Feb 1, 2012
Comets send South Tama south for second straight time
Comet senior Trent Teske rises for an offensive rebound in the third quarter of his team’s double-digit victory over STC on Friday in Conrad. Teske finished with nine points and five rebounds off the bench.
Matt Muilenburg/ The Record
Matt Muilenburg
Editor
Curt Paugh used the bench press on Friday
night, and South Tama couldn’t handle the weight.
Powered behind the bench play of Trent Teske, Conner Ubben, Chad Frazer and others, the Comet boys basketball team won its second game of the season
over the Trojans on Friday night in Conrad, downing their NICL West rivals 60-46 behind a jazzed, raucous
home crowd.
Ubben, Frazer and Teske combined for 29 points, 13 rebounds and a whole lot of hustle to propel
the Comets to their fifth win of the season.
And after the travesty that was their 77-31 loss to NUHS just three days earlier,
the Comets were ready to put another checkmark in the Trojans’ loss column
from the opening tip on (BCLUW downed STC 78-75 in overtime in mid-December).
“We’ve been struggling
against some good top teams, and I felt this was a win we needed to get,” Teske said. “Last time we played South Tama we went into overtime – this time we beat them (in regulation), so I think that shows improvement.”
Paugh, who also received 30 points from his starters – including 10 each from Zach Cashin and Cole Thompson – was able to utilize his entire roster in the most efficient way possible.
After the starters got off to a slow start and allowed STC to open the game on an 8-0 run, the bench came in and pushed BCLUW out to 9-8 lead. Frazer, Ubben and Dalton Caster scored the final five points of the first quarter to put the team ahead going into the second period.
In the following stanza,
as the teams basically traded points throughout the duration, it was Ubben and Teske doing much of the Comets heavy lifting. Ubben scored six of his 10 points in the second and Teske tallied four.
The Comet lead blew up to 14 after a 17-5 third quarter burst that witnessed Frazer and Teske scoring the period’s final eight points on a mixture of post moves and free throws.
However, the Comets
weren’t able to control the lead for long as STC mounted a furious rally and sliced the BCLUW lead to just two on two separate occasions, the last with 3:44 remaining in the game after Jose Fonseca – who led all scorers with 17 points – drained two free throws.
The mixture the Comets
showcased all night proved to be the most fruitful at that point as the bench gave way to the starting five and the starters responded.
Thompson buried two from the charity stripe and was followed by back-to-back putbacks from Wes Hammers (nine points, 10 rebounds). Frazer got back into the mix with a basket in the post, and 31 seconds later Thompson delivered two more free throws to build the lead back to 10 with just 1:19 left in the contest.
Thompson left the game with 44.8 showing
after the left side of his head was bloodied and wouldn’t return.
Soon after, his teammates
joined him in the locker room with a win that snapped a three-game skid.
“I think it was good motivation to keep moving forward to know that we can win, that we will win and that we need to keep going if we want to keep that No. 3 seed in the conference,”
Teske said.
Paugh, for one, was thrilled with his team’s efforts on the night.
“For the most part, we did a pretty good job of handling the pressure, but the guys really stuck together,” Paugh said. “Everybody that came in did a good job. The bench guys that came in did some good things. The (starters) did good things too.”
Three days earlier, not much went right for BCLUW as NUHS rolled into town and dismantled the Comets to the tune of a 71-38 final score in a game that was basically over in the first. With just 5:22 wiped off the scoreboard, BCLUW was down 18-2. That deficit grew to 24-6 at the end of the stanza and was sitting at 46-17 at the half. NUHS then ripped off a 13-2 burst to open the second half.
The Panthers set the continuous clock rule into effect when they went up 55-19 with 6:10 remaining
in the third on an Eric Hines driving lay up. Hines led all scorers with 25 points and was joined in the twenties by teammate Tommy Amlie, who scored 20. Guard Durrell Jackson also added 15.
BCLUW was paced by Thompson’s eight and Frazer’s seven.
Centurion: Storm's Luse wins 100th
SH-BCLUW Storm cheerleaders Sierra Higgason (left) and Mikayla Fisher (right) congratulate 120 pound wrestler Kaleb Luse after he picked up his 100th career victory Jan 26 in the meet with Hudson. Chuck Friend/ The Record
Chuck Friend
Publisher
The SH-BCLUW Storm wrestlers traveled to Hudson Jan. 26 to battle the teams from Hudson and Union High (LaPorte City).
The Storm were defeated in both matches, dropping the opening meet to Hudson 46-35, before being shutout 76-0 by the Knights of Union High.
The bright spot of the night was the Storm’s 120 pound wrestler, Kaleb Luse, picking up his 100th career win by pinning
Hudson’s Jeremy Smith in 1:32.
Sawyer Anderson returned to the Storm lineup after injury (wrestling in the Hudson meet only) and captured a win by fall over Ryan Finn in 5:03.
Tyler Lutes also won his match with Hudson with a 19-4 technical fall over Nick Graves.
“We came out and wrestled well against Hudson, but Union High has some very good kids in the weight classes of our more experienced wrestlers. They moved kids around to create some good matchups. Still, I cannot ever remember when a team that I have been associated with, has ever been shut out or beaten by such a score as tonight,” said Storm head co-coach Stacy Simpson.