JV Wildcats blown out by BCSP

by Dillon Cooper

It was game number 18 for the Wildcats, who were looking to improve their overall record to 13-5, and their opponent was one they’d never played before. The foe was the Battle Creek St. Philip Fighting Tigers, a parochial school. Nevertheless, the Wildcats would lose this game, which seemed to be a battle of who was more physical, and P-ford was on the losing end of this battle by the finally tally of 74-44.

The Wildcats would come out nonchalantly and carelessly maneuvering the rock around and eventually the pressure would be too over whelming for the ‘Cats, as they turned the ball over again and again, until St. Phil found themselves up by a significant margin. A couple of jumpers on the other end by P-ford made the game a little closer and with a desperation three made in the final tenths of a second in the first quarter the Wildcats would find themselves down by seven going into the second quarter. The main point of emphasis was to find a man box out and to bump cutters who were invading the paint. “Most of their points came from second-chance points or just lay-ups,” explained freshman Drew McOscar.

The second quarter was where the Fighting Tigers started to increase their lead and keep their clutch on the strangled Wildcats. At half time it was clear that Pittsford didn’t have an opportunity to win this game but they did have an opportunity to lower the deficit and work for the game that was following this one. By the time the fourth quarter came around head coach Mr. Hodos expressed his feelings by setting the starters out the whole last quarter, except for a couple who were called back into the game for a few, short seconds.
Even though the Wildcats were blown-out on the road last night, they will still have an opportunity to win the conference championship, because they won all of the games that they needed to win in order to get where they are, and get some revenge on the team that is probably the biggest rival the Wildcats have and arguably the greatest rivalry in all of the conference—versus the North Adams-Jerome Rams. If the men in blue win tomorrow night, they will share a piece of the crown and be the only team to defeat the mighty Rams!