Braves blast Concrete; fail to scale Mt. Baker
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December 21, 2016
DOWN FOR THE FIGHT – The Mount Baker Mountaineers beat-up the La Conner Braves on Saturday in a version of combat basketball which didn’t slow Budda Luna, No. 11, from skillfully moving the ball down the court and putting a few in the bucket. Here Terrence Fornsby, No. 3, goes down in a pile of Mountaineers and Bunna Luna rushes in to take over. – Photo by Don Coyote
There are ugly wins, but few pretty losses.
A rare example of the latter, though, might have been La Conner’s 77-55 non-league home hoop setback to 1A power Mount Baker on Saturday.
The double-digit defeat looked much better in hindsight, at least from the perspective and through the lens of Braves’ head coach Scott Novak and his staff.
“The Mount Baker game,” Novak said Sunday, upon reflection, “looks like we got blown out, but other than one stretch in the first quarter when we went from being down 16-11 to 28-11, we played them pretty well.”
Throw out the early 12-0 Mountaine...
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