JV Wildcat boys get back on track with win in young season

by Dillon Cooper

After a very disappointing lose to the Colon Magi on Tuesday night, the Pittsford Wildcats would travel to an old foe’s gym—the Camden-Frontier Redskins. Camden is a familiar foe as Pittsford has played them many times, including scrimmages, so the Wildcats knew the strengths and weaknesses of the Camden team. Pittsford would win this game by the score of 48-37.

Pittsford would start off winning the tip and jump out to an early lead. However, no matter how many time the ‘Cats would stop the Redskins or score on them, Camden just seemed to stick around, looming around like an annoying kid. “We should have blown this team out,” expressed sophomore Robby Wheeler. The score would fall one sided until a flurry of three pointers were dropping through the twine. “Our game plan was to stop Fink,” continued Wheeler. It wasn’t really until the fourth quarter that the Wildcats were stepping their game up. Camden had pulled within three, but the Wildcats would prevail, going on a run of their own and stretching the lead into double digits. The defense would stiffen, forcing the ‘Skins to foul the Wildcats, putting them on the free throw line. Even though Pittsford did not shoot great from the free-throw stripe, they did good enough to maintain a lead and build it up a little to cap off their first victory of the season.

The Pittsford JV Wildcats are now 1-1 overall and 1-0 in their conference. Monday night they will be playing their home opener versus a non-conference opponent. Lenawee Christian will come to town to take on Pittsford and there is no doubt that this will be a tough opponent, but if Pittsford prevails with a win that would definitely mean something great as they would win in front of the home-town fans and have a winning record for the first time this season!