1/17/12 At Wahoo
Wahoo 60
Raymond Central 65
The Wahoo Warriors suffered their first loss of the year at the hands of the Raymond Central Mustangs on Tuesday night 65-60. The Warriors got off to a good start and took an 18-10 lead after one quarter behind 5 points from Tyler Kavan and Ben Scheef. Wahoo continued to increase the lead in the second quarter behind Brook Stuart’s second and third trey of the half. Wahoo had their biggest lead of the night at 17, 35-18 after Ben Scheef’s basket, before 4 consecutive free throws from Nick Christensen cut the Warrior lead to 35-22 at the half.
In the third quarter, the Mustangs opened the half with a 9-1 run and cut the Warrior lead to 36-31 after Christensen’s trey. A Max Cook basket, and trey from Brook Stuart pushed the lead back to 10 at 41-31. The Mustangs would outscore the Warriors 15-6 the rest of the quarter and cut the Wahoo lead to 47-46 on another Christensen three pointer to end the quarter.
The game was tied at 54 with three minutes left when Christensen connected on his 5th three pointer of the game to make it 57-54, Central. A Brook Stuart free throw cut the lead to 2 at 57-55, but a three point play from Jake States made it 60-55, Central. Two Max Cook free throws would cut the lead to 60-57 with 1:30 left, but the Mustangs would ice the game with free throws down the stretch to win 65-60.
Coach Scheef: “This was a tough loss. We played a really good first half, and were really close to knocking them out of the game, but we let them close the lead to 13 right before half, and then the first two minutes of the third quarter, we let them back in the game. They got some momentum, we got back on our heels, and just could not get the momentum switched back around. You have to give Central a lot of credit. They played a great second half, and Nick Christensen had a tremendous game for them.”
Max Cook led the Warriors with 15 points. Ben Scheef added 14 points, and Brook Stuart contributed 13 on 4-5 shooting from 3 point range. Jon Abbott chipped in with 9 points. Nick Christensen led Central with 24 points.
The Warriors drop to 12-1, while Central is now 8-5. Wahoo travels to Norfolk on Friday to take on Norfolk Catholic, the defending Class C-1 State Champs. |
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