FAYETTEVILLE — Lions boy’s basketball put a beat down on Round Top-Carmine High School Jan. 17 at Lions Gym by a final score of 74-19. This game was dominated by Fayetteville from the very start and while their shot making was exception- al, it was their fast-break offense that led them to win by such a wide margin.
“Just pushing the ball in transition,” said Fayetteville head boy’s basketball coach Jake Diggs on the win. “Getting the ball up and down the floor. Just trying to take the opportunity whenever it was there.”
Lions junior Jack Schley threw down a viscous dunk in the third quarter on a fast break to help give his team even more momentum than it already had.
"I was just going for the layup, but I got up, so I just punched it
in,” Schley said on the dunk. “I didn’t start dunking until the be- ginning of the year last year."
Round Top heads back to the
drawing board with still a lot of time to get things figured out.
“They’re obviously a really, really good team,” said Round Top-Carmine head boy’s basketball coach Brock Marburger. “There’s a reason why they’re ranked so high in the state. Just overall a great team that took it to us tonight. Our boys battled. I’m proud of the way our boys bat tled. Looking at the scoreboard, you can get down on yourself and give up very easily, but our boys battled the whole game and did what they could in order to compete as hard as they possi- bly could. For that, I'm proud of them against a really good team in Fayetteville.”
Schley scored the first two baskets of the game for Fay etteville that was answered by a layup from Round Top. Round
Top didn't score for the rest of the quarter and Fayetteville took a 23-2 lead at the end of the quarter with a bunch of fast break layups and a few three-pointers.
The Cubs were able to put the ball in the basket a little more in the second quarter, scoring seven points in the quarter on a pull up jumper and a three. The Li- ons kept their dominant offense intact with basically all layups, a couple being from guard Easton Jaeger to surge ahead 46-9 at halftime.
Round Top was held to only two points in the third quarter while Fayetteville was able to score on on a few layups, an and one basket from Jaeger, a three from junior point guard Mason Fenhaus, and Schley’s dunk to make it 68-11 at the end of the third quarter.
Fayetteville took their foot off the gas some in the fourth quar - ter and coasted to a 74-19 victory.
