Trailing by 18 points in the fourth period, the Brownwood Lions shaved the deficit to six but could not complete their comeback as the No. 19 Glen Rose Tigers clinched the District 6-4A boys basketball championship with a 43-35 victory Tuesday on Senior Night at Warren Gym.
Brownwood (13-9, 4-3) managed just 14 points over the first three quarters, including going scoreless in the third, but put 21 points on the board in the fourth quarter.
“That was about as a bad of a three quarters that we could play offensively,” said Lions fifth-year head coach Nadir Dalleh. “We had 14 points at the third in the our gym and that is awful. It’s not like we didn’t have shots, we had all the shots we could get.”
Following a pair of road losses to Class 5A programs earlier in the week, the Brownwood Lions returned to the win column Saturday afternoon at Warren Gym with a 64-35 triumph over the Class 2A De Leon Bearcats.
“It doesn’t matter who you play, a win’s a win and that’s what these kids needed,” said Lions head coach Nadir Dalleh, who missed the last two games due to a case of pneumonia. “De Leon’s a good team, we just played really well today. Those kids that play for De Leon, they’re going to go pretty far in the playoffs like they did last year, and that’s why we set this up. We always try to play guys that are going to compete. We need competition and we’re seeing that and learning from it.”