The junior high team got the only victory since I last posted. I probably haven't been able to say that this year.
The game against Calumet was probably the biggest the varsity had this year. Win and the team clinches the regular season championship of the SSCC-West. A loss would be the first in the conference this year for HSRC and would most likely leave the determination of the top seed in the conference tournament to a coin flip.
Hope the coin flip goes our way.
After leading for three quarters, the HSRC Patriots seemed to run out of gas, Calumet started hitting threes they were missing earlier and the CCS press that our Patriots solved earlier became very perplexing in the fourth. HSRC's four point lead heading in the fourth disappeared quickly, and our Patriots went down to defeat for only the third time this year, 62-52.
The game started like the last one we had with CCS finished. In that game HSRC outscored Calumet 23-4 in the fourth and in this one, HSRC, behind Josh's deadly fadeaway, jumped out to 15-6 lead. CCS's Nick Ripoli hit a three at the end of the quarter, but our Patriots led theirs 15-9 after one. The second quarter saw Calumet start hitting their threes and the reigning MVP of the conference, Darric Obinger, got hot and scored seven. For HSRC, Josh got some rest and Lucas took over. His drives and put-backs off of offensive rebounds helped us keep up. Calumet didn't catch us, but they did trim the deficit to three at half, 29-26. Josh picked it up in the third again, and Calumet's three-point shooters stopped hitting. Darric was also quiet, although Matt Barker, their new center, became active offensively, scoring seven of their thirteen. Lucas and Seth contributed threes in the quarter, and HSRC maintained its slight edge, leading 43-39 at the end of three. However, Nick and David hit threes to open the fourth, and we started turning the ball over. Calumet quickly opened up an eight-point lead. We then had to resort to fouling, and Calumet resorted to making free throws, eight of twelve in the quarter. HSRC couldn't get back into it and fell by bye aforementioned ten.
All wasn't lost on that night - the junior high boys defeated their counterparts at CCS by the score of 23-11. Our substitution pattern was a little mixed up, but the starting group of Xavion, Mark, Matt, John and David played very well in the first quarter. They shut out CCS while scoring eight, six by David. Strangely the second quarter was even with our usual starters in. Calumet opened by hitting a three, then split two free throws. Our guys then got going, scoring the next five - a basket by Will, two free throws by Henry and another by Matt. Ice cold shooting by HRSC kept CCS in it in the third. Our Patriots could only get one of thirteen to go through the rim. The defense was decent, holding the eastern Patriots to only five. The six point lead heading in the fourth turned out to be the closest Calumet would get. Caleb got untracked, hitting two of the four baskets scored by HSRC. Calumet was limited to one basket in the quarter and we cruised to a 23-11 victory.
Thursday was our second set of games against the big and fast Glenwood team. We lost both games by pretty big margins. On this day the elementary team scored first, on a free throw by Nate. That was all we would get in the quarter. The taller Glenwood team got inside for several easy baskets and led 8-1. The Patriots slowed them a bit in the second quarter, but continued to have trouble scoring against the hosts. Nate scored again this time from the field but that was all we would get and trailed 12-3 at the half. Glenwood started clicking again in the third. After they opened the scoring, Nate got another field goal, but that was all we would get for a while. Glenwood ran off eight straight before Joel finally broke the streak with a free throw. Glenwood added on more basket before the quarter ended and led by eighteen. Against the subs in the fourth, Joel was able to scored a couple of buckets and the defense kept Glenwood from scoring, but that only trimmed the final deficit to fourteen: 24-10.
The junior highers battled in their game. They only trailed by four at 8-4 when Glenwood got a steal and score just before the quarter ended. The score would have been closed had we been able to hit some free throws and that became the story of the game. The defense sharpened up in the second and held Glenwood to three. However, that was all we could score, all from Henry on a field goal and free throw. The defense continued to play tough in the third, but the offense struggled. The boys had their chances, but again the problems from the free throw line really hurt us. We went two for eleven from the charity stripe in the quarter, which made us three for sixteen for the game to that point. We went cold in the final quarter while Glenwood really heated up. They hit five for nine from the field and opened the game up. Glenwood outscored us 10-0 in the fourth and we went down 29-11.
The varsity is now 18-3, the junior high team is 3-12 and the elementary team is 1-8. That may be it for the elementary team, although we are still trying to add one more game. The varsity takes on Grace tomorrow at Deer Creek, a home game for us. The junior high and varsity will both travel out to Channahon on Friday for games against Families of Faith.
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