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A year before coming to SU, Owen Hiltz intimidated opposing high school coaches
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Owen Hiltz is the ACC s second-leading freshman point getter in his first year at Syracuse.
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In Owen Hiltz’s first season at Culver Academy (Indiana), he scored three first-half goals against head coach Chris Spahn’s Kiski (Pennsylvania) High School team. The first was a toe drag, the next was a face dodge, and the last was a shot around a screen. On all three, the defenders didn’t have a chance.
“Out of all (Culver’s) really good players, he just stood out,” Spahn said three years later. “He was just a really hard player to stop, especially with the ball in his stick.”
Top Sports Stories of 2020: NMH hoops finish season under bizarre circumstances
Northfield Mount Hermon’s Prince Moses (34) puts in an alley-oop over Hoosac defender Milos Ilic (35) during action last season at Forslund Gymnasium in Gill. STAFF FILE PHOTO/DAN LITTLE
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(NOTE: This story is part of our Top Sports Stories of 2020 series, which runs throughout this week.)
March 12 was a weird day in New London, Conn.
I drove down to cover the Northfield Mount Hermon School boys’ basketball team take on Putnam Science Academy in the semifinals of the National Prep Championship Tournament, but wasn’t sure the game was actually going to happen until I got into the gym.