To cap off the Indiana high school basketball season, the Fishers Tigers and Ben Davis Giants each took a quick trip down the road to face off for the 4A championship game. 

The reigning 4A champions, Ben Davis followed up their perfect season with a 23-5 record and a trip back to Gainbridge under first-year head coach Corey Taylor. 

As for the Tigers, a near-perfect 28-1 record has them in the national rankings and in the state championship game for the first time since 1922. 

The two teams faced off to open the season on Nov. 21 that saw the Tigers come out on top 74-61. 

Nearly 30 games later, the teams got out to a fast start as junior guards Jon Anthony Hall and Mark Zachery exchanged corner threes to get things going. 

The two guards that double as two of the best football recruits in Indiana, continued to put on a show for fans regardless of the sport. 

At halftime, Hall led all scorers with 16 points while Zachery paced the Giants with 10 of his own as the Tigers took a 36-30 lead into the lockers. 

As the game matured into the final stanza, the Tigers saw a 41-32 slip away from their hands as they went into the fourth quarter down 48-47. A late-game run that has been patented by first-year coach Corey Taylor this season.

“We were trying to prevent it,” Hall said. “It is something we knew they could do, I am just glad they made their run in the third quarter and not the fourth quarter like they usually do.” 

Keenan Garner got the fourth quarter going with an emphatic two hand slam, and from that point the Tigers did not look back. 

With the crowd noise reaching new decibels with each passing minute — each controversial call — it was Garner and Hall down the stretch that brought Fishers their first ever state championship. 

Garner would finish the night with 19 points, nine rebounds and five assists while Hall capped off his career-night with 23 points and 10 rebounds. 

“I had a really good practice coming into this week,” Hall said. “We had a mock scrimmage and I ended up hitting five three… so I felt confident going into the game.  I did not think I would go out here and do all this, but I am just so grateful.” 

In his fourth year with the program, head coach Garrett Winegar has continued to take the Tigers to new heights — and now he brings home the only hardware that matters. 

“I think our whole team proved everybody wrong,” Hall said. “My confidence is something I have been working on and [bringing this trophy home] was something that I was naturally able to do.”