Final Miami Trace 62 Athens 53

[Skiisme]

46-32 MT after 3. Athens showing a little lack of discipline. Lutz with 4 fouls

[Orange and Brown]

50-37 MT 6:51 left in game

[Orange and Brown]

56-40 MT 3:42 left in game

[noreply66]

Seems like Lutz always picks up a lot of fouls. Is it his defense or offense that is picking up the fouls?

[Orange and Brown]

62-49 48 seconds left. MT on their way to the final!

[Orange and Brown]

Final
MT 62
Athens 53
Will post some stats later

[Skiisme]

62-53 final score. Miami Trace coming back to the Convo.

[Skiisme]

Reach ins off rebounds kills him

[Orange and Brown]

Athens scoring
Lutz 8
M Saltzman 6
Dickleman 4
Cozart 13
Hines 7
Maxfield 8
Chubb 7
Martin 2

[Orange and Brown]

MT scoring
D Pettiford 17
T Pettiford 10
Pittser 4
Tyree 9
Carter 10
Creamer 8

[Raider6309]

Miami Trace was just too athletic for my bulldogs

[VisionQuest]

Hold your heads high Athens Bulldogs!!! A Young team with A 1st year head coach and some bumps and bruises along the way and you still made it to the Convo!!!. What A dream for any young ball player. Athens future is bright, but will have one Daunting question to answer before the start of next season. "Who will be the next Point Guard for Athens???". Something that hasn't needed answered for the last 4 years when you have a Griffin Lutz.

[VisionQuest]

MT scoring
D Pettiford 17
T Pettiford 10
Pittser 4
Tyree 9
Carter 10
Creamer 8

One of the Pettifords ended up with 22. #0 The smooth little PG. He was hard to stop. Very athletic team. Will be a good one between FU and Trace

[Falcon01]

Athens came out of halftime and took the lead and I thought, wow Lutz hasn't scored and they are winning. Then they just started turning the ball over like crazy and taking some really bad shots. MT took advantage.

[Johnstown]

Decent season for Athens. Lutz fantastic career. The bar was set high because of football only three years back. Just like Nelsonville York. Athens went to playoffs in football several times and then to state championship game. That team produced the likes of Burrow, Williams, Saltzman, the luehrmans to major college football. They created their own publicity. Just a fact. It is pertinent to basketball because that is what winning is all about. College coaches came to Athens to watch those fellows during their spring practice. In hoops it is the same goal. Be the best. This years hoops team played hard.
Next year hopefully they have the same coaches and kids like Saltzman and Albin who no one mentions , but are very good, will get their turn to lead the team. Season over, football is next for most AAU for some.

[Orange and Brown]

Athens came out of halftime and took the lead and I thought, wow Lutz hasn't scored and they are winning. Then they just started turning the ball over like crazy and taking some really bad shots. MT took advantage.

They did a good job of keeping Griff from getting many good shots. MT did a darn good job.

[Johnstown]

Thought Athens had them for a bit but MT rose to the challange. Great coaching and good players

[CavalierAlum05]

Is Lutz going anywhere in college for bball? I thought he was superb even though he wasn't scoring. He have what MT gave him and was an amazing facilitator.

[MTRay23]

I don't understand why the Athens coach decided to play man to man defense when the zone was keeping the game close. They couldn't matchup man to man with MT's quickness and nobody could guard Deandre Pettiford. I could see going man once or twice to see how effective it would be, but they stayed in it the whole 3rd qtr and that's when MT broke the game wide open and pretty much sealed the game.
I don't know why MT always starts trying to slow down and run time off the clock when they get a lead. They've done it many times this year and it gets them out of sync offensively and they start turning the ball over and letting the opponent get back in the game. Coach Pittser needs to just let them keep playing and keep doing what they did to get the lead.

[VisionQuest]

Is Lutz going anywhere in college for bball? I thought he was superb even though he wasn't scoring. He have what MT gave him and was an amazing facilitator.

I am pretty confidant that D-3 Marietta College is highly interested-coaching staff spotted at Several games this year. At one time I heard D-2 Concord. That's all I have heard and know of.