Hornets Boys
Split Week
By Laurie-Jean B. Gauthier

The Whitcomb boys traveled to Cabot last Saturday and faced the Huskies in their only scheduled outing of the regular season and came home with a disappointing 72-68 loss to their hosts.

A 27-20 point first period Husky lead proved too much for the Hornets to overcome although they were able to outscore their hosts each period throughout the remainder of the game. Down by as much as 24 points at one point the Hornets were able to come back and even tie the game in the third quarter but unfortunately they were not able to erase all of the original 7-points advantage that the Husky pinned on them during the first quarter.

Hornet Ryan Adams was game-high scorer with 24 points followed by Husky Jesse Fitzgerald with 21 points. Next came Hornet Ryan Barrows and Husky Bobby Martino who both had 15 points and Hornet Deven Hill and Husky Rhett Fitzgerald who both finished with 12 points. Hill also had 10 rebounds for a game double-double.

Whitcomb now stands at 10-5. Whitcomb hosted Chelsea last night.

Hornets over Rockets

Whitcomb saw a 22 point first period advantage disappear last Wednesday night as the Rochester Rockets came back and outscored their hosts in all three remaining quarters to bring the game within reach before time ran out and they were forced to bow out to the Hornets 60-54.

With a "hot-hot-hot" Ryan Barrows leading the charge from his starting basket to his 17 point individual tally it was the Hornets out in front along with hoops from Ryan Adams, Andrew Durfee, and Tim Aldrighetti that gave Whitcomb the lop-sided first period tally 28 to 6 that the Rockets were forced to erase quarter by quarter if they could. And they made a commendable effort.

During the second period another Aldrighetti and Adams basket along with 3 more hoops and 2 free tosses by Barrows gave Whitcomb an even dozen for 40 at the break. Lucas Pelletier’s nine point deposit and hoops from Forrest Patterson, Brian Dunbar and Brad Delo gave Rochester 16 points for 22 bringing the deficit down to 18 points. Hoops by Tim Aldrighetti and Deven Hill were matched by baskets from Patterson, Dunbar, Barrows and Wood and Kyle Wilson bettered that with a trey. The Rockets outscored the Hornets 17-13 in the third with the Rockets cutting the Hornet advantage down again to 14 points with the 53-39 third period.

In the final quarter Whitcomb dillydallied while Rochester didn’t, nabbing 15 points to the Hornets’ seven. Rocket Chris Crete nailed back-to-back treys and then added a hoop for eight unanswered points which cut the Hornet lead to six that Whitcomb was able to hold onto for the win.

Ryan Adams finished with 16 rebounds for Whitcomb. Aldrighetti finished with 16 points and Barrows led all scorers with 30 points for the Hornets. Rocket Pelletier finished with 13 points, Crete had 11 points and Dunbar had 10 points.

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