La Porte (Ind.) La Lumiere, the No. 2 team nationally in the USA Today Super 25, beat Mount Pleasant (Utah) Wasatch Academy 64-52 in the fourth quarterfinal Thursday at the DICK’S Sporting Goods High School Nationals. Michigan standout shooting guard signee Jordan Poole scored 10 points in the win.

It was the first game for La Lumiere since Feb. 24. From USA Today:

It was a tight, defensive battle in which both teams struggled mightily from the floor. La Lumiere hit 34.5 percent of their shots, Wasatch just 26.9 percent. La Lumiere coach Shane Heirman chalked up the Lakers’ rough shooting night to his team’s lengthy layoff going into Thursday’s game. Prior to Thursday, they last played on Feb. 24

“I think anytime you take a month off, rhythm, timing, things of that nature are going to be a little off. In the second half and the fourth quarter, I thought we kind of found our space and timing.”

Wasatch, the No. 16 team in the Super 25, cut the margin to six at one point in the third. But they never got any closer.

Poole made one two-pointer, a triple and all five of his free throws in the victory.

La Lumiere and Findlay Prep squared off in a March 31 semifinal. Poole entered in the first quarter and made his presence felt immediately with an alley-oop pass to five-star forward Brian Bowen for a 7-5 La Lu lead.

La Lumiere was 3-for-17 in the first quarter in trailing 9-7, and Poole didn’t get a shot off. The Lakers fell behind 11-7 in the second quarter before Poole was fouled on a step-back triple and made all three free throws. Poole then nailed a 25-foot three-pointer to make it 13-11, but he picked up three fouls, including a technical for slapping an opponent’s hand off his chest, in the next several minutes and was in foul trouble.

La Lu was down 25-20 at the half, but took a 35-25 lead with Poole on the bench by going on a 15-0 run to start the second half.

Poole checked in at 2:32 of the third and assisted on a Bowen triple that made it 40-28. He smartly drew a second foul from beyond the arc with a shot fake and drained three more free throws to make it a 15-point spread.

Poole picked up his fourth foul and went to the bench with five-plus minutes in the fourth quarter, but not before leading Bowen with a long, perfect inbounds pass that led to a lay-up.

Poole turned it over with 5.8 seconds remaining and fouled out on the same play with La Lu clinging to a one-point lead. Findlay missed both free throws, and the Lakers held on to make the title game. Poole finished with nine points and four assists.

David DeJulius and East English Village went out in district play, but DeJulius watched his future team closely and lived and died with the Wolverines.

“Their run wasn’t a surprise to me,” DeJulius, a 28-PPG scorer this year, said. “I think it’s kind of surprising to people, but not me. When you have a great coach such as Coach B. and a point guard on the same page with him with all the weapons they have, you get wins.

“Derrick Walton was playing an extremely high level which brought everyone’s level up. The sky is the limit.”