For the first 20 minutes, Lone Tree’s defense kept the game close with Mediapolis on Friday.
But the Lion offense could not take advantage. Eventually back-to-back 3-pointers from …
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For the first 20 minutes, Lone Tree’s defense kept the game close with Mediapolis on Friday.
But the Lion offense could not take advantage. Eventually back-to-back 3-pointers from senior Kadin Salek gave the Bulldogs a 28-20 lead and Mediapolis went on to a 47-29 win.
“Our defense right now is way ahead of our offense,” Lone Tree coach Tom Squiers said after the game. “Defensively, we’re playing really good basketball. In a class 1A basketball game, if you hold a team to 47, you should be able to win most games.”
After falling behind by eight in the second quarter, Lone Tree chipped away at the lead. Cade Shield drove right and put the ball off the glass to cut the lead to 21-15. Then Adam Knock hit a 3-pointer to pull the Lions within three at the half.
Mitchell Koedam scored on a putback early in the second half to cut it to a single point, but the Lions could not take the lead.
After a 10-minute field goal drought, Mediapolis went on a 13-2 run over the last 3:30 of the third quarter.
“We missed a couple of free throws, and we missed a couple bunnies inside,” Squiers said. “We didn’t turn it over much tonight, but we had a couple of key turnovers down there and then that post kid hit those high-arching threes and all of a sudden that two point game went to eight. We just never recovered after that.”
Shield scored all seven of his points in the first half and Tyler Bell scored five of his seven points in the second half. Knock led the Lions with nine.
Mediapolis outscored Lone Tree in every quarter except the second, in which the Lions outscored the Bulldogs 6-4.
“I thought we did a good job of closing out on shooters and our rebounding was good,” Squiers said. “We held them one shot, and our pressure man is good. But eventually you’ve got to be able to put the ball in the basket and we can’t do that right now.”
WMU 64, Lone Tree 34
The Lions were unable to keep up with the twin towers of Winfield-Mt. Union on Tuesday. WMU sophomores Abram Edwards and Cam Buffington combined for 34 points on 15-of-23 shooting.
Adam Knock was 3-of-4 from the 3-point line to lead Lone Tree with 15 points.
The Lions trailed just 18-12 after one quarter, but WMU pulled away to lead 32-17 at the half and 56-24 after three quarters.
Mitchell Koedam made both of his shots to finish with four points for Lone Tree and Cade Patterson added seven.
