His Centurions had already doubled the win total from the 2022-23 team and have beaten most of the teams they should have in 2023-24.

Monday night at home they dismantled Egyptian by using a 22-0 run to break a 7-7 tie as his club improved to 17-10 on the season, 6-1 in the South Egyptian Conference, with a 67-31 victory at home.

Nine different Century players put points on the board in the victory.

Samuel Perez, a 5-8 junior guard, paced the victors with 21-points, including a trio of 3-pointers for Century.

Two other Centurions; 6-3 forward Dalton Johnson and 5-10 junior guard Caden Crain, scored 10-points each.

Six-foot senior Landon Dunning added eight-points in the triumph while 6-3 sophomore Drew Dillow pitched in five-points.

“They (Egyptian) gave us some problems in our last meeting but we just sort of tightened some things up on the defensive end,” said Coach Parr,“We got some steals and run outs tonight and kept the momentum.”

Coach John Dillard's Pharaohs played pretty well in the opening minutes but that changed when the host went on their game changing run.

Egyptian saw its mark fall to 6-18 overall, 2-5 in the SEC.

The Pharaohs were led by 6-3 junior forward Brandon Plott with 11-points while teammate sophomore Damarion Clark added eight.

Those two scored all of the points for Egyptian in the first quarter and in the early going they were right there with Century.

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They held a couple of early leads after a Clark short jumper and Plott scoring on a drive in the lane.

But the Centurions took off on their run with Perez scoring seven of his points in the first quarter.

Dunning scored twice inside and Johnson added a rebound basket to close the quarter at 17-7.

Perez scored seven more points in the second quarter, nailing down his second 3-pointer and converting consecutive steals and transition scores to close the run and push the lead to 29-7 with 2:18 left in the half

Egyptian finally broke the scoring streak by Century with a conventional three-point play by William Lessar.

However Century closed out the half with Crain hitting a 3-pointer and Johnson scoring on a drive to make it 34-12 at the break.

Ten consecutive points from Century to begin the second half closed the book on any sort of Egyptian comeback.

Both Perez and Johnson scored early third quarter points as the lead ballooned to 44-12.

Crain hit his second 3-pointer and Perez canned a 3-pointer from near the top of the circle to close the 25-point quarter as the continuous mercy rule clock kicked in to begin the fourth quarter at 59-26.

Egyptian committed 11 of their 12 turnovers in the first three quarters, with four of them in the third quarter leading to Centurion points.

Century hit 29-of-61 shots from the field, 7-of-23 from the arc in the victory and they held a 38-28 rebounding edge.

The Pharaohs were 11-of-50 from the floor, 3-of-21 from long distance.

This was the fourth meeting of the season between the two clubs and Century has won all four contests.

Century will play Agape Christian on Thursday night in an SEC league game.

The Centurions lost a non-conference game to the Knights 69-65 in overtime back on December 1.

Egyptian hosts Zeigler-Royalton on Tuesday and Shawnee on Thursday in its next two contests.

“We like to be disruptive. We want to get into the passing lanes and be able to reach without fouling,” said Coach Parr. “The guys came out at halftime and knew that they needed to come out strong. They brought a lot of energy.”

Egyptian (31) - Plott 2 2 1-2 11, Clark 2 0 4-4 8, Williams 1 0 1-1 3, Beene 2 0 0-3 4, McHughs 0 0 0-0 0, Pearman 0 0 0-0 0, McKee 0 1 0-0 3, Price 0 0 0-0 0, Webb 0 0 0-0 0, Potts 0 0 0-0 0, Lessar 1 0 0-0 2.
2FG-8, 3FG-3, FT-6-10, PF-8.
Century (53) - Walshon 0 1 0-0 3, Perez 6 3 0-0 21, Soloman 2 0 0-0 4, Rarrick 0 0 0-0 0, Dillow 2 0 1-2 5, Taake 0 0 0-0 0, Windings 0 0 0-0 0, JOhnson 5 0 0-1 10, Sharpe 0 1 0-0 3, Crain 2 2 0-0 10, Dunning 4 0 0-0 8, Eddington 1 0 1-2 3. 2FG-22, 3FG-7, FT-2-5, PF-14.
Fouled Out – None.
Technical Fouls – None.