Boys JV Baskteball Wins A Close One

On Wednesday, February 17^th the Marvelwood JV Basketball team played its final home game of the season against The Woodhall School.  The game ended up coming down to the final seconds before we finally prevailed by the score of 45 to 44.  After trailing for most of the game, our team finally took the lead with around 4 minutes to play.  With a 2 point lead and 8 seconds to play, TJ Jacobs ‘10 was fouled and went to the line.  As cool as the other side of the pillow, TJ drained both foul shots giving us the all important 4 point lead.  Woodhall’s top scorer stepped over half court and drained the impossible 3 point shot with 3 seconds to play.  Fortunately we were able to inbound the ball before being fouled with 1 second to play.  We missed the front end of the one-and-one, but Woodhall was unable to score on their ¾ court last shot.  Both teams played great as we were able to eek out our 5^th victory of the season.

Although we fouled the other team way too often, everyone on the team played well today.  Qigao Wang ’11 was dominant in the paint with 11 points, 11 rebounds, 4 steals, 2 assists, and 2 blocked shots.  Bowen Luo ’10 sparked our offense with 7 points and 2 assists.  Kao-Ting Hsu ’12 also played tough in the post with 10 points and 8 rebounds. Zian Xu ’10 played well both inside and on the perimeter with 2 points, 4 rebounds and a steal.  TJ Jacobs ’10 scored 5 points (including the game wining free throws), grabbed 5 rebounds, and had a nice assist.  Tyler Knowles ’10 played another solid game down low with 4 points and 4 rebounds.  Chris Oliveri ’10 played tough defense and ripped down 4 rebounds.  Zidong Liu ’10 scored 4 points and played tough defense.  The team is now 5-6 with one game left this Saturday at Chase Collegiate. - Coach Mason