The 5th graders played a pretty good game on the offensive side of the ball. However, their sluggish defense is the main reason that they now sit at (4-2).
After breaking out to an 8 point lead in the third quarter, the 5th graders took their foot off the gas and let the other team back into the game. The other team slowly chipped away on some easy shots, when the defense just couldn't move in front of anybody down low.
The 5th grade just had trouble breaking this game open and they let the other team hang around. Closing out quarters were especially problematic.
At the end of the second quarter, they were up five and had so much momentum heading into the break. But failure to box out resulted in an offensive rebound for the other team and an and one. In the third, they surrendered six points in the last two minutes of the quarter after being up eight.
With the game tied with less than a minute left, Justin hit one of two from the line to give the 5th graders a 27-26 lead.
The 5th graders made a stop on the defensive end, got the ball back, and had some pretty good looks. Instead of trying to run some clock, they took some shots that just wouldn't go in, and the other team ended up taking the ball the other way. They hit an outside shot and the 5th grade was now down by one.
Then it was chaos as the ball was bouncing all over the place until with less than 20 seconds in the game, Justin was wide open in the front court, but he appeared to stumble a little bit and could not get off a smooth shot. If he was balanced, he would've put the 5th graders ahead. Instead the ball hit off the backboard, and found Brandon T. who could not bank in the put back.
The ball went down the court and that was the ball game.
This difficult loss will overshadow the great things they did on offense as Justin had 14 points, while Brandon T. was absolutely on fire, and had a career-high 10 points.
But their defense and rebounding were lacking and that ultimately cost them the ball game.
6TH GRADERS FALL
Jason hit a buzzer beating three right before the half to close the 6th grade's deficit to 11-5. But that was as close as they got, as the second half just was not theirs. They put up only 4 more points the rest of the way and lost.
Jason had a game-high 8 points, while Hartman made a free-throw.
3rd/4th graders drop second straight
The 3rd/4th graders lost 18-5, the first time all season they have lost two in a row. Jonathan had a nice jumper in the first half and Raymond made three free-throws in the loss.
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