The boys began the 2nd half of the Spokane AAU league season with a semi - convincing win against an over-matched Hormel Law Bears team.
The boys struggled all game from the field, only hitting 28% of their attempts, but you wouldn't have known this if you only watched the 1st quarter. The Rockets came out and smothered the Bears with their press. Jace Parbon, Echahelo Simpson and Kobe Simpson each had 2 steals in the opening stanza that led to easy buckets and a big 16-2 lead.
The Bears managed to play us almost even the rest of the way (24-22), which can be mostly attributed to our poor conversion rate from the field and, aside from Echahelo, a general lack of team rebounding. The Rockets received some strong play down the stretch from our bench - Riley Savage (5 rebounds), Griffin Jacobs (3 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 1 block) and Antonio DeFelice (3 points, 3 rebounds) led the way.
The boys are now 6 - 0 in league and control their own destiny on their way to wrapping up the Pacific Divisions #1 seed heading into the playoffs. We finish the year with three tough games against Lightz Out, the CV Bears and the Chargers (we are 4-1 against this group this season but all have been tough games).
We're going to find out a lot about our Rockets over these next 3-4 weeks!!
Player of the Game: Eckahelo Simpson - 9 pts, 17 reb, 3 ast, 3 stls, 0 TO's
Rockets v. Hormel Bears
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