Northeast Nodaway’s boys used a hot-shooting first half to build a big lead, panicked in the face of Osborn’s trapping defense and gave most of it away, but then made some critical plays at the end to preserve a 59-54 win over the Wildcats Friday.
Travis Peaslee scored the first two points of the game for Osborn, but then Kevin Stoll scored the next six points for Northeast, getting four free throws and attacking the basket at will. Osborn tried to rally, only for Steve Schulte to post a career night and hit three consecutive 3-pointers to keep Northeast in front at 15-10. He had been making the most of the time spent waiting for Osborn to get there for the girls game; he was shooting 3-pointers and even protecting his home court at one point. Steve hit his fourth and final 3-pointer at the start of the second to put Northeast up 20-10 with a defender in his face. Kevin Stoll and Jason Henggeler followed with putbacks to give Northeast its biggest lead at 24-10 at that point.
Ryan Graeff did all he could to keep Osborn in it, hitting five straight to cut it to 24-15, but Aaron Patton, who had been quiet, went coast to coast on a fast break and then added a drive down the right wing and Henggeler got a putback and 3-point play to make it 31-19 with 1:28 left in the second.
Graeff hit a 3-pointer for Osborn early in the second half, but Kevin Stoll got a putback and Aaron Patton got a steal and 3-point play to give Northeast its biggest lead of the night at 40-24 with 4:37 left in the second.
But then Osborn began extending their pressure and trapping all over the place and the change of tempo worked in their favor. Northeast got away from running their plays and started forcing passes.
Fueled by a couple of steals, Osborn came back to cut it to 41-32 before Aaron Patton’s 3-pointer from Tyler Schmitz restored order for the time beind at 44-32. The lead stayed between 9 and 12 until early in the fourth when Graeff’s 3-pointer fueled a run that cut it to 51-44 with 6:12 left. Osborn had a chance to make it five after a steal, but their layup attempt went in and out. But with Northeast continuing to panic against the pressure, Graeff hit consecutive 3-pointers to make it a one possession game at 54-52 with 3:50 left. Kevin Stoll’s free throws made it 56-52, but Northeast lost track of Derek Thompson underneath the basket and he was all alone for a layup to make it 56-54 with 2:55 left.
Once again Northeast threw it away as Stoll butterfingered a pass, but Dalton Welch stole it in the post. But then another panicked possession led to another bad pass which gave Osborn another chance to tie or take the lead. But they missed the shot and a putback try at point blank range went in and out. Northeast could not buy a board and Osborn got another chance, but this time they missed an NBA 3-pointer badly. Lane Allen drew a foul on a drive, but missed the one and one and Northeast finally got a board.
Northeast ran down the clock to 53 seconds as Osborn elected not to foul but to play for the turnover and the move paid off as Northeast threw the ball away for an over and back violation. But this time, Jason Henggeler stole a long pass that found only white shirts. This time, Osborn fouled Patton and he missed a one and one, but The General stole the ball right back as Osborn was bringing it up to set up a tying bucket and got a wide open layup to make it 58-54, a four point swing for Northeast right when they needed it.
This time, Osborn threw the ball away, but Dalton Welch missed both ends of a double bonus with 26 seconds left. Osborn missed a shot that went out of bounds off Dalton with 14.7 seconds left; they then tried to set up a drive by Lane Allen; he lost the ball but managed to save it to Derek Thompson right underneath the basket; however, he missed the point blank layup and the rebound was tipped around until Aaron Patton grabbed it and hit a free throw with 1.4 seconds left to secure the win.
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