Boys Basketball: Crete-Monee battles back to down TF South

Updated: February 21, 2012 9:00PM

LaQuon Treadwell is the rarest of athletes. Not only does he excel in two sports but he has a knack for coming up big in crunch time- in both basketball and football.

The junior forward played strong on both ends of the floor and helped Crete-Monee to down T.F. South 61-54 with a second-half comeback on Tuesday night.”

“He is such an athlete,” Crete coach Tom Cappel said. “He is a big-time football player but he could play basketball in college if he wanted to.”

Treadwell dominated the paint area on both ends. It was his baskets from the post that put the Warriors (17-7) ahead for good late in the third quarter. Treadwell converted a three-point play to pull within one point and then made another post move to put Crete ahead for good at 39-38.

“Our offense comes when we play hard on defense,” Treadwell said. “We knew when we came into the locker-room that we weren’t playing well.”

The Rebels (14-10) used a second quarter burst to jump ahead 27-23 at half. Paul Pierce keyed a 16-4 run with a pair of treys and Mychelle Bullock chipped in five of his 11 points off the bench during that stretch. Meanwhile the Warriors were forced into eight second quarter turnovers many of them unforced.

”We looked sluggish and disinterested in the second quarter,” Cappel said. “We can’t do this now. We are getting down to crunch time.”

Treadwell switched to face guard Pierce in the second half and held him to just two points. Treadwell blocked five shots for the game and altered a few others. Marvie Keith was 8-for-9 from the free-throw line in the second half to keep the Rebels at bay. Keith finished with 15 points.

Treadwell tallied 19 points and 11 rebounds for the game.

“If a school offers to let me play both sports in college, I would go out for the basketball team,’’ Treadwell said. ``I think that I could handle playing both sports.”

Pierce finished with 11 points and Robert Ryan added 10 for the Rebels.

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