YOUNGSTOWN — Going against one of the best players in northeast Ohio, Warren G. Harding wanted to make sure it got the ball out of Ursuline star Jaylen Gunther’s hands on Friday night.

Even though Gunther went off for 28 points, the Raiders did just enough defensively to pull out a 55-52 victory over the Fighting Irish in Youngstown.

“He’s an elite scorer. He’s as good as it gets at the high school level in the state of Ohio,” Harding coach Keelyn Franklin said. “So we wanted to make other guys beat us, which they have the capability of doing. We just felt like if we could get the ball out of his hands and make everybody else make plays throughout the course of the game that maybe they haven’t had to make in the past, we liked our chances.”

With how the Raiders came after Ursuline defen

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