WINDSOR – The Manchester boys basketball team rallied from a 25-point second-quarter deficit to beat Windsor, last year’s Class L champion, 95-94, Wednesday night in a CCC North game.
With 27.7 seconds left and Manchester trailing by four, Joe Mugavero brought the ball downcourt and passed to Kahri Hayes, who was waiting in the paint. Hayes hit the layup. Manchester got the ball back and Chance Clark hit a 3-pointer with 8 seconds left for the game-winner.
“Oh man, that was unbelievable,” Manchester coach John Reiser. “To be down as much as we were down, in their gym….but we hit shots. And we just continued to play.”
Manchester (9-0) was led by Will Oden-Tan, who had 27 points and Cameron Major had 20, while Derrick Sheets, who sat out much of the first half due to foul trouble, had 19.
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The Red Hawks trailed 26-19 after the first quarter but with 2:24 to go in the first half, fell behind 51-26. They went on a 8-1 run to end the half and Windsor led 52-34 at halftime. Manchester slowly came back in the third after Windsor’s Missoni Brown left the game with 5:10 left in the quarter after being injured on a play. By the end of the quarter, Manchester had scored 36 points and trailed 73-70.
After Alex Weaver hit a 3-pointer late in the fourth for the Warriors, Windsor once again was up by double digits, 90-78. But once again, Manchester came back. Mugavero hit a 3-pointer with 1:24 left to cut the lead to 92-87. Sheets hit a 3 to make it 94-90 with 52 seconds left. Then Hayes and Clark made their big shots.
Windsor (5-3) was led by Alex Weaver’s 24 points.
“They played well, we did too,” Windsor coach Ken Smith said. “We just got to get better.”
Manchester 95, Windsor 94
Manchester 19 15 36 25 – 95
Windsor 26 26 21 21 – 94
Manchester: Chance Clark 4 1 12, Cameron Major 9 0 20, Derrick Sheets 6 5 19, Will Oden-Tan 9 6 27, Joe Mugavero 5 0 11, Austin Coleman 2 0 4, Kahri Hayes 1 0 2. Totals: 30 12 95.
Windsor: Missoni Brown 6 1 13, Sean Evans 3 6 12, Myles Rush 5 0 10, Ji Gary 6 0 15, Eli Gordon 1 0 2, Adam Afolobi 2 0 5, Alex Weaver 8 6 24, Charles Lewis 6 1 13. Totals: 37 14 94.
Records: Manchester, 9-0; Windsor, 5-3.
