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Eagles Come Up Short Against Spartans

The Sentinel Spartans tipped off their 2018 season by hosting crosstown Big Sky Eagles in a doubleheader match and Sentinel took both games with the boys playing the late game, and it turned out to be one for the history books going into overtime with Sentinel getting the 66-60 win.

Sentinel came out of the gate with pressure forcing the Eagles to turn the ball over on the in bound pass, suffocating the Big Sky offense to only score four points in the opening quarter. It would be the senior David Gibson that came off the bench to lend support to the Eagles, playing stingy defense on the Sentinel sharp shooter Sam Beigle, and scored Big Sky’s only four points in the first quarter.

Gibson continued to lead the Eagles in the second quarter putting up eight points, but fell into foul trouble to force him to the bench. Big Sky found the bottom of the bucket to put up 21 points in the second quarter and the Eagles cut the lead to six at the half time break. The Eagles shot 86% from the free throw line and a perfect one for one from beyond the arc while Sentinel shot 63% from the charity stripe and 33% from the three point line.

The Spartans came out in the third quarter with a tighter defense and out scored Big Sky 12-9 led by Beigle who set the Sentinel offense in motion to allow his teammates to score. With one quarter of play left to play the Eagles clawed their way back into the game on the play of Andrew Gardanier, and at the end of regulation time it would be all tied up at 53.

Pushing the game into overtime the Eagles where down their key defender in Gibson who fouled out mid way through the fourth quarter. Sentinel jumped back into their press and forced Big Sky to turn the ball over. Beigle took over the game for Sentinel in overtime scoring seven points, four coming from the charity stripe. Deshazer knocked a pair of clutch three pointers in overtime to secure the win for the Spartans.

Box Score

Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th OT Final
Big Sky Eagles 4 21 9 11 7 60
Sentinel Spartans 13 18 12 10 13 66
Player Stats

Big Sky
Player Points FTM FTA 3M 3A
Camdyn LaRance 10 5 5 1 2
Daniel Morin 5 0 0 1 2
Jordan Casselman 9 4 4 1 2
Andrew Gardanier 7 3 3 0 0
David Gibson 13 1 1 0 0
Levi Janacaro 9 3 8 0 0
Sentinel
Player Points FTM FTA 3M 3A
Sam Bieghle 20 7 9 1 3
Gaige Danzinger 7 1 5 2 4
Brayden Danzinger 11 0 1 1 2
Nich Germer 4 2 3 0 0
Elias DeWaters 1 1 4 0 0
Brandon Morley 1 1 2 0 0
Alex Germer 6 0 0 2 7
Scott Malikie 4 0 0 0 0