Dwayne Bacon scores 14 points leading Oak Hill over Bishop O'Dowd for the Iolani Classic championship. Tyler Kanoa | SL

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Sat, Dec 20, 2014 @ Iolani

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Oak Hill

58

Bishop O'Dowd

49

Final	1	2	3	4
Oak Hill	11	13	19	15	58
Bishop O'Dowd	13	15	14	7	49

I. Rabb 27 pts  7/8 FTs

D. Bacon 14 pts  1 3pm  3/3 FTs

It was lucky number seven for Oak Hill Saturday night.

Dwayne Bacon and Terrence Phillips combined for 28 points — all but two coming after halftime — to rally Oak Hill (Mouth of Wilson, Va.) to a 58-49 win over Bishop O'Dowd (Oakland, Calif.) in the championship game of the Iolani Prep Classic.

The Warriors, who are ranked No. 3 in the USA Today Super 25 national rankings, trailed by as many as eight points in the first quarter, but outscored the Dragons in the second half, 34-21, to capture their seventh Iolani Classic title in nine tries.

"It's always a joy to come over here and play in Hawaii," Oak Hill coach Steve Smith said. "The teams are first class and the tournament is first class. If you win this tournament you know you've done something, so our guys had to earn it because I didn't think we played our best and we had some guys under the weather, including the coach, (but) we fought through it."

Oak Hill was able to overcome a game-high 27 points from Bishop O'Dowd 6-foot-11 senior forward Ivan Rabb, who is rated as the nation's fifth-best prospect in the class of 2015.

"We had to help on him because he's tough when he gets tahe ball inside," Smith said. "He's more of a focal point for them. We don't focus on one guy, but we knew they were going to try and get the ball to him."

Rabb, who has offers from Kansas, Arizona, UCLA and Kentucky among others, had three fouls in the first half and ultimately fouled out in the closing minutes. He was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.

Bishop O'Dowd held a 42-39 lead late in the third quarter, but Oak Hill used a 7-0 run — capped by a three-point play by Phillips — to pull ahead, 46-42, early in the fourth quarter.

"Really we just wanted to keep going inside," Bacon said of the Warriors' halftime adjustments. "We had a bad first half but we were still only down by four so we just had to come back out and keep going and playing more defense. I got a big steal to put us up by five, I think, and we just kept playing defense from there and kept on pushing the lead side."

Bacon converted a three-point play a few minutes later to ignite a 9-0 Oak Hill run to put it out of reach.

"Basketball is a game of runs and it's about who makes a run at the right time and who's going to stick together when times get rough and I think Oak Hill, that's what we're about; When times get tough we stick together and we play hard," said Phillips, who was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player.

Smith said he sent a strong message to Bacon, a Florida State-commit, at the intermission.

"They stepped up," Smith said of Bacon and Phillips. "I challenged Bacon at halftime because he didn't play well. He's been sick and I said, 'Look, you've got to play or I've got to play somebody else,' and he really stepped up in the second half and Terrence played great."

Bacon, who was also named to the All-Tournament team along with teammate Daniel Giddens, said the Warriors' defensive effort fueled their second-half comeback.

"It starts on the defensive end, so we knew we were playing bad defense in the first half, so we had to come back out and play great defense and not spare anything in the second half to come back and get back up," Bacon said.

Bishop O'Dowd coach Lou Richie, whose team is ranked 11th nationally, credited Oak Hill in his post game comments.

"You can't mistakes against them," Richie said of the Warriors. "We definitely knew they were going to come out with a mission in the second half and they definitely were able to fulfill it. You just can't make mistakes against them. They got turnovers and made us pay."

Both teams are in another tournament in Springfield, Mo. in January and are scheduled to meet yet again in February.

"We're happy to be 21-0 sitting here during Christmas break, but we know our job is not done yet," Phillips said. "We still have about 30-something more games to go, we've got some big tournaments and we'll see them again, so it's not over yet."

Iolani Classic All-Tournament Team

Kevin Foster, Roosevelt
Dwayne Bacon, Oak Hill
Jalen Weber, Second Baptist
Chance Kalaugher, Kaiser
Paris Austin, Bishop O'Dowd
Lamont West, Miller Grove
Rodney Henderson, St. John Bosco
CJ Hankins, Orange Lutheran
Rogers Printup, Orange Lutheran
Rodney Henderson, St. John Bosco
Tanner Johnson, Lexington Catholic
Ty Dalton, Second Baptist
Austin Walker, Bishop O'Dowd
Daniel Giddens, Oak Hill
Alterique Gilbert, Miller Grove
Vance Jackson, St. John Bosco

One Team Award: Miller Grove
Most Outstanding Player: Ivan Rabb, Bishop O'Dowd
Most Valuable Player: Terrence Phillips, Oak Hill