ELWOOD Easterns boys basketball team kept it a close game, but the Comets couldnt get over the hump as Elwood defeated Eastern 52-45 here Friday. <\/p>\n
Jared Bourff and Dakin Updegraff formed a tough 1-2 punch for Elwood (8-8). Bourff had 24 points and Updegraff had 23. <\/p>\n
Throughout the whole contest, we felt that we were two defensive stops from being in the lead, Eastern coach Mike Springer said. It seemed like every time we needed a stop, we just couldnt get it done. Give them credit, they had a good inside-outside game with Bourff and Updegraff. In the first half, they really cost us some trouble. The second half was Bourff on the block. He is a good player down there. <\/p>\n
Two stops is what we needed, but we just couldnt come up with them. The kids played hard and they are working together. They trying to do things that I am asking to do. <\/p>\n
The first quarter fetured seven lead changes. The Comets last lead was at the 1:49 left in the quarter where Noah Cope hit a jumper for a 15-13 lead. Updegraff then hit two 3-pointers to give the Panthers a 19-15 lead at the break. <\/p>\n
The Comets stayed on the Panthers tails as Elwoods biggest lead over the first three quarters was eight points with 3:15 left in the third (35-27). <\/p>\n
In the third quarter, Eastern couldnt stop Bourff has he scored 10 of Elwoods 12 points, but the Comets kept it close as Jacob Kinder hit two 3-pointers to cut the deficit to five 38-33 at the close of the quarter. <\/p>\n
The fourth quarter was a little different for the Comet clan. Elwood slowly built up its lead to nine (48-39) with 1:09 left in the game. Eastern came back again on a 3-pointer by Chandler Buck and a three-point play by Braden Evans to cut the lead to four (49-45). Elwood responded with a three free throws for the final 52-45. <\/p>\n
Every time we wanted to get a rhythm, they would change defenses on us, Springer added. Elwood ran a triangle and two and a box and one, and those are defenses that you dont see very often. Those little things that just didnt come up for us [Friday]. <\/p>\n
Kinder led Eastern (2-9) with 11 points. Cope added nine, and Tristen Moyers and Chandler Buck had eight points apiece. <\/p>\n
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