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Downtown Train: Eddy Leads BHS Hoops to Victory
The young Sandwich Blue Knights deserve a boatload of credit for hitting multiple key shots throughout this affair, but it was the red-hot three-point-land shooting of the visiting Barnstable Red Raiders that ultimately spelled a 75-67 win.
When you're hot, they say, you are red hot.
Or in this case, red and white hot.
Junior forward Jason Eddy went 5-6 from beyond the arc and tallied 22 points on the night to pace the Barnstable Red Raiders boys basketball team to a 75-67 non-league win over the Sandwich Blue Knights last night at Sandwich High School. Barnstable now stands at 11-2 on the season.
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Eddy also tacked on nine (9) rebounds, four assists, a steal, and went 3-4 from the charity stripe in his most productive effort of the season. Nick Peabody and Dylan Morris each followed with 11 points on the evening, and tacked on five (5) and four (4) rebounds, respectively.
Behind this stellar trio followed Travis Kendrew with eight (8) points, Tedaro France with seven (7) points, long and lanky Liam Garrity with six (6) points, Everett Walsh with four (4) points and Jake Kipnes and Tyler Adams each with three (3) points.
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But the host Blue Knights did not come into this affair taking things lightly, and it was apparent they hoped for revenge for an earlier-season, 79-54 thrashing at the hands of last night's guests.
Behind the white-hot shooting of freshman Joey Downes, Hank O'Brien and Zac Sprague, Sandwich posted a 16-13 first-quarter lead and the Red Raiders were left scratching their collective heads. But a relentless defensive onslaught - in spite of numerous ghost fouls called - turned Sandwich's hope into Barnstable's momentum as BHS established a 33-29 halftime lead and a lead it would not relinquish again.
When Barnstable's Ty Adams drained a baseline trey to take a 22-19 lead, the Red Raiders' bench erupted and it was enough fuel for the Red & White fire to extinguish any real hope that the Blue Knights had of a major upset.
Garrity's inspiring 3-3 performance from the floor, Tedaro France's two "J's" and a trey, combined with Eddy's best game of the season and Nick Peabody's fade-away, Bird-like baseline three-pointer to give Barnstable a 71-65 lead with 40 seconds left on the clock was all the guests would need to pierce the hearts of the valiant hosts.
