Colerain Boys Start Slow Then Run Away From Fairfield, 64-55

Al Gabriel
WeAreColerain.com

With a full house, a student section sporting a white-out theme and the pep band rocking The Cage, the Colerain boys basketball team was anything but on fire at the outset of the game with Fairfield on Friday night. After falling behind 10-2 to the Indians coach Kevin Higgins used a full time out to grab his team's attention. "We weren't making plays. We weren't getting loose balls. We weren't getting back on defense. We just needed to settle down and let our press take over." Whatever the coach said worked as Colerain went on a 9-0 run to end the first quarter and a 29-14 run to end the fist half to take the lead into the locker room at 31-24.
Colerain was lead by senior guard, Josh Quigley, who scored 18 points including a three to start a seond half run that would see Colerain push the lead to 20 points at 58-38.
JoVonta 'Bam' Harrison, who contributed 8 assists and 5 steals to go with his four points, found it hard to contain his smile after the game. Harrison who, as a three year varsity player, has been a part of some lean years at Colerain and was reflective when asked how it feels to be 10-1 (5-1) at this point. "It feels good" was all the 5'10" senior could say through his grin. "Bam isn't a great ball handler. He doesn't shoot it real well, but he's a very, very smart player. He know what we want out there and he knows what offense we need to be in and he knows what we need on defense" said coach Higgins of his captain. "Coach puts a lot of confidence in me and he trusts me to be simple with it and not try to do to much" added Harrison.
On this night, however, Bam did just about everything.

Next up for Colerain, who is now tied with West for 2nd place in the GMC one game behind Princeton, is a big road game at Oak Hills next Friday night. Get over to Oak Hills and root on the 5th ranked Colerain Cardinals!

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