SAN ANTONIO — Sean Stanaland scored a game-high 32 points to lead Jayton to a 65-26 rout of Fayetteville in a Class 1A state semifinal Thursday at the Alamodome.
The Jaybirds will face Benjamin in the title game at 8:30 a.m. Saturday.
Jayton (37-3) never trailed against the Lions, running away in the second half.
Jayton's Sean Stanaland starts on fire
Stanaland picked up where he left off in San Antonio. The sophomore scored 20 points in his last game at the Alamodome, a 49-44 overtime loss to Graford in the 2023 state championship.
Stanaland scored Jayton's first 13 points, including a 9-0 run to start the game. He reached 20 by halftime, shooting 8 of 13 and 1 of 2 from beyond the arc. Stanaland's aggressiveness attacking the rim also resulted in five free-throw attempts, including a three-point play in the first quarter. He made 3 of 5 tries from the charity stripe.
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Jaybirds swarm Fayetteville on defense
The length of 6-foot-4 Griff Reel, 6-2 Colt Gentry and 5-11 Ayden Salazar disrupted the Lions offense early and often.
Fayetteville missed its first seven shots and didn't score until the 2:50 mark of the first quarter. The Lions fought back to a 26-19 halftime deficit, but Jayton slammed the door with more defense.
The Jaybirds held Fayetteville without a field goal the final 6 minutes, 40 seconds of the third quarter. The Lions managed four points on 1 of 9 shooting in the frame, falling behind 36-23.
Fayetteville scored seven points in the second half.
Jayton in familiar position
Of the Jaybirds' four state-tournament appearances, which have all occurred since 2019, the team has reached the final three times.
That included Jayton's first berth, when the team beat Nazareth 38-37 in the semifinals on a buzzer-beater. The Jaybirds fell to Slidell 49-36 in the championship. The next season Slidell beat Jayton in the semifinals before the rest of the tournament was ultimately canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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CLASS 1A STATE SEMIFINALS
Jayton 65, Fayetteville 26
Fayetteville 7 12 4 3 — 26
Jayton 13 13 10 29 — 65
Fayetteville (32-6): Easton Jaeger 10, Lawson Fritsch 1, Keagan Supak 2, Brody Dooley 2, Mason Fenhaus 4, Kole Schmitt 3, Cash Smith 4.
Jayton (37-3): Ayden Salazar 6, Sean Stanaland 32, Colt Gentry 9, Justin Collins 3, Bode Ham 5, Jarret Herzog 5, Lorenzo Vargas 3, Tucker Scott 2.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Sean Stanaland erupts to power Jayton boys basketball past Fayetteville, into 1A final
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