Article By: Mark Bryson, Record Staff
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The Bluevale Knights stumbled out of the gate on Monday at the Ontario quad-A boys basketball championship in Oshawa.
The 11th-ranked Knights suffered a 62-43 loss to second-ranked Blessed Mother Teresa of Scarborough in their opening game of the 18-team, double-knockout tournament. Bluevale is now in a must-win situation when it faces fifth-ranked Thornhill Vaughan at 1 p.m. on Tuesday. The Knights would stay alive and play an evening game with a victory and are finished with a loss.
Stefan Cvrkalj scored a game-high 24 points for the Knights, who got off to a slow start and trailed 32-21 at halftime.
Nerves played a factor, said Knights head coach Doros Theodosiou.
“We came out scared but we got the jitters over with and we can get back at it tomorrow,” said Theodosiou.
“You get out of CWOSSA and you have to play at a different level. Playing Guelph and Kitchener-Waterloo teams is a bit different than playing Toronto teams.”
Vaughan easily won its opener against Guelph’s J.F. Ross, rolling to a 74-42 win.
Knights centre Andrew Beney, a key figure in Central Western Ontario and Waterloo County championship victories, fouled out early in the fourth quarter.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
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