Height plus depth.

It's a winning combination for Timothy Christian, which on Friday beat Private School League rival Wheaton Academy 58-43 in front of an overflow crowd in Elmhurst.

Timothy Christian starters 6-foot-7 center Jake Carwell and 6-6 forward Jon Huizinga each picked up two fouls in the game's first four minutes. Sitting much of the first half, each got his third foul within three minutes of the third quarter.

Trying to make sure Wheaton Academy big men Matt Almaraz and Mark Aloisio didn't go crazy, off the bench came 6-6 Aaron Lammers and 6-8 Josh Crittle.

Trojans guard Chad Woldman joined them and scored a team-high 15 points for PSL co-leader Timothy Christian (14-3, 4-0).

"It's nice when you've got all those fouls to give," said coach Jeff Powers, whose Trojans outrebounded Wheaton Academy 41-25 and allowed 12-of-48 shooting. "Josh Crittle again played solid, and Shane Pageau was outstanding."

Senior guard Pageau scored 8 points - as did Carwell and Lammers - and tied Almaraz with 11 rebounds. Almaraz earned a double-double with a game-high 19 points. Aloisio finished with 9 points.

"I'm confident in all our guys coming off the bench, so I wasn't really that worried," Pageau said of the big men's foul problems. "We just had to maintain through the quarters they were out."

After trailing 28-19 at halftime, Wheaton Academy (3-10, 1-3) nearly foiled that plan.

Starting the third quarter fast with 3-pointers from Axel Cerny and Almaraz, the Warriors cut Timothy's lead to 32-28 at 4:28 of the third.

Wheaton Academy was stymied from there, missing its next two shots, both chippies, then watching the Trojans launch a 15-3 run for a decisive 47-31 lead at 5:59 of the fourth quarter. The Warriors never again got closer than 12.

"I thought we played pretty well and we had opportunities," said Wheaton Academy coach Andy Euler. "We missed our opportunities, and layups, to make a change in the way the game was going."

Woldman converted his chances. All 15 of his points came in the second half, 11 in the Trojans' pivotal surge. He made 5 shots in a row, three of them 3-pointers, as the home Timothy fans, and his teammates, urged him on.

"My teammates were really finding me there for awhile, for a spurt there," said Woldman, the first guard in off the bench for Timothy Christian. "Shane Pageau was really finding me, and I just knocked the shots down."