Clear Lake Falconhoops

Clear Lake vs. Galveston Ball January 25, 2005 Despite Galveston Ball's 0-5 district record, Coach Lynn McDonald was worried about the game. He has been there too many times to take this game for granted. He knew Ball might bring their “A” game tonight to Tornado Alley as the Tors faced the Falcons for the first time this season. But he did not know the Falcons would go 1 for 12 from three point range. How are you supposed to win a 5A basketball game these days when you shoot 1 of 12 from three-point range? Clear Lake has a better basketball team than Galveston. Lake has more talented players and Lake plays better together as a team. But sometimes in high school basketball the better team does not win. If you have too many turnovers or if you get beat on the defensive boards you might lose. If you have two players absent as Lake did, it makes it tougher to win (Brandon Wynn is still out with a fractured ankle and Lee Mazurek was absent due to illness). If you get officiating typical for the Galveston gym, anything is possible so Lake should have known it would not be an easy win. Past experience has proven that officials from the Galveston chapter may make it tough to get anything close to an impartial game. The officials tonight were from the Houston chapter and they sorta seemed to just want it to be over so they ignored many infractions that would usually be called (wait and see where the officials are from when Ball comes to Lake's gym). When you have all these factors to deal with, you had better make your free throws. Fortunately, Clear Lake did. Clear Lake did win the basketball game 60-55. It was not pretty like the Brook game but it was a win. It was a close ball game and the outcome was not obvious until the last 50 seconds of the game. The ball game was tied at 17, 21, and 23 in the second quarter, and at 27, 31, 35, and 37 in the third quarter. Sound close so far? In the fourth quarter the game remained close with Clear Lake leading slightly throughout the quarter and denying the Tors opportunities to gain the lead. The Falcons went 9 of 11 from the free throw line in the final quarter. This completes the first round of district play. Clear Lake faces Pearland at their house on Friday night to start the second round of district play. In other district action Pearland beat Alvin 72-39 and Clear Creek had to hit two free throws in the final 6 seconds to beat Brazoswood 44-42. The game was tied with just over a minute to play. Scoring for the Falcons: Kendrell Thompson 15 (game high)(7 rebounds), Justin Kurtz 10, Scott Oswald 9 (5 steals), Gordon Abner 7, Andy Leveque 6, Armie Lewis 6, Mark Murphy 5, Jordan Villarreal 2. Score by quarter: 12-23-37-60 US 09-26-37-55 Them Scoring by quarter: 12-11-14-23 US 09-17-11-18 Them 2’s: 22 of 40 (55%) 3’s: 1 of 12 ( 8%)!!!! Free throws: 13 of 17 (76%)