HOLYOKE, Mass. – The Sci-Tech boys basketball crew Wednesday used a 9-0 second half run to interrupt the sport open and went on to a 65-47 win over Pittsfield in the championship spherical of the Western Massachusetts Class B Tournament.
Marcus Jones scored 17 factors, grabbed 10 rebounds and blocked 5 photographs because the top-seeded Cybercats snapped Pittsfield’s three-game successful streak.
The Generals (13-7) had been held in the 40s for the fourth time this yr – all 4 instances in their final 9 video games.
“I felt like we didn’t execute well on the offensive end, and … it just bled into our defense,” Pittsfield coach Jerome Edgerton stated. “And they’re a good team. I’ve got to take my hat off to them.”
Pittsfield hung with the fifth-ranked crew in Division 3 statewide till late in the third quarter.
The Generals took a 14-11 lead late in the primary quarter on a drive by Sam Touray to make it 14-11.
Pittsfield was up by one after one, however a Sci-Tech steal led to a basket by Jeremy Green (13 factors), beginning an 11-4 spurt that ended with a few baskets by Jones to make it 24-18, Sci-Tech.
Pittsfield recovered, making it a one-possession recreation on a basket by Quincy Abellie with an help from Noah Smalls.
But Sci-Tech’s Anthony Sanchez drained a 3-pointer that put the Cybercats up by six, 29-23, at half-time.
It was a four-point margin after Braiden Sullivan (15 factors) hit a 3 and Smalls drove the lane to make it 34-30 with 5:55 left in the third. And after Sci-Tech scored 5 in a row, Sullivan responded with a basket in transition and three makes on the free throw line after getting fouled behind the arc, making it 39-35.
Then the Cybercats pulled away for good.
Green hit a 3-pointer that began a 9-0 spurt that spanned the third and fourth quarters, and Pittsfield by no means acquired nearer than 9 factors the remainder of the way in which.
After Cam Mochon (eight factors) scored in the publish halfway by way of the fourth to make it 53-42, Sci-Tech completed the sport on a 13-5 run.
Pittsfield, although, will not be completed. The Generals study Saturday the place they’ll open play in the D3 State Tournament.