Prairie, 91-54, in the Linn-Mar gym.

The record stayed in the Bohannon family, however, as Jordan snapped the old mark of eight 3-pointers set by his older brother, Jason, during the 2005-06 campaign.

Bohannon tossed in one of his 3-pointers from more than 30 feet, hit several other triples with a defender's hand in his face and twice beat the clock with 3-pointers at the end of a quarter.

He finished 9 for 11 from behind the arc in his remarkable performance.

"It's a shooter's dream," Bohannon said. "You work so hard in the off-season, preparing for these moments."

Bohannon is normally fairly stoic on the court, but he celebrated several times with a little yell and a big smile when one of his long shots found nothing but net.

"It was a good crowd," he said. "I was pumped coming into the game. I was just really excited. We were all jacked up. We hadn't played a home game in five games."

Jason Bohannon sat in the stands with other family members behind the Linn-Mar bench, about halfway up the bleachers. He enjoyed seeing his kid brother pump in shot after shot after shot.

"He lit it up tonight," said Jason Bohannon, who starred at Wisconsin after playing for Linn-Mar. "Some of those 3-pointers were like NBA 3-pointers.

"I've seen him play like that sometimes in the summer. Never in a high school game. I've seen him shoot it well, but never that confident through the whole thing.

"It's kind of fun watching it from the sidelines, to see all the hard work he put in during the summer pay off."

Adam Spanich owns the Metro record for most 3-pointers in a single game with 10 for Regis in 1994.

Incredibly, Bohannon did not score a single point in the first quarter that saw the Lions finish the stanza with an 8-6 lead. He did not make his first basket -- a 3-pointer, naturally -- until there were 4 minutes, 20 seconds left in the second period, but once he got started there was no stopping him.

Bohannon drilled four more 3-pointers in the second period, giving him five 3-pointers in less than five minutes, and finished the period with 22 points with five 3-pointers and seven free throws.

He hit a 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer with Cal Clark's hand right in his face. Clark simply smiled and shook his head, realizing there's nothing you can do when a shooter is on fire like that.

"The rim must have looked like an ocean for him," said Prairie assistant coach Kenyon Murray, who starred for the Iowa Hawkeyes in the 1990's. "He got his team going and he sustained it in the second half."

Bohannon made three more 3-pointers and scored 13 points in the third quarter, giving him 35 markers in back-to-back stanzas. He made another 3-pointer and scored five points in the fourth period before Linn-Mar coach Chris Robertson sent in a sub with 3:31 left in the game.

Robertson saw North Carolina star Marcus Paige pour in a school-record 49 points for Linn-Mar in a memorable substate championship game against Kennedy in 2012. The stakes were not as high Friday night, but Bohannon had a similar performance.

"Incredible," Robertson said. "He was on fire. You could just tell. He felt it, he wanted the ball.

"When a guy is shooting like that, you just get out of his way and let him go a little bit."

Bohannon, a 6-foot-1 guard who has signed with Iowa, did more than shoot 3-pointers. He also had an eye-popping moment when he stole the ball, dribbled down court, did a 180-degree spin to his left and followed that with a 180-spin to his right to free himself for a layup.

"That's something I was working on this summer," he explained. "Especially at Iowa, I've got to attack the rim and take quicker first steps. I haven't really showcased it too much these first few games, but I'm starting to feel more comfortable with the ball and get to the rim."

Linn-Mar exploded for 83 points in the last three quarters after the slow start. As a team, the Lions shot 14 for 25 on 3-pointers and missed the school record by two triples.

The Prairie Hawks, coming off a big victory over Dubuque Wahlert on Tuesday night, did not have an answer for Bohannon and the Lions.

"We're not 30 points better than them," Robertson said. "We just happened to make a lot of shots tonight and it worked out well."

Beau Klostermann scored 15 points for Linn-Mar, Jordan Brandt had 13 and Jared Printy 10.

Clark topped Prairie (4-2) with 19 points.

PRAIRIE (54): Copeland 2 2-3 7, Lorenz 1 0-0 2, Clark 6 5-7 19, Reittinger 0 0-0 0, Smith-Drahos 3 2-2 8, Eilers 1 0-0 2, Rima 2 1-2 6, Chadima 1 0-1 2, Hook 0 0-0 0, Kilpatrick 1 0-0 3, Oxley 1 0-1 2, Mi. Nierling 0 0-0 0, Krapfl 0 0-0 0, Johnson 0 0-0 0, Lins 1 0-0 2, Serbousek 0 1-2 1. Totals 19 11-18 54.

LINN-MAR (91): Mentzer 1 0-0 3, Printy 4 0-0 10, Murphy 0 0-0 0, Towlerton 0 0-0 0, Phillips 1 2-2 5, Werkman 0 0-0 0, Bohannon 11 9-9 40, Kraus 1 0-0 3, Klostermann 6 3-4 15, Voves 0 0-0 0, Cronin 0 2-4 2, Miller 0 0-0 0, Hand 0 0-0 0, Brandt 6 1-6 13, Kerr 0 0-0 0. Totals 30 19-25 91.

Halftime - Linn-Mar 37, Prairie 21. 3-point goals - Prairie 4 (Clark 2, Copeland 1, Rima 1), Prairie (Bohannon 9, Printy 2, Mentzer 1, Phillips 1, Kraus 1).

Last Updated ( Friday, 18 December 2015 23:33 )  

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