Tiger Cubs take road loss at Rockville

Friday, February 14, 2014
Brody Bollman

ROCKVILLE -- The Greencastle Tiger Cubs boys' basketball team traveled to Rockville to take on the Rox Thursday evening. A Rockville fourth quarter surge led them to the win, 46-39.

"The defensive end was not the difference, the difference was we were not able to get scores on the offensive end when we needed to," GHS coach Troy Greenlee said.

Greencastle would have a tough task on any night taking on the much taller Rockville squad, but it's even tougher when freshman phenom Lance Hopkins is on. That is exactly what he was on Thursday night.

Hopkins first collected 10 rebounds in the first half, the last coming on an offensive rebound and a putback as the buzzer sounded to give Rockville the lead at the half 19-18.

Again Hopkins beat the buzzer with a 30-foot three-pointer to give the Rox a 28-26 lead at the end of three frames.

"Defensively we wanted to control the penetration and I thought we did that for the most part," Greenlee said. "I thought we were fine on the defensive end for the first three quarters."

Greencastle was outscored by five points in the fourth to lose the tough game by seven.

Hopkins totaled 16 points and 18 rebounds on the night.

"I thought we allowed him to do whatever he wanted on both ends of the floor and that was the difference in the game," Greenlee said.

Not to be lost though, junior Brody Bollman recorded a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds, along with four assists.

"He played OK," Greenlee said of Bollman. "He is a kid that we depend on for many things so we depend on him for that."

The Tiger Cub was defense still solid, allowing less than 50 points, a plus for any high school team.

"Defensively we did what we wanted to do," Greenlee said. "Once the game got to a couple possessions we had to change what we were doing a little bit in the fourth. Our margin for error is so small, a possession here and a possession there could make the difference in the game."

The Tiger Cubs are back on another long road trip Saturday, when they visit Sullivan for a 1:30 p.m. tipoff with the Golden Arrows.



At Rockville
Greencastle 10 8 8 13 -- 39
Rockville 7 12 9 18 -- 46
Greencastle (39):
Bollman 5-10 0-1 10, Winslow 5-10 0-0 10, Foxx 3-8 0-0 7, King 2-9 1-3 7, Gerard 1-3 0-0 2, Mitchell 1-6 0-0 2, Newgent 0-0 1-2 1, Hughes 0-1 0-0 0, Nicholson 0-1 0-0 0. Total: 17-46 (3-16) 2-6, 39.
Rockville (46):
Hopkins 16, Wilkey 13, Thomas 6, Paddock 5, Brown 3, Laney 2, Leach 1. Total: 16-40 (4-13) 10-19, 46.
Rebounds-offensive
GC (27-9):
Bollman 10-4, Winslow 7-1, Foxx 3-2, Nicholson 2-2, Gerard 2-0, King 1-0, Mitchell 1-0, Newgent 1-0.
R (31-8): Hopkins 18-5, Brown 4-0, Leach 3-0, Laney 2-1, Thurmond 2-1, Paddock 2-1.
Turnovers: G 14, R 12. Fouls: G 15, R 9.

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