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Tigers ousted in two OTs

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Saturday, 20 February 2010 01:51

By Ken Jackson
Sports Writer
Clearwater Calvary Christian did its normal lay-up drill before Thursday’s Class 2A regional playoff game at New Dimensions.
Not like it mattered.
The Warriors eschewed easy scores and hit 16 three-point baskets — eight in the third quarter — and won an 88-83 double-overtime thriller over the Tigers to advance to Tuesday’s semifinals at Tampa Prep.
Calvary (12-13) used the long ball to repeatedly rally against New Dimensions (14-6), which was hosting its first playoff game.
The Tigers saw a 68-61 lead with 1:27 left to play disappear thanks to late free-throw shooting and a pair of threes in the final 38.6 seconds from Christian Colangelo and Alex Govan, who hit six of them en route to a game-high 33 points.
Tigers Coach Ryan Adams said that a series of defensive breakdowns enabled the Warriors to rally unabated.
“We knew who their shooters were, and they still had uncontested, wide-open threes. We didn’t play team defense,” he said. “What a crazy game, they hit 16 threes and we were still in a position to win.”
The Tigers led 24-11 after one quarter, when they hit five threes of their own and had six assists to one turnover, but by game’s end it seemed like old news.
Colangelo (17 points), Jim Appelt (25) and Tyler Daniel (8) keyed a 14-2 run that pulled the Warriors within three. But, Tigers senior Jose Vasquez’s (9) three-pointer before the break pushed the lead to 33-24.
By the end of the third quarter, it was tied at 51. All eight of Calvary’s third-quarter field goals were threes.
The Warriors took a 57-55 lead early in the fourth-quarter — their only lead in regulation — but buckets by Emmanuel Francois (21 points) and Imar Robles (8 points, 12 rebounds) sparked a 10-2 Tigers run over the next four minutes and pushed the lead to 67-59 with under three minutes left.
The Tigers led 70-67 with 36 seconds left when Orlando Vargas, who led ND with 28 points, couldn’t pad the lead at the free-throw line, and Colangelo hit the tying three with 13 seconds left.
“We won districts because we hit our free-throws in the fourth quarter,” Adams said. “We were 3-for-7 in the fourth this time.”
The Tigers fell behind 77-72 in the first overtime, but Vargas brought them back by rebounding his own missed free-throw and hitting a bucket with 54 seconds, then made a runner through the lane with 3.3 seconds left to tie it again after the defense forced a Warriors’ turnover.
Calvary scored the first five points of the second overtime to seal the win.
“I have to give both teams credit for battling,” Adams said. “There are no slouches at this level.”