12/5/15 - at Seward
Wahoo 11 - 7 - 18 - 15 -- 51
Seward 16 - 16 - 8 - 21 -- 61
The Wahoo Warriors were defeated by the Seward Bluejays 61-51 on Saturday afternoon in Seward.
The Bluejays dominated the first half and went to the locker room with a 32-18 lead. The Warriors got things going in the second half. Wahoo was still down 38-28 with three minutes left in the third. A Brendan Lacey trey, a Dylan Egr lay up, and a Billy Hancock trey cut the Seward lead to 40-36 after three quarters of play.
Back to back lay ups from Corby Brigham and Brendan Lacey tied the game up for the first time in the game at 40-40 early in the fourth quarter. A Brevin Sloup trey put Seward up 43-40. Billy Hancock answered with a trey to tie the game back up at 43 with 5 minutes left to play. The Bluejays scored on their next three possessions, while the Warriors missed treys on their next two possessions, to take a 49-43 lead, with 3:30 left. Two free throws and a lay up from Jake Ruzicka cut the lead back to 49-47 with 1:30 left. Seward’s Sloup hit a driving lay up to make it 51-47. The Warriors committed a turnover on their next possession and Seward then went 10-10 from the line down the stretch to seal the win.
Jake Ruzicka led the Warriors with 17 points and 11 boards. Brendan Lacey added 11 points. Josh Abbott added 6 boards. Wahoo was plagued by poor free throw shooting, 5-14, and poor 3 point shooting, 4-18.
The Warriors fall to 0-2, and will next host Wayne on Friday night.
