Holland Patent 68,
Clinton 52
Another trip to Holland Patent.
3rd of the season for me – this one certainly
the most sane game of the three, but it didn’t go drama-free. The Golden
Knights withstood some 2nd half adversity and a strong performance
by Clinton’s best player to take home a much needed win.
Here, I’ll take some drama away for you. The game’s first
bucket was a Ryan Halpin trey 48 seconds in, giving Holland Patent a 3-0 lead: a lead Clinton would never get. After
the teams traded buckets throughout most of the 1st quarter, the
Golden Knights went on a 6-0 spurt led by 2 Logan Reinold buckets to take a
13-6 lead. They forced 5 Clinton turnovers in the 1st, leading to 3
fast-break layups. Neither team was particularly lighting it up, with the
squads combining to shoot 33% in the opening quarter, but HP held a 15-10 lead
after 8 minutes. Andrew Taft scored the first bucket of the 2nd
quarter for Clinton, but HP went on a 7-1 run following to extend their lead to
9 at 22-13. Stephen McGahey finished the run with a 3 point play, followed by a
drive & dime to Matt Harter, who got dimed over and over and over again on
this night. Taft kept Clinton in the game offensively through most of the 2nd,
scoring all of their points in that quarter until Malaquias Canery had a steal
& layup at the 2:35 mark. Led by the strong 2nd quarter from
Taft, Clinton inched a little closer, cutting it to 6 at half. He led the
Warriors with 12 at the break, 10 of them in the 2nd. Logan Reinold
had 14 first half points for the leaders.
The 2nd half started with a Matt Harter
bucket, stretching HP’s lead to 8. However, Clinton scored the next 8 while
forcing their opponents to miss 6 straight shots, holding them scoreless for a 3:29
stretch. Malaquias Canery connected 3 straight times, and Andrew Taft split a
pair of free throws twice to give us our first and only tie at 34 with 4:07
left in the 3rd. Harter scored on the ensuing possession for Holland
Patent, and they never let go of the lead again. A Reinold layup followed the
Harter one, and after Clinton cut it back to two after Andrew Hobika scored at
the 2:43 mark, Holland Patent went off. They
held Clinton scoreless for the rest of the 3rd while scoring 11
themselves. Reinold had the first 5, and Harter had the last 6 off of 3 layups
in the last 57 seconds. Two of them came thanks to McGahey dimes, one of them
signed, sealed, and delivered from Reinold. Clinton froze up in those last 3
minutes, turning it over 4 straight times at one point. They had 7 turnovers in
the quarter, and Holland Patent had its largest lead of the game at 13 after 3.
It was never closer than that in the 4th. Matt Hughes & Matt
Harter had buckets to start the 4th to bump the lead up to 17. Even
though HP was in control, it never grew past 18, thanks in whole to Canery.
He’s the guy that’s done it for Clinton the last 3 years, and we saw why. He
got going in the last 6 minutes, scoring 15 of Clinton’s 16 4th
quarter points. They couldn’t stop HP though, who shot 7/11 (63.6%) in the 4th
quarter. They actually shot worse from the line in the 4th (5/11)
than from the field – probably because most of their buckets were layups.
Holland Patent’s largest lead was 18, which they secured twice, the last time
being after a showtime finish by the lefty Reinold, his last of 24 points on
the night which made it 60-42 with 2:49 left and capped a 7-2 spurt.
#ByTheNumbers - Logan
Reinold had easily his best game of the 3 HP ones I’ve been to, leading the
winners with 24 points and being the catalyst of every major run. Matt Harter had what I can only assume
is a career high with 22 points. He made a living finishing around the rim off
dishes from his guards and 2nd chance opportunities. On Clinton’s
end, 2 players scored over 80% of their points. Malaquias Canery had over half of them, putting through 27 of his
team’s 52 on the night. 21 of those 27 came after intermission, 15 in the 4th
quarter. Big man Andrew Taft had a strong 2nd quarter, scoring 10 of
his 15 in that stanza. The rest of the team could only muster 10 points on the
night. Holland Patent recovered from a chilly 1st quarter to shoot
almost 50% from the field at 27/58. Clinton, however, shot under 35% at 21/61,
and they turned the ball over 19 times to Holland Patent’s 11.
Neat-o Stat of the
Night: This game was not 3-ball friendly. The teams combined to hit the
fewest amount of threes in a game that I’ve had at a boys game this season,
with just 2 threes each way. Compare the 4 to the average of 10-11 that I see.
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