Panthers bring the curtain down on the Knights

  • By Kevin Lynch
  • March 1, 2010
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The problems that plagued the Knights all season reared their ugly head in the opening game of the Division II Boys Sectional basketball game Thursday, Feb. 25, at the Wigwam in Coshocton. West Holmes held a 10-6 lead midway through the first period of action, but in the blink of an eye, Maysville ran off 13 straight points to take a 19-10 lead after the first quarter en route to a 61-38 thumping of the Knights. The loss ended the season for West Holmes at 1-20. “A season like this can be real tough,” said first-year West Holmes coach Jim Lindeman. “When you’ve got a good group of kids you enjoy working with every day, with a lot of character, it made things a lot easier. “Even though the score tonight, and some of the scores throughout the season don’t indicate it, we did get better,” he added. “We improved in several areas. We got better at handling the ball. We got better at making some shots. At the beginning of the year, those were things we could not do that at all, and we got better.” Against the Panthers, freshman Gabe Snyder got the Knights on the board first, and an Adam Polen jumper had the Knights up 4-2. Snyder struck again and Sam Meyer split a pair of free throws and West Holmes was ahead 10-6, but the Knights came up empty on their next five possessions to end the period. Maysville continued to ride the momentum through the second quarter and pulled away to a 40-21 lead at the break. The Knights managed eight of 22 shots from the floor in the first half and turned the ball over nine times, leading to a plethora of points for the Panthers. A pair of deep shots from Landon Israel ignited a Maysville run in the third quarter that ended with the Panthers up 61-30 after three. Meyer paced the West Holmes attack with 11 points. Snyder finished with six and Keaton Leppla chipped in five. Polen Joey Gonzalez, Stewart Sabine and Brock Macaulay each added four round out the scoring for West Holmes. “We learned how to play hard this year. Now we’ve got to continue to learn how to win,” Lindeman said. “I love basketball so much, I would go to Alaska if I had to so I could coach. Luckily, I get to do it in an area with people I really enjoy. “I want to thank the seniors for their leadership and sticking with it through a tough season,” Lindeman added.


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