St. Viator's balance topples York

Bryce Hensley got everything rolling for St. Viator.

K.J. Sherwood came off the bench to keep it going. Brendan King and Alan Aboona took their turns as well Tuesday night at Cahill Gym in Arlington Heights.

Those four scoring in double figures added up to a 66-45 nonconference boys basketball romp by Viator (4-1) over visiting York.

"Moving the ball and finding the open guy is what our offense is all about," Hensley said after scoring 17 points. "We have a lot of guys contributing right now."

Hensley was the guy early as he hit three straight 3-pointers to jump-start a 21-point run in response to York's game-opening basket.

The 6-foot-4 senior also beat the first-quarter buzzer with a 3 and finished 5-for-5 behind the arc.

"It was nice to see him have a game like this," Viator coach Joe Majkowski said after his team went 10-for-18 on 3s.

"My teammates were getting me open and passing me the ball and getting me shots," Hensley said. "I was just wide open."

York (1-5) missed 8 straight shots and committed half of its 18 turnovers en route to its 21-2 deficit. A baseline jumper by sophomore Will Sullivan (17 points) finally stopped the run.

"We can't get five guys who want to play and we have absolutely no soul right now," said York coach Al Biancalana. "We're playing incredibly individualistic and we have no team unity. We're at a crossroads here right now.

"(St. Viator) plays as a team. They understand each other's strengths and weaknesses. That's a team that's going to have quite a year this year."

With Aboona (11 points, 4 assists) sitting for much of the second quarter with 2 fouls, Sherwood scored 7 of his career-high 11 points.

"My teammates were hitting me and I was finding gaps to attack," Sherwood said. "When Alan came out I figured I'd try to get the team going."

King then hit a pair of 3s and scored 8 of his 11 points in the third quarter as Viator took its biggest lead at 50-26.

Aboona hit a pair of 3s and scored 8 fourth-quarter points. Richard McLoughlin added 8 points for the Lions, who have an East Suburban Catholic Conference double weekend at Marian Catholic on Friday and at home with St. Patrick on Saturday.

"We think that's the kind of team we have and should be," Majkowski said. "We have so many guys on the team capable of being a scorer, so we tell them 'let's run our offense and find our open man within our offense.'"