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Year in review, #3: Wildcat teams fall at substate PDF Print E-mail
Sports - Louisburg
Written by Andy Brown   
Wednesday, 31 December 2008 09:00
Everything was in line for the Louisburg boys’ and girls’ basketball teams to make an already great season turn into a special one.

Both teams earned spots in the substate championship games on Mar. 1 in Garnett after the girls knocked off Ottawa and the boys defeated Fort Scott in the semifinals. However, it wasn’t meant to be for either team to advance to Salina.

Two bad fourth quarters did both teams in. The girls fell to Fort Scott 46-38 and the boys lost to Ottawa 59-48.

The boys trailed Ottawa by just four points heading into the third quarter and matched every Ottawa run until that point in the game. The Wildcats also had to deal with leading scorers Jordan Embers and Jason Spradling on the bench with foul issues.

The Wildcats endured foul trouble through most of the game and shot just 9 for 18 from the free-throw line in the process.

“I really liked how the kids answered every run Ottawa threw at us and we never gave in,” Louisburg coach Jim Dillon said. “We missed a lot of free throws and Ottawa is so good defensively and they took us out of a lot of things we wanted to do. We never could establish our bigs tonight, and you have to give credit to them. They don’t have many weaknesses.”

As for the girls, this was the second year in a row the Wildcats ended their season in the substate title game. A year before, Louisburg’s season was ended on Paola’s run to state.

“I don’t think the nerves was bothering them because they had been in this position before,” Louisburg coach Terry Tinich said. “(Fort Scott) should have been the one with the nerves. I think they were a .500 team last year and won like four games the year before that, but it just came down to who executed at the end of the game, and they did.”

The two teams traded leads several times during the second half and the game was tied with six minutes left. But the Tigers made one final run the Wildcats couldn’t overcome.

Fort Scott outscored Louisburg 9-2 during a five-minute span in the fourth quarter to take a 42-35 lead with 1 minute and 11 seconds left in the game.

“Fort Scott made their run at the right time,” Tinich said. “Unfortunately, in a game like this we came up on the wrong end of it.”
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