High Flying Eagles Win sixth in a row
Basketball -
WHS Boys Varsity
January 15,
2010
Adam
Szklany puts in a layup in the first
quarter. Szklany had 10 points on the night.
Windham ME:
Windham (8-3) edges Bonny Eagle (5-5) 38-35
for their sixth consecutive victory.
Garrett
Clemmer scored the first five points of the
game, giving the Eagles a 5-0 lead. Adam
Szklany added a bucket to make the score
7-2. Clemmer scored another basket and
Lambert added his own to stake Windham to an
11-7 lead at the end of the first quarter.
Adam Szklany
scored half of his ten points in the second
quarter, beginning with a three pointer to
open the scoring for the Eagles. Clemmer
added two more points to his game high 16
points and Szklany concluded Windham's
second quarter scoring efforts with two free
throws to give Windham an 18-15 lead at
halftime.
The
Windham cheerleaders energized the crowd
at halftime with their longest routine of
the season.
Clemmer
started the scoring again in the second
half, this time with a three-pointer.
Lambert scored his second basket of the game
before Clemmer hit another shot to give
Windham a 25-23 lead at the end of the third
quarter.
Bonny Eagle
scored the first four points of the fourth
quarter to take a 27-25 lead, their first of
the game. The Eagles responded quickly when
Andy Brix stole the ball at midcourt and got
the ball to Szklany who found Nolan Allen
down low for a layup to tie up the game.
Szklany stole the ball on the Scots ensuing
possession and once again found Allen who
put in another layup to give Windham the
lead for good. The points were the first of
the night for Allen, who was strong with the
game on the line, finishing with eight
points in the fourth quarter.
Clemmer scored
his final points of the night to stretch
Windham's lead to 31-27. The Scots pulled to
within two points before Allen hit another
bucket to give Windham a 33-29 lead. Bonny
eagle closed the gap again, pulling to
within a point 33-32 with 56 seconds left in
regulation. The Scots had five fouls to give
and they used them all before sending
Szklany to the line multiple times. Szklany
hit three free throws putting Windham out
front 36-32 before Bonny Eagle's Steven
Simonds answered with a three pointer to
bring Bonny Eagle to within one point,
36-35. The Scots sent Allen to the line. He
hit both free throws giving Windham a 38-35
lead with 10 seconds left in the game. Bonny
Eagle's last second three point attempt
bounced off the rim at the buzzer and the
Eagles celebrated their sixth straight
victory. (Scroll down to bottom to watch
the end of the game)
Coach
Millington talks to his team late in the
game while the student body is on their feet
behind them.
Clemmer said
the game plan tonight was "Defense always,
we know they're smaller than us, we've got
to crash hard on the offensive glass. They
play real hard as a team. They get the easy
points that they need to win ball games."
Coach
Millington agreed, "We knew Bonny Eagle was
going to play methodically, pretty slow,
pack it in a little on defense. We wanted to
be very physical on defense control the
tempo and I felt for three quarters of the
game or a little over half of the game we
did that. At times we got a little sloppy
then we knew we had to be aggressive
offensively. When we would go on a run you
could tell the difference where we would
attack the rim then we would go on these
stretches where we didn't take care of the
basketball or shoot 2-3 threes in a row and
just weren't aggressive and we needed to be
aggressive tonight."
Andy Brix
looks to distribute the ball early in the
first quarter.
Clemmer was
still recovering from being sick this week.
He said, "I normally shoot a little more
early. The shots weren't going down tonight
so I made a point of going inside."
Millington
added, "If I notice he is missing his jump
shots short then we will run a play to get
him inside to get him going and he is good
inside. Maybe he gets fouled he gets some
foul shots. When he gets going, then he will
drain a three."
Millington
continued, "That's true of anybody, not just
Garrett. We often times try to go to Nolan
(Allen) early to try to get him into the
game quicker because when we have done well
this year offensively, when he (Clemmer) has
done well offensively, Nolan (Allen) or Andy
(Brix), or down in Noble Steve-o (Stephen
Lambert) it stretches the defense a little
wider and gets Garrett into one on one
opportunities to get a good look, but if
we're quiet with the other 4 guards it makes
it harder on Garrett (Clemmer).
Millington
said the game plan at the end of the tight
contest was "To run our offense and only
take layups if we had them. If we needed to
score basket because it was tied or we were
losing we would have run a set a play that
went to either Nolan (Allen) or Garrett (Clemmer)."
Windham will
put their win-streak on the line at 1PM on
Monday when they travel to face the 5-6
Scarborough Red Storm.
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