CHESTER--The friendly confines of The Stable (Chester's home gymnasium) was not hospitable to Tri-Valley last week where the girls lost the league championship to the Hambletonians by two points (48-46) and on Saturday the Tri-Valley boys varsity lost a 56-55 heart-breaker to Chester in the quarterfinals of the Section IX Class C championship.
Five slim points (three for the Lady Bears and two for the boys) ended the season for the boys varsity and pushed the girls varsity team in the quarterfinals of sectional play tonight at home against Pine Plains.
Saturday evenings game didn't start well for Tri-Valley as some misunderstood communication between and school and their bus carrier delayed the arrival of the Bears at Chester forcing the originally schedule 6:00 game to start shortly after 6:15.
Once the game started the Bears took a 12-4 lead at the 4:25 mark forcing Chester to take a time-out.
Chester got their act together and closed out the quarter on the short-end of the scoreboard 18-11.
Tri-Valley's Kainan Justiniano led the Bears scoring with two three-pointers.
The Hambletonians, who had defeated Tri-Valley twice in regualar season play, finally got their offensive game rolling in the second quarter outscoring the Bears 17-8 to take a nine-point half-time lead of 26-17.
Chester co-captain Brandon Sadlier led his teams second quarter scoring with 6 points off three two-pointers.
Tri-Valley was outscored in the third quarter by six points, 18-12 to enter the final eight minutes of play trailing by eight, 46-38 with Zack Nilsen scoring seven points and Jordan Prince adding five points.
Nilsen put the Bears right back into the game in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter scoring a two pointer and shortly after that a tray to cut Chester's lead to 47-43. Dion Lynch added a foul shot at 6:54 to put the Bears down by three 47-44.
At the 4:15 mark Nilsen hit on a two-pointer to tie the score at 50-50.
In the final minutes and seconds each teams scored and at the 57.3 second mark Chester's Wilson Jimenez scored one foul shot putting the score at 55-54 with the Bears clinking on to a one-point lead.
The clincher for the Hamiltonians came at the 18 second mark as Ryan Perez scored on a two pointer.
Tri-Valley with seconds remaining missed a layup attempt and threw an errant pass that sealed the win for Chester who goes on to play top-seeded Coleman Catholic tonight.
For Chester Daniel Witteking led the scoring with 16 points and 20 rebounds. Wilson Sadlier added 10 points and 10 rebounds and five assists.
Tri-Valley's Zack Nilsen had 19 points, Dion Lynch 12 and Jordan Prince 10.
The Bears finish the season 11-8 and Chester continues sectional play with a 13-6 record.
Winning coach Jon Marsilio in post game remarks said, "it was a great game to play by both teams and with playing each other three times this year we know each other and we had a lot of match up issues to deal with.
Marsilio added, "we really had to work to win this as Tri-Valley has been battling all season and Tri-Valley will be tough next year and in the future."
Tri-Valley coach Kyle Humphrey noted that he's "very proud of my guys and it was an excellent performance that they put on the court."
"This was a heart-breaker for things to not bounce our way and I have no regrets and love what I saw on the court as they put their heart out there for me and that's really all you want from as a coach."
PHOTOS FROM THIS GAME
Tri-Valley's Zack Nilsen (11) attempts a shot over Chester's Ryan Perez (3) in the Bears 56-55 sectional loss at Chester Saturday. Zack led the scoring with 19 points.
Tri-Valley's Justin Swarthout (12) drives to the hoop as Chester's Justin Feldman (14) attempts a block in the Hambletonians 56-55 sectional win.
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