Monday, July 16, 2001
Summer Basketball League down to finals
Cintas meets Stan Litz Law Office in Tuesday's finale
By Malcolm C. Knox
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Any Wright State basketball fan who happened to be at Oak Hills High School Sunday got a sneak preview of what to expect this season. The Cintas team, featuring brothers Seth and Cain Doliboa, advanced to Tuesday's championship game in the Deveroes Summer Basketball League.
The Cintas team, with only six players, defeated the bigger, more experienced Mike Albert Leasing squad, made up primarily of former Xavier players, 98-83.
In the other semifinal, Stan Litz Law Office beat Maaco-Blue Ash 80-70. The teams play at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday for the title.
The Doliboas, both Springboro graduates, will play for the Raid ers next season after sitting out a year. Cain, 22, transferred to Wright State from Dayton and is a senior. Seth, 20, played one season at Bowling Green and is a sophomore. This summer is the first time the brothers have played organized basketball together since Cain's last season at Springboro.
Seth wasn't sure what he expected his team to do in the league.
“We just wanted to get some run in together.”
One-on-one games between the two don't happen often.
“It usually ends up in a fight,” Cain said.
The Deveroes games are played in 15-minute halves, so it didn't hurt Cintas to only have one substitute.
“That actually helps us,” Seth said. “Now that we have six players, you get all the shots you want. It's not like it's wearing you down.”
Cintas led the entire game, pushing the margin to 19 with about five minutes to go in the first half. Mike Albert cut it to two, with an eight-point run in the second half but could not finish the comeback.
Cain Doliboa had 21 points in the game, including five 3-pointers. Seth scored seven, while Keith Jackson out of Purcell Marian, a Xavier recruit, led Cintas with 25.
Gary Lumpkin led Mike Albert with 19, while Lionel Chalmers added 16, including four 3-pointers.
In the Stan Litz Law Office win, the lead changed hands nine times in the second half before Litz pulled ahead for good on a three-pointer by player-coach Mike Monserez with 3:28 left to play.
Maaco's team featured Jack Jennings and Brandon Hunter, both weighing more than 250 pounds, and league MVP Paul McMillian. Jennings played for Holmes, Western Kentucky University and professionally overseas, most recently in Argentina. Hunter plays for Ohio University.
Defending Hunter, who scored 34 in Maaco's game Saturday, was a big concern for Monserez. Hunter scored four points in the first half, Sunday, and finished with 14. McMillian scored 16.
Hunter consistently drew double-teams, sometimes triple-teams.
“He's strong, athletic, quick,” said Monserez, a Moeller graduate who started at Notre Dame and transferred to Butler. “We played him with one-and-a-half guys the whole game. We did a good job of making him work to get the ball.”
The Maaco team has played in the championship the past four years.
“I'm kind of disappointed that we didn't make it to the championship,” Jennings said.
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