JDHS junior Brandon Casperson led the Crimson Bears boys with 17 points, and junior Elias Dybdahl led with eight rebounds and three blocks.
“I think we just need to work as a team and not panic in the end game,” Dybdahl said. “And also we can’t get down to the point where we have to foul against a good free-throw shooting team because they just kept making them and there was no coming back at that point. It was pretty physical but we practice by getting the bigs in practice hit by pads, the whole team does too, but it was pretty physical compared to most games.”
Monroe senior Jett McCullough led the Rams with a game-high 21 points
“The key tonight was just bringing energy,” McCullough said. “We’ve been traveling, we had to play the same day. We got on the plane and our coaches emphasized bringing energy. Other than that it was a team effort. We’re playing hard together. But it was fun…It gives us a great step forward going into regionals because we’ve been playing a little behind, but we found our groove back in these two games.”
McCullough would hit the first basket of the game as he gathered the tipoff from senior center Tucker Williams and drove for a 2-0 lead.
Monroe sophomore Zavier Oleson made it 4-0 before JDHS country wise email marketing list senior Ben Sikes followed a missed shot to hit inside.
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Monroe’s McCullough drove again and Oleson hit past the arc for a Rams’ 9-2 lead.
JDHS senior Ahmir Parker hit from past the side arc to trail 9-5
Monroe sophomore Adam Geyer gave the Rams an 11-5 lead with four minutes left in the stanza and JDHS senior Pedrin Saceda-Hurt would hit back-to-back baskets to keep pace with Monroe’s Oleson, who hit a free throw and a shot past the arc for a 15-9 Rams lead. Geyer pushed the lead to 18 to 9 and JDHS junior Kurt Kuppert answered with a shot past the arc to trail 18-12.
Monroe would finish the quarter with a drive and pass by junior jdhs junior tyler frisby tied the game Armani Smith, who fed junior James Trieglaff for a 20-12 lead. Smith ended the quarter with a blocked shot on a long Crimson Bears’ shot at the buzzer.
JDHS’ Dybdahl would get his own blocked shot in the taiwan lists opening seconds of the second quarter, and gathered the swatted ball and fed Kuppert who hit his second shot past the arc to trail 20-15.
JDHS would hit five shots past the arc in the stanza including from B. Casperson, who closed the score to 20-18 and then gave the Crimson Bears a 21-20 lead.
Monroe took the advantage back as McCullough hit a runner and then back-to-back scores past the arc for a 28-21 lead.