Was it the last 4 minutes of the Kent County Boys Basketball home opener or slow start to the game that caused the Trojans to lose their home opener to the visiting Vikings from Cambridge?
At the end of the 1st period the trojans trailed by 10 and only scored 14 points. The Trojans expended a lot of energy in the second to cut the lead to 2, 32-30, with a little over a minute and a half left in the second period. At the buzzer they trail by 4, 36-32.
The second half started slow for both teams as neither scored in the first two minutes of the half. Kent would finally go on a 8-0 run to tie and take the lead before Cambridge would score their first points of the half to tie at 38. Kent’s scored next to lead by 2, but that lead was short lived with Cambridge pulling ahead again. Kent’s next lead would come at the 1:55 mark at 48-47. At the end of the 3rd the scored was tied at 51.
The game came down to who would score the most in the final period. The first three minutes of the final quarter saw each team taking a lead and at 4:55 they were tied at 60. A minute and a half later at 3:15 remaining in the game the Trojans only trailed by 2 at 66-64. Even at the 2 minute to play mark the Trojans only trailed by 4, 72-68. That was when it seemed that the wheels fell off the the Trojans Cart. A number of turn overs, including one on an inbounds pass that bounced off of the backboard, missed shots and other miscues turned a close game into a 84-68 win for Cambridge.
