Hornets Fall to Greens Farms 66 to 59

Most of the time when a team plays away from home it contends with surroundings that can affect the outcome, the Gym, the Crowd and the way the Game is Officiated.

This was an Up Tempo game and having just Two officials makes it very difficult on both teams. The game is simply too fast for two Officials to be in the proper position to make the correct call.

It should be noted that at all Home games at Hamden Hall there are Three Officials, including the victory over Green Farms early in the season.

In the first half, Hamden Hall matched baskets with the Dragons of Green Farms led by Andrew Rice’s 9 points and 4 steals and Dan Draffan’s  8 points along with T.J Rountree’s  7 points and the half time score was Green Farms 32 and Hamden Hall 30.

Green Farms had decided height advantage over the Hornets with their frontline of 6’8, 6’7 and 6’5 as they increased their lead to 12 points midway into the final period of play, but Hamden Hall refused to fold in the second half with defensive pressure along with the scoring of T.J Rountree (17 pts.), and the rebounding and scoring of Draffan (8 pts), began to crawl its way back.

With 40 seconds to go the score was now 61-59 and Green Farms hit a long three to put them up by 4 points 64 to 59. A missed shot by the Hornets and then forced to foul as their opponent made two for a final score of 66 to 59.

Box Score:

T.J.Rountree-8-2-2/3-24 pts.Draffan-7-0-2/3-16 pts.Rice-4-0-3/8-11 pts.A.Rountree-2-0-0-4 pts.DiMartino-1-0-0-2 pts. Smith-1-0-0-2 pts.Williams-0-0-0,Villano-0-0-0,Johnson-0-0-0,Wright-0-0-0

23-2-7/17-59 pts.

Leading Scorer-A.J.Rountree-24 pts.

Leading Rebounder-Draffan-9

Leading Assists-T.J.Rountree-4

Leading Steals-Rice-8

Leading Blocks-Draffan-3

Record-12-8 (7-5 League)

This was a game that was important to both teams as the season is winding down.

Hamden Hall is now tied with Brunswick for third place with a league record of 7-5 with two games to go (King at Home and Masters away).  Brunswick also has two games left against Greens Farms and King.

If the Hornets can win the remaining two games and secure third place it will give them a home game as the league playoffs begins.