Terre haute South learned a valuable lesson Friday night.
When you get a dangerous opponent down, you had better make sure you keep them
there. The Braves didn’t, and that led to a 69-65 loss to the homestanding
Carmel Greyhounds.
South built an 18-11 lead at the end of one quarter and
continued to stretch the advantage through most of the second. The Braves led
30-16 in the final minutes of the first half. Then
in the game. The Greyhounds scored the last ten points of the half to close
within 30-26 at intermission. Terre Haute South had controlled the first 16
minutes, but they went to the locker room with very little to show for it.
South point guard Jake Odum did his best to see to it that
the Greyhound comeback didn’t spoil the evening. He scored 24 second half
points on the way o a career high 38 point performance. It looked through most
of the second half as though it would be enough. The Braves rebuilt the lead to
nine with a little over three minutes to play. However, they hadn’t learned
their lesson from the first half.
outscored South 18 to 5 in the final minutes to pull out the unlikely victory.
The Greyhound hero, as usual, was Morgan Newton. The
game with 26 points and 13 rebounds.
The loss was the first for Terre Haute South in MIC play. It
left them with a 3-1 conference slate which is still at the top of the league
standings. After defeating Evansville Central on Saturday night, the Braves are
now 12-2 on the season.
was idle Saturday night and stands 2-1 in the MIC and 8-4 overall.
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