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You might outscore the Savage Heat, but you will never truly defeat them that way. No matter what, they will keep after it until the final buzzer, win or lose.
Coach Cameron Barber’s persistent if undermanned Hot Springs boys split District 14C basketball games last week, defeating St. Regis 43-35 on the road Thursday and fighting hard but falling to Charlo 55-39 in Hot Springs Saturday.
The Heat have two more 14C conference games in the coming week, visiting Two Eagle River in Pablo Thursday and hosting Arlee next Tuesday. The Arlee game was originally scheduled for Jan. 15.
“It got moved to Jan. 22 due to finals week for both schools,” Barber said.
Barber said that the game at St. Regis “was a pretty ugly shooting game for both teams,” he said. “I guess you could call it a defensive battle.”
Leading 25-19 heading into the fourth quarter, the Heat won the fourth quarter 18-16 to hold on and win. Brandon Knudsen scored 13 of his game-high 21 points in the final eight minutes. “Brandon stepped up big because Tyler (Carr), Tyler (Knudsen) and Luke were all in foul trouble and all three eventually fouled out,” Barber said. “We finished the last 1:30 of the game with four freshman and Brandon on the floor.”
Tyler Knudsen added eight points to the Heat’s winning total, Jack McAllister seven, Waterbury four and Carr three. Caleb Ball scored 14 points for St. Regis, Andrew Sanford nine and Adam Ball six.
Playing with a limited roster as they have all season, the Heat played a physical Charlo team tough but ended up running out of gas in the second half Saturday. “The second half got away from us a little bit,” Barber said, “the kids got really tired and started making mistakes.”
Brandon Knudsen netted 12 points to lead the Heat, Carr canned nine, Tyler Knudsen seven, Kyle Lawson and Waterbury four apiece and McAllister three. Waterbury also had five steals and six rebounds, and Tyler Knudsen four steals.
Landers Smith scored 22 points to lead Charlo, Nate Delaney threw in 14 and Connor Koenig 13.
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