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Bears Beat Huskies to Garner 8-0 Start to Season
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BYNICK CAMMUSO TIMES WEST VIRGINIAN
RACHEL — They’ve nailed clutch 3-pointers. They’ve gotten great individual performances.
They’ve rallied late to steal a win from the jaws of defeat.
You name it, the Fairmont Senior boys’ basketball team has probably done it in this perfect season.
On Wednesday night against North Marion, the Polar Bears received a signature defensive performance en route to a 60-36 road romp.
“Our defense tonight was outstanding,” Fairmont Senior coach Dave Retton said. “Every game presents different challenges and different learning opportunities, and our guys came through tonight.”
The Polar Bears are certainly learning how to win, if only because they’re doing so with such regularity.
They’re now a sparkling 8-0, 3-0 in the North Central Athletic Conference. The team also improved to 5-0 in games away from the Woody Williams Armory.
This one was pretty much all Fairmont Senior. It turned a competitive start — North trailed just 11-8 after one — into a blowout by halftime thanks to a big run that took up 6:56 in the first and second quarters.
During that span, the Polar Bears held a 14-2 scoring edge. Andrew Marra had five points and Ty Garrison scored four during the flurry, which ended with Jonathan Logan’s three from the right wing, making it 23-10 with 5:17 left in the second.
Logan added two more 3-pointers in the quarter, and Gannon Flowers dropped in a putback just before the buzzer for 36-20 lead at the break.
A senior guard, Logan hit four 3-pointers and finished with a game-best 16 points. Garrison added 14 points. Marra and Logan Moore each had nine, with seven of Moore’s coming in the first quarter.
“He had a really good game and hopefully his confidence will continue to grow,” Retton said of Logan.
As for the Huskies, their recent struggles simply continued. They’ve lost three of four and now sit at 5-5 overall, 2-4 in the NCAC.
Offense was the main culprit on this night. North finished 2-13 from the foul line, scored 16 second-half points and had just one player — Quint Cochran with 12 — reach double figures. The next highest scorers, Shaun McCoy and Tyler Thorne, had six apiece.
“My starters went 28 minutes and scored 27 points,” North coach Chris Freeman said. “You’re not going to beat anybody (doing that).
“People say all the time we can beat bad teams but we can’t beat the good teams, and right now they’re right,” he continued. “We should be playing a lot better basketball against higher competition and we ain’t showing up. A rivalry game at home, a nice crowd, and to lay an egg and play the way we did is not acceptable” North looks to get ontracked Friday at home against East Fairmont, while Fairmont Senior hosts Morgantown Saturday in a key league matchup.
“(This is) one of the most unselfish group of players I’ve ever coached,” Retton said. “They’re fun to coach. They want to do for each other. They’ve just gotta keep hungry.”
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