As dramatic as the finish Thursday inside raucous Montezuma-Cortez High School Gymnasium ended up being, both basketball teams’ bosses seemed amazed the final score turned out being so low.
Even M-CHS.
Poised to make their 3A/4A Intermountain battle Friday the stuff of league lore, neither the Bayfield Wolverines nor Pagosa Springs Pirates wanted to give an inch through two-and-a-half quarters.
But .
Trailing visiting Bayfield by five after the first quarter inside IHS Gymnasium and 10 after Wolverine senior Jackson Queen sank a 3-pointer with 4:54 left in the second, Ignacio’s boys, hoping to ste.
Indicating the sort of high-energy finish everyone inside BHS Gymnasium had to know was coming Wednesday, Bayfield sophomore guard Lincoln Williams opened the fourth-quarter scoring with an end-to-end.
Akuel Kot sunk a pair of free throws with 1.5 seconds left to lift the Fort Lewis College men’s basketball team to 77-76 road win over Metropolitan State University of Denver on Saturday.
Kot scored 2.