Cherry Creek Holiday Classic Day 2 Wrap Up
It was another busy day at Cherry Creek High School the site of the Cherry Creek Holiday Classic.
Fountain Ft. Carson 49 Highlands Ranch 56
Fountain Ft. Carson made Highlands Ranch earn its win today. But the play of Highlands Ranch sophomore point guard Tyson Gilbert and senior wing Jack Fiddler in the fourth quarter salted the win for the Falcons.
Double Digit Scorers
Highlands Ranch
Gilbert – 17
Max Holewinski – 10
Fountain Ft.Carson
Darius Stewart 12
Anthony Schmidt 10
Legend 69 Pine Creek 59
The equalizer is now. and has been for some time, the three point shot. Pine Creek Combined to make 16 3 pointers in the game to make the game interesting. Legend went inside early to senior forward Connor McCord who scored the first seven points for the Titans to give them an early cushion. But then Pine Creek started making their three pointers. Pine Creek’s Quinten Gutierrez canned three of his game high seven 3 pointers in the first quarter. Monroe Porter made his second basket of the quarter to give Legend a 21-14 lead at the end of the 1st quarter.
Kale Eaton scored all ten of his points in the second quarter. Legend would miss one rotation or go under screens allowing the Eagles to connect on three pointers not allowing the Titan led to grown by more than 15 points in the quarter.
The Titans came out a bit flat compared to how they were playing in the first half. Pine Creek took advantage and went on a 11-3 run and had cut the lead to eight points with 2:40 remaining in the quarter. Legend answered with an 8-0 run to close out the quarter to push the score back to 54-40 at the end of the quarter.
In the fourth, Pine Creek was able to cut the Titan lead down to four points, 58-54, with 3:20 remaining. Dawson Thomas had connected on three 3-poiners in the quarter and Gutierrez nailed two others . Legend fought off the Eagles at the free throw line scoring all but two of its 15 points in the quarter at the free throw line.
Double Digit Scorers
Legend
Monroe Porter -13
Riley Matticks – 12
Danny Garrick – 10
Pine Creek
Quinten Gutierrez – 21
K Eaton – 10
Dawson Thomas – 15
Griffin Walker – 10
Cherry Creek 63 Lincoln 46
The Lincoln Lancers and the Cherry Creek Bruins was the most anticipated game of the day and perhaps the players felt it. As the first two minutes were filled with missed lay ups and short shots by both teams and neither team was able to grab an offensive rebound. Lincoln’s junior guard Jamison Washington got the scoring going and scored eight of the Lancers nine points in the quarter. Meanwhile Cherry Creek Senior guard Will Halfon scored seven points for the Lancers in the quarter.
The second quarter started out like this for the Bruins and Lancers
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Fouls mounted up for Lincoln and changed the game. Washington and Tino Chavez would see playing time restricted before both eventually fouled out in the fourth quarter. Combined the two teams shot 18 free throws in the quarter. Creek had six different players score and went a perfect 8 of 8 from the free throw line to build a 32-23 lead at halftime.
Neither team had a great third quarter but it was the Bruins Patrick O’neal that canned two three pointers. Both teams found it hard to get into the flow of the game considering the tough defense and the whistles.
As the fourth quarter began Lincoln trailed Creek 44-33. The Lancers really struggled to score in and around the paint to make any kind of cut into the lead. However the Bruins had seven different people score in the final quarter. Creek took full advantage at the free throw line as well, making 10 of 12 free throws in the quarter to finish the game.
Double Digit Scorers
Lincoln
Rene Melendez -12
Jamison Washington -10
Cherry Creek
Will Halfon -17
Patrick O’neal – 13
