For the second consecutive season, the St. Mary's Eagles swept the junior and senior boys' basketball titles held at the University of Waterloo.The evening started with the Eagle juniors rallying from an 8-point deficit with 3:30 to go; they finished the game on an 11-1 run to win 38-36.
After St. Mary's started the game 1-for-21 from three-point range, Minas Abara hit a three-pointer with just over one minute to play that brought the Eagles within one. After a St. Benedict turnover, an Adham Eleeda lay-up put the Eagles ahead for good at 37-36 with :55 left.
Henoak Abara led the way for St. Mary's with 12 points, while Adham Eleeda added 9 and Minas Abara had 7. David Nguyen (6), Gordon Lam (2) and Barnaba Neil (2) rounded out the St. Mary's scoring.
St. Benedict received 24 points from two grade nines, Alex Douglas (13) and Justin Malnerich (11). Zubair Seyed (3), Vicken Geokjian (3), Khiem Tran (3), Lucas Cardoso (2) and Jamal Hajo (1) were other Saints on the scoresheet.
On the senior side of things, the heavily-favoured St. Mary's Eagles had to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat as they led Resurrection by only one point (46-45) with 5:00 to go in the fourth quarter.
The Eagles had soundly defeated Resurrection by 31 and 35 points in both their league games.
After the Jacob Gilbert lay-in that cut St. Mary's lead to one, the Eagles got back-to-back three-pointers from Tyrick Thompson and Jamari Stephenson to re-etablish a 7-point lead.
Patric McGlynn cut things to 54-50 inside of a minute to play, but St. Mary's added the remaining points from the foul line for a 57-50 final.
Telloy Simon led the way for the Eagles with 20 points, while Tyrick Thompson and Nathan Riley had 12 points each (Riley also added 14 rebounds). Stephenson (5), Jermaine Lyle (4), Tyler Hergott (2) and Avery Sutton (2) rounded out St. Mary's scoring.
Patric McGlynn put home 17 points, 15 rebounds and 5 blocks for Resurrection, while Jacob Gilbert added 16 ooints. Tyler Bartley (6), Kirolos Milio (6), Mark Wylie (3) and Onique Findlay (2) also hit the scoresheet for Rez.
We'll have full recaps and boxscores from the games to follow.
