Hayden boys basketball falls to 3rd-place game
Saturday, December 11, 2010
2010-11 Tigers boys basketball schedule
- Dec. 9 to 11 Meeker Tournament:
- Dec. 9: Hayden 69, Mancos 45
- Dec. 10: Grand Valley 41, Hayden 38
- Dec. 11: Hayden 63, Meeker 50
- Dec. 17: Hayden 57, North Park 35
- Jan. 7: Hayden 60, Meeker 50
- Jan. 11: Hayden 80, Vail Christian 70
- Jan. 14: Hayden 67, West Grand 44
- Jan. 15: Hayden 77, North Park 45
- Jan. 21: Hayden 83, DeBeque 36
- Jan. 28: Hayden 59, Soroco 44
- Jan. 29: Hayden 66, Rangely 42
- Feb. 1: Hayden 78, Vail Christian 54
- Feb. 4: Hayden 63, Plateau Valley 52
- Feb. 5: Hayden 77, Paonia 65
- Feb. 8: Hayden 84, Vail Mountain 41
- Feb. 11: Hayden 65, Soroco 46
- Feb. 12: West Grand 53, Hayden 52
- Feb. 15: Little Snake River 60, Hayden 43
- Feb. 18: Hayden 69, Vail Mountain 45
- Feb. 25 and 26: District tournament
Steamboat Springs — Nearly everything went right for the Hayden High School boys basketball team in the final two minutes of Friday’s semifinal showdown against Grand Valley in the Meeker Tournament.
If much of anything had gone right in the rest of the game, the Tigers might be playing in today’s championship. As it is, they’ll face a 2 p.m. consolation game matchup against the host Cowboys after losing 41-38.
“It was not a very pretty game,” Hayden coach Mike Luppes said. “It took us awhile to get going. We really didn’t start playing until the fourth quarter.”
When the Tigers did get going, they nearly made up for all the time they’d taken off. Trailing by 10 with two minutes remaining, they closed the gap to three. They even had the ball with an open 3-point shot with five seconds remaining. It rattled out, however.
“We did a lot of things right in that last two minutes,” Luppes said. “We kept playing hard.”
The team was turnover prone in the first half and dreadful from the free-throw line all night. Hayden finished 8-of-22 there.
Senior Graig Medvesk finished with 15 points to lead the team. Sophomore Mark Doolin, meanwhile, had a double-double with 10 point and 10 rebounds.
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