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Oak Hill s Gavin Rawstron attempts a shot while Poland s Chance Brown, Joe Ringuette and Evan Kelly all get their hands into the play during Tuesday’s game at Oak Hill High School in Wales. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
WALES Nothing outside of the sidelines looked like a tournament game, but on the hardwood Tuesday that’s precisely the way Poland and Oak Hill battled.
The game wasn’t always pretty, but the non-conference foes fought each other tough for 32 minutes, after which the visiting Knights came away with a 44-40 boys basketball victory.
“Just toughness throughout,” Poland junior Hunter Gibson said. “What we practice every day is toughness throughout, game in, game out, and we just kept doing it the whole game.”
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Oak Hill s Ramon Spearman goes up for a layup around Monmouth Academy s Hunter Frost during Thursday night’s game in Wales. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
WALES Slow it down on defense, speed it up on offense. That was the recipe for success for Oak Hill on Thursday.
The Raiders’ zone defense eventually caused fits for the Monmouth offense and was the spark plug for Oak Hill’s own attack in a 47-42 boys basketball victory.
“Last year we played that zone against Winthrop, and we did pretty good against it, so we said we’re going to keep it this year,” Oak Hill coach Tom Smith said. “And I’ve got athletic kids that just flat out can play defense.”