JV Wildcat boys basketball team loses first game on the road

by Dillon Cooper

The Pittsford JV Wildcats traveled to an unfamiliar court on which they had never appeared before. The challenger was the Colon Magi, who had beaten up on the Wildcats during football season and now looked forward to beating them again during basketball. Colon would continue their dominance as they beat the Pittsford Wildcats, 56-44.

Pittsford would start the game on the defensive side because Colon had touched just enough of the ball to have it go in their favor. The game would start off slowly as Colon would jump to a 6-0 lead over the Wildcats. Nothing seemed to be going the ‘Cats way; not the passes, shots, rebounds, calls, or even just fundamental execution. Head coach Mr. Hodos quickly called a time-out roughly three minutes into the fresh season. “We had great effort, but terrible execution,” Mr. Hodos would later say about the team. “We were complete robots in the first half. We were mechanical; we would go exactly where we were supposed to go and throw the ball where we were supposed to throw the ball. In the second half we got a couple of back doors, and we got a couple of curls in the lane so we weren’t robots,” expressed Mr. Hodos. The Wildcats would come out of the time out and score on a lay-in that kissed the glass and fell with a thud through the nylon texture of the white net. The game would continue to go back and fourth through the rest of the first and through the second with many of the Wildcat basketball players in foul trouble and having to be taken out of the game to risk further foul trouble. At the end of the first half the scoreboard read a 20-13 score favoring the Magi. That score was not that bad considering how bad the Wildcats play actually was. The ‘Cats knew that they would have to step it up if they wanted any chance in this game; the only way to go was up!

Pittsford would start the second half off with the ball and go on a scoring rant. Just as it seemed that the Wildcats could battle their way back into this epic game the Magi had an answer for every equation that the boys in blue could throw at them. “We could have played a lot better, said sophomore Kyle Wyatt. “Sometimes you just got to keep playing and that is the way the games go sometimes,” continued Wyatt. “We hustled good, and our effort was all right, but we were not very strong with the ball,” said freshman Drew McOscar.

It is true that the Wildcats did not play to the fullest of their abilities Tuesday night versus Colon. “We could have beat them,” said Mr. Hodos. The Pittsford JV Wildcats will not get another shot at redemption against Colon but they will get a shot to go 1-1 and get back on the right track to a successful season when they play against the Camden-Frontier Redskins Friday night.