The Dons took it to the Falcons in this final home stretch as the eventful season begins to wind down. It was a fun outing to see the Dons playing tough inside defense and some great skip passing in front of a home crowd that also saw a bit of activity from the visitors bench who tried to keep the College Park boys in the game.
Acalanes wasted no time to get things started, winning the opening tip and scoring a quick bucket compliments of Jake under the basket within the first minute of play. For about 30 seconds there was a feeling that this would be a runaway win for the Dons but then College Park answered with a 3 which caused a moment of pause. Noah took a hard foul knocking him to the floor shooting a 3 and with his clutch shooting from the free-throw line he converted all three shots.
As the first quarter started to warm up, the Dons went on an 8-0 run, pushing a big lead. The Falcons answered with a couple of 3’s and then Noah closed out the period with an exciting buzzer beater 3 for lead of 18-12. The Dons had pretty ball movement on offense and closed out College Park in the paint with their only buckets coming from 3s.
The Dons went on a scoring spree in the second quarter, putting up 23 points in 8 minutes and holding College Park to just two field goals and one free-throw. It was fun to watch as everyone got into the action. Jake was dominate under the basket and hit from outside, Noah was doing his thing, Colin and Nathan hit some sweet shots and Zubin and Jordan splashed some 3s. At the end of the half the Dons had a commanding 41-18 lead.
The Falcons started to make a go of it in the third quarter but the action continued from the Dons. Theo kept stealing the ball and converting quick buckets, as well as feeding assists which he did on a nice steal-assist combo to Taran for a layup. Jake again had a dominate quarter, and at the end of three the Dons grew the lead to 57-32.
College Park wasn’t quite done though, and the visiting fans seemed to get more and more excited with each Falcons bucket in the 4th has they started to claw their way back. College Park seemed to do a bit of everything in the 4th, fast breaks, and ones, outside 3s, but the Dons were hungry to get this win in the books.
Again saw some nice variety of action from the Dons, Levi drove inside for a layup, Jordan and Brady were mixing it up with the defense and in the end the Dons gave the fans an exciting 67-54 victory!
This excitement is just what we need as we head into the final game! Come on out to honor our Seniors – Noah Block, Tate Nelson, Taran Krishnan and Levi Rudin – on Friday night against Clayton Valley!