{"id":4969,"date":"2023-01-06T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/spruce-mountain-shoots-winthrop-off-the-start\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T07:46:00","slug":"spruce-mountain-shoots-winthrop-off-the-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/spruce-mountain-shoots-winthrop-off-the-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Spruce Mountain shoots Winthrop off the start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>January 6 \u2014 JAY \u2014 The first quarter was an accurate indicator that Spruce Mountain was well on its way to a quick and decisive win.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix took a nearly two-dozen points lead at the end of the first quarter, culminating in a 70-31 win over Winthrop in Thursday night&#8217;s MVC Boys&#8217; Basketball game at The Nest.<\/p>\n<p>The advantage was 25 to 3 after just eight minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Spruce Mountain coach Scott Bessie said Thursday night&#8217;s win over Boothbay, two days before Phoenix faces Winthrop, was a boost for his Phoenix after losing to Dilligo last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought Boothbay was a good team,&#8221; Bessie said.  &#8220;It was the best game of the season against Boothbay&#8230;.Dilligo was before that, so I thought it was the &#8216;right&#8217; game to play against a good team like Boothbay. I think you are in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone is starting to play better little by little. We played really, really well. We executed a very good game plan against a very well coached team. It&#8217;s a program we&#8217;re proud of. It was a good night for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Spruce Mountains (6-1) also dominated the second quarter, beating the Ramblers (3-6) from the perimeter and inside the key to take a 44-13 lead at halftime. Jr. His guard Ian York plagued Winthrop from the perimeter and made some productive moves to his game-best 20-point tune before suffering a head injury with just seconds left in the first half. ended the game.<\/p>\n<p>However, York was back on the court practicing halftime with the rest of the Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It hurts, but I&#8217;m fine,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;I&#8217;m fine. I have a Shiner on my head, but it&#8217;s a battle wound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>York scored all 20 points in the first half, including dropping three 3-pointers.  Sophomore guard Jace Bessie added his 19 points and Elie Timmler scored his 17 points and he was 7-for-5 at the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"link caas-button collapse-button\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-ylk=\"elm:readmore;slk:Story continues\">story continues<\/button><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m pretty confident in the next game,&#8221; Yorke said.  &#8220;(Winthrop) has gone through it. They&#8217;ve probably been sluggish in their program, but that&#8217;s fine. We know they&#8217;ll be better in the years to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>York pointed out that Phoenix is \u200b\u200bnow running off after a slow start to the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We played pretty badly at the beginning of the season, but I think we&#8217;re really into it. He said, &#8216;That Diligo loss was definitely needed (as a wake-up call).'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Ramblers, currently on a five-game losing streak, struggled on offense throughout the game. Cole Bird scored his six of his eight points in the first half, a team-high, while Braden his Branagan scored all seven of his goals in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>The third quarter was much the same, with Phoenix firmly in control as they took a 63-17 advantage heading into the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix slowed the game down to a walk late in the fourth to eat up time with endless passes and choice shots.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiTGh0dHBzOi8vbmV3cy55YWhvby5jb20vYm95cy1iYXNrZXRiYWxsLXNwcnVjZS1tb3VudGFpbi1zaG9vdHMtMDc0NjAwNjI3Lmh0bWzSAVRodHRwczovL25ld3MueWFob28uY29tL2FtcGh0bWwvYm95cy1iYXNrZXRiYWxsLXNwcnVjZS1tb3VudGFpbi1zaG9vdHMtMDc0NjAwNjI3Lmh0bWw?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] January 6 \u2014 JAY \u2014 The first quarter was an accurate indicator that Spruce Mountain was well on its way to a quick and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/yahoo_default_logo-1200x1200.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}