It was a tough day for the St. John's College Green Eagles at the Ontario Federation of Schools Athletic Association AAAA girls basketball championships.
A pair of losses on Thursday at the provincial championships at John Paul II Catholic and Beal secondary schools in London has the Brant County champions in the consolation round.
In the first game against Brampton's Notre Dame, the Green Eagles got behind early and couldn’t recover in a 51-38 defeat.
“We had a very slow start in the morning game and dug ourselves a deep hole,” Green Eagles coach Matt Lynch said.
“We were down 20-3 at the end of the first quarter and were down 23 at half. We started to fight back and we cut the lead down to seven early in the fourth quarter but we had a few bad breaks that stifled the comeback.”
Later in the afternoon, the Green Eagles lost 52-49 in overtime to the No. 4 seeded St. Anne Secondary School in Windsor.
“The evening game was a battle from beginning to end,” Lynch said.
“We got down 8-0 early but we battled back and were only down one at half.
“We went back and forth in the second half with numerous lead changes and had some opportunities at the end of regulation that we couldn't take advantage of,” he said.
“In OT we hit some big shots and it pretty much came down to whoever had the ball last was going to win and their player knocked down a big shot at the buzzer for the win.”
On Friday, the Green Eagles enter into the consolation round at 8:30 a.m., at Beal.
“Tomorrow we look to be competitive in the consolation bracket,” Lynch said. “Hopefully we take the intensity we played with in the last game and carry it over into tomorrow's games.”
At the AAA championships in Belle River, the North Park Collegiate Trojans also struggled in the first quarter en route to an early loss.
Jessica Grant scored 12 points and Abbey Johnston added 10 in a 57-35 loss to Ottawa's École Secondaire Louis-Riel.
After trailing 21-7 after one quarter, the Trojans fought back and outscored its opponents 12-10 in the second quarter and 13-6 in the fourth, but a 20-3 Louis-Riel run in the third quarter was the big difference maker.
On Friday, the Trojans play Dr. J.M. Denison Secondary School from Newmarket at 1 p.m.
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