Warwick is back on the winning track.The #5 seed defeated #12 Donegal 62-38.

They will now advance to the 5A District 3 Quarterfinals on Thursday.

The Warriors drained 10 – 3pters… Caleb Johnsen had 4 of them for 16 points. Other Warriors in double figures – Ya’Majesty Washington (12pts), Tyree Hughes (11pts), Carter Horst & Trevor Evans (10pts each).

Early on though, it looked like it would be anything but a Warwick runaway.

Sure, while there was the pair of 3-balls sunk by way of Caleb Johnsen and Carter Horst that propelled the hosts out to a 6-4 lead nary two minutes into it, a trifecta dialed up by Donegal’s Evyan Patal made it a 9-8 Indians’ advantage roughly one minute later.

From there, even despite Warwick continuing to rain in the 3’s, such as the case when Johnsen proceeded to rifle in another trey at the 2:10 mark of the opening stanza which made it a 16-12 Warriors’ gap, the Indians showed that same exact resolve which has come to define their collective DNA this entire year as the same identical offensive set run by Shipper in back-to-back trips down the floor successfully resulted in Patal treys on each occasion, meaning that Donegal would claim ownership of the 18-16 cushion with just 40 seconds left to go. Sure enough, once the buzzer rang out to signify the end of the opening act, Donegal had surely made a strong early case for itself given the Indians’ 19-16 lead they held prior to the start of the second frame.

In the second quarter though? Well, that’s when Warwick made a mammoth charge that Donegal simply couldn’t match.