![]() ![]() ![]() Wade, playing in his final game, seemed to sink one of the biggest shots of the night drilling a 3-pointer from the corner with just over a minute left to put EBF on top 50-47. Landon Craven rallied DMC with two steals, a lay-up and two free throws before Joe Clement scored inside in transition with two minutes left to tie the game for the sixth time. "You just don't know what to tell the kids when they work and play as hard as they did."ĭes Moines Christian seemed to be out of answers in the fourth quarter as the Lions went over five minutes without scoring, allowing EBF to build a 47-41 lead on a pair of baskets inside by Karic Stout and a reverse down the baseline by Wade. They played hard enough to win," Travis Stout said. Des Moines Christian, however, would answer back with 10 unanswered points to take a 37-33 lead before the Rockets responded on consecutive baskets by Cornelison to tie the game at 41-41 heading into the fourth quarter. Stout sank a 3-pointer before Moore slammed home a dunk to open the second half, lifting EBF to an early six-point lead. These guys have been working hard for it." "The goal for these guys has been to make it to state, going all the way back to fourth grade. ![]() "We scouted everyone we thought we would play in the postseason," Travis Stout said. Carsen Wade closed out the run scoring on feed from Landon Glosser off a defensive rebound by Stout, giving EBF a 28-23 lead. "He played his heart out."ĮBF went from one being carried by one of the biggest players to one of their smallest as 5-10 junior guard Jesse Cornelison scored five of his team-leading seven first-half points in the second quarter, including a drive for a basket while being fouled during an 11-0 Rocket run. He showed up big for us," Travis Stout said of his son. Theis countered scoring seven points in the first quarter for Des Moines Christian, taking eight of the first Lions' first 13 shots from the field lifting DMC to a 15-13 lead heading into the second quarter. Stout came up big throughout the night for EBF, scoring the first six points of the game for the Rockets. I wanted to win and I wanted to get back out there to help my teammates as much as I could." "It hurt, but the adrenaline was pumping," Karic Stout said. Karic Stout finished off a 15-point, 13-rebound double-double returning to the game with under 20 seconds left to grab a huge offensive rebound on an injured ankle setting up Brooks Moore for a pair of free throws with 11.8 seconds left giving the Rockets a 54-49 lead. "Having it end like that just devastates the guys, but that's basketball."ĮBF (21-3) seemed poised to overcome their mistakes on Tuesday, building a six-point lead with under four minutes left and a five-point lead with under 30 seconds to go. All those things add up during the course of the game. ![]() "It doesn't come down to that last shot if we don't have the turnovers that we had and all the missed free throws we had. They got the ball down the court quickly and found the open guy," EBF head boys basketball coach Travis Stout said. The Rockets, seemingly poised this season to make a run at the 2A boys state basketball tournament, saw those hopes and their 21-win season brought to end in a heartbreaking instant. After taking and making so many shots early for Des Moines Christian, Carsen Theis took and made the biggest shot of the night sinking a 3-pointer from the corner as time expired lifting the Lions to a 55-54 win over 10th-ranked Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont on Tuesday at the Oskaloosa High School Gymnasium. Ultimately, however, those 4.5 seconds determined who would move within one of a state tournament berth. 22-OSKALOOSA - There was plenty that led up to the final 4.5 seconds Tuesday night in the Class 2A, District 13 championship game. ![]()
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